m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@newt
Yeah, true.
> but the code isn't developed by Matrix Foundation anymore
Wasn't it the model for quite some time already? 🤔 I mean they don't do it themselves at this point, but they might hire others to implement certain parts.
> video calls working in nheko (it's in C++/Qt)
Good! I've only used Nheko on my Windows machine — because compared to Windows even Qt doesn't seem that bad 🤭
I've seen some settings related to it, but I wasn't sure it wasn't a just a placeholder and that it works.

@newt
How is it dead?
This came up on my feed just yesterday: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/
And from what I see, not all these specs are client-side. Dendrite (Is it the implementation in Go? 🤔) might be dead, maybe they have just abandoned it as they don't even mention it in the announcement, lol… But the protocol itself looks pretty much alive to me, they've even redone the video calls so maybe we can have those not in Web-based clients only.

@birdulon @nyanide
So yeah, starting a project that does more than a couple of things here and there, includes working with complex data structures and relies on multi-threaded code, might "fix it" for him/her 😏

@birdulon @nyanide
I can totally see where this is coming from: on the outside C is a very simple language, C++ and especially Rust code — with type conversions and fighting the borrow checker might seem like a clusterfuck with lots of superfluity. And when you only make small things you don't even realise that this simplicity comes at a price.
Same for Go really — except you can do more complex things with it, and I think they have ruined the language with generics.

@Rezard
So this is what "Ethernet vampire taps" look like 😲

China looks to enhance soybean industry cooperation with Russia: https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/10/30/china-looks-to-enhance-soybean-industry-cooperation-with-russia-a146351

Literally… 😏

@nyanide
Just get hardware that's better supported by OpenBSD next time — that would solve the performance issue. Computers nowadays are so overpowered anyway that I can hardly imagine that being a major issue, the lack of a mature Bluetooth stack might be a problem for some though.

@histoire

@PurpCat
Most "localised" hardware is rebadged Chinese solutions, but when it comes to software it's even worse — no one wants to touch anything Russian unless required by the law: I can remember government organisations still investing in solutions based on Oracle and even DB2 and buying new licenses in 2016 (!), when it was already obvious that it would become a problem really soon. And I'm pretty sure they still use all that — just without support or paying licensing fees.

@xianc78

@PurpCat
That is so! When it comes to industrial equipment and heavy machinery, a lot of stuff still gets imported through proxy countries, with consumer stuff the overhead costs make it non-viable though and yes, China became a major player: more than half of cars imported last year were Chinese brands, most consumer electronics is Chinese too.
With computer equipment I was always skeptical about this whole localisation thing…

@xianc78

@mischievoustomato
Is the backend lighter than Blemora? I've been eyeing it for using with Bloat for quite some time.

@theorytoe

@Tony
From the sidelines it looks incredibly silly, but I expect it to be great fun when you take part 😄

@xianc78 @PurpCat
Besides, no one is denying participation — everyone can still send in patches, no one's even stripping them of their credits for contributing, the devs were excluded from *MAINTAINERS* only — had they handled it better, shit wouldn't even hit the fan. But Linus not only did it like an asshole (his usual thing), but as an utter dumbfuck too — I'm not new to this, but even I was somewhat… bamboozled🤪

@xianc78 @PurpCat
No one would use it outside of government organisations and state-owned companies, which would probably have to if they pass a related law, but I won't expect them to be adding features either — same as with "Russian alternative" to… anything really, it would likely become another sinkhole for government spending and would die out of natural causes (lack of interest) in a couple of years.

@amydentata
Right? I couldn't even expect it to be the case, no analog inputs of any sort — okay, fine… but no headphone jack?! 😲
Still debatable, but one could justify its absence on a phone — miniaturisation, water resistance, etc… But this 50" thing, always sitting in the living room? Oh, come on!

@millihertz

@alice
Somehow this reminds me of Busdriver's RoadKillOvercoat cover art 😹