m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@charliebrownau
Oh, I think I'm fine as long as it's not KGB 😂
I always thought that they had telephony background though.
The client has some controversial defaults about data sharing, it may leak your presence if you're in decentralized rooms — that's it. If there are backdoors, the implementation is the issue, not the protocol. And if the implementation is open source, just do the audit.
No, seriously, since when this Mossad shit is even a point?
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org

@charliebrownau Yes, I know what Delta is. Has its uses.
If you want to run your own server that can talk to clients on other server XMPP and email are fine. Matrix is not that.
It takes decentralization to another level and most of its shortcomings like increased hardware footprint and some minor data leaks here and there come from it.
Like I said, it has its flaws, but those aren't fundamental. It's in active development, give it time, it'll get better. XMPP never will.
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org

@charliebrownau No, it's not a problem. I use gomuks most of the time when I need IM only, but if you want e.g. video calls, you have to use Element or something similar that is hardly better.
If you run it in Firefox it's not an Electron app. Firefox is flawed, but you can't run Element in w3m. Matrix is flawed, but we don't have anything better. XMPP is not better, it had its days, but even with all the extensibility it failed to become what it could, it's a thing of the past.
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org

@chrisod Even hardware this old can handle it just fine, it's a matter of habit now.
E.g. most distros have some flavour of getty running on six consoles, I'm a long time Linux user and I've never used more than three, even if it's tens of megabytes, why have it?
And I'm not into having it barebones just for the sake of it, these colored smileys will look cool in mutt — ok, let's use patched st. It's not a good reason to have a terminal that has this, that and the kitchen sink 🤷
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I feel the same way about KDE 😅
I know it's some leftover from the times when having an mp3 playing in the background had a noticeable performance impact. But since then I always ask myself, does this really let me use the computer in a better way? If not, why have it?
I use a laptop that is almost 10 years old and I'm really happy that with this approach it's 98,5 idle even when I have Element Web open in Firefox. Battery life is excellent as it's not wasted on some cruft.

@keithzg Ha-ha-ha, right! File formats for too distant future here 😅
I really wonder though — well, they'll definitely figure out it's a wave, but what's a second to them? What if they perceive loudness differently, not like logarithmic=linear? They find this opera record, spend some time on analysis, put it on and it sounds like chopped'n'screwed hip-hop to them. And they are like: how did those guys even enjoy this? Or… genuinely find it cool! 🤣
@ewankeep

@keithzg
> that'd be easier for future generations to work out decoding thereof from the mere bits
On the surface "uncompressed" formats are easier to understand, but a lot of stuff about images and audio is about how we perceive color and sound. E.g. most humans hear sounds up to 20 kHz so by Niquist we have 44.1k samples/sec enough to represent it in digital, but what if it's some other species or human brain changed. Will that be obvious to them?
@ewankeep

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org That's because a lot of people do not follow the "Do not feed the troll" principle 😂

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I guess that Namibian prince thing didn't go very well? 😅

@blumlaut Not Twitter only, every single website does that! This baffles me: first they want to have more of my personal data — fill every single field, then they want me to have upper and lower case letters, numbers and an asterisk in my password, change it every week, use 2FA, etc to "protect my data". Fuck that! I was just fine having "password" as my password and no personal data linked to my account, what was wrong with that?

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @david I've shot an alternative ending of this show. The cast and some props might be a bit off, consider it something like a Snyder's cut 😹

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Enough with the traffic jams for today, time to sleep 😸

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I was thinking about buying a card like this for my old Mac Pro that doesn't have USB 3.0 ports. Maybe with some eSATA ports too. But then I relized that 4 x 4Tb hard disks I have in this thing is more than enough storage for me, I use USB for devices like mice only anyway, so gave up on the idea 😅

@River_Stone If you don't push yourself too hard and increase the number gradually, there is a non-zero chance you'll eventually like doing push-ups 🤣@fluffy

@vikingkong Yeah, and it makes it even weirder, considering how easy they are on deprecating things.
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @syscrash@linuxrocks.online

@vikingkong True! I always disable it when I build Python myself, but it's still there for some reason 🤷🏿
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @syscrash@linuxrocks.online

@sneak You're under arrest for not being cold-blooded! 🦎

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I think Tcl/Tk is still a part of Python's standard library as a standard way to do GUI things.
@syscrash@linuxrocks.online

@eris That's odd! I have ~30 sessions and it never happened to me. It does bug me every time if I have unverified sessions, but once I verify them, it's gone.