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Luckily there are actually decentralized chat alternatives with low system requirements to encourage self-hosting, but man is Matrix so overhyped & misunderstood.

Thank you for the illuminating post. Could you name a few alternatives that better align with the ethos of the fediverse?

That’s such a poor excuse. If they really really thought it was a problem, they could obscure-gate the feature. Make it so you have to long press on the 3rd word of the ToS or something ridiculous, and share that info online.

This is a fairly common practice for potentially dangerous android features, for example. It keeps the less tech savvy audiences from accidentally impaling themselves in the foot.

Usually the vanguard of adoption for platforms like these are fairly technical users. When you start cutting the feature set that brought them to your platform, it starts the death knell for your platform. They’ll go elsewhere to find a platform that respects them more, and they’ll drag everyone else with them sooner or later.

When was the last time you saw android getting a severely bad rap for including ADB?

In what way is it insecure? If the user was going to message someone off platform they’d still be sending them an unencrypted message anyways if they have to switch apps to SMS. If users didn’t understand the distinction, that’s a design failure on signal’s part.

To a lot of us, SMS fallback was the killer feature signal provided.

At least with matrix, it’s decentralised. If they ever try to rug pull like signal did, their users can at least choose to not update if they self-host their own instance. I’d imagine a lot of lemmings would appreciate that, considering.

I was pissed at Signal for dropping SMS support. Their rationalisation was kinda bs. Now I just use matrix instead, since it’s decentralised.

While I do think some ways of communicating are certainly more effective than others, social change also requires some amount of tension to be effective. Cordial methods are often the first to be tried, and are also most often summarily ignored.

Moderates often find tension emotionally distressing because it pierces their perception of themselves as a morally just person. They sometimes perceive what is often valid criticism as being yelled at. This tension is required in order to enact social change, though.

As someone who has been on the receiving end of that tension before, I can attest it’s an unpleasant experience, but it passes, and hopefully leaves room for some amount of contemplation in its place.

I’d highly recommend reading MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, as he bridges the concept much more eloquently than I could ever hope to.

Lmao, I didn’t look too closely at the characters and thought it was just Arabic script. That’s super cool!

Is nobody going to comment on the flaming eye key on the numpad? Op, does your keyboard have some sort of scrying mode?

Backblaze regularly releases failure rate statistics of their drives, and it’s often a big enough dataset to be quite meaningful. I haven’t been keeping up with it lately, but there certainly was a period of time where there were substantial differences in the failure rates of different manufacturers.

So while you do still need to have drive failure mitigation strategies, buying more reliable devices can definitely save you time and headache in the future by having to deal with failures less frequently.

One minor caveat where CPU could matter is AVX support. I couldn’t get ollama to run well on my system, despite having a decent GPU, because I’m using an ancient processor.

GReader was so good, now it’s just another ghost in Google’s graveyard. :( My guess is that they killed it because it was kinda in the same sphere as Google News.

Yeah, my list would end up being longer than some novels. Also, software churn makes it an ever evolving process, so having a list where half of it is wrong by the next time I need it seems less than ideal.

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Using SPA firewall knocking (fwknop) to open ports to ssh in. I suppose if I was really paranoid, the most secure would be an air gap, but there’s only so much convenience I’ll give up for security.

Lol. I mentioned it not because I care about the karma, but because I’ve never seen any of my comments instantly start at -1 and it was mildly interesting.

I mean, I do care a little about my imaginary internet points, but that’s not why I mentioned it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Outside, maybe? lol

Edit: Weird, my comment started at -1 karma. Is this thread being botted or something? Oh I accidentally downvoted myself…

That’s not too surprising; there’s a natural human bias called negativity bias which makes that a common human reaction, if not the default one. I think simply being aware of it can help give us a more rounded perspective on our own experiences.

And yeah, I get your intent wasn’t to call the community assholes, but I think it’s also fair that plenty of people interpreted it that way. Communication is a two way street, after all.

There were definitely some people who weren’t outright rude, but also perhaps not terribly sympathetic to your particular use case, and were perhaps more prescriptive than they ought to be. But there were also quite a few who thought you had a unique and valid use case that hasn’t really been explored. As an outsider, I found it to be an pretty interesting conversation you were all having.

I get that, and I’m not trying to insinuate that your feelings are invalid, just that perhaps you are giving the small negative minority more weight than it deserves.

I think that with online communities, especially ones on social media that are more ad hoc than others or than IRL groups, it’s a bit more expected to tolerate people who maybe don’t have the best communication skills. Also, with a bigger audience, there’s always a chance that someone is just having a bad day. While it sucks that that happens, it’s important to try to give people the benefit of the doubt when we can, even when they’re clearly in the wrong.

What that one person said was definitely not OK, though. Just want to be clear on that.

Sure, but the way you’re characterizing the group with your meme is that it was a mostly negative experience, when in reality almost everyone was kind except for one or maybe two people, and some of your comments were kind of inflammatory to boot. You’re being needlessly dramatic, and stirring the pot over one rude person online.

Hosting is free if you supply the internet connection and the computer. Sounds like they’re just hosting it to TOR from their local network.