Enjoy seeing the snow covering everything, with no melting expected for a while.

I don’t think this framing is completely accurate. nel0x, one of the people stepping up to maintain a fork, made reasonable requests to researchxxl that were ignored and denied. Basic stuff like “can you join the official syncthing forum”. Trust is incredibly important when you are taking over distribution of an existing app, let alone one that has permissions to your filesystem and can push changes to other devices through NAT/firewalls. Processes to develop trust can be tying your online identity to real life identity, and/or being a visible, contributing member of a community over time. A transparent handover process would also be important. None of those conditions for trust were met and auto installed updates were pushed.

Yeah the whole sequence seems a little weird. That said, I couldn’t find another strong option the last time I looked for an alternative.

BlissOS had a blog post ~2 months ago: https://blog.blissos.org/bliss-updates-2508/

WayDroid and BlissRoms git repos seem very active.

Hopefully BlissOS will return.

Disappointed that the article didn’t touch on supply chains, raw materials, and batteries.

Nextcloud already bit off more than it can chew. Competing with YouTube seems like a bad idea.

Story feels eerily familiar to absurd cultist attacks on cultural institutions in the US. Pretty cool about the award though.

I can’t speak to the book, but the article/interview/summary seem a little hollow in places. Some oddities:

1. Manufacturing jobs declined and manufacturing contributes less as a percentage of GDP than it once did, sure, but manufacturing has grown in the US.
2. China artificially deflates the value of its currency. That lowers the cost of goods it exports to other countries and creates a structural impediment to competing with manufacturers in China. I don’t see how any discussion about globalization and manufacturing jobs is complete without a discussion about currency manipulation.
3. Random shots fired at NY and SF.

Also, the US is never going to compete with China for engineering graduates or manufacturing. The population difference makes it an impossible comparison.

This was a lemmy frontend: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

Why would an organization use OMEMO if it doesn’t fit their requirements? OMEMO isn’t necessary for encrypting xmpp communications. Also, I get the concern that only the original client will have a full history of the user, but most people don’t need a complete chat history. Or put another way, wanting a complete, unencrypted chat history is relatively orthogonal to wanting perfect forward secrecy.

That is how perfect forward secrecy is supposed to work.

From what I’ve read, repeated plugging/unplugging is not the most likely failure mode. Definitely some issues with cheap sockets though that aren’t realistically capable of carrying the continuous load.

On one hand, it bothers me how inaccessible clear guidance on electric work is. There are so few open resources, and online questions seem to devolve into electricians gatekeeping information to protect the trade. On the other hand, browsing ev charging forums reveals one melted socket after another (not necessarily the result of DIY). The average person can be pretty flippant about the various ways these installations can go up in flames.

Have a migraine and am struggling to parse this. Iraq?

Pretty sure another study found Xylitol might have the same issue. I’m personally avoiding sugar alcohols at this point. That said, it severely limits sweetener options for people that have blood sugar issues.

I watch a sketch comedy group that gets abused by YouTube’s moderation. Some of their stuff leans edgy, but the moderation and demonetization seems pretty arbitrary. There is no viable appeal process or viable alternative platform. Reminds me of how Google controls the Play store and removes open source projects for arbitrary or spurious reasons.

I take less issue with aggressive moderation and more issue with the lack of infrastructure to handle the concept that the first line ai decision might be wrong.

Adding to that - Google’s effective monopolization of “amateur” video distribution, and coincidentally monopolization of app distribution and monetization on the 70% market share mobile platform, makes it more problematic that the company is unanswerable to moderation mistakes.

Don’t most 80+ year old men have some stage of prostate cancer?

I’m not saying that you need to understand every aspect of how something works to use it, but OMEMO provides forward secrecy - it is in the first paragraph of the wikipedia article. Delta Chat explicitly does not. Finding the right tool for your needs/expectations is important. We don’t blame a hammer for failing to cut wood.

Pretty sure that has been a feature for at least 2 years. It seems like a reasonable compromise.

Good to see prose moving along.