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IceWreck··on Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
OSS projects that use matrix for official comms (of the top of my head) - Fedora, Ansible, sonixd, binrw, gotosocial, helix and ofc matrix & associated project.
IceWreck··on Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
Really ? I have been self hosting for atleast three years.

Dendrite, conduit and synapse - matrix homeserver software (you have to use one of them) have thousands of stars.

I'm pretty sure atleast 10k+ matrix homeserver deployments exist - maybe someone from matrix.org can give a better number because each homeserver is probably federating with theirs.

And thats to say nothing of unfederated servers i.e. orgs hosting matrix for internal use.

IceWreck··on GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
What did GitHub staff use before ? Slack + Zoom ? Mattermost or something else ?
IceWreck··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
Works for me. I can access 12 examples and join the waitlist.

Firefox on Linux, India.

IceWreck··on On the joy of podman and auto-updates (2022)
Well I use ansible's podman module to setup/configure my containers and then use it to generate systemd from that.

Before that I used Makefiles.

Youre supposted to have podman generate systemd for you. With the recent update, your systemd unit will have a [Container] section which will be easy to configure manually if you want.

https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/db505ed5dce7a868b8...

IceWreck··on On the joy of podman and auto-updates (2022)
Why ? systemd runs docker's daemon as root which runs your container. This uses systemd (user or system)to control your container directly.

If anything its better and more standardized.

Anyways, this article is old and managing podman containers with systemd is much easier and more idiomatic since last week's podman update.

IceWreck··on Flutter desktop isn’t there yet
There is react native. Facebook pays for Android/iOS and Microsoft pays for Windows/macOS.

Sadly no maintained Linux desktop app support.

IceWreck··on Netlify acquires Gatsby
Their competitor Vercel has NextJS so they decided to buy Gatsby ?
IceWreck··on Nim and Go programs identified by Carbon Black as malware on Windows
> Microsoft-signed Go binaries on Windows (via Windows Update)

There is your answer.

IceWreck··on AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
Its possible - atleast on xorg, but why not write scripts in your favourite language to do the same automation instead of using a third party app ?
IceWreck··on Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015)
They do now. The article is from 2015.
IceWreck··on Enigma: A simple cross-platform encrypted filesystem in Golang
Plus gocryptfs has gone through security audits.
IceWreck··on Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth
https://app.skyfi.com/explore is much better than the sample preview at https://app.skyfi.com/sample-preview which is weird cause they claim that the sample preview is fully processed and better.

But it looks like explore is based on google earth. So the free preview is better than the paid thing ?

IceWreck··on GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
To add to the list, the c/c++ extensions, remote ssh, remote containers and intellicode are also closed source.
IceWreck··on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
She's Swiss and the US already tried to extradite her for posting stuff on git.rip
IceWreck··on Microsoft to lay off 11k employees
You're missing out the fact that OP listed those because he wanted it to spell YOMAMA and not because he thinks those companies are FAANG worthy.
IceWreck··on Taking over a Dead IoT Company
There are other ways to accomplish that (asymmetric cryptography says hi). You don't need AWS IoT for everything. I cringe when people's default solution is to make their company dependent on a niche product of another company, especially when its easily avoidable.
IceWreck··on Matrix.org homeserver: Severely degraded performance due to database issues
Dendrite, written in go. Its super easy to install, is fast and even runs on low specced systems
IceWreck··on WordPress sites under attack from newly found Linux trojan
The problem is with plugins not wordpress itself. And those plugins may or maynot be open source. Lots of them aren't.
IceWreck··on Pushup: a new compiler for making web apps in Go
These programmers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. That abomination of a markup cum programming langauge is so ugly.

Seriously tho, cool project but ugly syntax.

IceWreck··on Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
Not that it matters (bypasses exist), but why do you want the Indian govt to completely block github ?
IceWreck··on PostgREST – Serve a RESTful API from any Postgres database
Is supabase what you're describing?

I could be wrong but I think they use postgREST underneath.

IceWreck··on Judge in SBF criminal trial has recused herself
Do judges often have spouses who are in a similar profession i.e. lawyers ?
IceWreck··on Nix on the Steam Deck
> Also, once you used NixOS for a little while, it's very hard to go back to, let's say, Debian, Ubuntu, or Archlinux : manually configuring things in multiple configuration files in /etc seems really primitive.

I don't use nixos, but I use ansible to configure my desktop and homeserver environments. Completely different approach but same result in the end.

I am aware than Nix has so many other benefits but I'm talking about configuration management in particular.

IceWreck··on My matrix bot that transcribes speech in audio messages
Why use google cloud's API when OpenAI released Whisper, which has 2 -5 MB models which are fast af and work so much better than any other models.

Theyre open source, run locally and require minimal computation power

IceWreck··on I think I found a Mac kernel bug (2018)
Is this fixed now ?
IceWreck··on Ending support for self-hosted Gitpod and moving our source to AGPL
Still self hosted alternative https://coder.com and Eclipse Che https://www.eclipse.org/che/.

Both of them allow you to host VSCode or Theia on your own infrastructure.

IceWreck··on Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution
Alma/Rocky are just rebuilds of RHEL. And afaik, Red Hat does employ people to do that.
IceWreck··on Playstation 6 Release Leaked
Even in 2022, you wont be able to build a PC that matches PS5 or Series X performance for 500 USD. Not even 700 USD outside of North America.
IceWreck··on Cobalt – a stripped down Chromium for apps, Linux and embedded systems
Pretty sure no
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