Ontimp

@Ontimp@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep well⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How about someone makes this for real? The world needs screaming goat pillows?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, it’s definitely one of the major areas work on the Matrix standard is needed.

  There is an MSC (= a spec change proposal) from September 2025 where the folks at Element proposed a solution for how to do this going forward: element.io/…/hiding-room-metadata-from-servers/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Inside info as I work in the vicinity:

  Wire wrote that article in summer last year to prevent the German IT-Planning Council from adopting Matrix as the communications layer for its consolidated interfederal government-to-citizen messaging infrastructure in the public administration.

  So be aware that this article is not a good-faith tech blog post but part of public affairs campaign / lobbying attempt.

  Would be near to have meta data encrypted in Matrix, but it’s not a deal breaker for most use cases imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which client do you refer to regarding the bad UX, Element Web?

  Matrix is just the protocol. There are a bunch of different clients though that all implement Matrix but are made by different people: matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a difference between funding of the Matrix foundation and the matrix.org instance vs. funding for the companies working in the ecosystem. The Matrix foundation has been struggling financially, yes. But the companies using and contributing to the Matrix standard are doing quite well from what I know - though they should probably cough up a little more money to find the overhead and the public matrix infrastructure imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Correction they are actually moving away from the Matrix federation scheme in favor of their own federation mechanism to simplify the internal architecture (but they are still supporting Matrix financially apparently :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rocket.chat uses Matrix though, too. It’s not only Matrix but it makes use of Matrix federation among other things and they built their own Matrix server implementation in TypeScript last year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An oopsie occured⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, online service platforms have come up with so many odd and manipulated behavioural patterns they shove down their customers’ throat as long as it makes them money…

  If an A/B test actually showed that offering to pick up your food from a traffic accident site led to better customer satisfaction outcomes than just cancelling the order I seem them doing this 100%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no way they were the first vegans in 2016. There have been 100+ ascents per year for decades, should have been around 6000 in total as of 2016.

  Considering the mountain is in a part of the world where significant parts of the population are de-facto vegans without identifying as such, I highly doubt that no one among the 6k people before them was living on a plant based diet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for online petitions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t want to input my personal data on the self-hosted website of some random person.

  Also, frequently there are official petition websites for national and European bodies, predominantly parliaments, that will actually force parliaments to discuss the issue instead of just screaming into the void.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real and True⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uhhh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fable 4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uhhh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hyped for Divinity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you won’t need to wait long. The game already has 7600 reviews on Steam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plug-in solar panels that fit on your balcony or deck are gaining traction in the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird. As the article says, here in Germany they are seemingly appearing out of thin air wherever you look. I still remember how my parents were among the first to have solar panels 20 years ago, now when I look down on my village form the nearby hill there are panels on at wlst half the roofs and balconies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  with this attitude certainly, buddy

  but seriously, yes it’s scary what is happening around the world right now but that means we as citizens need to organize and resist. This is how every social and moral good that we enjoy today was won. Freedom from oppression is a constant fight and always has been

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that defeatist attitude is helping no one and is not how a resilient democracy survives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly what is going to happen with the fucking chat control of the EU actually enforces it, but for an entire continent. Fuck this shit. Privacy is a human right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the others said. If you want a practical example of this working, have a look at eduroam. It’s the joint WiFi of all European universities and I cannot recall that there ever were any privacy issues.