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Re:On the Fate of XMPP/Jabber on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:43AM (#39286063)
I use XMPP every day for my event groupchats

It basically works, and makes me mostly very happy

Shout out to 404.city !

Re:A roadmap and appeal for help from The Matrix.org Foundation on Thursday February 01, 2024 @01:41PM (#39219542)
I had to choose a groupchat option for an event I run and the choice ended up being XMPP because the Matrix mobile apps we tried were all crashy. I wish everyone working on Matrix the very best, and will continue to run a demo for myself once a year.
Re:I don't want anything your AI generates on Thursday February 01, 2024 @12:56PM (#39218963)
Psychological asbestos
Re:Flathub: One million active users and growing on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:02AM (#39200165)
Really enjoying Mint's approach to this. When the flatpak for Audacity fails to launch, uninstall and switch to a working version from apt all within the same window.
Psychological Asbestos

Or Psychosbestos

Thank you for this correction.

While it changes my understanding of the legal facts, my feelings about piracy remain the same. Funny, that.

Canada charges a piracy tax on ALLL HARD DRIVES AND STORAGE MEDIA.

It's not piracy, we already paid!

Cheers to the dozens of us using XMPP every day :)
Bingo
The most important thing is what happens after vendors fail and disappear - the code and keys and reproducible build system must be released so people can fix their things.

A standard and an org for keeping those things in escrow, please!

I like this idea! A code&keys escrow org, yes please
Re:Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:00AM (#37033816)
Keybase is over, but worry not, KeyOxide to the rescue!
I got a new social group in Toronto and we run a weekly meetup now, so that's pretty cool. Mondays.pizza if you're in town :)
Re:Google employee responds to negative feedbacks on WEI on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:34AM (#36891070)
Can't trust 'em.
Thank you for posting this! As a direct result, I have printed copies and we're going to discuss it tonight in Toronto at mondays.pizza :) thanks!
Re:I have written a JVM in Rust on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:52PM (#36818773)
In what world did you convince yourself asking a chatbot was a source of real knowledge?

respect yourself enough to look at primary sources

Chinese practices poisoning the well for everybody, again?
Yikes, looks like NO transparency about Foundation financials!

I was expecting OpenCollective, not PayPal!

Agreed. The foundation should absolutely be paying those costs, and take that off the shoulders of this long suffering and burned out individual contributor.
Lack of literacy, and lack of financial literacy, caused this misunderstanding.

It's clear to me that Godot Foundation funds Godot development, and W4 took VC money for funding ecosystem services. Absolutely different things.

I hope this author makes their peace and apologizes or transfers responsibility for the forums to the Godot Foundation.

Re:QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:40PM (#36689483)
I bought a Librem laptop for Qubes support.

Feels like home.

Re:Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative on Saturday June 24, 2023 @04:50PM (#36462547)
Smells like token pumping
Re:Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework on Friday June 23, 2023 @03:55PM (#36451489)
Very cool, but distracting that the very first top left attention grabbing glyph is an unrelated company's logo https://polygon.technology/
Re:Ferricy: Building a custom 34-key split keyboard on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @03:54PM (#36409587)
Very nice! Thanks for showing your layers
Re:Social media for AI bots: “No humans allowed” on Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:57PM (#36190361)
Amazing question!

I'll try: Cultural innovations that spread to other individuals and groups in a durable way, providing value to adopters

Looks nice! What is the data format it saves? I'd love this to be simple markdown textiles underneath
Re:Senior Developer Koans on Saturday May 06, 2023 @05:08AM (#35839562)
Thanks for that link!

Yeah, OP are not koans.

Replying because I can't edit:

I loved this project when it was called 22120 and was here https://github.com/c9fe/22120

It was AGPL3 and it was great! http://web.archive.org/web/20210123003545/https://github.com... The author links to an interview with an open source focus publication about it!

I should not have allowed the credit of the previous clearly explained open source project to carry forward after renaming, because it is now a different project.

I am sorry. I apologize. I will not recommend this software again, and I will try not to make this mistake in the future.

Thank you for helping me see this error.

For archiving, look into https://github.com/dosyago/DiskerNet

It's real next gen thinking on this topic.

As for the featured tool wayback... If HN readers can't figure out what it does after reading docs, its likely the thinking behind it is equally unclear.

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