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?
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".
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?
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?
@grimmy @waldi @Dendrobatus_Azureus @pidgin just wondering ... If only search engine #crawlers 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.
@edsu
#XMPP is being used even as the backend of forums etc. by front-end projects like @goffi 's #Libervia and by #Movim, so you could probably replace Zulip/Discord/Slack too
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