olivier @ olivier @lemmy.fait.ch

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live a few more years

And see more of your children, maybe even your grand-children. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

Yeah, I think I recognized him, but couldn't find a half-decent pun on his name. Van Hamme was the closest I could find, look-wise.

Jean-Claude Van Horn ?

I discovered Trilium a couple days before discovering the project was dead. But here is TriliumNext now so it's not that much of a problem (yay opensource!)

Works great on a computer, not as much on a phone. There are android apps to send directly something to it, but reading its content involves the webapp directly... which isn't that bad but overall that's not ideal. Still, after years of trying floss journaling apps one after another, it's the only one I kept more than a couple weeks.

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

If we're going that far from Minecraft, don't forget the impressive Veloren ;)

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).

Very good looking, congrats!

Does your definition of "stupid thing" applies to tickling itself?

For what it's worth, that same github user already reverse-engineered the game : https://github.com/skynettx/raptor and this one should be able to compile on modern platforms.

There is probably a story behind the source release, I wonder what it is...

Wow, incredible news! So many memories

That's not as true as it's been : they've published kernel modules as opensource. It's clearly not perfect nor comparable to what AMD or Intel do/did, but it's way better than when Linus raised that finger ;)

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

I've had a blast playing Smokin' Guns : https://www.smokin-guns.org/downloads

(Veloren is pretty awesome too, in a completely different way : https://veloren.net/ )

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

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.