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The Chinese perspective was actually more informative; I had more questions than answers after the first article.

I’ve used XMPP since shortly after it was developed. I still use it today.

HOWEVER, while the clients are relatively good, as long as they support the extensions you want to use, I’ve found maintaining the server to be a royal headache. Between protocol and extension improvements, security updates and general server instability, I find that it’s a constant struggle to have it running and compatible with whatever client someone is using, when someone actually uses it.

Signal, on the other hand, pretty much always works, has a single client, and nobody has to worry about managing the server except Signal. So as infrastructure, it makes a lot more sense.

Looks more like the dot com bubble to me.

Is it just me, or are the bubbles coming closer together these days?

Who exactly was required to submit age verification photos? Just US citizens?

This appears to be specifically around US employment; most of the jobs list to AI would be ones that had already been offshored, wouldn’t they?

ChatControl 2.0 will mean that phones localized outside of Europe will sell at a premium.

Not quite; Chat Control hearkens back to Apple’s doomed attempt at on-device CSAM filtering - the idea is that on-device images and message contents would be scanned for known hashes. This means a nation state could go fishing on devices for known content, but it wouldn’t allow them to indiscriminately sift through all the content at rest — they’d have to know what they were looking for.

That’s where the steganography comes in, because the hash based approach will fail if the content they’re looking for is obscured in some manner.

Well, Google’s current behaviour is already putting the future existence of F-Droid into question.

Steganography. There’s more than one way to protect your communication.

And encryption in transit is better than no encryption at all (assuming the baddies don’t already have full access to your phone data).

It’s also strange to me when people misunderstand the importance and viable applications of open ledgers.

Swift appears to be using them correctly, but so many others will get it wrong.

Except… the real way to use them is to just integrate them on the back end to the existing system, such that for most people there’s no observable change. This would eliminate skimming and provide another layer of evidence during disputes, without otherwise affecting what already exists.

I like the idea of using markdown to take you as far as it will go, and then having a function system to handle the edges and a mode system to switch to maths mode.

I’ve long left the field where I need to have precise reproduction of layout for large volumes of text, and haven’t touched LaTeX since the early 2000s. But it sounds like it’s currently doing most of the right things, has the support it needs, and most importantly, has institutional support.

Also sounds like it could be scripted to take my reams of markdown text and convert it to a stable layout format; I remember trying to script that for LaTeX with Perl’s mod:latex in the 90s, and eventually realizing I’d be better off to just re-type it.

This is why I no longer go out in public.

Yup. Entry level wages have stagnated while food and housing prices have skyrocketed.

Exact same thing here.

If you ignore any company related to “cloud” or “AI”, especially if you focus on tech jobs at companies outside the software industry, there’s still plenty of hiring fresh coders going on.

$165,000 tech jobs are still out there. Usually they require at least 10 years experience, or a masters in mathematics or data science.

Fresh out of school? Try a $48-64k job and get some experience.

Still true a decade later.

I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.

OK, I stopped posting on Reddit but left my account and comments in place because I considered them part of the public record. If Reddit is taking that record private, it’s time for me to start removing my content from the platform.

Does anyone know if historical Reddit content will remain in IA? If not, I’m going to have to back up years of content somewhere else.

It all really started to fall apart after Taligent foundered.

Nice that watches ranging from £16 to £200 already support USB-C. My two Garmin watches both have (incompatible) unique charging/data ports.