Artemis Colour @ astramist @lemmy.sdf.org

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Here, the author refers to protocol as federated, not application. That is, he is comparing Matrix, IRC, SMTP, ActivityPub, etc. If a protocol can be used to develop an application that is decentralized and distributed, then such protocol can be called a federated protocol. I agree with you that labeling HTTP and FTP as federated is bizarre. But the author compares them because they are all from the same OSI model layer - application layer.

I'm not the author, just trying to give an explanation of how he was thinking (and I'm most likely wrong 😄).

The author's explanation using HTTP as an example:

HTTP has somehow managed to live in a parallel universe, as it's technically still completely federated: anyone can start a web server if they have a public IP address and anyone can connect to it. The catch, of course, is how you find the darn thing.

We recently discussed it in another thread. I recommend you read it, there are a lot of facts in the comments that will definitely help you make up your mind!

True. Popular books being read by millions of people have no reviews. That's why I'm on the LibraryThing now.

Now it's completely dependent on Bing's results! I'd even say it does a worse job than Bing. I compared results for different queries and Bing was much better than Qwant! In fact, if you read their privacy policy, they sell your private data to anyone who asks for it.

I don't use it as my default provider. Obviously, for some messaging, I use Proton. But if you need a FOSS provider, that will be used for registration in some services and password recovery, this is a very good option! They don't use this information for commercial purposes, that's already better than Gmail or Outlook.

Fantlab for the Russian-speaking community. Couldn't find anything better on the Anglosphere internet.

LibraryThing for English-speaking people. I use it for the rest.

Well, you know, e-mail gives you complete privacy only in special cases. There is a reddit's comments thread about this. Non-gmail e-mail is only needed to avoid monitoring by the mail service provider.

TL;DR If you need complete privacy of communication, use Matrix-based software with your own server located in a neutral country.

They don't.

I'm surprised no one's posted about Skiff.

100%!

I've read that tedium. Some chapters revealed something interesting, but everything else was empty. Why do I need to know what kind of wine the developers drank and in what pub after the bad news got announced to them?

This book's core issues are very important. The book itself sucks!

I fell in love with Tenorite.

I recognize Starlink's advantage over other providers, but just compare the number of satellites they have.

• Viasat: 2, plans to launch a third.
• HughesNet: 3.
• Starlink: Over 3,000. Plans to increase to 12,000. Each of them must be replaced every 5 years. At the same time, SpaceX doesn't yet have any ideas on how to bring old satellites down to Earth.

WTF?! Starlink provides such a better service to justify the multiple satellite count difference? This is despite the fact that they have a short lifespan and often go out of their orbit and smash into space debris, increasing the amount of space debris. Huh...

What could possibly be OK with Starlink if it has THIS?

I really enjoyed the game in many aspects, especially some of the mechanics and art style.

But I eventually dropped it. Two reasons:

• In many cases, success depends not on your skill, but on luck and random.
• It's a roguelike (roguelite).

Honestly, if they added some depth to the core mechanics and complexity that depends on skill rather than random events on the map and resource types, it would be one of my favorite games. As it is...

If we want to know where any form of society is on the political spectrum (left or right), we need to answer one question: what's the state role in society? The weaker the state, the more to the left on the spectrum. The stronger the state, the more to the right the formation is. In addition, we can also differentiate between formations by the economic form of society. These two points will give us an exhaustive answer.

Examples:

• Anarchism is no state and no economic formation. Hence, it's an ultra-leftist faction.
• Communism is no state and no commercial production. Hence, it's an ultra-leftist faction.
• Libertarianism is no state and free market. Hence, it's an ultra-leftist faction.
• Socialism is weak state and no commercial production. Hence, it's a left-wing faction.
• Conservatism is strongly state and monopoly/oligopoly market. Hence, it's a right-wing faction.
• Fascism is strongly state and state capitalism. Hence, it's an ultra-right faction.

There are occasional exceptions to these definitions. For instance, at the beginning of socialism there can be a strong state, that must then disappear. The USSR was like that, but it didn't get to complete socialism.

So liberalism is a centrist ideology. For some topics it's left of center, for some topics it's right of center.

Might be helpful to someone: flibusta.is, flibusta.site, flisland.net. Flibusta is the largest pirate library in Russian.

Agreed! Many times I faced the fact that the Chrome developers don't follow the W3C standards, but they require it from Mozilla. Therefore, some functionality will only work in Chrome, but not in Mozilla (it's not their bad!).

I had no problem with the previous two frontends (Piped, Invidious). But the main problem with this type of application is that when an enough number of users are reached, YouTube starts banning requests from their instances. Have the authors of this frontend thought about how they will solve this?