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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:47PM (#25093971)
It is defined by the instance's admin generally.

Try to ask your IT guy, maybe he'll know more about this!

Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:13PM (#25093670)
It does, currently waiting to be either invited to lobsters or for the registrations to open again.
Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:13AM (#25093175)
I see the only use of 3PIDs in a professional setting where people have to find co-workers using emails or internal phone numbers.

In my opinion, it is really useless for anyone else.

Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:54AM (#25093031)
And it's sad to see.
Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:45AM (#25092955)
Matrix is not.
Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:25AM (#25092800)
You know that the identity server is not mandatory and is only useful in a professional setting right?

If you really want to, you can host it yourself.

Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:22AM (#25092782)
Yes, this is really sad to see that much people in the OSS scene using nonfree ways to communicate.

At least, IRC had open-source servers and clients but in my opinion, it's too old nowadays.

Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:19AM (#25092761)
You need to change the homeserver url to another one. There is a list here https://www.hello-matrix.net/public_servers.php

Also what do you mean by "That are always full and require invite" ?

Re:One Week of NixOS on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:20AM (#25026261)
I didn't went into details since I'm relatively new to Nix.

I'll make a follow-up in more time (some months) and go in more details!

Re:One Week of NixOS on Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:30AM (#25026010)
Seems really useful, thanks for the links!
Re:One Week of NixOS on Sunday November 08, 2020 @08:46AM (#25025768)
Seems interesting, thanks for the link!
Re:One Week of NixOS on Sunday November 08, 2020 @08:12AM (#25025576)
I see, thanks for the message! I'll make a small correction.

Edit: Correction published!

Re:One Week of NixOS on Sunday November 08, 2020 @07:49AM (#25025462)
I'll look into all of this! Thanks for the links!
Re:One Week of NixOS on Sunday November 08, 2020 @07:08AM (#25025235)
The issue wasn't the system broke, in fact, my system was doing pretty much alright.

The problem was: in the AUR, lots of packages didn't built or launch, and even in the official repos, some packages were missing libraries or just not having the right versions.

I was tired of tinkering to get everything to work as I wanted.

Re:One Week of NixOS on Sunday November 08, 2020 @07:01AM (#25025194)
I too was using Arch before and a friend convinced me to do the leap and I don't really regret it.

One of the advantages is that packages just works on the contrary of the AUR where I had lots of problems for lots of packages that wouldn't just not build or work.

Re:One Week of NixOS on Sunday November 08, 2020 @06:46AM (#25025112)
Yup!

I see NixOS as an easy way to re-install easily my system when I get a new machine or just to sync easily packages between my laptop and desktop (so they almost have the same things installed on them).

As for servers, I don't really see the point of nix as usually, pre-made and preinstalled images are already deployed. I think I'll still stick with Debian and all the usual software such as Docker for this usage.

Re:The Problem of Centralisation on Thursday November 05, 2020 @12:36PM (#25000141)
Nice! I'll look more into it and add it to the list then.

Thanks for the link :D

Re:The Problem of Centralisation on Thursday November 05, 2020 @12:28PM (#25000067)
It seems cool! Sadly, it seems the code hasn't been updated in a while? Or is it fully hosted only on ZeroNet now?