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Cake day: April 27th, 2024

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    1. Signal
    2. XMPP
    3. Matrix

    In that order. I self-host both XMPP and Matrix, and I wouldn’t want to stop using matrix. Spaces, arbitrary amounts of self-chats, and so on are great. I use matrix every day.

    But for chatting… It sooner or later fails you. It’s slow. Notifications break. Messages are shown as sent, but somehow do not appear in the recipient’s devices until TWO WEEKS LATER (yeah IDK, happened twice already, in different chats and directions. Best part is, I’m not even federated!). Encryption is great IF YOU KNOW SOME CRYPTOGRAPHY BASICS, and utterly confusing otherwise.

    XMPP just works. Especially the calls, holy shit, I had to fight Matrix for so long to make voice and video calls work, and xmpp just… Works. Notifications are way more reliable (as in, have been absolutely perfect). I really like monocles as a chat app on Android. (The downside is: can’t decrypt old messages on new devices, and desktop clients are ugly.)

    So why Signal above XMPP?

    Because it’s not your fault should something ever break in a vital service. Also the encryption and privacy afforded by it a great.




  • Okay, you know what… That’s actually better than what I said. Defeat acknowledged.

    (However, it still seems a bit silly to me. name="value" will prompt you to enter set name "value", with your exact name/value prefilled. As far as I know, it really is just syntax substitution; or am I wrong here? Are there semantic differences that can’t be translated?)


  • I’ll second Pocket-ID.

    I originally had Authentik setup. It worked well enough. However, their packaging constantly broke and no-one seemed to care.

    Switched to Pocket-ID and won’t be looking back. Passkey-based OAuth was all I wanted anyways. (Also, the logins themselves are noticeably faster!)


  • find modules/nixvim/ -name "*.nix" -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l
    3890
    

    I’d say I’ve spent enough time configuring neovim 😄

    (Btw, highly recommend configuring neovim through nixvim if you’re already using nix. Incredibly stable. I had to fix one plugin or another all the time with plain nvim. Now, literally never. Plus, nix run github:<username>/<repo>#nvim on any nix-enabled system, and get dropped into your exact config, keybinds, theme, plugins and all. I’ve set it up to expose language-enabled variants by appending e.g. .go or .python to that command.)

    (Sorry my comments tend to go off-topic)