The state of #InstantMessaging in 2025: I have one virtual workspace dedicated solely to #IM clients. They occupy 820 MB of memory, which is actually an improvement since the last time I checked.
But I still miss the days when all I needed was #Pidgin.
@usul yeah, a lot of people around me do it this way and it makes sense because you only have one web engine running and it saves memory, but I'm an old school desktop guy and if something has a desktop client I prefer it to web clients.
@theron29 you have to have Signal on your phone as the primary client, but then you can connect 4 additional clients to the account. They work independently, they're not connected through the mobile client, not the scrap you get with WhatsApp.
@theron29 I had been checking this just last week and you can use signal completely without smart phone, you just have to be able to access SMS messages or calls.
It isn't nice and not exactly easy but also not really hard. Just use signal-cli and register an account:
@trilobyte I put all but official work slack channels (nda stuff) into matrix via bridges. This way I got all different chat apps down to two. WA, Signal, Slack, IRC, TG are always now available on all my devices via matrix client. Like pidgin++ 😁
@usul yeah, a lot of people around me do it this way and it makes sense because you only have one web engine running and it saves memory, but I'm an old school desktop guy and if something has a desktop client I prefer it to web clients.
To the person who just walked past my house twice: you know headphones exist, right? You can get a nice set of over-ear cans, or cheap ones. There are noise-cancelling earbuds, passive sound blocking earbuds, and earbuds that are open to let you hear. There are even bone conduction or off-ear speaker options. What you should NOT be doing is walking along, blasting your audio book through your phone's speaker so loud that I can hear the words through my second-floor window.
@cachondo I only caught a sentence or two. I'm not sure what it was about, sadly. Whenever I hear someone's book or podcast, I always pay attention, hoping it'll be one I know. Maybe we share a niche interest, or are at least fans of the same popular series.
It's the first time when my posts were deleted by the moderators. One of them is dealing with Israel-hamas war and I don't see anything bad or offending in it, it's either truth or my opinion. It seems, it's time to spin up a Mastodon instance somewhere.
Цензура она везде нагонит, да. Если бы мне было интересно, давно бы заморочился с поднятием собственного инстанса, но зачем. Лет 10 назад имело смысл, а теперь, когда в соцсетях стало слишком много публики, для которой любое мнение кроме их собственного это агрессия, ненависть и ещё хрен знает что, нафиг оно всё нужно.
@cachondo Yes, the Books.app that comes with macOS supports EPUB (plus PDFs and Audiobooks). It has a built-in store but you can add your own files to the app's library; it's somewhat like the Music.app in that respect. @fubsepude
The results of a 2 day hackathon (1 hour of demos!), an official Matrix server for the European Commission, and the Trust & Safety Working Group in Motion.
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We have made Microsoft’s commitments on Teams legally binding under EU antitrust rules.
Microsoft will unbundle Teams at lower prices, boost interoperability and data portability.
While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history:
The FBI didn't like MLK jr. They called him "the most dangerous negro." Because he was influential, brought people together, and was vocally against anti-Black racism.
The FBI file on MLK Jr was 240,000 pages long. They accused him of being a communist spy, because he said things like, "racism is bad," and "too much wealth inequality is bad for society."
The FBI had a file on Malcolm X too. 9,000 pages long. Same reason.
The FBI had a surveillance file on Albert Einstein too. 1,400 pages.🤷🏿♂️
When Einstein was in NJ teaching at Princeton, a racist person wouldn't let Black Opera Singer Marian Anderson stay in their hotel. So Einstein said, "Stay with me."
Paul Robeson and other Black civil rights leaders wrote a letter condemning lynching. Einstein hand delivered it to President Truman.
Just going to come out and say it, thinking of deleting our account. To many memories, consisting of chapters that we need to close our book on. We'd like to make a fresh start. But shit, sstarting over, losing you all, it'll hurt like hell. Just, want something new to work from. And we don't know how... Nor would we know what instance to be part of, being plural friendly, otherkin friendly, pagan friendly, and LGBTQ friendly. -- Altheda/Lillianna
Yeah, sadly, no import of posts, but you can even edit CSV follower/following lists, if you want to, so you skip on who you want and not want to follow, considering you want to export followers, and not automatically migrate them all. That's what I usually do, mostly, when I switched to Go To Social, there was no way of migrating, had to import everything, import didn't work, so imagine the search I had to do. LOL. There are good instances, I am sure, just see how you feel about them, look at their sites and so on.
Hace unos días me pasaron un tip de salud mental para esos pensamientos intrusivos que disparan mi ansiedad y se quedan como rumio en mi mente. Ponerle un nombre ridículo a esa parte de la personalidad y mandarle callar.
-"El mundo laboral es una 💩 y nos vamos a morir de hambre". -"Mira, Petronila, cierra el pico y sigue rezando y viendo tu telenovela".
Porque esa Petronila disfruta del flagelamiento eterno sin solución alguna. Y, mira, ha empezado a funcionar.
History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.
Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.
The audacity of a company with a nine-figure valuation to reach out about a speaking gig and ask me what my "discounted rate" is. My website says "Attempts to haggle will incur additional fees" so I'm charging extra for that.
@hub I've found whenever I have ever accepted "payment in exposure," that exposure only seems to get me more offers for payment in exposure. Strange isn't it?
Hey Taylor, just read the blog post and really sorry for your loss. This is definitely a really cool app idea, did you fine-tune the models on these instructions or are you just feeding it as context? Also, just a quick note, none of the links in your post show up as clickable, you might wanna take a look at that.
Accountant: Okay. We paid you $50 million last year. We spent $10 million on your private jet flights and luxury hotel accommodations. For some reason you are being paid $1 million for this 45 minute meeting.
CEO: I see. Who's that in the hallway?
Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company from falling apart. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards.
In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
Interestingly in conversation with my rheumatologist I’ve learned that remote work has empowered a lot of people like me with autoimmune diseases to continue working while pursuing treatment. I can’t RTO, I have no immune system to RTO with. Recent push for offices from local companies around me is not just bad company policy, it’s ableist too.
This year we learned that billionaires and universities are actually spineless blowhards, whose commitment to their own vision statements and policies is zero
We received reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users. Do not click on links asking to authenticate to protect your account. More information: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/12/…
There was a question on reddit earlier: > "Play a beep at random intervals play a beep at a random interval, the range of which can be set. For example, set it up so that a beep is played at a random time between 1 and 2 minutes, on a loop. So beep, silence for 1:27, beep, silence for 1:01, beep, silence for 1:55, beep, silence for 1:05, etc etc until you turn it off. Bonus points if it runs on linux"
This was my solution.
> " while :; do sleep $((RANDOM % 61 + 60))s && echo -e "\a"; done"
The time is fast approaching when our living room will become a total and utter chaotic mess. The builder has confirmed a start date for the chimney removal.
I've just booked a Bulky waste collection from the council: one of our 2 sofas is in no condition to continue living, so they're taking it away next Friday.
It amused me greatly that I am now on step 6 of a 5-step process, with an accompanying progress bar at 120%. Obviously whoever designed the web interface didn't account for the thank you page post-booking. Gotta love a fencepost problem.
Card provider was really slow, too. Made the flow feel like something from the 90's. Nicely done, MHDC good to see our money being spent well. I can't grumble really, they're very good as local authorities go.
with regards me telling y'all our local council were good at what they do, I got a phone call pretty much immediately after booking my bulky waste collection on Friday.
I had 'Somehow managed' to book a collection on a day of the week they don't collect. Nobody's ever done it before. 'Friday's are absolutely not an option in the calendar on the booking page'.
The issue is, of course, accessibility-related. The input type of a date that has native keyboard accessibility and the selectable calendar of dates they want you to choose (with a mouse, naturally), hold only the most tenuous of connections, and only one of them seems to be working in the reality they expect.
There's an active phishing campaign happening against crates.io. rustfoundation.dev is not the foundation's or the project's domain. We're looking at our options for takedowns.
In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
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the ally solos glasses seem rather slow to respond and add a lot of the typical AI fluff with overexplaining and guessing things. youtube.com/shorts/HJ7Qfd_kJfg
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I'm sorry to say this but ally has been a thoroughly disappointing experience for me. Nowhere does it feel like a polished product. They released a new shortcuts feature the other day except... it doesn't work? It's supposed to launch into an ally conversation with it automatically answering whatever question you had, like describe this scene. So it takes the photo, spends a buch of time sending it to ally, and then the conversation launches and it just goes "hey" or whatever other fluffy greeting it decided was necessary at the time. I thought it might be because of my custom ally which tries to make it a lot more terse, so I tried every standard personality they ship, but nope. It just doesn't work with any of them. They said you can adjust the speech rate in a previous update but I can't figure out how. The image recognition is just bad. I have no clue how they do this, because Envision's describe scene is a lot better and also uses AI, including being able to ask about images. Do they scale it down to like a pixelated mess or something? The app is slow. It is just ungodly slow. Also can we talk about the captcha when signing up? I couldn't do the audio version no matter what network I was on. I had to get sighted help. Also my favorite thing is when you ask it to describe something, it says let me take a look, then says I can't take any images even though it clearly just took an image, and then you can ask it to describe it and it's like oh you're totally right there's actually an image here and proceeds to describe it really badly. What on earth happened here? Seriously what the hell actually happened here? I could go on but I think you get the point. I have encountered so many annoying things while using this stupid AI that I'm honestly a little baffled that nobody at Envision is noticing this. It is possible to do so much better. I just don't understand!
👀 Včera jsem koukal chvíli na debatu. Okamura je blb, jde mu hlavně o prachy. Ale ten, kdo je fakt nebezpečnější, je Raichl – tomu nejde o peníze, ale o moc. A ten je horší než celá SPD.
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •@theron29 I had been checking this just last week and you can use signal completely without smart phone, you just have to be able to access SMS messages or calls.
It isn't nice and not exactly easy but also not really hard. Just use signal-cli and register an account:
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I managed to get rate limited first time as I screwed something with captcha couple times, but next day everything worked.
Registration with captcha
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Plus Signal has no web client and Matrix and Telegram don't have web clients of the same quality. Just with Slack there is feature and quality parity.
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