Seeing RocketChat in here, when they’ve been actively moving away from opensource for several years now, is at least a bit funny.

It seems recent versions of Lemmy don’t have that problem anymore, right?

I’ve recently discovered Trilium : markdown, electron app but works in pure web too if you host it somewhere, opensource, UX is ok by my standards, and the mobile web app works on Android too. And there is something of an ecosystem around, with extensions for browsers and the such. Sadly, I’ve also (and as recently) discovered its development was halted.

But there’s hope, and a TriliumNext project has seen light, which took right where Trilium stopped (and, from what I understood, they’re still mostly compatible at that point).

Does your definition of “stupid thing” applies to tickling itself?

Took some time to test. It builds pretty easily (on Ubuntu, at least), the asset extraction is bit more involved (hint : you WANT to read and understand tools/extract.sh) but overall quite doable.

It runs, renders, basic camera controls work. But I haven’t managed to take off. Still rather impressive and full of promises.

why not? (haven’t seen any myself, tbh)

I haven’t managed to get too much time playing it yet, but everytime I read about OpenHV, it lifts up my heart. Really proves hope is never lost, and a long forgotten project could finally come to light.

That, and also I really liked the art style of Tyrian and HardVacuum designs.

End users (so to speak) usally don’t buy full parmesan wheels, anyway ;)

Great, I guess I just jumped off that ship before it became cool again ;)

Thanks for the insightful update.

To this guy, yes, though less to this article (that is pretty watered-down) than to the regular rants he posted to friendica/zot/… on that particular subject. Thanks for spotting his interview, though, brings black memories

What do you mean by specifications?

This was a few years back, and my memory isn’t that great, but from I recall : Diaspora had a rather privileged childhood, in the form of a very successul kickstarter. And they basically were the cool kids back then, and as such they didn’t follow any existing protocol (which, at that time, would have been either OStatus or XMPP, basically) and went their own way. Federation at that time wasn’t that much of a hype, but still they (rightfully) felt it would be great to document their protocol, and they published (some sort of) specification.

At the same time, Friendica’s author (which then went to built several other socialnetworking tools/platforms, as RedMatrix, Huzbilla, Zap, Zot, …) spent some time trying to federate his tools (can’t remember if it was Friendica or RedMatrix) with Diaspora. And was appalled by how unusable the specification was. From what I understood, at least.

It’s been there much longer, for one thing. But from what I recall, it’s been a mess specs-wise. I do especially remember Friendica/Zot’s author despairing over how little they followed their own specifications. I’m not sure they’re still relevant today

Well, I’ve finally found a way using plemmy instead of Lemmy.py. Basically :

from plemmy import LemmyHttp

lemmy = LemmyHttp('https://my.lemmy.instance')

lemmy.login('username','password')

lemmy.edit_community(community_id=XXX,banner="http:/yyy.tld/img.jpg")

It’s still alive (on alternative repos), but it still has glaring issues : as decentralized as it wants to be, it still relies on centralized services (or “zites”, 0net’s own lingo) to manage authentication, for instance.

Basically, I wouldn’t be able to eat anything that speaks (I haven’t and don’t intend to, but that’s not what would prevent me from eating a “talking” parrot, for instance)

It’s more for CYOA-like games, but Twine is pretty good and has a graph-like editor. Of course, if you want to do anything more complicated than “if (choice) go (page)”, you might need some code. But for the basics it works without.

For something that isn’t too obvious (e.g. not hanged in a museum or anything), I often come back to that picture and it always move me, for some reason :

Totally, not to mention setting a huge precedent on the path of a better SC. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely AM excited by LK99 ;)

There are actually people (e.g. https://www.twitch.tv/andrewmccalip) who are currently trying to replicate this. But from what early (internet) experts said, even if it works, is replicable and legit, it wouldn’t allow much current through it, about a quarter of amp. Still promising, but not as groundbreaking as initially put.

Even if the clone is undistinguishable from your old self, that old self has died. “you” has died. You didn’t teleport to Mars, you died on Earth.