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  • 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using

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  • Self hosting doesn't mean "being wasteful and letting containers duplicate services". I want to know which DB application X is using, so I pool it for applications Y and Z.

  • Hot on the heels of the H2S, Bambu Lab announces the seven-color, wireless nozzle-swapping Vortek H2C

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  • they dont have a functioning prototype

    Seems incompatible with their claim that they will ship this year

  • FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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  • Why would you think so? Can you give examples of specific tools that wouldn't be available to mail clients? On the other hand, there are many things available on most email clients which are missing on GitHub, like tagging automation from custom and flexible rules, Turing-complete filtering, instant searching, saved searches, managing the lifecycle of issues, linking with the VCS etc. all in context and in one place.How people generally go about re-implementing those on GitHub is with bots, and you are left at the mercy of what the bot can do/its admin wants you to do, and each project is its own silo and possibly breaks your workflow.

    I'm fine with GitHub because these days I'm mostly a casual contributor, but there's a lost appreciation for the sheer power and universality of email-based workflows. That the largest projects (including the Linux kernel) run on that should speak for itself.

  • FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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  • I figured they'd be juggling a lot of mails

    Yeah, but organized into as many threads as there are issues/PRs, so it's exactly as daunting as the same list as viewed on GitHub/project/issues (because it is exactly the same content).

    and I guess it is possible for some people to stay on top of that

    It's the crux of being a maintainer, it's your job "to stay on top of that", with, on larger projects, ad-hoc tooling and automation being the only way. Email is infinitely more flexible than the one-size-fits-all take by GitHub on that.

  • AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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  • In which way do you expect this to strengthen copyright laws? Also, from the article, it reads like Anthropic implicitly admits to copyright infringement, and that their defence essentially boils down to "if you prosecute us, we will go bankrupt". I don't see how that flies, but then again, IANAL :-)

  • AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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  • It's pretty simple: if Antropic wins, that's the end of the US copyright law, replaced by the diktat of the tech bros (worse for artists, and for anyone else but the tech oligarchs). If Antropic loses, nothing changes and we get to fight the (comparatively tiny) copyright mafia for another day.

  • When the world connected on Skype

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  • I don’t see what you’re describing 🤷 Soon only appears once on the page and not in this context for me.

    It appears as a tooltip

    Anyhow, where I intended to draw your intention was on https://prose.org/downloads

    You can just download the client for your platform (assuming one is available), or use the web one (otherwise), or just build one from the sources I linked (which is what I do), and login with your usual XMPP account. Would you need an account and have to decide which provider to register with, this would come handy: https://providers.xmpp.net/

    In this set-up, prose.org isn't hosting your account and will of course let you interact with thousands of users or more, like any other XMPP client.

  • The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - Truthdig

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  • Those silicon valley tech billionaires are businessmen who, by the looks of it, have completely fallen for their own marketing, and secluded themselves in a weird echo chamber packed with sycophants and profiteers. They are not superior beings. They have no credential nor academic status enabling them to speak as authorities worth being listened to. Anyone with a critical mind and access to scientific literature understands better than them the actual challenges behind "uploading one's brain to the cloud" and can debunk that science fictionesque bullshit.

    All there is to this is a bunch of aging megalomaniacs with too much power, except over death, and that scares the crap out of them and makes them say some stupid shit. And I hate that we sanewash this just because they are rich and influential. As a society we should kick them back to where they belong, which is a court of law, for their continued effort in dismantling our society.

  • When the world connected on Skype

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  • Just below you'll find a section about "self hosting (soon)", though you can already use it with your own XMPP account as a standalone client (no questions asked), like I do, or, optionally, with the server-side components (opensource prosody module).

    Edit: adding https://github.com/prose-im

  • When the world connected on Skype

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  • See my other comment: if you already have an XMPP account, prose is just another client that you can use however you like, for free (and at that point, everyone should be having an XMPP account, if you ask me). If you don't have an account, they can act as service provider (but this being a decentralized network, the don't want to encourage hosting everyone on the same server).

  • When the world connected on Skype

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  • It is not spam, and you miss-read it. Prose is an open-source XMPP client. They can set you up (host on your behalf) for free, up to a certain point. You can pay for it (there is a commercial offering), or you can use it unlimited and with no extra costs than your own server's if you self-host. It's all being developed there in the open in case you don't want to take my word for it: https://github.com/prose-im

  • When the world connected on Skype

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  • In terms of tech and implementation details, it's been years since everyone has been converging towards the same WebRTC architecture (with everyone bundling/linking the same set of basic components and libs as found in chrome, android, ...). As such, a call between two participants (or as a group with less than a dozen participants) should be as good on XMPP as anywhere else (including the commercial options like Google Meet, Zoom, Matrix, ...).

    Of course there are caveats like relying on TURN where direct connection is impossible, but that's the gist of it. Regarding XMPP group calls,

    Where things start getting spicier is in large group calls (dozens of participants or more) requiring the stream to be brokered by a central server (SFU), with stream re-compression and optimisation. Standard-XMPP isn't great for that yet (non-standard XMPP, like Jitsi, on which it is based, is pretty damn good, but unavailable from your regular XMPP setup). Work is going on to improve that (on two fronts, with some XMPP servers turning into SFUs, and with a protocol being designed for offloading AV streams to any willing existing SFU).

    The problem with large group calls essentially boils down to how much bandwidth and CPU you want to throw at it, and that's not cheap (unless, of course, you are the product, i.e. Google Meet, Discord & al). The same applies to self-hosted Matrix/Galene/Jitsi: you probably won't want to hold a large conference call on a home-server, and the server admins are bearing some costs, so get to know them and how sustainable that is. In the case of Matrix.org, it is not.

    No idea what prose is.

    Prose is an open-source XMPP client with a focus on large rooms/banquet-style conversations (like IRC, slack, …). It is still in its early stages but already quite usable and possibly a good fit for a subset of Skype refugees.

  • When the world connected on Skype

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  • None of those (except Jitsi to a small extent) qualify as replacements if we ever want to evolve out of the silos we let megalomaniac CEOs build to better control us. So I'll add to the list: prose.org , movim.eu (or anything based on XMPP) and matrix.org (though this one is rapidly falling into obsolescence). The keyword here is federation.

  • Bubble Trouble - An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

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  • It has already started. Microsoft and Google hiking prices with AI bundled in is both a way to inflate the "demand" artificially, keeping the show going (covering up the fact that nobody really wants that, and even less so wants to pay a premium for it: there just is no miracle AI product/application to sell), and to mitigate some of the absurd imminent losses.

    You wouldn't see that in an "optimistic" and sound market.

  • Hundreds of celebrities warn against letting OpenAI and Google ‘freely exploit’ Hollywood

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  • Count me as a fervent critic of Hollywood, but the world isn't binary and (unfortunately) Hollywood hating it doesn't automatically make it a good thing for the rest of us. Essentially OpenAI, Google and the rest of the pack of thieves are lobbying to establish themselves as the rulers of a lawless world, and everything you already hate about Hollywood (its inordinate amount of power, the bullying of the weaker that ensue, the corruption and politics around it, ...) is meant to get back to us, in worse, with new names at the top.

    Indeed that would be the end of the copyright law, but only for the oligarchs.

  • In Finland keldert het aantal astmapatiënten, wroeten in de aarde helpt

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  • Binnen schoenen aan

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  • Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku]

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  • Matrix has gone open core, XMPP is safer

  • Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku]

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  • You don't have to reinvent the wheel, open standards with similar or better capabilities already exist. Don't create another silo, contribute to making e.g. XMPP clients better.

  • Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku]

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  • but it taught us that you always want more than one method of contact, as a a rugpull can happen at any time off any whim.

    Being on the internet long enough taught me instead (by having seen countless providers rise and fall since the early 00's) to self-host my comms and prefer open federated protocols. I switched to XMPP, I have no regret, everyone that matters made the move painlessly a decade ago or so.