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unintendedcons··on On the Fate of XMPP/Jabber
I use XMPP every day for my event groupchats

It basically works, and makes me mostly very happy

Shout out to 404.city !

unintendedcons··on A roadmap and appeal for help from The Matrix.org Foundation
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.
unintendedcons··on I don't want anything your AI generates
Psychological asbestos
unintendedcons··on Flathub: One million active users and growing
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.
unintendedcons··on We need a new word to describe AI content proliferating across the web
Psychological Asbestos

Or Psychosbestos

unintendedcons··on 'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Piracy in Decline'
Thank you for this correction.

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

unintendedcons··on 'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Piracy in Decline'
Canada charges a piracy tax on ALLL HARD DRIVES AND STORAGE MEDIA.

It's not piracy, we already paid!

unintendedcons··on Happy 25th Birthday Jabber/XMPP, it is the date of Jeremie Miller announcement
Cheers to the dozens of us using XMPP every day :)
unintendedcons··on Aaron Swartz Day 2023 Nov 11; a Day of Intimate Virtual Talks [video]
Interesting! In Canada it is Remembrance Day https://www.canada.ca/en/services/defence/caf/militaryhistor...
unintendedcons··on The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download New Software
Bingo
unintendedcons··on Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
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!

unintendedcons··on Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
I like this idea! A code&keys escrow org, yes please
unintendedcons··on Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on?
Keybase is over, but worry not, KeyOxide to the rescue!
unintendedcons··on Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
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 :)
unintendedcons··on Google employee responds to negative feedbacks on WEI
Can't trust 'em.
unintendedcons··on Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?
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!
unintendedcons··on I have written a JVM in Rust
In what world did you convince yourself asking a chatbot was a source of real knowledge?

respect yourself enough to look at primary sources

unintendedcons··on When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies
Chinese practices poisoning the well for everybody, again?
unintendedcons··on “Sadly, I Think Godot Is a Scam. I'm Not Sure I Can Do This.”
Yikes, looks like NO transparency about Foundation financials!

I was expecting OpenCollective, not PayPal!

unintendedcons··on “Sadly, I Think Godot Is a Scam. I'm Not Sure I Can Do This.”
Agreed. The foundation should absolutely be paying those costs, and take that off the shoulders of this long suffering and burned out individual contributor.
unintendedcons··on “Sadly, I Think Godot Is a Scam. I'm Not Sure I Can Do This.”
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.

unintendedcons··on QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system
I bought a Librem laptop for Qubes support.

Feels like home.

unintendedcons··on Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative
Smells like token pumping
unintendedcons··on Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
Very cool, but distracting that the very first top left attention grabbing glyph is an unrelated company's logo https://polygon.technology/
unintendedcons··on Ferricy: Building a custom 34-key split keyboard
Very nice! Thanks for showing your layers
unintendedcons··on Social media for AI bots: “No humans allowed”
Amazing question!

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

unintendedcons··on Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software
Looks nice! What is the data format it saves? I'd love this to be simple markdown textiles underneath
unintendedcons··on Senior Developer Koans
Thanks for that link!

Yeah, OP are not koans.

unintendedcons··on Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive
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.

unintendedcons··on Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive
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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