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I'd be interested in seeing them partner with some of the other interesting and open-ish players, like Pine64 or Radxa, to push for a more standardised, unified SBC landscape.

But that's not as good for PR as "bigger, faster, better" even if that comes with the problems you mentioned.

There are several labs and researchers with ideas on how to do this and published books on the subject (https://www.sharing-thebook.com/).

Long story short: workable solutions exist, it is entirely a question of political will and lack thereof.

In terms of strain on natural resources, that's insane.

I really think you have got a point, I'd add however that reading is more cognitive effort than watching a video, at a basic level (that is, information in the text or video put aside).

Just see how hard it is to read more than a few paragraphs when tired before bed vs. how hard it is to watch something in the same state.

I think this gets added to the point you are making about reading skills declining.

That's a pretty impressive way to imagine people's motivations.

The likelihood of a non-profit outfit building open source software being driven by a warped sense of justice and the goal of making people miserable rather than, say, trying to make sure they can continue their stated mission and ensure publishers keep agreeing to digital book lending is pretty bold. But sure, why not.

Yes, but SV VC are not known for being wise people you look to for life advice. It's a bit like asking for forest safety advice from drunk hunters.

Counter point, from a small touring punk band, Direct Hit!: You Don't Have to Lose Money on Tour https://www.vice.com/en/article/you-dont-have-to-lose-money-...

Have you ever heard of Direct Hit!? I think they squarely fit in the mid-level or below.

No but bro, listen bro, he does numbers.

Matrix also keeps your message on the server. Except you can run your own server. And the messages are end to end encrypted. And you can keep a proper backup of the keys.

Granted it can be clunky at times, but the properties are there and decentralised end to end encrypted messaging is quite and incredible thing. (Yes, Matrix nerds, it's not messaging per se it's really state replication, I know :))

I'll have you know they had maths PhDs design their security, sir. Eight of them!

Yeah, it's a bit of a joke.

That's it. The article could be just that. You log back in and all your messages are there without you having to provide a secret or allow access to some specific backup? Your data just lives on the server. The only thing preventing anyone from accessing it is the goodwill of the people running the server.

Started using Sideberry over a year ago and have not looked back since. Very good stuff.

I would imagine a minor browser would be less of an influence than the fact that most browsers have vertical tabs as an option at this point, or even just the slew of add-ons for Firefox itself.

Updated URL, after Mobime disabled issues entirely on the repo: https://web.archive.org/web/20240531085449/https://github.co...

See also this conversation, where Mobime request respect and to "acknowledge the efforts being made to resolve the situation" while blurting out things like "We could have easily suspended the entire repository, but we have chosen to keep it open to reassure you that we are taking all necessary steps to resolve this". Classy.

https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application/discussions/369

You can do over the command line and even automate it (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sy...)

I gave up on DD-WRT years ago when they started obfuscating parts of the WebUI to not have to comply with FOSS requirements (from foggy memory), moved to OpenWRT and never looked back. Trying to turn into a proprietary product something that was built by the community? Yeah no.

How is providing a F-Droid repo the same as being restricted to only being available via F-Droid?

Do you think email should have a branded client, simply called "email" available in all the major app stores? Or XMPP have a branded client, simply called "XMPP" etc.?

Align on a protocol, experiment and compete with clients is a good way to make progress.

Matrix = email. Element = Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.

The Matrix name has never budged since the beginning of the project. One of the Matrix servers is called Synapse. Others include Conduit or Dendrite (see https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/).

So yes, Matrix is the protocol, not the/a server.

That's the thing, the statement "there are no good cops" doesn't mean that no individual person that is police can be an ok person, it means that police as an institution will make people bad.

My understanding is that it should be seen more as the starrtng point of a reflexion about the police (what should we therefore do?) rather than a conclusion.

I read your question too fast. Sorry. For storage, a NAS will be nicer than a rpi with a drive. There might be some other single board computers with better hardware options for managing multiple drives, but from what I've seen this is not an area where SBCs shine.

I expect your TV to understand UPnP, possibly SMB and maybe AFP. That info should be in the TV's manual/manufacturer's website.

The Kodi answer still stands as I'm guessing you will find the TV's media centre limited, as they usually are ;)

Kodi, using LibreELEC, on an aging PC I built myself (with one of the smallest cases I could find back in 2010 or so).

I'd recommend reading the recommendations on the Kodi forums regarding hardware choices, depending your needs/wants: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=252916

At any rate, I think these days the which media centre question is mostly settled, it's Kodi. The question is: running as an app on Android? On your laptop? On a proper dedicated box and OS? If so, from scratch? Using one of the purpose built distros? (OSMC, Libre ELEC).

Can you explain why, at least briefly?

There is also no mention of Tiny Tiny RSS or RSS Lounge, which are both good RSS readers that you can self-host pretty easily (FOSS webapps).

Pretty surprising.

You used “Joe Sixpack”, the OP used “Joe Consumer” which sounds a lot less derogatory to me.

Watch out, the site now redirects to something shady.

It also messed up as soon as it hit 10⁹ views, saying it would hit 10⁹ views in 23 hours, 59 minutes etc.

Nope, not on Facebook you can't. Unless I'm sourly mistaken, the Facebook Jabber server does not support s2s federation (by choice, obviously) and won't let users outside the Facebook Jabber server chat to those on it.

Cue walled garden rant.

Wha you can do is use an existing Facebook (Jabber) account on a regular Jabber client such as Pidgin, Adium and such.

No problem chatting with @gmail.com JIDs from any Jabber server though (well, besides the fact that Google's Multi User Chat support is pretty shitty in my experience, and that the two-way Jabber subscription process it bit weird in Google land).

I absolutely second the Prosody advice though, wonderful server and very friendly community and devs!

Very interesting article, quite honest and straightforward.

I'd like to see counterpoints to this experience, if possible.

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