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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (6 children)

This has been disputed though. Their own marketing material is perhaps not a good source alone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/technology/who-owns-huawei.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, she's pretty much done everything that should be done and more. She promised that the rules around this thing will be clarified, she will pay back all the money from her own funds used in this way, and will stop using this benefit even if it will be deemed lawful later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

It would require a victory in the next parliamentary election for the Rudimentary Finns Party, becoming the largest party.

Which according to the polls might very well happen. It's still a few years away, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

Yep, as a Finn I can confirm that this headline is not a joke. It's not a parody.

This is actually happening here. People, like every single fucking person in this country, is thinking about this right now.

I'm afraid we're gonna have our full-on Trump moment soon. This is such a preamble to that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

https://gitlab.com/ve-nt/outfieldr/-/tree/master/ 3-4x faster implementation in Zig. Possibly lacking in features for now, though :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Knowingly lying, especially in combination of attempts to gain high power. Although I realize how difficult this would be to enforce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

Didn’t downvote you, but 1. seemed odd. Are you saying that if somebody hires somebody, they cannot get rid of that person no matter how they behave and work? Perhaps I didn’t understand the phrasing correctly — perhaps the stress was on “without notice”.

Others are more or less agreeable, although possibly hard to enforce.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

There used to be an installer, and it was, well, complicated. It tried to be very flexible while still streamlining the installation. When we removed all that and went with installation script approach instead, things became simpler and even more flexible (since what can be more flexible than the command line). I still think this is the best OS installer I have ever seen, and I've seen some.

Also, before the systemd change was completed, the init system and supporting tools were not quite as robust. So that created all kinds of complications.

Everything that is developed with a clear focus gets better with time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (2 children)

https://imgz.org/ for the imgur replacement. With a fun attitude too, if you're into that kinda thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

A significant difference between Matrix and XMPP (and many other classical protocols) is an architectural detail. Gladly correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm working on my educated assumptions here based on limited and quick reading of many of these protocols.

XMPP and (say) IRC are message transmission protocols. A payload consists of a message. There's lots of details on top of this (especially with XMPP and its extensions), but that's the core idea.

Matrix is a log synchronization protocol. Its purpose essentially is to make sure every patricipant in the network is reaching towards identical state. This is an important difference in terms of reliability, because (barring software bugs of course) it means that being off-line cannot cause any disruption in message flow. But it's also bit more difficult to implement well.

I assume many other modern messaging applications work like Matrix as well, but I've paid even less attention for those.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Regular IRC is completely plain-text by default, though :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (3 children)

Paying for services by getting tracked is very easy though. To setup a similar system for payment where you pay for services with actual bucks would most probably be horrible UX and a crapload of new recurring payments to handle.

Unless somebody centralized all this into some Spotify/Netflix -like centralized service.

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