2010-2015 je dirais, ça fait quand-même longtemps. Faut dire aussi, la plupart de mes contacts était via le pont XMPP de Google Talk et Facebook Messenger, mais j’avais mon proper serveur Jabber.

En 2015 j’étais pas mal actif sur IRC et avait un bouncer sur un VPS, et XMPP est passé à l’oubli. Ironiquement plus limité, mais aumoins y’avait plus de 3 personnes avec qui parler.

Mon expérience XMPP n’a jamais vraiment été bonne. En pratique l’interopérabilité entre clients et même entre serveurs, c’était pas top.

Le replacement plus moderne est Matrix, qui offre les fichiers multimédia et les appels audio/video, le chiffrement et généralement des fonctionnalités plus modernes et adaptées à l’utilisation sur un smartphone.

Faut se dire, XMPP a été crée à une époque où les clients mobiles étaient très rares (et très dispendieux). C’était un bon replacement pour MSN Messenger quand t’étais sur le PC et activement connecté au serveur XMPP. De mémoire le serveur ne supportait même pas le stockage de messages sur le serveur du moins sans extension, il fallait que les deux clients soient connecté en même temps. Sur un smartphone qui change souvent de réseau ou passe hors ligne, c’est problématique.

I think P2P has stood the test of time. Torrents scale extremely well, any large scale video would have so many peers the server wouldn’t have to participate at all. These days most torrents easily saturate my gigabit connection no problem with just a handful of peers. Torrents tends to spread like wildfire.

The main issue would be storage space, but I think a lot of YouTubers would be perfectly okay with spending $5-10 a month to pay for the storage costs with all the benefits you get from not being tied to YouTube’s ToS and policies. It’s a drop in the bucket compared to the earnings from sponsor spots.

You can return multiple A/AAAA records for the root, the TLD delegates the whole thing to your nameservers and it’s free to return whatever you want. Registrars actually do let you set records on the TLD’s zone, it’s called glue records and they’re typically used to solve the nameserver chicken and egg problem where you might want to be your own nameservers. Mine’s set that way:

~ $ drill NS max-p.me
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 32318
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; max-p.me.    IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
max-p.me.       3600    IN      NS      ns2.max-p.me.
max-p.me.       3600    IN      NS      ns1.max-p.me.

The me registrar will give you the IP for those two so you can then ask my server for where max-p.me really is.

The bigger issue is usually there’s a bunch of stuff under your root domain like MX records, TXT records, potentially subdomains. That’s a huge problem if you need to CNAME the root to a hosting provider, as the CNAME will forward the entire domain including MX and TXT records. Cloudflare sort of works around that with server side flattening of CNAMEs, but that’s not standard. But if you have a www subdomain, then it’s a complete non-issue. And really, do you want to delegate your MX records to WP Engine?

The main reason people went without the www is the good old “it looks cooler and shorter” while ignoring all the technical challenges its brings, and that’s probably why browsers now hide the www so that website designers don’t have to do this atrocity.

want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one.

The full DeepSeek model is available for download, and should generate about the same quality answers as the official one, with the bonus of less censorship. I pretty trivially got it to talk about the Tiananmen Square, and they can’t even ban me for it.

That said, that’s rarely the point. It’s usually because you can, a cost saving measure, sometimes you plainly just don’t need a good model, sometimes you want privacy, sometimes you need privacy at the cost of quality.

If your business is shoving customer reviews into a model, you really don’t need the best model for it to tell you how angry the customer is.

Personally I just do it for fun and because I can. Sometimes you just do things for no other reason than because you can.

They’ll stick to Valkey for the license alone. The AGPL is a good license, but the 3 clause BSD license is even more permissive which companies leeching off open-source like a lot more than the GPL licenses.

I feel about the same. I don’t particularly care about it, but it’s nice to know how many I helped. It was intentionally removed, I believe so it doesn’t incentivise karma farms. If karma exists it will be used and there will be reasons to farm it.

Nothing a quick Postgres query can’t fix though :p

Another reason to use ~/.local is you can do things like

./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local
make -j$(ncpu)
make install

And then you get your .local/bin, .local/share, .local/include, .local/lib and such, just like /usr but scoped to your user.

and it should mostly just work as well.

Yes but OP took the string representation of the IPv4 and base64’d it, I was addressing that part specifically.

That base64 is so long, and doesn’t need to be. An IP address is 4 bytes so it could be represented as simply 8 hex digits (base64 also expands to 8 due to padding).

Have you tried not subscribing to those communities?

The main difference with Reddit is Reddit excludes all NSFW and quarantined subs from the all feed, Lemmy doesn’t. So if your instance federates with porn instances yeah, the all feed is gonna suck.

That was 7 years ago. People grow up.

That was 7 years ago, and he seems to have distanced himself from that past. He’s kind of retired from the whole gaming channel thing and does more family life things.

People can grow a lot in 7 years, I sure did.

I really like the positive vibe and “here’s what you can do with Linux, for funsies” instead of the usual “here’s all the problems I had and I switched back”.

No “it’s perfect”, no “it runs all my games”, just “I tried it and had a blast setting it all up”. He’s legit enjoying it and sharing those feelings is powerful.

It’s shaping up to be pretty good at least. It’s pretty good for being in alpha state still.

The main thing it needs to beat for me is Kwin’s excellent Wayland support. Everything just works.

The per-screen workspaces are appealing though.

Not an explanation or proper fix, but running the games through Gamescope might fix it by side effect. In gamescope the game would never lose focus and so shouldn’t have problems resuming afterwards.

Il y a aussi l’aspect de santé du réseau, avec l’obligation de maintenir un ratio de partage minimun.

For what it’s worth, I experience none of that. My laptop is absolutely rock solid with KDE, it’s like a MacBook you pull it out of your backpack and it’s ready to go before I’m even done opening the screen.

My desktop is currently just over 5 days of continuous uptime (no sleep). I’ve crashed more often because of ZFS than KDE.

Both are ArchLinux. I also have a friend on Bazzite that doesn’t have issues with KDE either, and it runs great in my VM.

Those all sound like possible graphics driver issues.

En même temps on fait exprès de se tirer dans le pied en rendant nos médias aussi inaccessible. Être francophone c’est pas suffisant, faut être québecois spécifiquement.

Je suis hors du pays et j’ai même pas le droit de payer pour continuer de voir mes séries québecoises, c’est con pas à peu près.

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