bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

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@sir , this is a wendys

@devharts i have an old x220 which still lives on. It has a decent keyboard (non chiclet) and a pointing stick. I'm really thinking about getting another one, it seems to have enough power for my use case (for everything else there is the desktop..)

gotta love the foul future we are in for ✨

@peexea matrix uses device trust too. i don't really like how web-centric it is (the API uses the HTTP verbs), but i guess that's how it is in these times, and has nice properties also (like just using curl to speak with the api). it shouldn't be too hard to have other transports though: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/03/12/breaking-the-100-bps-barrier-with-matrix-meshsim-coap-proxy

@peexea i have previously used xmpp, but at that time it was suffering heavily from a lack of mobile apps _and_ a fractured ecosystem regarding XEPs, so i've kind-of given up on it. while i don't think that #matrix is perfect, they do many things right and have a modern feel, and are federated and e2e encrypted (seems to be the default now for new rooms).

one day deploying things written in scripting languages (read: ruby, python) will give me a good ol' heart attack. i guess looking into the light of go cross compiling static builds ruined everything else for me 💃

@devharts 👋

@peexea .. but signal is explicitly advertised for such threads, isn't it? _my_ opinion is that federalized protocols are better in this regard and that moxie spreads FUD regarding them.

@peexea ok 🤷

@peexea as soon as you have to argue with "only these few can get your metadata" it's over though. rubberhose some admin
at openwhisper (or his children). even the mob can do that. with how insecure the phone networks are, having the number is a pretty big deal.

anonymity and privacy aren't easy problems to solve, if they can be solved at all. telling people otherwise is dangerous and requiring their phone number for "convenience" borders on evil.

@sir i guess there are too many kinds of pickle to generalize 😉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickling#Popularity_of_pickles_around_the_world

@lupyuen indeed, the magic "face-focus" software on a samsung mobile of a relative doesn't work with masks ;) unfortunately, other algorithms are already being retrained for detection with masks. maybe it's time for better masks: https://cvdazzle.com/ :)

@lupyuen the best part is where nobody stops for a second and questions if automated face recognition etc. isn't just making societies even worse than they are already 💁

@freemo i've created my account here yesterday exactly because of the current short rules! they are concise and, even if some may object that this is the case, i think it should be easy enough for everyone to be civilized.

@freemo well, it wasn't really that time consuming to answer the four questions, so they have to be really lazy. i know what stem means, though 😉

hello there! 🙋