matlag

XMPP biggest issues:

• The absurdly and laugably slowness of the protocol evolution on critically needed features: it was bleeding edge years back. The XSF totally screwed up the VoIP extension management. Google dropped a working out-of-the-box solution on the table in 2005: "Take it and use it! You're welcome!". They took 4 years to improve it before declaring the extension stable. Only then did clients start implementations, and bummer: the spec was not perfect, there were a lot of hiccups and "client A can make calls to B but not C" issues, because, who would have guessed, the only way to improve a spec at some point is to test it out there, and not stare at it and make some minor changes. By the time, most XMPP users of the time who wanted VoIP had moved on to others tools, XMPP went from at the top to very late. They're doing it again with MIX (next gen rooms): the first draft is from 2015. It's still "experimental", though some servers team started implementation (such lack of patience...)
• An ocean of servers/clients with no consistency. You get to Matrix, and you have Element for all platforms. It can be native code everywhere, but it's the same look and feel. You can tell your pops "just install Element". In the XMPP world, there is no equivalent, though Snikket seems to be going there (consistent UI across platforms): all clients are different, different UI, platform specific with different set of features, some are a 1 guy project. If you're not guided by a tek-savvy person, you have no idea where to start.

With all that said, I run a server for our family and its resources consumption is barely a blip on the radar. The lightest Matrix servers are an order of magnitude hungrier. And the difference increases with scale!

XMPP is the absolute best solution to multiply small servers, a very good thing for a healthy federation.

Drop anything that's not opensource and federated, except if you want to live the enshitification process over and over.

Matrix might be the closest to Discord. XMPP should also be considered.

"Your dasher crashed, but based on his tracking, he's still crawling towards you. This could induce some delay. If you go meet him on the way, you can get a rebate on your tipping fees!"

It was. But now, if the idea makes it to the right executive...

It was absolutely necessary. The agent had an urge to kick a small harmless creature. You normal empathic folks can't comprehend that.

Well, it was pretty obvious that his job was not to fight for the US and their citizens.

So, he failed miserably while he was in service, right?

That worked like a charm in Russia. Every idiot (or nearly) know they're rigged.

You assume there's a red line he shouldn't cross.But:

• gross corruption
• abducting people in the street
• executing people in the street
• arbitrary arrests
• journalists arrests
• multiple violations of the Constitution
• child rape ring

None of them was a red line eventually. All of them should have been.

If he rigs the election, you will hear people scream and rage, and demand courts to fix it (they're toothless), and demand congress to fix it (~half is complicit, ~half is spineless). But no one will take arms. No one did it for all the other red lines.

When ICE seizes the boxes, what will the state and SCOTUS do? Start a civil war? More likely loudly protest.

Then they'll return the boxes, and oh boy! The GOP wins with 98% of votes, proving (without a doubt...) that surveys and maistream medias were lying!

And their goal is to make sure you can't do anything without THEIR tools/plants, so that you don't escape from their control.

Imagine we all work with our hands but decide we'll only sell what we produce to our local communities and not large corporates.

CEOs will not be replaced any time soon, because they're all in each other companies board and they'll stand for each other (or more exactly from setting examples that could apply to them).

And so he plans to try reallw hard now? I wouldn't want to stop him...