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Cyclohexane

@ cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

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West Asia - Communist - international politics - anti-imperialism - software development - Math, science, chemistry, history, sociology, and a lot more.

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    U.S Troops Loot Syrian Oil and Wheat Continuously

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  • The Syrian conflict is 13 years old. It's ridiculous to expect every article to give you the whole context every time, especially since anything anyone will write about said context will be extremely biased. This conflict had massive misinformation campaigns from all sides.

    Evaluate the information for what it is, not for whether it gives you a lecture on the history of the conflict.

    SANA is primarily a TV channel, and the articles are usually a summary / transcript of the TV reports. They show videos routinely of the trucks that are very clearly carrying oil through Al-ya'rabiya, which is a border crossing from Syria to Iraq that the US controls.

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  • Why not evaluate the information for what it is rather than checking if it belongs to your preferred camp of propaganda or not?

  • Proton Pass open source password manager is now available on F-Droid

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  • Which sites or apps does it not pop up? It is rare for it not to pop up for me.

  • Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

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  • Arch Linux for gaming?

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  • Arch works well for gaming. However, depending on what you're doing, you should keep this in mind:

    • on any distro, updates may break things or change the behavior of apps. The difference in arch is that youll update no less than weekly on average, maybe biweekly at worst. This would matter more if you have a complex setup. If you're just using steam, I wouldn't worry
    • arch only uses the latest versions of software. If you ever install something from outside the arch repos, you have to make sure it is compatible with recent versions. Sometimes it may not be.

  • Self hosted remote storage for VPS?

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  • I've been wanting to do this exact thing. I already have wireguard setup. Please update us if you do this.

  • Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

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  • This makes matrix even less attractive to me lol. But you're right, that's a very good point.

  • Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

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  • cumbersome to parse

    Parsers have already existed for so long in every major language. Why need to worry about parsing?

    And why need to worry about transports working differently if they achieve the same thing? They seem similarly convenient if I understood what you said correctly

  • Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

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  • Why is JSON better than XML? It's more modern, sure, but from technical perspective it is not objectively better right? Not something worth switching protocols for.

    You mention XMPP has transports as opposed to Matrix bridges. I thought they give you roughly the same outcome. What's the difference?

  • [Question] Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

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  • From a quick look into XMPP's clients for android, they seem nice and some have modern features too.

    Is there any technical limitation that would prevent xmpp client from having a WhatsApp-like UI?? WhatsApp started out with XMPP and probably still uses a variant of it. If anything, I'd imagine its harder with matrix given the complexity of the protocol.

  • [Question] Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

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  • Makes sense, but to me newness alone is not a benefit. In fact, it is a bit of a disadvantage. XMPP has more clients for example, and they are more mature.

  • Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

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  • I just unpinned the post. I figured there may be others bothered by this, and plus its been enough weeks at this point. Thanks for voicing this to me :)

  • Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?

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  • Outside of academia, would you say it still provides significant upside over markdown?

  • Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

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  • I'm sorry I don't know of any way to do that :( does it appear even when you're browsing your main feed??

  • Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?

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  • Is it practical outside of academia? I heard the learning curve is kinda big

  • Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?

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  • Markdown is awesome, I agree! I did not realize you could extend markdown with anything other than html. The html extension is quite nice to do anything that markdown doesn't support natively, but I wish there was an easier way to extend markdown. Maybe the ones you listed are what I need.

  • Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?

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  • Can you please explain what this is?

  • Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?

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  • Why not matrix?

  • Always has been

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  • You're correct that inflation is the devaluation of money. The value of a unit of money is represented by what that unit can buy, so the person you replied to is also correct. This is why the most used indicators of inflation are measures of buying power.

    If my money is devalued, it means that when I was able to buy 1 gallon of milk, I can now only buy 3/4ths a gallon with the same amount.

    So while you're correct in your over simplified example that inflation can be caused by the growth in "pool of money", as you alluded, it is not that simple and its not the only cause. Moreover, inflation still manifests itself in the form of prices increasing. If pool of money grows, but prices remain the same, there's no inflation.

    This does not necessitate a "canal of businessmen" conspiring.