Yes, unfortunately that is the current reality. Note also the subtle hints this article points to: if you disagree with any of the tenents of our clique, you’re evil. In this case, Matrix uses capitalistic toolsets, which implies it is evil, and you should rather use an unfinished alternative because it’s made a by a trans person which is virtuous.

With a bit of green pesto and chianti.

Yeah… well, it seems to me that Matrix is potentially there. I mean I could install Element X on my parents’ phones, set it up with some account and be done with it. It would be as good as signal and whatsapp from an UX perspective. And I could then chat with them with any of the existing dozens of Matrix clients.

The worst problem, if you can call it that, currently is that Signal is good enough.

All in all, I think reading through all these messages makes me feel like doubling down on Matrix. It is currently a very passable IRC, Signal and Slack replacement and the only remaining problem is that those things already exist.

(Discord doesn’t need replacing, just destroying)

Well… Matrix. I don’t think it requires self-hosting? It’s E2EE and there are plenty of public servers.

Here’s Matrix CEOs answer to this article: https://lobste.rs/c/jekh0n – good discussion in that thread in general

I wouldn’t trust encryption made by anti-vaxer

My understanding of encryption is that the point is that you don’t have to trust the people doing it. You just have to trust the security research community that proved that the algorithms/protocols work. Or if you’re a hardcore security guy yourself, you can review it yourself.

Also, my understanding of people is that what they seem like is no evidence for what kind of people they really are.

Ah, too bad. That was perhaps too much to ask.

Although I don’t totally oppose judging people because of their views (shaming has been and can be a very useful for improving societies), I wonder if software written by such people should be. Seems to me that we don’t have the abundance of software yet that would allow doing that.

Especially I’m wary of judging people for being dumb in applications like Twitter that use dark patterns to entice them into being dumb. In some way it feels to me like punching down, like blaming the victim.

MacOS.

But my actually favourite OS does use systemd.

I like the concept of delta.chat the most. Anyone here use it? Any reason why it hasn’t caught on?

Could it support technical FOSS channels with thousands of participants, like what IRC was awesome for and Matrix seems to be pretty ok at?

It would take hundreds of millions of dollars to make Matrix as shit as Discord is.

I guess this kind of stuff will be news to them also: https://www.vice.com/en/article/irans-courts-are-still-blaming-rape-victims-for-their-attacks/

Fuck Iran. Their government is way worse than Israel’s. Do I need to remind everyone that they’re feeding Russia with the drones that they use to attack civilians in Ukraine?

Here’s hoping that Iran’s next revolution won’t end up in a total disaster like the previous one did.

https://www.businessinsider.com/palantirs-ceo-alex-karp-is-a-self-described-socialist-2018-11

He referred to himself as “socialist” in 2018, apparently.

By having a charging station at home, I guess.

Nope. 30 is young and that kind of back pain is abnormal for a 60 year old.

Yeah, good catch

Linux isn’t an option?

Docker to my knowledge still requires a real Linux running somewhere, somehow. In MacOS, it has traditionally been some sort of a VM running under the hood via docker-machine. As this is emulationvirtualization, it has a rather severe overhead.

This containerization framework sounds like it might enable a more light-weight version of Linux, somewhat similar to what Windows has had via WSL for some time.

Brilliant. I’m stealing this.