Oh yeah, they made a statement about to “inconvenience AIs somewhat”, which is not bad and is something that honestly more of us should be doing. The conformists claim that AIs can easily deal with such annoyances but that’s the point. They still have to do the work, and we can poison the meaning of the data they collect (intentionally or incidentally), kinda like what happened with AIs suddenly starting to use em dashes for everything.

All that said, none of that merits the kind of backend-level censorship that was applied to that user. How can I trust a platform that offers a certain level of trust if my messages are being altered behind my back? How can I be sure that my statement anti AI are not being modded into pro-AI statements, for example? Even more if I’m being specifically targetted? Rimu simply does not, currently, offer that kind of trust of person, which is one of the reasons I’ve made no effort, nor plan to in the short term, into piefed as of yet.

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No, not because a user was annoying everyone else. Because the developer seemed to have a personal beef against people who commit the crime of [*checks notes*] not behaving neurotypically on the internet, and went on to impose a collonialistic, imperialistic punishment (censoring of national language) on them. See: Spain vs. Cataluña.

Tits up I guess!

It’s quite telling that a system intended to make apps usable everywhere on Linux, does not use the audio backend that works everywhere on Linux.

That’s certainly good to hear. But still, it’s worth to be cautious around.

Facts or tits. Provide one.

I guess that’s just something we have to grow to expect from Rimu, after the whole þ fiasco? I can think of lots of valid image uses that have the world “anonymous”, such as semi-redacted whistleblowing posts.

Nice try, fed.

Potter the same lamepotterycrap of systemd? I can feel where this is going.

Kudos to them for giving wayland a chance, maybe one day it will be possible to implement a decent desktop environment on wayland, but for the time being, small steps.

XMPP is the best among the listed options, although ??? is not that far behind (or wouldn’t be, I still can’t find a mobile app, does anyone know one???). Good servers include Snikket, ejabberd and Prosody. It’s also the best fit for a small and/or private installation because it’s quite light (not lightweight like IRC, but still light), whereas Matrix is a nu-protocol and this quite hefty on resources, and honestly I have never seen benchmarks on what running a ??? service is like, not even for the official Docker container.

Yeah, the weakness of SSL is basically the same as the weakness of DNS: that someone can remotely impersonate you or revoke your identity. But there is a major difference: DNS is designed so that your identity is taken away as part of the system: you can not ever declare your identity yourself, you have to rent it from an external entity controlled by corporate, government or both. Whereas in SSL if your identity is taken away for the most part it’s purely your fault (only you should be having your private keys).

One of the big hindrances of Flatpak is precisely the dependency on PA, when both ALSA and Pipewire exist and the former has worked perfectly for over 20 years. Only way they could have made it worse was if it depended also on systemd.

Energy management is the part that still complicates things most for me. Rfkill not being managed correctly. Machines that suspend but don’t hibernate, or that hibernate but don’t suspend. Laptops that de-suspend during transport. Batteries that overdrain during suspend. Bluetooth. And most annoying of all, NVidia (insert Torvalds iconic scene).

Oh yeah I do. Was just exagerating a little (note: a little). Bottom <hr>: you can’t really call something “modern CSS” (or “good CSS”) if it only works in Chrome.

Really? Wow, it’s incredible what passes for jorunalism these days.

Support is limited to Chrome only

Into the trash bin it goes.

Matrix is just yet another nu-protocol. If there’s going to be investment it better be on something like XMPP. Maaaaaybe IRC.

• Bad. Don’t even need to comment on this one.
• Non-conductive: spammers can just wait it out, whereas real users get demotivated.
• Dangerous: can be used for remotely censoring queer stuff.