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by zaik 2y ago
I don't think it's offensive, but it may be frustrating advice for people who cannot enjoy math at all.
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The Great Grocery Squeeze(theatlantic.com)
3 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
Enough people run for office who want to do something about climate change. But a plurality of the population seems to be mainly concerned with being angry about immigrants and wanting lower taxes.
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by zaik 2y ago
> It can't be fixed. It's dead. Lots of good XMPP implementations disprove this. I hope Matrix just goes away and stops distracting the FOSS community from improving existing internet standards instead of custom protocols by ra
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WhatsApp's contributions to the XMPP ecosystem are nil.
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Monal on iOS is making a lot of progress recently.
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by zaik 2y ago
Mandatory objection to this blog post: https://gultsch.de/objection.html
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by zaik 2y ago
Good clients which let users communicate outside their own ecosystems: Gajim, Dino, Conversations, Monal, Movim, ...
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by zaik 2y ago
> Docker image that Just Works https://snikket.org/service/quickstart/
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by zaik 2y ago
Is it already possible to join rooms without revealing your global address like in XMPP?
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by zaik 2y ago
Those weren't middle class children.
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by zaik 2y ago
Are you enjoying your time on HN? It's about quality not quantity. Defining success := MAU is a very one dimensional way of thinking and it's not even the most important dimension from a user perspective.
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by zaik 2y ago
> It never works Mastodon and Lemmy are both very successful projects.
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by zaik 2y ago
Let them build it however they want. The important thing is that it's ActivityPub compliant. Interoperability counts.
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The "child identifies as wolf" story was only ever about bullying(skeptic.org.uk)
15 points by zaik 2y ago|2 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
Overall, the study found that children born since 2010 have a relatively small chance of living to 100 (5.1% chance for women and 1.8% chance for men). The most likely cohort to see a full century are women in Hong Kong, with a 12.8%
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by zaik 2y ago
IETF Standards don't get a large marketing budget assigned to them like many other messengers have, but there are quite a few community projects which are actively developed. Off the top of my head there is Conversations on Android (gr
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Honeybee: Calling via XMPP(momi.ca)
76 points by zaik 2y ago|17 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
ln(52!)/ln(2)≈226 bits. You don't have to depend on a single random 64-bit number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle
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XMPP: The Protocol for Open, Extensible Instant Messaging(discourse.igniterealtime.org)
2 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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Matrix and XMPP: Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols – Part 1(process-one.net)
2 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
You think scammers 40 years in the future will use a target list of phone numbers from today?
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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants(cio.com)
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by zaik 2y ago
Our math department does publish
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by zaik 2y ago
Is this feature enabled on the mobile app?
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The Quick and Easy Guide to Jabber/XMPP(contrapunctus.codeberg.page)
3 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
Wow this is one of the best Google Maps clones I've seen so far. Is there a plan to translate the UI into other languages than French? I would be willing to help out, if there is a Weblate interface or something similar.
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by zaik 2y ago
Almost all steps in this example session are optional. But even clients that do everything are still more efficient than most other chat apps people use: https://blog.lewman.com/internet-messaging-versus-congested-...
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by zaik 2y ago
XMPP is still a simple and efficient chat protocol. But it makes sure to only allow a sane subset of XML.
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by zaik 2y ago
DNSSEC does NOT protect against snooping.

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