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- Comment on How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim 1 day ago:
Sure. I also don’t want to shit talk XMPP. I prefer XMPP over Matrix any day. But it can be tricky (just like Matrix; which is funny, since Matrix set out to improve on the mistakes they claimed XMPP made).
- Comment on How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim 1 day ago:
The beauty of XMPP is this: you can use any server, and any client, and you can talk to anyone connected to the larger XMPP network, even if they made different server/client choices than you did.
That’s a very optimistic and naive view. XMPP consists of a shit ton of extensions, and different clients implement different subsets of these. So it’s very possible that two different clients fail to do an audio or video call, because the other decided to use a different extension than the other for not implement it at all.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 2 days ago:
They were making games in that time, just not Elder Scrolls
Yeah, one of them being Starfield. Which wonderfully highlighted how much they limit their own creativity. They had to shove their ideas into the severe limitations of their stack making the game the mess it is.
Could be they simply didn’t give a fuck, but I doubt it. They likely invested a lot of time into bending the engine and it still doesn’t bulge nearly enough.
If their engine has so much cruft that even with multiple years of development they can’t make it do what they want, it’s apparently a tech debt nightmare and should be reworked completely.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 3 days ago:
We are not talking about a scenario where they only had 2 years to pump out new content so they had to work with what they had. That they didn’t manage to build a new tech stack in the absurd amount of time since Skyrim is just embarrassing.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 4 days ago:
milk, manipulate and fuck
That definitely sounds like porn /s
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 1 week ago:
Depends on the usecase. If you don’t need chat history for new-joiners, you can work with a single key per group, rotating it whenever someone joins or leaves. Since the server broadcasts a „so-and-so has left/joined“ it might as well include the new key. That key is then used by everyone in the group, so you can still broadcast all messages and don’t have to encrypt them individually.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 1 week ago:
If you hold Control that high, then no worries: everything will be under Control.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 1 week ago:
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Discord isn’t E2EE either. Having data under your control even if not encrypted os a big win.
- Comment on Non-US cloud storage for backup? 1 week ago:
If all your backups are near you, a flood or fire (or even break in) can still cost you all your data. At least one copy should be off-site.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
For 7 people you could look into Virola Messenger. Not open source but uses Mumble under the hood and is super lightweight. Not electron shit.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
XMPP is also still a thing and IMO much easier to host (at least ejabberd is). Look into Movim, which looks quite nice as a discord replacement on top of XMPP.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
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RevoltStoatchat. - Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 3 weeks ago:
Ah ok, thanks for the clarification. In the end I also use Sunshine for game streaming, but for pure remote desktop access RustDesk is far nicer, since I can also quickly move files back and forth. RDP is even nicer in that regard, where I can remote-mount local devices.
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 3 weeks ago:
Where does rustdesk not have a good reputation? I see it being recommended regularly and also use it myself heavily. Never had issues or heard about issues (that I would attribute to reputation).
- Comment on Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker? 3 weeks ago:
True. The default rocksdb is completely unusable on HDDs. For me it runs pretty good with PostgreSQL. Dovecot was certainly easier to handle with its file based storage and was super fast. But Postfix was a pain and I can’t count how often it bit me over the years (and since it’s SMTP, that means something broke in receiving, delivery or was suddenly a spam vector, which all sucks quite hard).
- Comment on Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker? 3 weeks ago:
Stalwart
Written in rust, contains SMTP, IMAP, JMAP, Sieve, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV. Has an admin web ui. Sane defaults, minimal foot guns. No zoo of containers needed.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get what makes this game so special that Geoff Keighley hyped it so much. That this thing was the big surprise that ended the game awards show was completely underwhelming. Out of the show, Highguard was the most generic game presentation. There was absolutely nothing about this game that seemed new or even interesting. Just the next hero shooter with comic look.
- Comment on Data Backup Solutions 5 months ago:
I use Kopia to perform incremental encrypted backups (with some retention policy of up to two years) and store them on Backblaze B2, which is reasonably cheap.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 5 months ago:
That, on the other hand, is only viable, if you are sure, data never needs to expire. Dedicated backup solutions work with retention policies.
- Comment on Any self hosted personal finance projects doing anything interesting with AI that you've found value in? 5 months ago:
Where I could see an LLM being useful is categorizing entries and maybe proposing sanitization (for example when the payment provider uppercases or abbreviates stuff)
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 6 months ago:
The cheat developers, yes. Because there is demand. The question though was, why there is demand.
- Comment on Maybe drops open-source support - pivots to B2B data and scenario planning 6 months ago:
From maybe to definitely not.
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 6 months ago:
If you like Lord of the Rings: Lord of the Rings Online is extremely nice story wise. It’s an old school MMO, but that shouldn’t shock you when you only know old school ones anyway.
If a low initial fee is fine, wait for Elder Scrolls Online sale. You can regularly get the base game for $5 or so. It has no forced monthly cost so those $5 are worth hundreds of hours or quest content.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 7 months ago:
It’s really sad. I truly believe that Yves (or rather the Guillemots in general) were passionate about game development once. Now it feels mostly corporate, even though they still claim to be pro-gamer and innovative and fun. It’s double sad because they acquired quite some good studios that have to be shaped into their corp structure and ultimately lose their innovation. It’s not as bad as old-school EA, but it’s still subjectively bad.
- Comment on OwnCloud CardDAV is frozen 7 months ago:
Just to clarify: OwnCloud or OwnCloud Infinite Scale (OCIS)?
- Comment on Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made 7 months ago:
Probably some fastboot shit. I like the idea of fastboot… if only it wasn’t so tied to Windows.
- Comment on Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made 7 months ago:
The ONLY thing I don’t like about it is having to finish the install of windows before you can wipe the ssd.
Why? Can’t you get to the bios, change to usb boot loader, boot linux and wipe the disk?
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 7 months ago:
I think it’s not that easy. From what I understand, the payment providers enforce that for the whole store, otherwise they don’t want to be involved. Quite shitty, but they have enough weight to pull shit like that off.
- Comment on Question about traffic using Cloudflare tunnel 7 months ago:
Possible, true. But then the setup also becomes more complicated. In addition you end up with different certs for local and remote access, which could cause issues with clients if they try to enforce cert pinning for example.
- Comment on Question about traffic using Cloudflare tunnel 7 months ago:
Cloudflare tunnel likely terminates TLS on the edge. So if you bypass it, you don’t have HTTPS. Not a problem locally, but then destroys the portability of the URL (because at home you need http and outside you need https). Might as well use different hosts then.