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by zinid 7y ago
> go-ipfs with a few pinned files taking more than 5GB Yeah, I don't understand the hype around IPFS when it performs so badly. After reporting the issue and having a conversation with the devs I had an impression that they are just
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by zinid 7y ago
> This problem doesn't exist for JSON, because pretty much every language directly supports arrays, objects/maps and primitives No, JSON will not map directly to a language with advanced type system (with tuples, variants, etc)
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by zinid 7y ago
> In my experience, there's virtually no overlap between the two groups, and therefore no fragmentation Right, so there are two groups of developers working on different IM protocols. If this is not fragmentation (of developers) the
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by zinid 8y ago
Doing the same for XMPP: http://upload.zinid.ru/xep-eax-cir.html Let's compete.
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by zinid 8y ago
> it'll need institutional buy-in from corporations and existing tech companies. Hope there is a plan for that type of out-reach. "Failing to plan is planning to fail". I don't see why would corporations and existing
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by zinid 8y ago
And admins will update their deployments instantly? Because of monolithic core? Interesting...
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by zinid 8y ago
> You can see our governance model at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc177... . and see that we do everything we can to ensure that the wider community can contribute to the spe
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by zinid 8y ago
> Rather than burning all this energy spreading FUD about Matrix, perhaps it might be better spent improving XMPP? :/ Yeah, didn't I say above about such kind of arguments?
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by zinid 8y ago
> is still a half-locked platform... but that is still not a standards body Exactly. That's why I always stress the importance of the IETF. The whole point of the IETF is that you cooperate with people, deal with opposite opinions,
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by zinid 8y ago
> I'm not sure about that. If the main matrix server disappeared today that'd be problematic This ^^ Currently a large amount of users (I'm told around a half, but I'm not sure) have matrix.org as their home server. S
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by zinid 8y ago
> It's quite subjective, but my view is Matrix is what XMPP would like if it was written today. That's indeed a subjective view. > The main advantages are it is using JSON instead of XML, and HTTP instead of custom protocols
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by zinid 8y ago
> i'd argue that the Matrix.org Foundation is just as 'recognized' as the XMPP Standards Foundation :) Recognized by whom? The XSF has standardized their core in IETF. Is there something similar for Matrix.org Foundation?
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by zinid 8y ago
> Simply that quotas work and encouragement doesn't I wonder what other outcome one might expect from quotas.
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by zinid 8y ago
And it consumed 8.7Gb :) I wonder if the editor itself is of the same quality :/
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by zinid 8y ago
So I tried to install it and got fancy error: $ ./install.tcl ...skipped... Copying data to lib/tke/data... done. Copying doc to lib/tke/doc... done. Copying lib to lib/tke/lib... error! error copyi
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by zinid 8y ago
Well, dunno, in my opinion both are equally obscure. I personally don't like "dot notation" and that's one of the reason I don't like Rust. The main problem I see with dot notation is the Pigeon hole problem: why so
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by zinid 8y ago
> From my perspective it’s one of the very few general purpose languages (along with erlang) Maybe I'm missing something, but since when Erlang is a general purpose language? Erlang was designed for a quite narrow niche and feels ve
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by zinid 8y ago
> age of JSON Yeah, modern and shiny JSON. IT is now a subdivision of the fashion industry. Suck it up ;)