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Re:IRCv3 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:08PM (#50044758)
Protocol was documented but each server is a silo.
Re:Running My Own XMPP Server on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:07PM (#47038149)
Likely you do or have without knowing it. The protocol is used in telecom quite a bit for all sorts of things. Jitsi is built on XMPP. Lots of games use it for chat - league of legends and unreal engine I believe. Xmpp shows up in all sorts of places if you look.
They will need arm builds sadly so the list is likely going to be rather small.
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:51PM (#46394969)
We weren't facing hardware shortages in the race to shovel ads. Little different.
Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:00PM (#45508803)
Not sure why they would intentionally kill it, it's a good brand to drive people towards your chips.
Re:Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024) on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @02:38PM (#45030513)
Begin/end should be optional. Some things would just be so much easier to follow, map/lambda stuff cleaner.
Re:Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024) on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @02:19PM (#45030284)
It's the muscle memory. I tried really hard to use things like vs code that do a lot of things better (or at least more automatically) and always end up more efficient in emacs.

Hopefully emacs can catch up.

Emacs is one. Naughty Dog used a lisp for Jak and Daxter. Shows up in CAD software.
Re:Genie 3: A new frontier for world models on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:53PM (#44802544)
Ideally AI makes it so you don't have to work and can pursue whatever interests.
Re:Lslvr/mwm: The smallest (usable) X11 window manager on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:42PM (#44672853)
It's a shame no one has figured out how we can get the flexibility of html/css/js in a way that is fast.
Not an unreasonable price for a dev board.

The key part is 'dev' - it's for people doing development on the platform.

Re:The Cheapest NAS on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @03:33PM (#40869276)
There is 'amanda'. It will split your data up if and you can rotate a bunch of disks.

Used it years ago, we rotated disks every week or something and periodically would take one out of commission and get a new one.

I believe you can mix and match storage mediums - like have your monthly snapshot write to tape.

Re:Psytrance Guide on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:27PM (#37931013)
ishkur's guide is a really awesome resource for discovering electronic music.
Re:A currently maintained fork of SSHFS on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:31PM (#37399263)
I don't think the person was intending to say it's not useful, only out of scope.
Pjsip ships with a cli ua. I use it quite a bit for testing.
There are sip gsm gateways. Some that can take 16+ sims. Take a look on AliExpress.
Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:28PM (#37266623)
A lot of people care about software freedom? To the point where they will use a (currently) worse tool.
Re:Emacs 29.1 Released on Sunday July 30, 2023 @10:14AM (#36931322)
The core issue is there isn't a 'emacs.tiny' package that contains a small subset of emacs features.

This makes it difficult to install emacs on a resource constrainted environment like a embedded system, and hard to justify installing on a server. (Yes we can use tramp but it's not always a option)

It's a real shame and why I still need to know vi and vim.

From a pure archiving point of view it would be great.

It's a shame how many pieces of software are already totally lost forever.

Re:Building a Personal VoIP System on Saturday May 27, 2023 @11:36AM (#36095623)
You certainly can use Kamailio but it will be much easier/faster to get something going in Asterisk.

You don't need to run any of the advanced features in Asterisk (and can completely unload the modules if you want).

Re:Building a Personal VoIP System on Saturday May 27, 2023 @11:03AM (#36095381)
You will probably have a harder time finding hardware that won't run asterisk.
Re:Movim – A decentralized social platform built on XMPP on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:23PM (#32781211)
What are the options for jingle <-> SIP?

I'm unclear if ejabberd mod_sip is actually a bridge or something else entirely and jigasi seems pretty jitsi specific.

Re:Movim – A decentralized social platform built on XMPP on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:57AM (#32780815)
> gather the XEPs and put it into XMPP 3.0, with few feature sets that every client and server using it needs to support all at once, not picking and choosing.

They do exactly that - https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0459.html

Easy to deploy solutions for common use cases like company chat are being worked on with projects like https://snikket.org/ (or well movim!)

Re:Dark Horse Discord on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:17PM (#22122672)
I think there is probably room for discord to sell 'premium' voice channels. Currently their stuff works /most/ of the time but is unreliable enough that a lot of people still use stuff like mumble/teamspeak.
Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:07PM (#22004348)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS#Products_using_BeOS

Pretty cool BeOS still lives on in the audio/video/broadcasting industry.

Re:Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:28AM (#21992848)
> The reasons outlined above don't seem compelling when a commodity nic like mellanox do so much more already.

This is could be useful for people doing testing and benchmarking on network appliances.

Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:19PM (#21983580)
More detailed comments below, but in short: - lower power consumption (that you can control) - different environmental tolerances - peripherals with hardware support

Looks like this has a integrated Li-Po charger which should mean you can have a UPS like battery backup.

Folks may use this as a development platform that eventually gets a custom PCB made for the end product. ( it's open hardware so it has all the schematics https://content.arduino.cc/assets/Arduino-PortentaH7-schemat... )

It's really just different features for different needs.

Lot of the skimmers now are so small they go inside the card reader https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/insert-skimmer/
Worth mentioning that FedEx isn't horrible everywhere, in Canada they are pretty good and my preferred delivery method - really really good customer service. Purolator and UPS (most of the time) are terrible and even if you're home they won't even try and deliver to you instead just leaving a slip.
Re:Emacs 26.3 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:50AM (#20867771)
using emacsclient in screen or tmux is kinda handy if you're using a flaky connection and keep disconnecting (like on a train)

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