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It’s a phone book. It can contain phone numbers to other phone books.

Since phone books have been an out of date technology for like 20+ years: you want to know where something is, so you ask the guy who knows where stuff is. If he doesn’t know where it is, he consults his own guys that know where stuff is. When one of them finds out they tell you. That’s DNS.

Edit: There’s also a few guys that know where things are and they shout really loud about how they know stuff, so the guy who knows where stuff is believes these other guys. Occasionally one of those guys that’s shouting really loud is actually just a drunk guy and he lies. That’s how you take down the internet.

I did not realize that nextcloud had a talk product. That actually looks really promising. I’ll have to see if I can setup a passwordless login through authentik or something to allow accessing the general channel.

Thanks for the rec.

Yeah, Element on Matrix was the most promising thing I’d seen so far, but the ease of use and the community edition being capped at 100 peeps were the most concerning aspects for me. I might dig into it some more and see what a couple other volunteers think of it.

There’s a difference between getting in cause you love the craft and staying in because of the money and benefits even after your soul’s been crushed by the industry. AI is helping some of those devs just postpone becoming carpenters.

I’m a Software Engineer. I don’t chose what gets built. I get paid to build what someone else’s wants built. I do that so I can eat and stay sheltered.

Dude, my computer operating is literally the least of my worries.

I’ll probably die like everyone else, and if it’s not immediate, will shortly follow as a post-apocalyptic world is certainly not one I want to be alive in.