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  • So many distributions impressed me, but I think gentoo, nixos, Guix and Alpine impressed me most. Maybe Zorin with its beautiful design for newcomers.

    If I had to pick one, it may be Alpine. The idea of having a fully usable OS with so little is really impressive. It even has a fully functional build system similar to Arch’s ABS (on which the AUR is based)

    Gentoo, nixos and Guix are really impressive and make computing a pleasant activity.







  • Unfortunately it is still not enough. There have been many instances of people using these licenses and still corporations using their software without giving back, and developers being upset about it.

    And unfortunately there are no popular licenses that limit that. I’ve seen a few here and there, but doesn’t seem to be a standard.








  • Xmpp definitely wins in privacy. What is there to privacy more than message content and metadata? Matrix definitely fails the second one, and is E2E still an issue for public groups? I don’t remember if they fixed that.

    XMPP being a protocol built for extensibility means it will be hard for it not to keep up with times.

    On your point of picking one or the other, I’d say pick the one you like and bridges will help you connect to the other. But XMPP came way before matrix, and I believe they fractured the community instead of building it.

    There’s a good reason all the big techs built on top of xmpp (meta, Google, etc). It’s a very good protocol and satisfies modern demands very well.



  • It worked more like true messaging app less than messages store ( unlike matrix ).

    Can you please elaborate this point? I don’t understand what you mean by “true messaging app” and why that would be a bad thing?

    Requirement of permanent tcp ip connection

    Are you sure this is the case? Maybe back in the day, but my understanding is this isn’t true anymore

    useful feature in xmpp ( like message history ) is optional

    Why is user choice a bad thing? There’s a wealth of clients that implement the features you want

    If something doesn’t work in xmpp most people would blame xmpp

    This may not be an important point, but from my experience, people always blame the client and not the underlying protocol. If I face an issue with my browser, I’d likely blame the browser before I blame http.



  • What’s the use for having update feeds in a unified format when I still have to go to each fucking site to view the full text

    This has nothing to do with RSS, it is the author’s choice. It’s like someone who posts links to their articles on Twitter / Facebook / Reddit, same thing. The platform doesn’t prevent you from putting the entire content there, and in fact, many do, especially with RSS.

    One benefit of RSS though is that because it is an open protocol, the problem you mention already has solutions, which auto fetch the articles for you. That wouldn’t be possible without an open protocol like RSS

    Moreover, I’d argue even with that, RSS is still a huge plus. To have all your content’s headlines in one UI, and potentially you can filter or sort them however you want, that’s pretty awesome.