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  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • IRC? That's text only. It doesn't even support viewing images, much less making voice or video calls. The majority isn't going to install multiple clients to text and call.

    That's like proposing that people get rid of their smartphones to buy a separate camera, MP3 player, GPS device, and laptop.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • I've seen this mentioned multiple times even for Matrix (which does have Matrix Call). What do you mean with "screen sharing"? Just sharing your screen during a call?

  • Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

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  • XMPP is not better than Matrix. My major gripes with it are OMEMO and the clients that implement different subsets of the extensions.

    OMEMO still is an extension instead of the core. It should be extremely easy to upgrade a chat to an encrypted one but if the client doesn't have a plugin installed to support it, you're stuck with unencrypted traffic.

    And the clients I've tested have all been visually unappealing and lacking in features. Reacting to messages, quoting messages, using threads, encryption, and finding rooms has been difficult or impossible with them.

    Matrix has a major advantage over XMPP in that it has an official, reference client which implements just about everything. It works better than most any XMPP client I've tried and, this is my feeling, every MSC accepted by the foundation has actually been implemented, instead of just being suggested and"left as an exercise to the developer".

    Matrix didn't come out of nowhere and didn't supplant XMPP for no reason. XMPP simply doesn't have the ecosystem that makes it attractive to users and debs alike.

  • Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

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  • Not one line, I tell you. Not a single one.

  • Music-player

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  • Which language is it written in and with which framework?

  • LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

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  • Why the hell is this even possible? Why should a web page have access to the extensions you run?

  • Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong

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  • Why do you need to do research for GPL? It's the OG opensource license AFAIK that forces users to also opensource their stuff. MIT let's anybody close source your code and make money with it.

    GPL isn't perfect as it doesn't solve the funding problem, but MIT is about the worst thing one can do for opensource: do the work for companies, for free, and be OK with never contributing back to the opensource ecosystem.

  • First look at 2026 Project goals | Inside Rust Blog

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  • Would be amazing if they set a goal to get off of Microslop's Github.

  • Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong

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  • But why MIT? How come that became the default? Why not GPL? Is Microslop Github suggesting MIT by default?

  • EU Open Source Policy Feedback

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  • I look forward to a response from the EU Commission - if they ever gave a response to the hundreds of comments left with their feedback form. If they just ignore them, it'll be a sad day for Europe.

  • Not Kidding! Bash Shell Manual is Part of Epstein Files 🫣

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  • Or maybe not so curious...

  • Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong

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  • I don't understand what's going on with the rust community insisting on cuck licences. Do they love writing on their Mac books so much?

  • Not Kidding! Bash Shell Manual is Part of Epstein Files 🫣

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  • Are they just dumping stuff into the Epstein files, hoping that it will artificially bloat its size and scare of potential readers? "OMG, 3 million pages? There's no way I'm reading that".

    Wouldn't that be like an obstruction of justice?

  • Next-generation Proton Mail mobile apps: more than meets the eye | Proton

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  • I was really hoping this would come with an announcement of an F-Droid compatible client.

    Honestly, I'm paying them and the lack of a Google-less client is really getting to me. Now that the US is openly behaving like an adversary to the EU (as opposed to pretending to be a friend), cutting the cord to the US is becoming more and more important.

    If they don't release an F-Droid compatible client this year, I'm cancelling my subscription and moving to a simple SMTP+IMAP provider. Their reluctance to degoogle has rubbed me the wrong way for years now.

    P.S And the fact that they stay on threads @protonprivacy@threads.net instead of mastodon is also another reason I want to leave.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • It's been a while since I left the forums, but there always seems to be drama and something going on. I didn't the community to be very helpful and inviting. It left a very bad taste in my mouth and in mostly avoid it. Now I ask LLMs to whip something up when in need it.

    At least as long as you don't really need WiFi of course...

    I thought that was a solved problem on Linux. Is it the reluctance to use binary blobs?

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • For some reason, stuff like libre wolf isn't in the guix repo. Not even Firefox. It's very confusing.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • I'm not that much a fan of brackets and jumping through hoops to install anything non-GNU.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • Well, I'm not in Microslop platforms, so that's going to be difficult.

    Second, the way things work in the current nix/nixos community make it easy to create a PR but very difficult to get it merged. Attempts at writing documentation are nitpicked to death, unless you belong to the privileged class of the documentation team or have merge rights on Microslop's Github.

    A fork would also give an attempt at forming a new community with different rules and focus.

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  • I haven't yet found out where its major differences lie. And it seems like they haven't taken a firm stance on flakes (yes or no). They also only forked the interpreter, not nixpkgs. A good step, but their documentation wasn't good, the last time I checked.