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Is it a requirement that you use an Element-based client?

matrix.org has a listing of clients. There are plenty if you only need basic features, but Element is the only feature-mostly-complete client.

I inherently distrust anything with crypto bullshit built in.

Possibly, but that just makes me more interested in simply ignoring her wishes.

Yes, it's likely that I am more challenged by the grammatically incorrect pronouns than most neurotypicals in this thread, thanks for pointing that out.

A lot of people who like to cry 'transphobic!' may wish to understand that there are people who need accommodation in our society other than trans people, and that heralding chosen pronouns as truly inviolable will sometimes make other people less comfortable.

That said, I have so far managed to avoid any such accusations in this thread, thankfully.

I'm sorry to hear about that. Sounds difficult.

Thanks for the correction, you're quite correct.

She's actively making the language less comprehensible by breaking the rules. Multiple times in this thread, people have said "it" and I've been confused as to what - or who - they're referring to.

I'm not a language historian, so I don't have an opinion on your last question.

Makes sense, but we aren't speaking German here.

I totally understand wanting to be respectful, but respect goes both ways. She needs to respect the fact that her odd pronouns are literally breaking the English language for people who want to use them.

I find it particularly amusing that you used the wrong pronoun while scolding me to use the correct pronouns for her.

If that doesn't prove the impracticality of using "it" as a pronoun, I don't know what does.

It breaks the rules of English that we all understand subconsciously, so it's difficult to do without consciously thinking about every single usage of a pronoun in a sentence, which is not how most people type.

Perhaps this is just my autism speaking, but am I the only one who gets completely freaked out by sentences like the above? "It" refers to inanimate objects, things which can't have free will, do crimes, or be prosecuted.

It's almost like you're talking about how a lawnmower decided to run a child over and then incriminate itself by boasting about it on social media. It makes no sense!

I know she picked that pronoun herself, but I really wish she didn't. It just makes communication difficult.

What? "It" identifies as an inanimate object? This neopronoun thing really is getting absurd.

I'm really sorry for dogpiling on your setup here, but why keep wav files rather than flac? Flac files are lossless compression, so you can always get the exact same wav out of them, they take less disk space and they can hold Metadata. Flac support is also really common these days.

I don't know whether the model is being updated, but I do know that repeating the same query will change the seed and you'll get a completely different answer. E.g. you might go from a lengthy yes to a short no. Chatgpt is extremely noon-deterministic.

Nice name collision with Taiga, the anime tracking client for Anilist and other sites.

Is it really better to create a world where said content cannot exist due to disabled people?

Why does Apple need to provide the plan as well? I mean, given Apple's controlling nature, they may well wish to - but most laptops with mobile internet simply provide a SIM slot hooked up to a standard mobile baseband. Customers find their own plan, and many carriers offer plans which are tablet-oriented, with no calls/texts and sharing the data from a 'master' mobile plan.

How goes the progress on scaling your infrastructure? I signed up ages ago and haven't heard back.

> And that is with me living in ‘socialist’ Europe. I can only dream of how many options people in ‘free market’ USA must have.

I can feel the sarcasm dripping from this sentence.

IDK about simplyinfinity, but here in NZ, the last mile of internet infrastructure (the fibre from homes to the exchange) is owned by regulated companies which must lease access to them at set rates or lower, and mustn't act as ISPs.

As such, we have dozens of ISPs with their own backend infrastructure, all sharing the same last-mile, and most available nation-wide.

That said, they're all going to be buying transit from a big backbone ISP to get overseas connectivity.

Banks often have awful security systems. Kiwibank in NZ has a "two-factor security" system. All it is is a security questions thing where you click on screen to fill in 3 letters of the hidden answer. The on-screen keyboard makes it secure, you see? Against keyloggers.

I once wrote them a long email about what two-factor is actually supposed to be and why it exists, and got a reply basically saying "lol ok, our security is great ok?"

I've since switched away from them for a bank which does 'two-factor' by sending codes via SMS, but only when its algorithm decides that it needs to. That's not very often.

In corporate hellscapes like the USA, there is often no choice in ISPs, either because other ISPs can't justify the infrastructure investment to set up in opposition to the incumbent, or because the incumbent has lobbied local government to make use of power poles/conduits exclusive to them.

Excuse me, your links are indeed fine when loaded from a video player. That's odd, I don't recall akamai refusing to serve the hls manifest to browsers before. I wonder why they started doing that...

Since those links are either dead or geolocked, note that you can play the official youtube stream in mpv/mpc directly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JncMoFTn9xc), or pass it through livestreamer to play in any local player. https://docs.livestreamer.io/

Curious as to what the advantages of this are over mpv?

Interesting you'd say that in a thread about ISPs, considering we have regulation-enforced separation between the owners of our government-funded nation-wide FTTH network and the actual service providers. This means I have over a dozen ISPs to choose from, and they all over gigabit fibre and compete on price, customer service, and things like IPv6 or CG-NAT.

Odd. My client's aus-hosted, nz-customer site was hit by this.

Android supports showing and changing Bluetooth codec - though the function is buried in the developer options hidden menu.

https://i.imgur.com/Bh05Dn5.jpg

The hosting of an unlimited number of videos of (almost) unlimited length at up to 8k resolution for an indefinite length of time is worth nothing to you? I'm incredibly grateful that there is such a vast video archive on the internet with such liberal terms for video uploading and playback.

And Google does revenue share with creaters. Heard of the YouTube partner program? Partners receive money per view from people who watch ads or have premium, and premium views are worth more.