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kpw OP ,

Yes. I wanted to write max.

kpw ,

The most offensive thing here is the amount={5} attribute. What is it? It's not XML.

kpw ,

I haven't recognized any posts as covert ads here I think. Can you give an example?

kpw ,

Lemmy is the only community I know where claims of "toxic extreme leftist" cannot easily be dismissed.

kpw , (edited )

Hm not sure what to make of this. The author of the article states pretty clearly what company they are affiliated with. The comments seem to push a product called Splunk which doesn't appear in the article at all.

kpw ,

Telegram requires internet access and even worse, relies on a central server. It's not a mesh network.

kpw ,

Every website has access to the password you use on that website. ALWAYS use unique and randomly generated passwords for every service.

kpw ,

XMPP works well and the community is actively developing server and clients. There aren't any big corporations funding it anymore that's all. Still the best instant messaging protocol in 2023.

kpw ,

You sound a bit like those Christians complaining about how the gays stole the rainbow from God.

kpw ,

I don't see the reason we need a venture capital funded bloated protocol anyways. Just switch to XMPP. It's much more lightweight and it's the internet standard for instant messaging.

kpw ,

“protocol extensions” (aka: incompatible)

Reality shows that implementations can very well implement the same extensions. If you don't use extremely outdated clients you will find they do have compatible file transfer and A/V calls. ActivityPub works the same way.

Meanwhile Matrix Ltd. cooks up a completely new, incompatible protocol instead of building upon existing internet standards.

kpw ,

The NGO is a decoy organization with exactly the same people (minus one) as the VC funded startup. Go look at the "core spec team" and find out which organization they belong to.

Your information on XMPP seems to be quite outdated. File transfer in XMPP is now mostly done by uploading the file via HTTP and sending the URL. Audio calls are done using WebRTC and work two ways.

kpw ,

Here is what I used before I switched to desec.io: https://gist.github.com/haansn08/50565768c66c5fbf382b2bc2484e8a41

kpw ,

tar + netcat are really nice. Not very secure but gets a folder from A to B using standard tools.

kpw , (edited )

Math tricks on how to do basic and next level up math skills in a very different way than the west is taught.

As a math undergrad student I can tell you that if it doesn't involve sitting down and thinking about it with pen and paper for a few hours it's at best math related entertainment. No useful skills will be remembered.

kpw ,

"I did a ride the other day, and she said she paid $102 for a 40-minute ride. I got $25, and that’s because I had a $5 bonus!" said Lyft driver Debora Williams. "It’s just ridiculous."

Come on, cut out the middle man. They're providing nothing of that value.

kpw ,

Like when using a normal taxi?

kpw ,

Maybe. Every time I used a taxi it was a random person I gave money when I arrived at the destination.

kpw ,

Can we make the Swastika a Buddhist symbol again?

kpw ,

I'm pretty sure they don't profit from sending you to another McDonald's.

kpw ,

feddit.uk seems to be online.

kpw ,

Or just have a bus factor greater than one.

kpw ,

Didn't even mention Mastodon once.

kpw ,

I can fix her

kpw ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LD7_ntulKI&t=154

kpw ,

Please don't get worked up over a 4chan post...

kpw ,

Unions aren't about fucking companies over.

kpw ,

I will never use any instance that federates with instances that federate with instances not run by someone as a hobby. Imagine what could happen if they threaten us to defederate!

kpw ,

Free locked down scooters that can't move.

Trump claims he’s never read Mein Kampf as he repeats anti-immigrant rhetoric (www.independent.co.uk)

Donald Trump has now denied ever having read Adolf Hitler’s 1925 memoir-manifesto Mein Kampf as he faces a firestorm over his recent run of anti-immigrant comments, which have been likened to the Nazi leader’s infamous “blood and soil” rhetoric....

kpw ,

He doesn't strike me as the reading type, but I'm pretty sure he listens to people who read it.

kpw ,

Thank you for your contribution.

A take on an "ideal" fediverse (kbin.social)

For-profit tech companies like #Threads and #Flipboard are beginning to implement #ActivityPub, and that's been causing a lot of chaos lately. Thus, I've found it helpful to take a step back, consider what it is about the fediverse that I value, and think about whether federation with these large platforms will bring us closer...

kpw ,

I like your considerations, but there are no conclusions on how users/admins/developers should act to achieve this ideal state.

kpw ,

So we should defederate because we will have issues defederating due to the amount of content we lose? Isn't that kind of self-contradictory?

Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads

I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change...

kpw ,

Easily incorporated into the posts themselves

We should definitely block instances who insert ads into the content. However there is no evidence of threads.net doing something like this.

Not now… But they can easily do it if they get a majority market share. Don’t behave like they want? Defederated from the majority of the content.

They could threaten to defederate from us so we should defederate from them? It makes no sense.

Are you familiar with the story of EEE and XMPP?

XMPP works great, I use it everyday. It doesn't have to be popular, you only need to convince some of your friends to use it.

kpw ,

I'm not sure I understand your question or why you think of those statements as being exclusive. I will try to answer separately.

is the fediverse a service that should allow Threads/Meta

The good thing about the Fediverse is that it isn't a single service, but many federated ones. For any single instance, I think not defederating maximizes user freedom: A user who wants to interact with Threads can do so while a user that doesn't want to see any content from Threads can block their domain.

is it like XMPP and doesn’t have to be popular

I think it's a little bit different from XMPP, in a sense that the Fediverse is a public space where I communicate with strangers, so I would like it to be popular at least among people with shared interests. For instant messaging I just need my friends there, but sure it would be easier if I didn't have to show everyone how to create an XMPP address and what client to use.

kpw ,

If a user blocks a domain I suppose their content isn't send to that server anymore I hope?

kpw ,

I don't see any spam from threads.net.

kpw ,

There should be an option to make posts instance-local for such things.

kpw ,

How do you know? We should fix this on the software level.

kpw ,

You're not fooling anyone.

kpw ,

From my point of view the mathematicians are evil.

Well, then you are lost!

kpw ,

Boring tech is awesome.

kpw ,

Yes, they should be legally required to open up access to their service. No more walled gardens that hold a large number of users hostage.

kpw ,

That would be awesome, wouldn't it be?

Do you think we live in the best possible of worlds where nothing can be improved anymore?

kpw ,

Yes. It's a window manager, not tmux.

kpw ,

You can block the entire domain.

New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s Disease (scitechdaily.com)

Researchers from Pritzker Molecular Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, demonstrated that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune response linked to multiple sclerosis. Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have developed

kpw ,

Outside of for-profit corporations and outside of academia? So neither the private sector nor the public sector? Who should do medical research then?

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