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Continuwuity

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Everything there (aside from perhaps not printing the full URL under the QR code) is deliberate and a part of the 'brand'. Roboto + Sour Gummy for the fonts, asymmetry, whimsy. If you don't like it, I'm sure you can use Element's Synapse and you'll be able to talk to people using Continuwuity just fine. That's kind of the point.

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Attire

Honestly whoever made that poster on the right doesn't know ANYTHING, girl on the right is giving wayy more confidence, which is the only thing that matters.

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Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze

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I did (and the talk has a very high view count on youtube). The guy is a good presenter, and seems aware of his audience, and I thought his ideas for the desktop were interesting, but everything he was saying and showing was entirely full of holes that could be poked into it, and is something that was, uh, unnecessary to present.

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Even reading that (atrocious) output is going to influence how you write and speak, because humans learn language via mirroring and imitation. Taking the output as truth also means you are trusting something that is unreliable and easy to influence (I know many companies are deliberately writing to manipulate LLM output).

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What RSS feeds are you subscribed to?

Here are some interesting feeds I follow, mostly tech-focused and quite Rust heavy:

Generated by opening an OPML export in firefox, running the following script and deleting a bunch of feeds:

 "- " + [...document.querySelectorAll("body > outline > outline")].map((f) => `[${f.getAttribute("text")}](${f.getAttribute("htmlUrl")}) \`${f.getAttribute("xmlUrl")}\``).join("\n- ") 

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Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ???

A lot of the people reporting issues with Matrix being slow and resource heavy are reporting issues with Synapse, which is Element's big Python implementation. My Continuwuity instance, which is a server written in Rust, uses a fraction of a CPU and a total storage in the hundreds of megabytes. A few less features, but it has most of the ones people care about.

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Matrix Metadata Problem: the server sees everything except your messages

This paper seems to be filled with mistakes and generally stating the obvious for anyone passingly familiar with the protocol and server administration in general.

Even figure 2 / paragraph 2 is incorrect, the cross-signing keys aren't derived, they're encrypted by the master key, which is the only derived key. Then there's stuff like using effectively deprecated database setups and client apps, not disabling debug logs, and so on.

I would not put this as recommended reading lol