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bertman··on Special.fish
Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200421005016/https://special.f...

   Special Fish is a place for exploring profiles and lists. 
   You could think of Special Fish as a public word processor. 
   Usually rtf/txt files just sit on a user’s computer. 
   SF is about making those documents into a social network.
bertman··on Automattic invests in Matrix
Apart from what? Compared to xmpp: Marketing mostly.
bertman··on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
From the article:

  Not only will this reduce your anxiety 
  and churn from constantly opening and 
  closing various sites, but RSS also 
  shows the content in a standard format, 
  with less to distract you.
Hmm, if you get anxiety from closing and opening tabs, you should probably go offline for a while.
bertman··on Serve Videos Instead of GIFs
If ffmpeg has been built with libx264 support, than this is the default encoder for mp4 video.
bertman··on [dead]
Moxie also said they're going to keep it. https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1261342005658935297?s=20
bertman··on Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
I wonder if Signal will now remove their Giphy integration...

edit: Guess they won't ...

  We have always used a proxy for our requests to GIPHY, and will continue to do so. 
  There should be no harm in continuing to use it.
  https://signal.org/blog/signal-and-giphy-update/
Quote from a Signal dev https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9628#issu...
bertman··on Snikket
This looks very promising! Especially curious about their ideas for iOS because afaik the xmpp client situation's still looking pretty bleak compared to Android.
bertman··on The Ecosystem Is Moving [video]
Backup link because the OP 404'ed: https://berlin-ak.ftp.media.ccc.de/congress/2019/h264-hd/36c...
bertman··on The Ecosystem Is Moving [video]
This talk is basically an elaboration of Moxie's blog post from 2016 with the same name [1]. See also a response to this blog post by Daniel Gultsch, developer of the popular Android XMPP app Conversations [2].

[1]https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

[2]https://gultsch.de/objection.html

bertman··on A simple file encryption tool and format
Because there's no link to the source code in the google document, here's the Github repo: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/
bertman··on A simple file encryption tool and format
The repo: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
bertman··on A simple file encryption tool and format
Here you go: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
bertman··on The state of the XMPP Community (2019, video)
Slides for the presentation: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/talks/blob/master/2019_08_10_-_...
bertman··on Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature
The article focuses on making calls, but moxie (from Signal) had this to say:

"PushKit is the only way to do e2e encrypted messaging in iOS. If they take that away, they're disabling the ability for messaging apps to function with e2e encryption. I don't see how Apple can frame that as "enhancing user privacy and security?" "

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1158852855291269120 So it's not only about being able to answer calls quickly.

bertman··on Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature
I wouldn't be so sure about that: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1158852855291269120
bertman··on Unwalled.Garden: souped-up RSS for P2P social apps
>Unlike Twitter and the other social networks, RSS never tried to capture the social graph, likes, comments, annotations, retweets, and etc of its userbase. It limited itself to posted content (mostly blog posts) and that was a missed opportunity.

>missed opportunity

Maybe it's just me, but RSS being all about content is the best thing about it.

bertman··on Ask HN: What is the best laptop to run Linux in 2019?
Sorry I didn't answer earlier. I use pass (passwordstore.org).
bertman··on Ask HN: What is the best laptop to run Linux in 2019?
I'm using a librebooted ThinkPad x200 with Debian Stable and an AFFS display panel as my daily driver. It's great, I hope it never dies.
bertman··on Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
> I don't think I could write a book

That's what you thought about building a video game console from scratch, and look how that turned out :) Awesome work!

bertman··on Modern Alternatives to PGP
> No one was sending you encrypted emails anyway,...

Ouch, the unfortunate truth.

bertman··on Thunderbird in 2019
> What I would love to see is a small team in Mozilla create a spin-off Electron app

Now this is something you don't read everyday on Hacker News...

bertman··on Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube?
I'm a simple man, I see a new dolphin-emu.org article, I click it, read it, am fascinated by it and feel slightly smarter afterwards.
bertman··on Show HN: Transfer files to mobile device by scanning a QR code from the terminal
I think he meant the /dev/urandom part being unix specific
bertman··on Show HN: Passpwn – check passwords in pass against haveibeenpwned
There's also an implementation as a pass extension: https://github.com/benburwell/pass-audit (I'm not the author)
bertman··on Introducing Remembear, new password manager
https://passwordstore.org
bertman··on Eight years of victory

  I know there are lots of rival bookmarking services out 
  there to choose from.
  I will consume them all, like I consumed the pie.
I like the owner's style :)
bertman··on Animated Algorithms

  "Application error
  An error occurred in the application and your page could 
  not be served. If you are the application owner, check 
  your logs for details."
bertman··on John Carmack reviews VR app “Just Relax”
The title made me expect a well-worded post about the current state state of VR by Carmack. Maybe change the title?
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