ptman

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ptman··on XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging

Please elaborate. Why? What is it using now?

ptman··on XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging

Beeper (built on matrix) has convenient bridges to lots of services. You can use the hosted service or self-host (https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager) or you can host plain matrix using https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/

ptman··on XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging

Matrix is described as a distrubuted graph database. Chat is just the most common use case, but there are others.

ptman··on Trump wins presidency for second time

Actions, not words. He has shown what he does as a president.

ptman··on Trump wins presidency for second time

It's not that it's numerous (it's not). It's that they have a lot weight because of how the electoral college works.

ptman··on Matrix 2.0 Is Here

Are you using matrix.org? Maybe you could try a server closer to you?

ptman··on Matrix 2.0 Is Here

Yes, I reposted since that didn't seem to catch typical amount of attention.

ptman··on Matrix 2.0 Is Here

But it's not yet publicly available anywhere?

ptman··on Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source

https://faircode.io/

ptman··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

I've had this problem as well. When going from offline to online, it removes books sideloaded via USB. But not books I've added via send to kindle or ones that I've downloaded via the experimental browser. So now, instead of sideloading via USB, I convert to mobi, run a python -m http.server on my laptop and use the experimental browser to download them on kindle.

ptman··on Fun with Go Iterators

There's always C if you prefer your language to work like C.

Go is supposed to be an improvement over C for most programming tasks.

ptman··on WordPress Alternatives

I took a new look at Publii. Recently more support for websites instead of blogs. Great!

But collaboration seems to be a problem. You can sync the workspace using dropbox or syncthing, but there can be conflicts on the sqlite database.

There is git support, but that just pushes the published page into git.

Are there no better interfaces for mortals to SSGs?

ptman··on Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git

Ikiwiki is nice. It's also a static wiki compiler and tries very hard to minimize the amount of rebuilding for each edit.

ptman··on Hetzner Object Storage

IIRC Cloudflare R2 is designed as a cache for S3 and has free egress

edit: apparently not writethrough: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/data-migration/sippy/

ptman··on Hetzner Object Storage

cloudflare r2 has free egress

ptman··on It is hard to recommend Google Cloud

Revenue is not profit

ptman··on Desed: Demystify and debug your sed scripts

Indeed. It's different from Python, maybe JavaScript as well. https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/#syntax

ptman··on Micro-libraries should never be used

A little copying is better than a little dependency.

ptman··on Go 1.23 Released

And a different take on the changes: https://antonz.org/go-1-23/

ptman··on MNT Pocket Reform first impressions and hardware

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab2

ptman··on Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040

Does nix and flakes help with a reproducible build environment?

ptman··on Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC

Go pretty much only does static linking. The whole library does not get linked for a single function

ptman··on Traffic noise hurts children's brains

Hate cars, but especially car noise. I find it fucking insane that we require quiet EVs to make engine noise. Drop the speed furthe instead. And people need to learn to watch for pedestrians. And pedestrians need to watch for cars, maybe get rid of the (noise cancelling) headphones

ptman··on Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)

Watermarking is much preferable to DRM

ptman··on Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/

The designers of matrix decided to shift more of the burden of the protocol to the server so that clients would be easier to implement. Therefore there are few servers and many clients. e2ee makes the client more complicated, that's why not all clients support e2ee

ptman··on Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

There are also several element forks. I would imagine there would be a fork without scanning if the main element app was doing scanning.

ptman··on Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

When did you test it? It has improved very much in the past five years.

ptman··on When Companies Ask for Your Social Security Number, Try Saying No

Just look at how it has been solved in Scandinavia, Estonia etc. I don't know enough about Indian Aadhar (?), but I assume that works as well. And start keeping a decent registry of people instead of relying on a once a decade census.

ptman··on Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents

They have many sources https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

ptman··on The OpenAI board was right

They refused to provide documentation of how the voice was trained.

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