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edhelason Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center

It's crazy how some people don't actually care about environmental issues of their ideology on HN.

edhelason RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)

Yes, use Atom 1.0 <3

edhelason Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

And what are you suggesting as a non-bloated and better managed alternative? :)

edhelason Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

Why is it terrible?

edhelason France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

Starlink goes out of business and ... you don't have Internet anymore.

The local fiber guy goes out of business... you still have the fiber line there.

Its investment, not subscription.

edhelason Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Define worse

edhelason Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Movim author there, thanks ! :)

edhelason A directory of people who love RSS

If you love RSS, embrace Atom 1.0 :) Its the final modern form of RSS.

edhelason Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

If only there was alternative browsers...

edhelason Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

We don't.

edhelason French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

https://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/f/532005

Picture from the french "moderate" right journal Le Figaro, mai 2026.

"investigation into environmental alarmists"

edhelason How to build a circular LCD clock

512mb or RAM to show the time, what a time we live in.

edhelason Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

Yes, the help Ukraine... by not connecting Crimea by choice.

edhelason Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

Maybe CEO are the easiest job to replace. If the AI clone can do what the Zuck can do the board can fire him and save a lot of money.

edhelason My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix

Gigachad writing there <3

edhelason Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

Wow screws. Crazy. So the industry standard for many years. But I guess it's Different™ this time.

edhelason Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

So basically they are trying to reach what Lenovo and others are doing for years.

Nice Apple. That's good :)

edhelason Let's Talk About Spaces in XMPP

Spaces in the XMPP protocol allow to cluster several groupchat rooms together similarly as Matrix Spaces or Discord Servers.

edhelason 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

Tell me how many versions, extensions, remaster and patches World of Warcraft actually have today?

edhelason A Pokémon of a Different Color

The issue is that we might have disconnected from the real world and its problem for a few decades already.

edhelason Discord Alternatives, Ranked

Because the declaration file of the clients says that it is actually compatible with everything in this section.

You can't run scripts on all the XEPs declared, some of them are purely redaction or bound to specific UI/UX behaviors. This is based on trust that the developers actually implemented things as stated.

edhelason Discord Alternatives, Ranked

> I just wish there was some kind of ACID test suite for XMPP or something else to reproducibly validate spec compliance. Maybe a test server or similar as a reference implementation. This way client or server maintainers would have to run their programs against the official test server to increase their compliance stats.

This is exactly what the Compliance Suits are for, and the XMPP Software Fundation is taking care of telling all the clients what they misses directly on the official website, for example: https://xmpp.org/software/movim/

edhelason Discord Alternatives, Ranked

And they are both compatible, unlike Element and ElementX ;)

edhelason Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

https://xkcd.com/927/

edhelason xAI joins SpaceX

"Technically challenging", a nice way to say "impossible"

edhelason The state of Linux music players in 2026

MyMPD is an awesome web client for MPD https://github.com/jcorporation/myMPD

I added it on my RPi and it offers a really nice a home "Spotify" :)

edhelason Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis

French here, what was the the 2nd Amendment already?

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.