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Dear fans of messenger comparison sports,

How does it factor in that on #deltachat there are many apps that can be used in a chat without requiring a login or even a privacy policy ... And the apps all work like cryptpad but automatically and without requiring any server side hosting?

Editing documents and checklists and calendars are all safely end-to-end encrypted without a server and anyone can write new #webxdc apps permission free.

Which other cross-platform messenger offers this?

new blog post: against proof of waste
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-03-28-against-proof-of-waste.en.html

As web servers get overwhelmed by LLM bots, some operators are resorting to programs that demand visiting web clients to perform some relatively expensive computation to be granted access to the website. This is called Proof of Work, but when that computation doesn't yield any useful results, it might as well be called Proof of Waste. Why not get clients to compute something useful and valuable, so that LLM scrapers become an essentially infinite supply of computing power, and our servers pay for themselves and for the creative works we put in them?

About a year ago, my parents made the switch to Linux on their home machines because they really hated Win 10... Today I got a call from my mother to help her out with something, but I did not expect that "something" will be figuring out a sed pattern for a shell script she wrote to bulk rename files.

When I asked her why she didn't use some GUI program she said "I was an accountant in the DOS era, this makes more sense to me than a ribbon menu in Excel".

portage and Alpine's apk really just spoilt me when it comes to package management…

Miyazaki is right. The latest version of OpenAI‘s image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images on social media that have been transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli, the legendary Japanese animation studio.

@fristi @ejabberd Makes sense to block them out if you can but say you *need* to interact with some Meta service (as sadly some people use those services exclusively…): Would you rather do it by proxy through software you control and where the amount of data shared can be limited, or through software that they control?

If you use the words "just" or "simply" in your documentation I will hunt you down

one of the worst parts of our modern scam culture is how it's designed to make you feel guilty when you fall for it

you heard an interesting fact that was actually propaganda? Your fault. Fell for an image? Your fault. Got scammed money wise? Your fault

but that in itself is the biggest scam of all

US politics, actually thinking about that chat 

@yassie_j good point about the callousness, Hiroshima-Nagasaki wasn't done by idiots.

@alsutton in practice you'd as a non oem would already have to wait until the aosp sync dropped for a new Android version right? I understand this is closing things further but it doesn't change that much I think?

bribecoding is a new phenomenon where you pay open source developers a living wage to work on projects that your business uses

The OpenStep specification was released in 1994. On macOS, Cocoa remains almost a superset of OpenStep. With very few exceptions (aside from some cleanup to make things more compatible between 32- and 64-bit systems), most APIs still work as well as they did on OPENSTEP. It’s quite easy to write software that would compile against any implementation including all versions of OS X, macOS, OPENSTEP for Mach, Solaris OpenStep, GNUstep, and ravynOS.

Some of the original design choices were optimised for systems where 8 MiBs of RAM was considered a lot, so were less ergonomic than they could be, but newer implementations let you avoid these in exchange for more memory consumption. Adding compositing support for GPU offload was a fairly minor change and was backwards compatible.

How is your favourite GUI toolkit doing for API stability?

Had a fridge horror moment the other day when I realized part of why the AI scrapers are behaving so badly, ignoring robots.txt, hitting the same endpoint over and over etc, is that at least some of those AI scrapers are probably written using AI

@ltning @gyptazy
This delights me in irrational ways. Especially compared to the "you want to run Mastodon? It wants 4+GB of RAM, a gazillion different processes, docker containers, and scads of disk-space", #snac2 is refreshingly svelte

@grimmy @waldi @Dendrobatus_Azureus @pidgin just wondering ... If only search engine mattered to websites, why weren't all crawlers disallowed and search engines asked to provide an API that sites could call to get selected pages indexed? Sure, newer engines might not get their API called right away, they'd have to solve for that.

With crawlers just acting like different users now, it would be more difficult. Serving websites over Bittorrent would make a difference.

So my phone (a Pixel 7) has picked up the habit of randomly rebooting for unknown reasons. It seems to be getting worse.

Once upon a time, I used to look forward, at least a little bit, to getting a new phone. Shinier better hardware, a software update, there was something I got out of the deal, even when I wasn't really feeling that I wanted to buy another hunk of electronic stuff.

When I think of a new phone now, I think of fending of a bunch of new AI crap, of trying to track down and fix a hundred different privacy settings that, mysteriously, don't get copied from the old device, and generally just trying to get back to where I am now.

In other words, it's not that I'm not excited about getting a new phone; I actively don't want that new phone.

Maybe I'll just go back to the land line.

@edsu
is being used even as the backend of forums etc. by front-end projects like @goffi 's and by , so you could probably replace Zulip/Discord/Slack too
@sam @paulwalk @SocialCoop @prosodyim @snikket_im @prose

Who uses/used handle "jewel" and was into PL design in the '10s and had a blog titled "Subvert the Dominant Paradigm"? Their blog is 404 and I'm trying to see where they went, or if they moved on to do something else entirely, but cannot for the life of me remember their name!

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