WhyJiffie

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

I think that's a big project for a first one, and unless things changed its configuration is not documented too well.

both because of the complexity, and because of security risks, it would be better to start with something local, like a home assistant, or a forgejo/gitea, a jellyfin, things like that. don't expose them to the internet directly, that's risky, sometimes they have security bugs. rather if you want remote access, set up a wireguard VPN server. It's simpler than it sounds

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

the compiler stops you from compiling most of incorrect code. unless AI learns to use unsafe blocks liberally, it will still prevent memory corruption bugs and such

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Obviously the problem is that office was not written in a safe language. rewrite office in rust!

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

and onedrive has all your documents too in original form

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

it does not. and the reason is, matrix clients and servers are fucking unstable, and spam is still an unsolved thing.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I was wondering why do I only see a single post and no comments for that user, but it looks they were banned on my instance.

since I came from reddit in the first wave, I have read others observations multiple times that lemmy.world has bad moderation, in several ways, and not only because they don't have the capacity for their large server but some other reasons.
you said you had enough for now, but if you come back later, try an account on my instance, slrpnk.net or some others like these that are smaller but not too small. maybe you would like it more. I don't say lemmy.world was a bad choice, I think still better than reddit in recent years, but you get the idea.
but that this user you linked has been banned for almost 2 years by now on my instance makes it look like that it's indeed moderated better.

instances have a lot of moderation power, to make the experience with them better or worse, by choosing which users or sometimes complete instances to ban, so that's a reason other instances could feel different

(and then there's the regular examples like this, which are not slop but are heavily disputed/recontextualized by the top comment. Correction highly upvoted, yet the OP itself is still doing well))

what was the post? I can't load it now, maybe it was deleted.

honestly the thing I hate the most about lemmy is that deleted posts just give an error that's more generic than anything microsoft windows could show, and that deleted posts make all the comments inaccessible too.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

joke on you! google's recent requirement is that all phone vendors make the power button open an AI menu instead of the shutdown menu! on most phones it can be fixed, but it's often hidden very deep in the settings.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

that doesn't make them bad people, just addicted people.
what makes some of them bad people is when they are actively campaigning against Linux to cope with their insecurities.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I heard blue iris can be run with wine on linux

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Doesn't work. Try to do it without giving them a phone number or installing some other application. You can't. Or I couldn't.

how did you try? did you try registering a mozilla account?

You'll find out Mozilla has problems with sign in.

It's probably temporary, it doesn't have problems usually

And it presumes that I shouldn't be able to control my own browser.

they do it so that malware cant install unvetted addons to your browser. and if someone signs a malware addon this way, and some people report it, mozilla can disable it for everyone.

We need a new firefox - just like the original firefox showed that Mozilla was bloat and dumb, we need another that shows the current is bloat and dumb.

what you need is a footgun. you have it in about:config.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

jpeg xl! wow! that's cool!

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

separately, part by part. if they had a laptop they would have needed to buy at least 6 complete laptops by that time, or more realistically, give up on upgrades.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
 

lemm.ee has shut down at 00:14 UTC.

unfortunately I realized too late that I have had hundreds of saved links to posts and comments from there, so I did not have enough time to save them, but anyways it is interesting that maybe a third of the post links I could try were dead. I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.

 

In today's episode of Kill The Messenger, Matrix co-founder Matthew Hodgson reveals how full of bullshit is the writer of the original article.

The messages were published in the Office of the Matrix.org Foundation room: https://matrix.to/#%2F%21sWpnrYUMmaBrlqfRdn%3Amatrix.org%2F%24XpQe-vmtB7j0Uy1TPCvMVCSCW63Xxw_jwy3fflw7EMQ%3Fvia=matrix.org&via=element.io

https://paper.wf/alexia/matrix-is-cooked is fascinatingly incorrect

Until the 6th of November 2023 when they—in their words—moved to a different repository and to the AGPL license. In reality, the Foundation did not know this was coming, and a huge support net was pulled away under their feet.

fwiw, the Foundation had a front-row seat in the fact that Element (as incorporated by the folks who created Matrix) had donated $$M to the Foundation over the years, but wasn't going to survive if it kept giving all its work away as apache-licensed code - which in turn would have been catastrophic for the Foundation.

Yes, the high expenses for the Matrix.org homeserver are largely because they are still managed by Element, just not as donated work but instead like with any other customer.

nope, Element passes the hardware costs (and a fraction of the people costs) of running the matrix.org server to the Foundation without any overheads or markup at all.

Either way it shows that Element is seemingly cashing in on selling ,Matrix to governments and B2B as a SaaS solution without it going back to the foundation

Element has literally put tens of millions into the foundation, and is continuing to do so - while some of the costs get passed to the Foundation, Element donates a bunch too (e.g. by funding a large chunk of the Matrix conference as the anchor sponsor, and by donating time all over the place to help support trust & safety etc)

At the same time I can't help but think that this could have been prevented. Even Matthew himself recognizes that putting the future on Matrix on the line with VC funding and alike was not the best idea for the health of Matrix.

No, even Matthew knows that Matrix would never have been funded without routing the VC funding from Element into... building Matrix. We tried to fund it originally purely as a non-profit, but failed (just as it's a nightmare to raise non-profit for the Foundation today even now that Matrix exists and is successful!). If you need to raise serious $ for an ambitious project, you either need to get lucky with a billionaire (as Signal did with Brian Acton) or you have to raise on the for-profit side. Perhaps it would have have been best for Matrix to grow organically, but I suspect that if it did, it would have failed miserably - instead, it succeeded because we already had a team of ~12 people who could crack on and jump-start it if they could work on it as their dayjob; the team who subsequently founded Element.

Ultimately, for-profit companies will do what makes them profit, not what's the best option. Unless the best option happens to coincide with making the most profit.

No, Element is not profitable. Nor is it trying to maximise profit. Right now it's trying to survive and get sustainable and profit-neutral (i.e. break-even) - while doing everything it can to help keep Matrix healthy and successful too (given if Matrix fails, Element fails too).

Unfortunately, supporting the foundation through anything more than “in spirit” and a platinum membership is out of their budget, apparently. I think that morally they owe a lot more than that.

wow.

the FUD level is absolutely astonishing, and I really wonder what the genesis of this is

so, absolutely, spectacularly, depressing

this, my friends, is why we can't have nice things.

In response to an other person suggesting that the publisher is also known as a reasonable person on the platform:

Interesting, the matrix handle that seems behind this blog seems always to have been quite a reasonable person

somewhat why i’m wondering what the backstory is, and whether this is an unfortunate example of spicy lies outpacing the boring truth

 

If your post would end up like that in a day, please just refrain from posting it, in any community, or use a throwaway. It is very destructive, especially since all and every comment also becomes unreachable with it.

Sincerely,
With all due respect,
Your Lemmy neighbor


I'm fed up with this shit, and I know it well that it's not just me.

Do not bomb your communities, please.

I promise, I'll end up setting up a public instance that does not obey any deletions because of these madlads. Seriously, where is pushshift for lemmy?

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