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kpw ,

Something felt wrong using Windows. It felt right when I switched to Linux.

kpw ,

Personally Linux has everything I want. Kind of per definition. If it's not available for Linux I don't care about it. I would use Windows if I had to use it for work.

kpw ,

You sound like those people that "can't use Mastodon" because they have to choose a server first and that's too complicated.

kpw ,

Why CS lecturers? Have you seen the code that comes with PhD theses? Academics aren't necessarily the best programmers out there.

kpw ,

Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about how the OS works. If you're very ambitious, you could try to install Arch in a virtual machine environment: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

Installing Arch for the first time taught me a lot about how my system works, since you have to choose all the parts that make up your system yourself.

Wanting to improve my Linux skills after 17 months of daily driving Linux

I’ve been daily driving Linux for 17 months now (currently on Linux Mint). I have got very comfortable with basic commands and many just works distros (such as Linux Mint, or Pop!_OS) with apt as the package manager. I’ve tried Debian as a distro to try to challenge myself, but have always ran into issues. On my PC, I could...

kpw ,

You have a wife, we get it.

kpw ,

Less than once a year for me. I don't remember it breaking in the last few years.

kpw ,
  1. Yes
  2. Yes
  3. Should say XMPP, the IETF internet standard for IM. Matrix is a venture capital sham not compatible with existing standards.
  4. No, there is a huge content gap.
kpw , (edited )

The whole point of XMPP or Matrix is to provide interoperability between IM services. For interoperability to exist, we must agree on standards. Matrix is not a standard, but essentially a product controlled entirely by NewVector, a venture capital funded start-up.

They are not profitable and increasingly desperate to make money. Recently they forked Element and Synapse and make contributors sign a CLA which enables them to change their software to a non-free license in the future for monetization: https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/05/Dont-sign-a-CLA.html

You might say "But they made a non-profit foundation for Matrix" which is kind of true, but not really. The "core spec team" is all people working for NewVector except a single guy. Go checkout their linked GitHub profiles.

The whole Matrix thing should build on the existing XMPP internet standard. Instead we got yet another incompatible IM protocol, effectively controlled by a single corporation and more fragmentation. Bridges don't help as they break almost all features, most regrettably end-to-end encryption. We really need proper internet standards for interoperability.

XMPP is also more lightweight and has proper native clients for all platforms instead of Electron apps. On the server side the difference is even more severe.

kpw ,

70% of Spotify profits is a 'tiny tiny amount'?

Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline (restofworld.org)

Jitu Jisan is a Pathao bike-taxi driver in Dhaka. But, he said, taking bookings through the ride-hailing app is always the last resort for him. Typically, he uses the Pathao app only to find a customer, and once he meets them, he turns off the app, strikes a direct deal, and goes khep....

kpw ,

Yeah, but they only could provide that by burning a LOT of money in order to gain a monopoly and then squeeze everyone dry. Uber has always been a venture capital sham: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/11/bezzlers-gonna-bezzle/

kpw ,

The lawsuit seeks to demonstrate an employment relationship between Jota, a creator of political satire content whose real name has not been disclosed, and Alphabet's YouTube

Yeah, I don't think they have to fight very hard here. This lawsuit has a snowball's chance in hell.

kpw ,

Browsers are bloat.
-- average Arch user

kpw ,

I recently switched to netcat, this lets me control the TCP stream more directly.

kpw ,

How about improving existing standard implementations instead of more fragmentation?

kpw ,

How to make sure the fascist wins: get liberals to vote third party.

kpw ,

I don't get how they intended to make money by running a relay? What was the business plan here?

kpw ,

I'd gladly run a relay, but an exit on my home ISP? I don't want to go to jail, no thank you: https://husovec.eu/2014/07/austrian-court-sentenced-tor-exit-node-html/

kpw ,

What data? Tor is designed in a way you don't have any useable data if you don't control a significant portion of the network. And even if they could control it, how much is that data worth anyways? ISPs don't get rich selling traffic data afaik. Blackmail maybe?

kpw ,

True, I did not read the article carefully. I now read the linked German article. There seems to be some uncertainty in the legal opinion of the lawyers cited there regarding the legality of Tor exit nodes in Austria.

kpw ,

Don't ask how they count the years tho

kpw ,

令和5年12月22日

kpw ,

What's Figma?

kpw ,

It was a joke.

kpw ,

You should have seen Lemmy before June 2023. All posts were from the same five people. For now the community seems to be alive and healthy.

kpw ,

The instance shit means that no single entity holds all the power over Lemmy.

kpw ,

It's quite telling that in Austria the far right wants to stop financing the ORF altogether by talking about how the population is forced to pay ORF fees and that it has a left wing bias.

kpw ,

The war has slowed down too. It's doesn't need some kind of conspiracy for the media to jump on the next exiting event when the previous one grows stale.

kpw ,

Just because some tankies on Lemmy don't like to hear it doesn't mean it's not an issue anymore.

kpw ,

You think it is rate limited?

kpw ,

Recently Android added another scary "malicious" warning to the already numerous scary dialogs if one tries to install F-Droid. The "Install anyways" button also became hidden in the "More details" menu.

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