Signal has a lot of problems with changing devices while preserving history. As in it's often just impossible.
Are you aware of this https://signal.org/blog/a-synchronized-start-for-linked-devi...
Readit Newsmrd3v0 commented on The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign robertmao.com/blog/en/the... · Posted by u/robmao
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mrd3v0 commented on Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip changelog.com/posts/our-s... · Posted by u/Cyphase
I lead the Zulip project, and frankly this comment is highly demoralizing.
For what it's worth, Zulip is entirely FOSS. In contrast with most commercial open source software on the market today, Zulip charges only for Cloud hosting, push infrastructure, and support -- not the software itself. We offer free or highly discounted plans for non-business use.
And yet, even we get attacked because we stopped letting businesses use our push infrastructure for free too. How are we supposed to publish a professional quality self-hostable product without any monetization?
If you oppose all forms of FOSS monetization, no matter how reasonable, you're advocating for a world where FOSS cannot compete in many product categories.
And if you want FOSS to succeed in team chat specifically, the real issue is that Microsoft Teams and Slack have entrenched their duopoly with some pretty effective anti-competitive tactics (Microsoft Bundling and Slack Connect, most importantly), and that fact isn't on many people's radar as an issue at all.
It is just one comment on Y Combinator's link aggregation service. People who haven't tried starting a serious FOSS project, do not understand how unsustainable it is. Funny thing is, like you mentioned, the monetisation isn't even imposed on the software itself, the entire software is free. It is on the *gratis* service to host it.
Entitlement knows no bounds. Don't worry about those disheartening comments, they are not coming from a place of genuine concern.
Of course it’s great to work part time and get paid for full time (“remote work”). But you can see why employers might not love it.
The failure of the organization to meet productivity expectations without questionable forms of psychophysiological manipulation of employees should not be met with open arms.
Yes, it can be effective to deploy such methods over the limited physical access to employees, but ultimately it is an unsustainable method of control that arguably breeds a cohort of disinterested middle managers over time. A successful organization for its goals has the most motivated workers, needless of such methods of control.
mrd3v0 commented on EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak theverge.com/2024/5/10/24... · Posted by u/leotravis10
It's so sad that ads got such a bad reputation as being intrusive, annoying, fraud, etc. While when used correctly, ads are very useful and sometimes fun.
Especially in this case, the future will talk more about the engagement, conversion, impressions, clicks, etc related to in-game ads, and not how to creatively integrate the ads in the game in a fun way
Ads are manipulation, that is not a reputation, that is a definition. There is no logical conclusion that omits a message from being classified as both an ad and manipulative. One can't come without the other. An ad is non-consensual. You don't ask for ads. The ads don't answer questions you specifically are asking, they are exploiting your demographic using keywords and phrases their research shows to be effective towards influencing your decision making to doing exactly what they want (selling you something.)
If you really think ads are not by definition intrusive, I am curious to reconsider my stance.
mrd3v0 commented on Apple should end their Google search partnership (2023) magiclasso.co/insights/ap... · Posted by u/happybuy
Search is a hard problem, and if they haven't decided to cut the $20 billion, it's because they believe Google is the best.
I do think Google has been decreasing in quality over the years, but when I use any of the privacy focused alternatives like DuckDuckGo, Brave or Kagi, I end up using a !g bang every 2/3 searches.
The others just aren't there yet, and they know that.
Google is pretty much unusable today if you don't look for specific websites. If you are using it to look up information, learn or discover new things in the web it is just SEO LLM spam. Features like shopping and LLM-powered Q&A are quite misleading and potentially dangerous for a trusting user.
mrd3v0 commented on TOTP Authenticator for PalmOS nkorth.com/palm/apps/#tot... · Posted by u/LeoPanthera
Does anyone know whether the Palm UI/UX elements are protected by IP/patents? Meaning cannot use these ideas or elements in new projects without fear of a lawsuit from whoever owns the Palm IP legacy now.
UI/UX patents? Outside of the US it is hard to see how a court would validate that. IIRC they are excluded from patentability in the EU.
mrd3v0 commented on Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering stackoverflow.co/company/... · Posted by u/onatm
I come from a background of high-trust societies where regulation serves the public good; whereas distrust of "big government" hurts everyone. To quote Francis Fukuyama: "Widespread distrust in a society, in other words, imposes a kind of tax on all forms of economic activity, a tax that high-trust societies do not have to pay.".
I understand, and even agree with the notion that deep societal distrust is unhealthy and problematic, however, that doesn't necessarily answer the question of needing that trust in the first place [to regulate]. Having a company with that much power is in fact harder to regulate, which in turn means we are going to have to trust the public institutions even more to do their jobs.
I don't see why we should put ourselves in a position where we need that kind of trust. Another way to put it is, why burden the government with an unsustainable uncompetitive market? For what?
OpenAI is a for-profit private corporation with a commercial service to offer that has no bearing on the most important concerns the government is elected each year to tackle.
mrd3v0 commented on Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/gnabgib
As the article mentions at the end, and I agree, I don't think this was inherently meant to be an anti-firefox change, otherwise they most likely wouldn't have made something specific to firefox on windows. More likely, this is a case of an anti-bot measure that only works in firefox on windows specifically, hence the specific targeting, and some google engineer didn't bother to test it thoroughly enough.
And how many 'innocent' didn't-test-it-enough targetted user agent incidents do we have to witness in order to call it what it is and stop making excuses?