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SEEKING A NEW VOCABULARY TERM
So you know how you ask for an email (not an SMTP, yahoo, google, aol, or etc)? You can also ask for a call or text (not a telephony, SIP, T-mobile, ATT, Voynage, or etc). So XMPP works the same way, but we don't have a word for it.
I need a word that means contact me over #XMPP, without using XMPP; which is a protocol, or Jabber, which has been intrusively trademarked. Put your thinking hats on. What word would work? It might need to be a new one.
When I try to explain people how to contact me via #XMPP, there are two ways:
1. The easy way:
"You can contact me via Quicksy".
Since it is available for iOS and Android for free and my JID is registered there.
Advantage: People can explain this to others.
2. The advanced way:
"I am using messaging apps which support a messaging standard.
My chat address is ...
You can choose an app you like:
apps.xmpp24.de/en/ or
xmpp.org/software/
and an provider:
providers.xmpp.net/"
zpravy.aktualne.cz/ekonomika/a…
Vice President Harris will appear on the show, "60 Minutes," the highest-rated news program on TV, airing Oct. 7.
And although the invitation to Trump stands
Trump has turned down the offer of back-to-back conversations with both presidential nominees,
-- his campaign says he didn't want interruptions for fact checks.
Extremism always brings violence. No matter what you're pushing - ends don't justify the means. It's natural for humans to want to enact "righteous" violence. We want to be part of a group and feel like we're making the world a better place. The feeling is so enticing, we're letting ourselves slip into it. We want to be "right" about something and it feels amazing to be on the "right side" of a conflict. It's empowering, it tickles our ego, makes us feel supreme.
It's a trap of hubris. Don't.
Not the onion.
The Pentagon and NORAD Respond to Danielle Smith: Nope, We’re Not Spraying Chemicals Over Alberta
pressprogress.ca/the-pentagon-…
(Danielle Smith is the Premier of Alberta for those not following)
I feel I have lost sanity just reading this.
Something no one talks about enough:
CPU cycles aren't free.
Memory reads and writes aren't free.
That shit takes power. A miniscule amount per instance, yes, but it adds up quick if it's from an app that everyone uses constantly. All that power comes from somewhere, and right now that's mostly fossil fuels.
When people complain about software bloat, it's not just a UX problem, it's an environmental one too.
reshared this
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Yes! I think about this all the time. In aggregate, how much has simply making your app Electron instead of a native UI cost humanity in terms of energy and CO2? I wager that it's *vastly* more than anyone wants to consider.
Modern software is an absolute nightmare of thoughtless and absolutely unnecessary waste.
It should be legally mandated that developers can't use a machine less than ten years old.
to the people who did the TTS audio description for Stargate SG-1, would you kindly please, for the love of all that's holy in this world, finish what you've started? Like why the hell do you have certain episodes in season 3 not described, and then it goes back to audio description in season 4, but in stupidly random order. why why why?
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I have had a lot of people ask about the test to becoming a ham radio operator, one resource is hamstudy.org/
The test is a multiple choice test, with the answers already published, plus a few simple math formulas. I have heard of people studying for a week or two and cramming the question/learning the formulas and getting their license immediately. I personally recommend getting the license FIRST before worrying about operating the radio/etc., as it's a lot easier to have a license and have someone guide you through the actual operation after you can transmit on the air.
On the one hand, translating COBOL to another programming language using an LLM is likely to lead to disastrous results.
On the other hand, I disagree about generative AI being a short-lived fad. I think there's something useful there, and after the hype and the rush to add generative AI to everything die down, that useful core will remain.
I'm a professional! 🏆
"We’re pleased to welcome you to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) program in recognition of your outstanding contributions to the community"
the only time I tried Siri it couldn't fucking understand what I wanted, so it got the boot.
Reminds me of the Newton handwriting recognition.
My distaste for modern software design essentially boils down to corporations presuming they know how people want to use their software.
And that this lines up to the use they'd prefer.
This is essentially neo-feudalism...
Heck, it doesn't always yield a good experience! My "techie" tools don't require me to know techie details like what all the different media file-formats are, whilst my mother's "non-techie" tools do!
"{"context": "https:// www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"}"
That is a valid activitypub document. You can add literally any other property to it and it continues to be valid. And thus we have a solution to whether we should keep or change or break or abandon activitypub. Just add that line to any message in any protocol, and now it's activitypub. Thanks to the openness and flexibility of activitypub, we can in fact have our cake and eat it, too.
I'm prepared to accept my grant from swf, now
me holding a gun to Activitypub: tell me the name of god you vaguely rdf piece of shit
Activitypub: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot implement me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
Mikołaj Hołysz
in reply to simon.old • • •That's a convenience, not a fuckup.
You could do the same thing by having another phone with another number registered with Telegram, and checking their online statuses there. Telegram doesn't require people to add you to their contacts for that to work AFAIK.
James Scholes
in reply to simon.old • • •I don't think I understand the connection between not wanting people to see my online status, vs other people being happy for me to see theirs. If they're not hiding the fact that they're online, why should me hiding my information change that?
WhatsApp follows a similar model and it just... doesn't click in my brain. You wouldn't expect my Mastodon account to start imposing follow requests just because you'd enabled them for yourself. But because online state is one field/piece of info, there's reciprocity? I don't get it.
simon.old
in reply to James Scholes • • •I'm also the person who wanted selective read receits so much that I installed a jailbreak tweak for it. I then started turning them off for people who didn't turn them on for me.
It's entirely possible that even though I don't care about this stuff very much, I still care about it too much.
James Scholes
in reply to simon.old • • •In that case, it's more about some arbitrary state of fairness than an actual privacy feature, and I just don't think it reflects human behaviour. There are tons of people in the world willing to tell me all about their recent trip to Vegas, their daughter's current toothache, or what they think about $world-event. I don't usually share in that way, but that doesn't stop me listening or even asking them questions to be polite.
Shrug.
simon.old
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in reply to simon.old • • •It says this, but I have no idea how to interpret it.
Unless you are a Premium user, you won't see Last Seen or Online statuses for people with whom you don't share yours. Approximate times will be shown instead (recently, within a week, within a month).
Nothing else that I see. But still I classify this as a weird private option.
Nick Giannak III
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