honestly, this is a great point in favor of arguing a switch to FF. if all the plugins that are now getting wiped from chrome move over to FF and tell users they are now availablr on FF, and users advertising just use X plugin on FF to solve glaring issues with chrome, then there is no incentive to stick with chrome anymore.
or maybe this has been the thing all along and i’m just slow 😅
i haven’t used gomuks, i’m not a big fan of terminal applications
nheko has so many issues. one version it was impossible to login. then when they fixed that, the encryption kept breaking and a lot of messages from my friends were lost. it also lacks a lot of features. last time i tried nheko was in january. so maybe they have fixed the stability issues and added some modern features; but otherwise it can’t compete because it can’t be used as a daily driver.
considering telegram is basically the only modern and stable non-electron chat that runs buttery smooth, such a matrix client would be a game changer.
i’m stuck with telegram for now because i have an m1 mbp and an ideapad tablet with linux, neither which can run more than 1-2 electron apps simultaneously without screeching to a crawl and putting itself on fire.
like, 99% of my life revolves around hating on electron; it feels like electron has become standard for modern much needed productivity software. and it makes using computers that aren’t super high end basically useless. developers need to start reconsidering their end-users, because electron will never be optimized for non-highend hardware (i’m not even convinced electron run snappy on a highend computer, but i would love to be proven wrong because currently i just assume coders have gotten too lazy to care about the end-user).
I mean, if I could be cloned, that’d be great? I’d love to have clones. Immortality, baby!
I see a lot of people mention WIRE recently. Did everyone collectively forget how they sold out in 2019 and removed their canary (aka. compromised)?
In July 2019 Wire raised $8.2m investment from Morpheus Ventures and others. On July 18 of the same month, 100% of the company’s shares have been taken over by Wire Holdings Inc., Delaware, USA.
DeltaChat. I don’t use it myself because it’s built on electron (which basically excludes 99% of modern chat clients); but as it’s technically an email client turned into a chat client, we can assume you’re protected by PGP when writing to most users, and with the added effect of not needing to convince anyone to install anything since from their end it’s just an email.
modern as in stable, good UX, plug-and-play, and supporting features a modern chat client is expected to have with zero hassle.
the stuff needed to convince your mom to install it.
In July 2019 Wire raised $8.2m investment from Morpheus Ventures and others. On July 18 of the same month, 100% of the company’s shares have been taken over by Wire Holdings Inc., Delaware, USA.
Should be noted that their canary was removed at the same time.
XMPP would be viable in theory but for whatever reason no one wants to build a modern client out of it.
there’s deltachat for gpg - i love the concept, since your friends don’t even need to have it installed in order for you to chat with them.
but i am forever stuck with telegram because i refuse to install software running on set-my-computer-on-fire-pls-Electron (which every single MODERN chat application does today, bar Telegram).
wire sold out years ago.
this wasn’t a problem with cashless infrastructure tho, this was a problem with monoculture. if the globe stopped using microsoft for gov and business, and instead threw their tax money towards open development; as in - the people, not microsoft, these kind of global issues wouldn’t exist.
sounds like they rather spend that RND on pocket lining over contributing to software dev.
The law must apply to all, including public servants. As they are beholden to the public, they are subject to review and FOIA requests are automatically granted for the content.
Now I’m suddenly not so against this law. Journalists paradise. They’ll have a field day!
they charge $3 per month for 10GB of storage
i think he stopped working on groups because mastodon officially announced groups shortly after gis preview. not that they have delivered it yet (release target, q4 2023 - an no word for 2 years now).
what about the whole knowing who is who based on word pattern/habit, and connected content and/or opinion?
hold up, then what is the purpose of Copyright in the first place? Are they arguing copyright no longer serves its original function? To protect the authors work? When was this change made to the law?