@skyguy but ultimately, we're subject to the whims of wealthy capitalists that want us to keep moving from centralized platform to centralized platform for their own benefit. we just need society to recognize that these companies are bad actors and are not acting in our interests.
@skyguy the reason being that both of those work fine and have always worked fine. XMPP even has widely supported extensions for mobile clients. they had install bases and they were willfully ripped apart by Slack, Discord, Google Talk et al for capitalistic reasons.
we don't need to reinvent the wheel for text chat every few years when these protocols worked.
@skyguy i don't think "for non-geeks" is a useful way to categorize communications technology. the reason "non-geeks" use stuff like slack is being of concerted marketing efforts, not because they are functionally better.
matrix is attempting to be a competitor to slack. but slack was designed to centralize and replace IRC. they even pulled embrace, extend, extinguish by taking down their IRC protocol support a while back.
if i had a choice, the "replacement" would be IRC or XMPP.
poor guy
> Benefits Of Open Office Not Extended To CEO
> “I feel so bad that he doesn’t get to enjoy the intense collaborative synergy of this work environment the way the rest of us do,” said junior developer Megan Chen, one of three dozen DigiMax employees who spends the entirety of her workday sitting within arm’s reach of her colleagues at a long, unpartitioned table, and is unable to look up from her laptop without risking a moment of awkward eye contact.
https://local.theonion.com/benefits-of-open-office-not-extended-to-ceo-1834005155
re: Assange, complicated opinion
It's frustrating to see takes on this that assert that "he should be extradited to Sweden, not America" because there's no reason he COULDN'T ALSO be extradited there for trial regarding the _other_ crimes, now that he's not in the Ecuador embassy in London.
Asserting him as some sort of hero who revealed the US military's war crimes, when it was Chelsea who took the brunt of the blame for doing it, is... Hurtful in a way I can't really describe.
re: Assange, complicated opinion
I think Assange should be tried for this. But it should not have been at the expense of Chelsea Manning via the grand jury summons.
If Assange asked her to hack the account password, then the accusation that Assange exploited Chelsea becomes crystal clear obvious.
Assange, complicated opinion
Assange is being extradited on conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, not for exposing war crimes. It's the distinction between him asking Chelsea to hack a computer, versus him asking Chelsea to send his way any more documents that she found from her own hacking, that puts his journalistic protection into question.
Which raises the question again about the idea that Assange personally exploited a vulnerable Chelsea for his own political motivations.
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