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I'd like to read (in my opinion) high quality and not much biased critique, like this one. And especially from someone who is an expert (unlike me) for this programming stuff. So lets explore some Vervaekeism (had to use Kagi search as it's a novelty to me) about how getting dirty with code can reveal us that the syntax is not mere ceremony; boilerplate is meaningful. *the part about the domestication of us humans (with the example of wood-burning stoves) really reminds me of how it took me almost 3 yrs to learn how to operate the downdraft gasification boiler that replaced the old 'just burn the pile of wood somehow'. Not to mention that one tiny broken part in the mechanism responsible for dealing with the pressure difference between building heating and long-distance hot water pipeline for the heat distribution. Spend 4 days with no heat and hot water in lowest temperatures this winter. Undisclosed and thus not well understood complexity that can't be explained correctly by the AI can be hard to fix. (Despite the manuals, years of the forum posts and entire FAQ knowledge being available basically online for AI to digest.) And that is easier with hardware as it offers quite direct feedback, with the hot stuff, if done wrong. View Article →
Signal may not be perfect. But every single time I use anything different, it remind me how clean the UI/UX is. And I hope they won't change anything about it at all. For example, started few months unused Matrix client, the Element: +++ does work with VPN, alias email service, no questions asked, no phone verification - there is left bar menu, opening one submenu, with Home and rest of whatever call it, rooms? - this Home opening sub-menu People/Rooms/System Alers chats - some rooms are only visible under Home, while some in left menu, idk why - there is a division between rooms and space - can't understand difference - Almost 3/4 of rooms have now the message: This room has been replaced and is no longer active. But why, some large upgrade? - if I do not visit every room and migrate myself into new one, I'm basically with no info about it's dead end situation - rooms chat are clumsy, full of info like: changed their profile picture 4 times, changed their name, and left. Umm, cool and what? - more spam and unrelated service info, especially if there is Discord/TG/IRC<>Matrix bridge connection - so messages look like shit: RoomBridge <UserXYZ:Discord> 'Actual message' - hard to react on this - hard to meaningfully search the content - servers suck, if it fck up itself, entire room is corrupted - moderation on this mess is almost impossible - clients suck as well - monoculture now, Element only afaik 'usable' - have no info what is shared where and what rules are applied to such connections - some bridges are one way, some rooms have apparently mixed modes - so many rooms have 'End-to-end encryption isn't enabled' - it even can't be enabled because of: 'Enabling encryption may prevent many bots and bridges from working correctly.' (Ok, this does make sense.) - if I leave old rooms, some remain in notifications, stuck forever and I can't get rid of them Feels like Element won't starting for few more months on my machine yet again. SimpleX still is quite promising.
As my consumption of sugar and caffeine dropped to basically 0 for prolonged periods of time, it is interesting to see how even moderate sugar intake (a few hours before sleep) can change the qualities of my dreams. Sugar-assisted dreams are: - very vivid and colorful, feeling like almost the IPS vs OLED; until this happened to me, I had no idea it could be that different - more unhinged content; I can almost run in the dreams or swiftly switch the place of the story to another No nightmares, it is just different, not worse in general. Before my lifestyle changed to this, mainly no sugar/carbs diet, it did not occur to me. I had no dreams like that despite being 'high on carbs' all the time. Now that there is some, say, more normal baseline, the difference can be seen and compared to the normal state.
This is great, I like human readable npubs having some care'n'pow done to them. Here is list of few different tools having same purpose (afaik all of them offline, that is IMO better option compared to the web one).
GitHub
GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things
nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...
 From the list - Rana is nicely done (range of cli options). View quoted note →
Used to take a bus and pay 1,- CZK per minute at the nearest game cafe just to not play games but surf the net. (16 used to be one beer, 15 big pack of chips, 45 a pack of cigs.) Crazy how this is now accessible everywhere (mainly LTE/Starlink/GPON FTTP really delivers). Also, how has the tide shifted and users nowadays have dissociated themselves from the protocol in favor of platforms. And how smooth the transition was, despite the many times the platform fails in the process of siphoning the userbase, yet users do not change their behavior. Overall, I do believe it's OK unless I'm forced to use or participate in it. image