If you live in the EU, you might've heard of the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act. To keep it short, these are laws that make it harder for companies to build monopolies and proprietary standards on their own; Or well, I guess you could say these two laws combined completely prohibit such behaviour. Wanna make some sort of new gadget? Chances are you'll have to use USB-C for charging. Wanna make a nearby-share like feature? You better use open WiFi standards to facilitate connecti...| Alexia
one that is intentionally and fundamentally incompatible to the existing Matrix network, and makes drastically different decisions in governance, software and protocol design, has different priorities and more. Not out of malice, but because the current Matrix ecosystem is unsustainable. In the Foundation's attempt to become more independent, they've given control over Synapse – The most feature-complete, most widely deployed, and only long-standing Matrix Home-server Implementation – ove...| Alexia
This situation was now resolved. Please do refer to this document here: https://doc.micr0.dev/s/yjVU8vCdc# Micr0, AKA @micr0@fuzzies.wtf, @micr0@wetdry.world, and micr0.dev has accused me of being a pedophile. You may know Micr0 for making AltBot, for co-running the FediMC Minecraft Server small[archive]/small, or for just being another person on the Fediverse. Over the past roughly 20 days, Micr0 has accused me of, and convinced the administration of wetdry.world that I am a pedophile, behin...| Alexia
#revolt #discordAlternatives blockquote This post is part of a series of posts about a href="https://paper.wf/alexia/we-need-a-viable-replacement-for-discord"viable alternatives to discord/a. You can check the code#discordAlternatives/code tag above for all blogposts in this series. /blockquote Next in the list of common recommendations is Revolt. Revolt is a pretty young, centralized platform initially started as a hobby project by Insert sometime in (I believe) 2020 to see if they could bui...| Alexia
#matrix #discordAlternatives blockquote This post is part of a series of posts about a href="https://paper.wf/alexia/we-need-a-viable-replacement-for-discord"viable alternatives to discord/a. You can check the code#discordAlternatives/code tag above for all blogposts in this series. /blockquote Matrix is, nowadays, one of the most recommended "Discord Alternatives", especially if your audience resides on the Fediverse where one half will absolutely hate it, and the other much louder half will...| Alexia
you really should --- ↓ it'd mean a lot if you supported my work ↓ https://liberapay.com/cyrneko https://ko-fi.com/cyrneko Any little bit helps <3| Alexia
blockquoteBackground by Maxim Tajer (unsplash), logo belongs to Discord Inc./blockquote Recently, news about Discord looking into an initial public offering made the rounds online. !--more-- Usually, an IPO does not mean anything good for end users, especially for software products or anything-as-a-service situations. For us, it only means that external investors will gain more control over the platform than they do now and will demand a return on their investment. If they did not already hav...| Alexia
So, in my infinite quest of hopping between friends with little funds, I have learned to cherish the shitty devices that I have and make the best of them This also means I've learned a trick or two about optimizing the resource usage of my laptop to make it...well, usable. !--more-- Don't get me wrong, it is in no way good, my phone is faster; But it IS usable. I got an Asus X551CAP for 20€ off of (eBay) Kleinanzeigen, because some woman fucked up the windows install beyond recognition and ...| Alexia
small edit: this blog will soon move to https://blog.cyrneko.eu, if you want to read this post there you can do so and future edits wil...| Alexia