Austin Huang ❤️

Recent CS grad + #FOSS contributor + #mastoadmin, from #Shanghai to #Montreal. I quibble on #SliceOfLife, #tech, and #policies. Account speaks English and 简体中文.

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2024-11-13 00:00:36

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It seems like the karaoke night happens daily, and they seem to know quite a few people. A drag queen and their photographer greeted the organizer, and the group greeted back. After some short conversation, the drag queen posed in front of the fountain, and the photographer shot with a phone and a small portable flash. Like c'mon, show some respect and use a damn camera! They then conversed in some other language. I left as the karaoke night sizzled out; it was nearly 9 when I walked to PATH.

2024-10-16 12:00:47

Don't you hate how universities theoretically support strong passwords for student IT accounts, and most of their systems accept that, but some (especially those on campus, like library computers) just don't (nor do they tell you) and you're forced to compromise with a weaker password?

2024-10-16 12:00:00

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Ah, you meant those, I thought by "dicks" you meant figuratively (read: people who post US partisan politics non-stop and without variety). On top of the mute function you can also consider using the filter function to hide posts based on keywords in the post content (including alt text).

2024-10-08 12:01:03

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Eh, Brightspace isn't really that bad for students, if configured correctly by the professor (read: link quizzes and assignments to grade items). Also you can get notifications for released grades. (I also like ppt-to-pdf.) Though, as an ex-TA I do hate its grading interface (NOTHING beats Crowdmark on this).
I do feel that Skytech Omnivox (only used by CEGEPs in Quebec) is a very underrated LMS (minus the 00s-aesthetic in some pages, which are getting gradually revamped anyway)...

2024-10-08 12:00:12

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I don't agree with the article wholesale either, but I think there are points to be taken (again, to be detailed later). They compare the attitude of "if you want something to change, just send a patch" as arrogant (which I do agree - it bars those that are non-technical from participating). Anyways, I think the atmosphere in mainstream fediverse is just so disconnected from reality (I think that's what they really mean when comparing it to Twitter), hence I quoted that.

2024-10-07 12:00:49

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Yeah, it's a parody on that, but I also made it a bit vague at the end ("Or are YOU are part of Them?"). You're right that (to an extent) it is the humanity's failure in regulating climate change, so I try to integrate some sort of double meaning in this. (Also I personally just hate the current discourse - among "blue MAGAs" as well - so I need to 1-up them somehow)

2024-10-06 12:00:21

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我以前会用Reddit去找（再说一般搜索引擎给出的结果都是Reddit），但是Reddit现在质量明显下降……反倒是觉得小红书在某些实际的life tips方面比较有用，所以算是无可奈何吧……当然啦，某些事情确实应该先去找官方资料。

2024-10-06 12:00:21

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Anyways, last Saturday I helped someone move their apartment (which doubles as an excuse to go outside). I also had my first U-Haul ride (quite an experience). Due to reality I didn't get to meet up with the person after that, so I ended up lunching alone (volunteering to test the nearest joint for them...), worrying about both my homework and whether I did anything socially weird to the person... The hot bowl was pretty good though, but I do hate how QR code ordering has spread here as well...
https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/113/258/666/571/914/446/original/062cbeddefa6637e.jpg

2024-10-06 12:00:08

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There's ⁨https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/09/24/fedi-is-for-losers (which I'll comment in detail on a later date), but I think we have not fundamentally jumped out of the failures of social media in general. Take a break if you need.

2024-10-05 22:50:09

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I tried to be quirky... Of course it's a bit of an oversimplification to blame the Big Oil/Industry on everything, but alas, man's gotta write what he wants to write.
Heating up the ocean does increase the probability of natural disasters like this one, so in a way I'd say they are partly responsible in "controlling the weather."

2024-10-05 22:19:48

Yes, They can control the #weather.
They pollute the land, poisoning families.
And They boil the ocean for Their toys.
They refuse to move on, shouting "jobs" and "economy."
And They gaslight us with "carbon footprint."
They start natural disasters, yet can walk away unconcerned.
And They pay themselves so much, yet so little to the people.
What are you doing to stop Them?
Or are YOU a part of Them?
#ClimateChange #politics

2024-10-05 18:53:46

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I don't think it is, seeing that the account profile is nowhere to be found in the source code of the FAQ page. @npub1hrg…7yzk I think the verified status does NOT federate, but is rather verified by each instance individually (I just refreshed the profile on my instance and it does not show the checkmark either), so the HTML tag must remain on the page (it can be <head> if you don't want it to be visible). cc. @npub15qh…ptem

2024-10-05 12:00:57

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Matrix has a few community clients that are native, like Nheko, GNOME Fractal, KDE Neochat, etc.

2024-10-05 12:00:46

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A room/community does not belong to a specific server, as it is distributed among all participating servers; the only place where the exact server choice matters is the main room address, where you might want to publicly "associate" the room with a specific server, if you prefer, but this can be edited in the future. Users belong to servers, however. Also, if you expect your room to be popular, you need a moderation bot; ask your server operator, or https://docs.draupnir.midnightthoughts.space.

2024-10-05 12:00:41

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Revolt is very much a hobby project and I'd advise not using it for any serious purpose. It's basically an incomplete pre-2020 Discord clone, with most of the key features and a like-minded user base (as it is founded in opposition to Discord's direction). It's mostly open source, yet not intended to be selfhosted, as it is centralized.

2024-10-05 12:00:26

I feel like standing alone in the #rain (not a storm), holding an adequately-sized #umbrella leaning backwards to a shoulder (and with an angle so that I don't get wet), is just such an #emotional pose. (Of course, there's some influence from various works of art, but that still genuinely evokes such a powerful feeling.) I sense a sort of #melancholy, yet not sadness, as there is no judgment. People are walking at normal pace, yet I feel as if the time has stopped. Human mind does do wonders...

2024-10-04 12:00:21

On Wednesday at about 11:35am, after a quick presentation, I was about to leave 370 Jay Street (the research-focused building of NYU Tandon). A security officer shouted at me to get back in the building. I didn't understand it right away and he got more aggressive (but he didn't explain), so I went back in and had to hide in a dusty corridor for a few minutes...
Turns out there was an armed robbery outside... In broad daylight... Guess that was my closest encounter...

2024-10-03 12:00:31

"Don't think we'll tell you Sam, you peasant!"
Wow, people are rude...
Spotted at Christopher St #PATH station #NYC
(By the way: PATH regulations actually forbid photography without permission from an escorting staff member arranged prior, ostensibly for some vague "security" reasons. Not that it has really stopped anyone taking photos...)
https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/113/235/234/145/353/032/original/dec30b560fce7009.jpg

2024-10-02 12:00:47

I see that some are advocating for scrambling #web content as a defense against #scrapers. There is a #SlipperySlope here: recently I notice that Zhihu (the Chinese equivalent of Quora) will scramble Chinese characters on pages if it thinks that the #browser is illegitimate, and Cromite (a privacy-focused Chromium fork) is somehow affected by this. I fear that widespread adoption of such, especially by commercial entities, could bar "non-approved" browsers from the web, which is concerning.

2024-10-02 12:00:46

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Am new to renting... I hope it doesn't happen on the 1st of every month...

2024-10-02 12:00:38

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On my Mac, pdflatex does put the output pdf in the same directory though... (I use MiKTeX.) Also texmaker (yeah, it's not command line, sorry I'm not nerdy enough...) has an option to "clean on exit" which will delete the byproducts (seems to be a simple extension match though).

2024-10-02 12:00:09

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I'd say one should also interact with other users that are in the fields that they're interested in, ie. try following the relevant hashtags and just go star/reply to the posts to make themselves known, on top of posting in those fields themselves. However, I do think that it seemed easier to get interactions before the Twitter exodus; after that, most large instances now increasingly converge towards a single "mainstream," whereas smaller instances stray further...

2024-10-01 12:00:55

Finally, an updated #introduction: Hello! From #Shanghai to #Montreal, now in #NewYorkCity. Master #student in #ComputerScience at #NYU Tandon, still struggling to figure out what I gonna do next. Gained notoriety for making Barinsta, now I hang out in #Matrix and ActivityPub circles and code stuff once in a while. Am a #FediAdmin. Fervent user of #PublicTransport. Knows too little of too many things. Posts are #SliceOfLife + minor commentaries. Happy to have an IRL #meetup with y'all!

2024-10-01 12:00:09

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Instance admin here. We don't control such settings. The filter in account settings is indeed intended to work only in local/global feeds. For the local feed, you need to select the desired languages for each followed account.

2024-09-30 12:00:33

And speaking of #MetroCard, yes, I've engaged in the #NewYorker rite of swiping it multiple (3~4) times to get into the #subway... It's weird how everything else takes the entire card, but not subway turnstiles...
Of course, people ask me why I don't use mobile tap?
1. I dislike having NFC on all the time, risk of card theft
2. Authorization can be slow (but yes, faster than 3~4 swipes)
3. Inconvenient if somehow declined (happened before)
4. I like to collect tickets (+ SmartLink & OMNY card)

2024-09-29 12:01:03

Imagine that you have a software engineering course where it's all about agile, scrum, etc. and then you get on a subway car where half of the ads are for one of those corporate planning tools (monday.com, to be exact)...
(I do have to say, though, that there is quite some variety for ads in the NYC subway, unlike on PATH where all ads are the same repetitive New Jersey-based ads, even in Manhattan stations...)

2024-09-28 12:00:50

Don't you feel like in a cup of #BobaTea, there is often more #boba than what you can handle before finishing the liquid, since it often requires explicit effort to suck up the boba? It seems wasteful and also makes paying extra for boba a bit of a scam... Do people just enjoy having edible non-minuscule objects in their drinks...?

2024-09-28 12:00:35

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I run the joinmatrix list. As a general rule, I'd say the completeness of their writeup (website, documentation, rules...) correlates with homeserver quality. In the user guide there's also a list of the most popular homeservers by relative user count. (Also hello-matrix has been abandoned for at least 2 years or so...) I can provide specific advice if you can narrow down your criteria a bit.

2024-09-28 12:00:22

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Same here (switched to that since I got a new phone)... I dislike the active re-fetching though, it makes my home feed flash quickly when I launch the app...

2024-09-28 12:00:16

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Check https://servers.joinmatrix.org for other public homeservers and see if your desired username is available there!

2024-09-26 12:00:20

The #UserAgent of the #browser feature of a Precor #treadmill at my place. It somehow claims to be an iPhone 6.1.3, yet the browser UI looks Android (it uses Android 4 cursors and a keyboard in that style). Anyways, it does lack support of modern web features (its homepage is the low-spec version of Google, and the styling is completely broken on many sites), so the only thing I've been reading on it is NPR Text...
(And yes, I've been running a bit recently...)
https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/113/195/478/263/989/655/original/1a65b46e7c656605.jpg

2024-09-26 12:00:07

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Meanwhile in PATH they pump hot steam into Manhattan stations (except WTC of course)... in summer... What are they even thinking?!

2024-09-25 12:00:57

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Matrix is actually planning to do that: https://arewemlsyet.com , and I'm sure XMPP is planning the same. But of course, Matrix and XMPP were founded long before that and there'll be some work to do.

2024-09-25 12:00:26

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Well, assuming that it works... But if their model really works as it describes (as in, replicating a person's media diet - which is not impossible), I think it's just a matter of time. Though, I don't think it needs to be that accurate to prove that reply-guying on the internet is ineffective.

2024-09-25 12:00:16

Have you thought about #elephants recently?
At Barrow & Greenwich in #WestVillage #NYC
#graffiti
https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/113/193/194/083/617/257/original/caf8d9a4dd0642f4.jpg

2024-09-25 12:00:15

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Eh, there are other concerns like metadata and whatnot, and I know we had this debate on fedi already on how good the encryption really is, so I'm not gonna go into the details... Ultimately it depends on one's threat model to determine what to prioritize between decentralization, usability and security.

2024-09-23 12:00:59

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I feel like naming every building after a number is gonna make memorization (knowing what's where) harder... Does it?

2024-09-23 12:00:59

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Actually, there is https://ems.element.io/tools/matrix-migration that automates the invite-leave-join process for rooms (but does not handle power levels). It's been there for a while and I've used it 2 years ago; it's slow but it works.

2024-09-23 12:00:59

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The problem with LinkedIn is the business people (who talk in the most unhinged ways in order to appeal to businesses), but people still begrudgingly use it because of the business people (who can potentially offer jobs), so it's not a platform issue, it's the user base. The fediverse is just not professional (not that it is ever intended or should be so) for a LinkedIn to exist...

2024-09-23 12:00:48

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You are missing the point. Legal censorship only works if it's strictly narrowly defined in the people's best interest. The problem with censorship in both China (GFW) and the US (KOSA) et al. is that it is both vaguely defined and conflating the regime's interest with the people's, thus allowing governments to ban more stuff with less justification, and encourage over-banning due to legal liability. Some issues also can't be fixed by censorship (like social media platform design).

2024-09-23 12:00:35

I think that a side effect of such #AI-based #polling is that #politicians might use it to predict whether their actions will be popular or not, so that they can keep doing the bare minimum to retain power... But on the bright side, maybe this can finally tell us what #communication strategies can actually work, so that we can avoid ineffective (and annoying) ones - like mansplaining (which is rampant everywhere)...
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/20/2024/ai-startup-aaru-uses-chatbots-instead-of-humans-for-political-polls

2024-09-23 12:00:06

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Like Matrix, it is an open federated platform, so there's the upside of decentralization and openness as well as the downside of metadata leakage. A key difference is that each group chat on XMPP is centralized to one server, whereas on Matrix it is distributed across many servers (which has the upside of decentralization and the downside of performance, moderation, etc.). There is some encryption on both, but neither compares to Signal.

2024-09-22 12:00:59

Is there a tendency for the math #buildings (not necessarily exclusive, just the one that the math department is a key tenant of) at North American #universities to be ugly, suffixed with Hall, or both?
For the ugly ones: Burnside Hall at McGill, Warren Weaver Hall at NYU, Fine Hall at Princeton, etc.
For the less ugly (but still uninteresting) ones: Mathematics Hall at Columbia, East Hall at UMich, etc.

2024-09-19 16:13:52

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Now, people say fare-free transit in Tallinn, Estonia didn't work: https://www.fastcompany.com/90968891/estonias-capital-made-mass-transit-free-a-decade-ago-car-traffic-went-up, in which case I'd argue that the success of a transit tax does depend on how the revenue is actually used, particularly in improving services. Again, we need to treat #PublicTransport as a necessity that everyone need to pay their fair share of (based on socioeconomic conditions, including income), not a choice that someone gets to pick, and certainly not an indicator of someone being "poor" (it's not).

2024-09-19 15:58:38

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Pre-tax transit benefit effectively serves as an income tax, since it reduces your taxable income, and while it is mandatory, the amount depends on the fare and is not flexible. On the other hand is Fair Fares NYC, but in the comments of https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-shooting-that-injured-4-followed-fare-evasion-crackdown-in-nycs-poorest-area people have mentioned poor outreach, limited criteria, etc. It still puts the burden on the less economically (and, by extension, technologically) affluent to know and apply for the program, so why not administer one program for everyone?

2024-09-19 15:47:44

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I think there is still the wrongful perception that taking #PublicTransport is somehow "a choice" and that everyone should only pay based on usage. My short stay in #NewYorkCity so far tells me that if one cares about time, then given the amount of street traffic here (even if congestion pricing is implemented, as truck traffic cannot be ignored), they will certainly use public transit (unless they got a helicopter...). It's just not a choice for the vast vast majority of people.

2024-09-19 15:37:31

Regarding the recent incident in #NewYorkCity involving #FareEvasion, I will not comment more on the police violence. However, I believe that #NYC is the most fit (technically, not that there is political appetite for it) to implement a universal progressive tax for #PublicTransport, replacing fares. There's already mandatory pre-tax transit benefits and a low-income fare program, but they both only serve certain segments of the population, so why not merge them to serve everyone?

2024-09-15 12:00:32

Dining out in Midtown NYC surely is expensive, and places that look cheap (in price - which is already 1:1 dollar value compared to Montreal) are certainly cheap (in quality)... At this point I think I need a local to be my tour guide...
(I was at Koreatown btw - West 32nd Street)

2024-09-10 12:00:01

I gotta say, however expensive it is, the benefit of studying in #NewYorkCity is definitely the people that one will meet... There are much more people that come from diverse backgrounds (maybe especially so at #NYU due to their Study Away policy) and are willing to talk to you (provided that the environment is safe - like in the school bus)... Of course, my #smalltalk skills aren't good, so I gotta practice that as well...

2024-09-10 12:00:00

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The SD card is not damaged. The problem is that Android applies file-based encryption to some files (in my case, all my photos - but not others), and it does NOT decrypt them when I move them to my SD card (which I genuinely could not have expected, but oh well, it's on me for not testing)... Now that the phone has been wiped, I certainly can't read them anymore...

2024-09-09 12:00:01

I flashed my Xperia XA2 (old) in order to get cell service in the US (since US is now 4G-only), and now I've involuntarily became a digital #recluse, as I'm in a limbo where the issue persists and I don't know if I need to flash the phone again... I hate how #crapitalism want to force me to buy a new phone... (Also in the process I screwed up my SD card, so I might've lost all my photos...)

2024-09-06 12:00:17

EVS LIFE
特能拉
(n.b. it's 1 character off Tesla's transliteration in Chinese and means "especially can haul." In China, Tesla cars have Chinese marques at the rear.)
Spotted at Journal Square PATH Garage, Jersey City, NJ
#LicensePlate #Tesla
https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/113/081/472/077/982/989/original/314d407270a6e758.jpg

2024-09-05 12:00:27

"Ceci n'est pas une ascenseur"
at 370 Jay St in Brooklyn
https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/113/081/454/953/354/986/original/b462055a55b3bcb1.jpg

2024-09-01 12:00:31

Sorry for the recent inactivity, still trying to set things up in Hell (aka. New Jersey)... People here are definitely much less patient (and I fear that I might've wronged the building supers already, so I can only hope that they don't screw me over). Yes, I've taken the Subway (and I survived). Yes, I've set foot in the Hood (read: Brooklyn - though I guess Downtown Brooklyn is the least of the Hood). Up next is to figure out how to study, find jobs, and cook for myself...

2024-08-24 14:51:36

#Moving to a new city (NYC - although actually the NJ part of the metro). I did most of the paperwork, but unfortunately there are a few details that are still in the air (mostly regarding actually moving things into the apartment). Hoping for the best... Anyways, by the time you see this post, I'm probably on my way there, excited (or stressed) about my life in New York (and environs) and my master's studies...

2024-08-22 12:00:19

Sure, it's good to promote healthier life #habits, but doing so via #CreditScore still seems to be a way to punish the #poor for being poor (and thus having to do grocery irregularly, esp. for those living check-to-check). Also, desire to seek more #correlation with #creditworthiness will result in more and more factors being collected, furthering various biases... Not to mention #privacy...
https://theconversation.com/no-credit-score-a-grocery-list-could-be-the-next-best-thing-234887

2024-08-21 12:00:38

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For Matrix, they may want to select a different server (especially if they're on matrix.org); see https://servers.joinmatrix.org . Additionally, on Android, some Matrix clients support UnifiedPush, so one can use that (eg. ntfy) for push notifications, which works better than requiring Element (corp.) to broker the notifications on a central server; the former is my current setup and it works fairly well.

2024-08-21 12:00:27

I guess the hardest part of doing anything - especially #adulting - is knowing how to find #questions to ask. Things seem straightforward in how-to articles and online questions, yet many people seem to have hidden tricks. Is there a way to train myself to find them, other than having to monitor various channels for personal anecdotes and extract tricks from them?

2024-08-19 12:00:39

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If I understand correctly, Element X will eventually replace the current stable client, there's no upstreaming. (This is similar to RiotX - now known as Element - replacing the original Riot.im app.) However, it is in my opinion that @npub1qll…8zp9 probably knows more technical stuff than me, so I'd advise not asking me for confirmation.

2024-08-19 12:00:35

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My apologies if that is not accurate. There is an app that I use (PixEz, the newer version, which uses Flutter) that cited F-Droid not keeping up with Flutter versions as one of the reasons to not ask for inclusion: https://github.com/Notsfsssf/pixez-flutter/issues/237 (in Chinese). Granted, it was 2022, but I haven't really specifically kept up with fdroiddata either...

2024-08-19 12:00:20

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Yeah, unfortunately most of them are one-person or small-team projects. By the way, if you don't mind the optics, https://github.com/Pony-House/Client seems to be also quite similar to Discord.

2024-08-19 12:00:15

Don't you hate an #apartment making minuscule changes (plus/minus less than $10/month on most days, but occasionally with big changes) to #rent (before application) every day, so that you have to time your entry like stock market???
这租房子咋还天天浮动房租的（指申请之前），搞得我还得像炒股票一样要等时机申请……

2024-08-18 12:00:15

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Sure, but considering the difference in UI (Element can be quite hostile to non-technical users) and familiarity (many people really just want a clean Discord clone), Matrix still has a long way to go, if they even aim to be an alternative to Discord at all (I feel their direction might be towards Slack). Matrix also didn't really respond to challenges in moderating in a decentralized environment...

2024-08-17 12:00:56

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You probably also know Nheko.
There's Hydrogen: https://hydrogen.element.io, which is intended to be an ultra-lightweight client, but development has stalled.
https://kazv.chat/en/ seems to be the thing on TWIM right now.
As for Discord-style (re: Commune), Matrix's client list also has https://commet.chat.

2024-08-17 12:00:49

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I wouldn't fault them for selling Nitro that much pre-pandemic, but given that Discord now very much embraces the AI hype (for built-in moderaton and optional integrations) and is gradually pushing out indie devs, I wouldn't let it go that easily. Also, Aliucord (modded Discord client on Android) still tries to maintain the version with the old UI, so maybe try that if you'd like.

2024-08-17 12:00:41

This short #comic takes place in a long-term care home in 2070, where an old man is explaining his past interest of producing Vocaloid songs to two staff members, while one of them recalls that another old woman was once a cosplayer...
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how the current #generation explains their #interests in a few decades, and whether, by then, people can even understand us...
https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/121445964

2024-08-17 12:00:41

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To put it simply: Soatok releases his findings on Matrix encryption as promised, but it only confirms everyone's biases (for and against Matrix) and changes no one's mind. Chaos ensue as both sides fight each other, just like how every other fediverse argument goes.

2024-08-17 12:00:09

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I'd argue that it's more like Chiba. But oh well, I'm moving there in a week...

2024-08-17 12:00:05

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I think the problem is that modern projects all aim for technical correctness yet have little consideration over how they're used in real life, which is what happens when society values STEM much more than humanity... On top of that, various project leaderships' aggressive stances certainly do not help...

2024-08-17 05:30:58

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The issue of concern is https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilidchat/-/issues/47 . However, if I recall correctly, F-Droid (main repo) is a bit... technically hostile to Flutter apps (in that they do not frequently update the build tools on F-Droid's server)...

2024-08-17 05:29:21

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I disagree that Discord is more tolerable for privacy, but they do have a point in the targeted userbase.
https://files.mstdn.party/media_attachments/files/112/975/706/721/846/889/original/2a7ce38eec177277.png

2024-08-15 15:47:37

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My main platform is Matrix (I run https://joinmatrix.org ). Discord out of major necessity (school and some games). Signal as a secure DM-only option (not often used, and I do wish more non-technical people use it). WhatsApp and WeChat (look at my name) out of minor necessity (school and life matters, I check them once in a while). I have Threema (gift), Telegram and Session, but I don't really use them. I may have to pick up XMPP in the near future (for JMP.chat).

2024-08-13 17:58:18

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Admin here, the account has been suspended.

2024-08-12 12:00:33

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Auction off the ticket to rich oligarchs and make a nice profit so that I get to live in the present a bit more comfortably?
No, seriously, going back 50 years means I give up scientific advancements that did improve life quality, and going forward 50 years feels like it's gonna be some cyberpunk dystopia.

2024-08-11 12:00:53

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Reddit was pretty good in the past. After they banned third-party clients and started playing with monetizations though, there's definitely a big drop in post quality, and I now use it purely to get specific questions answered. (Also, consider using redlib frontend if you just want to browse: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md )

2024-08-11 12:00:53

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Because ActivityPub federation is done on an as-needed basis, so replies will only be pushed to the recipient and anyone who normally gets the replier's posts (not those of the recipients). Mammoth (the iOS app) used to get around this nicely (by pinging the original instance), but the app has since became somewhat privacy-invasive, so I can't recommend it anymore, and I don't know if there is another app that works similarly.

2024-08-11 12:00:47

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https://vancouversun.com/news/translink-employee-takes-public-transit-from-vancouver-to-tijuana is a better-written article, which also included his itinerary: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1G0rdJWLcQRnvjvXhQJkJUCIxHgwCnkY&ll=39.81288114082309%2C-117.4979611622733&z=5 .

2024-08-11 12:00:47

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Consider using the Redlib web frontend: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md . It also allows local subscriptions.

2024-08-11 12:00:38

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我这里好像是有个ratelimit的问题，也有人说其它客户端如Element X一切正常。是不是Element电脑端会预加载附件？

2024-08-11 12:00:36

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The only similarity is probably the use of Hetzner. Also we have Cloudflare and they don't, so it's probably not DDoS. We're also not "down for a week," but this instance does seem to have occasional slowness (especially in database operations?) in response. cc. @npub14vu…9wlz

2024-08-11 12:00:27

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What homeserver did you move to, and what app were you using?
Moderation does exist outside matrix.org in a way similar to fediblock, and most other homeservers are cooperative. Unfortunately 1. it's mostly reactive (thus cannot adapt to, say, someone using random names on a large homeserver, though to be fair, neither does Mastodon), and 2. it requires hosting a bot (this is getting addressed). For room moderation see https://joinmatrix.org/guide/features/#moderation .

2024-08-11 12:00:27

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I get what you meant, but given that there was a plane crash in Brazil, you probably shouldn't say it like this...

2024-08-11 12:00:00

This concludes my post chain of various pictures (well, the good ones...) taken in my little trip last Saturday, in which I went to a coding meetup (https://www.meetup.com/lets-code-eat-and-have-fun/ ) and met with a few online friends at the Trans March (https://marchetrans.com/en/ ), unfortunately scratching the bottom case of my MacBook instead... Not much time left before I leave the city (for at least a while - maybe I'll be back), and unfortunately it feels like I've been late in enjoying things, so there's that.

2024-08-10 12:00:05

Extra: what are they even shooting at MELS?
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2024-08-09 12:00:22

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tl;dr: technically yes, but with significant catches.
Certain third-party clients (eg. Cinny, Nheko, FluffyChat) have support for managing and sending stickers/emotes as messages/reactions, but not on Element due to various reasons. Messages with custom stickers/emotes will display properly on most clients (including Element), but reaction support varies.

2024-08-09 12:00:09

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arcticfoxes.net (and 2 other public homeservers) has federation issues (purely technical, not reputation) with matrix.org that is the latter's fault yet remains unfixed; see https://matrix.to/#/!rDupCPSbLkmieTosZU:arcticfoxes.net/$7wN_RlBVHn9K7IA576ZIs-a0JKTTB4JGUODBfTcBW80?via=arcticfoxes.net&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de . This means you can't send encrypted messages to anyone on matrix.org, in particular. Consider asking others to move off matrix.org (as it is too big and has all sorts of performance issues).

2024-08-09 12:00:04

Station LaSalle.
#Montreal #MontrealMetro #photography #UrbanPhotography #transit #metro
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2024-08-08 12:00:10

A #MiddleEastern #mural.
(Fenêtre sur Kaboul: 901 rue Rachel E.)
#Montreal #photography #UrbanPhotography #StreetPhotography
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2024-08-07 12:00:50

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I feel like this is me, like, 99% of the time...

2024-08-07 12:00:20

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In common Mandarin we say 语言 ("language"). Anyways, language detection used to exist in v3, but it was axed in v4, citing "unreliability," in favour of allowing users to set languages manually.

2024-08-07 12:00:10

A #vaporwave / #SteamPunk #mural.
(Across 915 rue Rachel E, H2J 2J2. Unfortunately, as you can see, it has been defaced at the bottom, though the original is available on Google StreetView: https://maps.app.goo.gl/VVkh6PmU3UbNgBv36 .)
#Montreal #photography #UrbanPhotography #StreetPhotography
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2024-08-06 12:00:02

They seem to like building arch overpasses in the stations.
#Montreal #MontrealMetro #photography #UrbanPhotography #transit #metro
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2024-08-05 18:37:29

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英文帖里有人扒出来是 liker.social

2024-08-05 12:00:07

Bonaventure Station.
#Montreal #MontrealMetro #photography #UrbanPhotography #transit #metro
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2024-08-04 12:00:04

Direction: Côte-Vertu
#Montreal #MontrealMetro #photography #UrbanPhotography #transit #metro
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2024-06-16 12:00:42

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The point of Matrix was exactly interoperability - not just bridges, but for the platforms to implement Matrix itself - and they did have big dreams about the EU DMA. Unfortunately...