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Yaky

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  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • Windows Phone was around in mid-2010s, at least 7 years after iPhone release. But it was not hyped enough: companies did not care to develop apps for it, customers didn't want a smartphone without X Y Z apps (same argument i see now about mobile linux or even custom ROMs). The phones had nice and fast UI though, and some had very good cameras.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • Is your iPad on iOS 9.3.5? It is infamously slow.

    It is possible to downgrade it to 8.4.1 (faster, partially more broken) or even 6.1.3 (fast and old school, many apps don't work, but there are apps in Cydia to fix stuff).

    Biggest issue I encountered is sites requiring TLSv1.3 for HTTPS encryption, and browsers simply do not support that.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • No, never! Tech corps (both devs and app stores) brainwashed people into thinking "no updates = bad".

    Recently, I have seen people complain about lack of updates for: OS for a handheld emulation device (not the emulator, the OS, which does not have any glaring issues), and Gemini protocol browser (gemini protocol is simple and has not changed since 2019 or so).

    Maybe these people don't use the calculator app because arithmetic was not updated in a few thousand years.

  • Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

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  • We had "coding without coders" in late 90s (maybe 2000s) with VB and Access databases. Some of my coworkers maintained such "software" previously written by not-a-dev.

    And then there was "low code" fad about ten years ago? There was "coding" with diagrams and such, like Scratch but for serious people.

    And what will regular developers do? Probably the same old shit, digging in decades-old, hastily-written, and now LLM-generated code, making it all work, and adding functionality. While "architects" and management will draw diagrams (with AI now!), and try to abstract everything into the cloud (and now into AI probably, somehow)

  • "How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard" - by Joel Hawksley

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  • Neat project, but

    we set an intention to have a healthy relationship with technology in our home.

    Followed by photos of these schedule-reminder screens all over both homes.

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • Wiki says the model is from 2011, and all that functionality was implemented on Android 2.3.x, impressive! Google is only 14 versions behind.

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • Like desktop mode on Librem5 in 2020, convergence on PinePhone from 2021, or Samsung Dex from a few years ago, too.

  • How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?

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  • I knew of some of these issues with the protocol, but this article definitely gives an impression that Matrix was built as a "cool protocol" first, with messaging applied on top as an afterthought.

  • How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?

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  • It's possible to run the services without Kubernetes, but official ESS Community uses Kubernetes.

    ESS Community works ‘out-of-the-box’ on a single machine or existing Kubernetes cluster using the provided Helm charts.

  • How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?

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  • TLDR: bare Synapse was fine on 1CPU 1GB RAM VPS, but uses lots of disk space (from large rooms). Current/future ESS requires Kubernetes and several services to be functional.

    More info in my blog post

  • How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?

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  • Thank you for the queries. The rhetorical question is why isn't the server handling this.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • This always gets brought up, and is the chicken-and-egg problem, but only sort of.

    Supporting software designed for different platforms is not the phone's responsibility. It should be the government and bank developers' responsibility to build software for platforms their citizens and customers use.

    Android and Apple do not jump through hoops to run Windows desktop software, for example, and the notion is kind of absurd to begin with. Yet this argument is used for Linux smartphones all the time.

    Some of this also applies to people without phone / with dumbphone.

  • System requirements for a Matrix server?

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  • I have ran Synapse natively on 1 CPU 1GB RAM VPS for years. But it fills up a lot of disk space, eapecially with larger rooms, so get at least 100GB? (I had 20GB on my VPS, and with 4 regular users, was using up 15GB)

    If you are looking at (new) official ESS Community, they recommend 2 CPU, 2GB RAM minimum for Kubernetes.

  • ai;dr | (ai; didn't read)

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  • This reads as vaguely anti-intellectualist.

    I can't imaging writing code by myself again

    I don't want to bother with readability, quality, or efficiency. Taking time to think is pointless.

    The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it.

    Taking time to organize and write my thoughts is pointless. There are plenty of unpolished, incoherent ramblings on the internet, many with ill intent, that should not be given any value. (Yes, I understand that was not the intended meaning, but author should proofread)

  • Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

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  • They have been heading in government-corporate direction for a while now. Good for them, yet from a perspective of a small server hoster, everything is more complicated now for no good reason.

    (Official ESS requires Kubernetes and a dozen subdomains, third-party auth service is required to even register a plain username+password account, calls are all over the place between Element, Element X and web client)

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  • Front page:

    • Am I an asshole?
    • Am I overreacting?
    • Ragebait of all sorts.
    • Pop culture.

    Logged in, in a few dozen smaller subreddits:

    • Chat, am I cooked?
    • Same question as was asked yesterday. And the day before. Illiteracy.
    • Is this good? (Screenshot of cheapest Amazon garbage you could find)
    • AM I GONNA DIE? (from soldering fumes)
    • We built this with AI
    • And my favorite "I want something like (popular proprietary app), but free, open source, easy to use, and same number of users. Why hasn't anyone made this?!"

  • Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users

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  • Any FOSS / third party Spotify client I used already requires a premium account (I am fairly certain it's about playing ads), so I was under assumption developer API was the same.

    Anyway, I just stopped using Spotify altogether. I'll support my local indie radio station instead.

  • Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users

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  • For me it was the opposite: Every "made for you" mix and playlist is fairly popular songs from artists that I like... But they are always the same few dozen songs, just shuffled in different order.

    Video suggestions seem to appear if/after you listen to podcasts or audiobooks. I had them, my partner did not.

  • Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ???

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  • Matrix clients aren’t great

    IMO the main advantage that Matrix-Element has for normal users is the branding: Element is Element on the web, Android and iOS. (Snikket is trying to do the same for XMPP though)

    Matrix is too difficult for “normal” people

    Agreed. Simple user+password login to a hosted (non-matrixdotorg) server takes 5-6 pages to click through.

    Matrix public rooms have a CP problem

    I was spammed with racist copypasta on XMPP once too. But being in large Matrix chats guarantees being invited/messaged.

    ...Matrix also pisses metadata to any server it federates with, including matrix [.] org

    Replication+sync is a strange decision for chats. It sort of makes sense for slower fediverse posts, but creates a lot of strange scenarios and privacy issues with chats. Also, matrixdotorg is used for key backups and vectordotim is used for integrations IIRC.