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@freemo COVID-19 is one of those things that should not be political but for some bizarre current era reason it is. I fully understand laymen having wildly different views though, as some people are more risk averse than others. This isn’t necessarily political.
My personal feeling is that even if something is so freaking lethal that it will surely end up killing me I’d rather spend my few remaining days is peace not thinking about it 24/7.
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@customdesigned @pidgin On UNIX like systems you should already have purple-url-handler installed which is already setup to handle xmpp: uris via the .desktop file.
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@lauren @wordshaper @timbray Yes. And my question was about "live streaming", which is exactly the broadcasting model (plus lower bandwidth text feedback from viewers). For on-demand viewing, a decentralized system should just stick to podcast (i.e. download on demand in the background).
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@customdesigned @wordshaper @timbray One interesting aspect is that originally multicasting (to a considerable extent) was based on a typical "broadcasting" model of many people listening (or viewing) to the same thing at the exact same time. As on-demand, user choice applications came to dominate, this model became less and less useful.
Sec 5(a)2 has a list of equipment that amounts to a Federal takeover of all networks including the internet.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?format=txt&r=15&s=1
The "RESTRICT" act, is billed as the "ban TikTok" bill (which the Federal Govt has no Constitutional authority to do beyond banning from the Federal Govt - a good idea). Actually, the bill says they can ban any "platform" they deem a "threat to national security". This is a blatant violation of the 1st amendment.
But, while it clearly says they can ban TikTok and Truth Social, and Rumble and other centralized platforms they don't like, some disturbing paragraphs imply they can ban protocols like Bitcoin or ActivityPub or Matrix as well.
The sentence for using a banned "platform" is 20 years.
I can't see how any Republican, Democrat, or Libertarian could vote for this monster.
@wordshaper @lauren @timbray Do you mean the protocol wasn't designed to work on a global level?
Or just that few routers actually implement it and thus is only really implemented at the local level?
Podcasts do not need the centralization (especially when combined with ipfs-like localized caching). However, federated things like peertube cannot do performant live streaming.
Question: does multicast enable a more decentralized live streaming? Isn't that the purpose?
@dgar Not just English. In Jeremiah 1:11-12 we have:
שקד - almond tree
שקד - watch over (be wakeful over)
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I before E except after C, except when your weird foreign neighbors Keith and Heidi seize the reins of their eight counterfeit heifer sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters
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For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.
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I pour some water in a trough
I sneeze and splutter, then I cough.
And with a rough hewn bough
My muddy paddy fields I plough.
Loaves of warm bread in a row
Crispy crusts and doughy dough.
Ow, my final duty to do
And then my chores will all be through.
My lament is finished, even though
Learning this word game is really slow.
It is so difficult, it's very rough
Learning English is really tough.
If a trough was a truff
And a plough was a pluff
If dough was duff
And though was thuff
If cough was cuff
And through was thruff
I would not pretend, or try to bluff,
But of OUGH I've had enough...
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@dgar More seriously,
one pair is pronouned like "red" and "led", the other pair like "reed" and "leed" - all English words as well.
The secret to English spelling is understanding that the rules are actually consistent for each source language - but there are a lot of source languages. 50% latin, 25% Greek, Saxon (short words like dog, cow, cat), Old French, German, Hebrew, and many more.
Many words from Latin and Greek are duplicated. E.g. indigestion and dyspepsia have identical meaning, but come from Latin and Greek respectively.
You probably already know this but Pidgin is named after "pidgin English", not pigeon the bird.
However, the word origin of "pidgin" seems to be derived from "pigeon":
@pidgin is the reason I will never be able to spell "pigeon" correctly.
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@pidgin is the reason I will never be able to spell "pigeon" correctly.
Not just English. In Jeremiah 1:11-12 we have:
שקד - almond tree
שקד - watch over (be wakeful over)
For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”. #EnglishIsHard
@pidgin I want to be able to click on xmpp: or tel: links in firefox and have pidgin bring up a chat window for that account (or expand telno into an xmpp address for a telco/xmpp gateway service like jmp.chat).
I've looked at https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/XMPP_URIs which gets me as far as running an arbitrary cli. But how do I bring up a specific chat window in pidgin from the cli?
@freemo Color has been shown to have an effect on violence and mood. Pink guns are already popular with the ladies. If you mandate pink, however, shooters will just repaint so it doesn't interfere with their mood.
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