When a bridge works like the discord and the Signal and WhatsApp ones it’s amazing not to need to log in to those services anymore just to see if someone wrote something to you.

Sadly most of the bridges are either broken like the Facebook one or straight out don’t work like she KakaoTalk and WeeChat ones because the services remove capabilities which before made it possible in a hacky way.

I run it on Ubuntu and installed it with apt about 7 years ago and had zero problems, it updates itself when I run apt upgrade, it turns itself off for a couple of seconds and then it’s back up.

One cool thing is that I had no idea that this happened until I just read it on their blog even though me, my friends and family use Matrix extensively.

But all my friends who are on Matrix host their own servers because it’s quite easy, and my family uses my own server, only my brother uses a matrix.org account, but he doesn’t write much.

This is decentralization working as it’s supposed too, when enough participants are federated and not centralized.

On Lemmy the lemmy.world and the piefed.social instances are similar to matrix.org and I think all of them, including mastodon.social should close new registrations. I mean the flagship instances have their place in the beginning, but once they become so big they should be locked. The teams behind them can open another instance if they want to keep growing, but they should be run on a separate infrastructure to prevent bringing them down at the same time.

I talked to one of the organizers, turns out I know one of them, he said about half of the speakers give their talk in English.

And I see there are parallel talks so I will probably be able to attend the English speaking ones through the day.

I’d been years I attended such a conference, so I think I’ll go, it’ll be fun!

Thanks for posting the link, I had no idea. I wonder if it all is in Korean or English, or it depends on the speaker?

Samsung galaxy smart tags are a thing and Find too, I’m using it on a daily basis.

I use Syncthing as an alternative to iCloud to sync files between devices. But there is also NextCloud and even commercial offerings like DropBox.

For Photos I use Immich and it’s amazing.

And at least here in Korea Samsung Pay works everywhere while my wife with Apple Pay has to carry coach or a credit card with her everywhere she goes.

Start with RISC-V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

Yes instances can be defederated, but on a single user instance you get defederated because of what you did, not because of some other people did.

What do you mean have no reach? I’m on a single user instance and can write to any community on any instance I want.

Very good if you find a good one, but it’s extrramly different to what is called kebab in Turkey.

What is nice is the mix of bread, sallad and meat with some sause on it. It feels fresh because it’s not deep fried or anything and has a lot of cabbage, tomatoes and so oj.

Can’t he just switch to the AFD?

In Germany and Sweden yes, sometimes I had a beer or speciality coffe advent calendar, but the Kids mostly have chocklade ones.

I’m lucky enough that Linux is one of the half official OS which are allowed and half supported at work.

I’m even more lucky that IT isn’t tech savy enough to be able to do to the Linux installations what they do to Windows and Mac where they preinstalled some rootkits and don’t give you admin rights.

Therefore I’m a Linux enjoyer without involvement of IT. I need to fix all my problems myself and do security and backups myself, but that’s a price I’m more than willing to pay.

On my birthday I took my practical exam in motorcycling and got my drivers license and the first drive I did was 800 km from Germany to Poland on vacation with a friend who didn’t have a drivers license yet. My family already went there a couple of days earlier but I wanted to drive myself.

My last question to it was:

“What are those berries called 개멀구”

When I googled it, Bing didn’t even find the Wikipedia article, probably because it’s spelled a bit wrong, even though a native Korean wrote it down like this. But the LLM understood what was meant and found the Korean Wikipedia article https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/까마중 took the summary and translated it to English for me.

Often I’m just mildly curious.

For situations like this you wouldn’t use AI but go to the doctor.

Sadly I have to say this seems right. It’s just easier to ask AI to find the right article on Wikipedia and summarize the thing you’re actually interested in. And most of the time it’s not a life and death situation so even if the AI lies it often doesn’t matter.

Nobody really sees URLs anymore, they are always behind links, so making them more readable has basically no effect.

Why would you vote for the copy when the original ia right there to vote for?