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mrh, 5 months ago

Yes that is probably the most similar of all (real) US variant flags. Compared to Cowpens: less stripes, upright stars, one more star in the circle (14 vs 13 total), and the center star being larger than the rest.

Though perhaps the most similar other flag is the one used by Ulysses in Lonesome Road.

mrh, 5 months ago

Alright look just because a certain someone made the best of all these “style” designs doesn’t mean the motherland doesn’t deserve at least a little better.

Though the large center star is the least compelling aspect due to the similarity, perhaps it should be the same size as the others.

mrh, 5 months ago

I don’t understand. What do the delegates of the Second Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention have to do with anything?

mrh, 6 months ago

Metroidvanias of knowledge a la Outer Wilds

mrh, 6 months ago

youtu.be/J7u7Yoc0KMI?si=3zlX0x92W230K5wY

mrh, 6 months ago

Probably my favorite dm album of 2022, and I had never heard of them before!

mrh, 6 months ago

That sounds roughly correct, though I don’t see the connection with the article? Unless you’re saying that “products” (like Signal) will always exist, which is probably true but is orthogonal to whether or not other models will succeed.

As for email, I think posteo does a pretty good job, but you’re right options are few and far between. But self hosting email is just as viable as ever? Perhaps less so since e.g. gmail will instantly flag your incoming mail as spam if you’re sending it from randomsite.tld, but honestly that issue hasn’t gotten that bad (yet). Yes, whenever there’s a protocol like email or xmpp, companies will create gmails and signals and turn them into walled gardens, but that doesn’t spoil the protocol for everyone else. It just causes frustration that companies build closed products on top of open technologies, but not much to be done about that.

mrh, 6 months ago

I don’t care about XMPP as a protocol versus some other messaging protocol much, but I care a fair bit about the wdespread adoption of federated XMPP

I don’t quite understand what this means, could you elaborate?

if this service using this protocol becomes very popular, will the service seek to eliminate the open role of the protocol

That is a valid concern, though the point of the article is to try and convince people why it won’t happen like it did with Google or might with Meta for structural reasons (rather than “oh but we’re different” reasons).

The main difference I see with Snikket vs Google Talk is that Snikket is not only libre client software, but libre server software as well. The point of Snikket is that individual people host it themselves, not that the Snikket devs run a bunch of Snikket servers which require their Snikket client for connection and just so happen to use xmpp to power it. Really all Snikket is (right now) is a prosody server with some pre-configurations and easy install, as well as an android/ios app which are general xmpp clients that are designed to work well when connected with Snikket servers.

Now it could still go south in a similar way to Google Talk, in that maybe a bunch of people start running Snikket servers and using Snikket clients, and then the Snikket devs start wall gardening the implementation. That would be bad, but the users (both server runners and client users) would be in a much stronger position to pivot away from those decisions.

I think it’s at least an interesting idea (hence why I posted it) for the reasons the author mentions: striking a balance between trustless freedom and interface stability/agility.

mrh, 6 months ago

Have you heard something recent? I feel Signal has been saying that for years now.

mrh, 6 months ago

Yep! If you’re applying and need a non-trivial number of locations checked/maps generated, you can check out the prgoram here.

Note that it says you can install it with guix, but it hasn’t actually been merged into master yet, so for now you do need sbcl and the dependencies (etiher via quicklisp or however else you snag them).

mrh, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Thanks! I’ve changed quite a few things in my setup over the years, but gruvbox is one of the very few mainstays (that and mpv).

mrh, 6 months ago

Interesting, what made you switch? I’ve never used nix but they are very similar.

Care to point me towards these lemmy guix posts?

mrh, 6 months ago

Can you share your config? Have you enabled substitutes (see here)?

You can look at mine here (it’s pretty small): codeberg.org/mrh/dotfiles/…/system-config.scm

That’s my personal config so you probably don’t wanna copy it verbatim, but it should show you how to do a minimal setup.

I don’t use gnome, but to have gnome just add (service gnome-desktop-service-type) to the services field, and replace %base-services with %desktop-services. It might complain that you have some duplicates after that last step (since I add e.g. elogind service myself, but %desktop-services already has it), but when it does just do exactly what you’d expect and remove the duplicate service. See here for more info.

I also have a few things in there from the nonguix channel, including setting up their substitue server, so be aware of that when copying things.

My config also is setup with an encrypted drive and a swap partition. Again just take the things which make sense and ask about any specific questions you have.

Also note that you should generally install most packages, like kakoune, at the user level, not the system level.

Finally I would recommend joining the IRC channel at #guix on libera.chat. It is very active and people there are always answering questions.

mrh, 6 months ago

Yep thanks that’s exactly what I ended up doing! In my case it was easiest to work with Map Text Text.