That’s what I do, /music
That’s what I do, /music
I’ve been testing Claude the last month. It’s good for 90% of the tasks but for the remaining 10% i couldn’t convince it to give a proper answer and used ChatGPT instead. Technical questions and coding is what I use llms for.
Any particular problems you’re having or have you briefly used Pidgin in 2008 and think nothing has improved since then?
XMPP. It just works, requires very little resources, is stable and has decent clients.
I would go with Snikket instead of Prosody if I had been starting now.
Conversations on phones, Dino or Gajim on PCs, plus a conversejs install on the xmpp server, to allow web access when needed.
Conversations is easy for the family to figure out.
This whole thread is depressing to read, full of corporate bootlickers putting blame on you.
Tox uses NaCl as its crypto library, don’t spread misinformation
Not to tell you you don’t need a GUI calculator program, but the only times I needed one was on screen sharing when I had to show someone else what I’m doing.
For all other cases, python
in console is the best calculator ever. You don’t need to learn Python to use it, and it’s most likely already installed in most systems that you use.
Ad. 2, have you seen https://www.zombietrackergps.net/ztgps/ ?
Isn’t that the gogs story repeated?
Then yes, learning Ansible is a good way to have base OS settings for your systems. I love that it’s agentless - works over SSH.
The ugly part is that they keep updating it in a backwards incompatible way. In one version the paramerer is called “file” and in another it’s “dest”, they pull shit like this and don’t provide a tool to update playbooks automatically.
But updating is rather optional.
Is it really so ridiculous that armed people blinded by a belief system could do that?
That you can afford premium versions or self-host
You slide down notification bar and if there’s not even one ad, please stand in front of that wall.
Family story. Maybe a fake one, I don’t know, there’s nobody alive to ask any more.
Additionally, libraries for XMPP exist in most languages, there is a varying degree of completeness, but they all do a good job of hiding XML from the programmer
Thos, exactly this. Whenever I ask the question OP asked, it’s always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again. And then Matrix came to existence with their marketing and they happily started using it, even though it didn’t have any better features
Your hackernews post and the fact you mention Pidgin shows that you haven’t used xmpp in the last 10 years. By the time Matrix was first released, xmpp had history sync.
Which is why I can’t wrap my head around why a second protocol with no features that didn’t already exist in XMPP took over.
The more they grow, the busier the spectrum will be. I really hope it doesn’t grow too much.
I wrote my masters in LaTeX and while I appreciate the structuredness and the fact I could use vim, it was so quirky. Having to spend half an hour to fix a non obvious compile error, more than once, was a big distractor. I’m sure it gets better when you use it more but I don’t think I have ever used it since. I’m not in academia and I don’t need to solve compile problems when creating an invoice or writing a letter to local government.
I went a step further and am paying an accountant to handle this mess, using my favourite libre email client to contact her. I know, it’s a privileged position.