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  • Yeah, I am only peripherally curious about them, so I haven’t yet done any legwork to see who’s behind it and what the values are.

    I’m quite pragmatic about politics: I’d work with just about anyone to bring income disparity down, to fix problems with our version of capitalism, to address the Police Problem. Anyone who agrees we need to overhaul the election system in the US, and bring in proportional representation, RCV, eliminate the electoral college? I’d share a table with them on those efforts.

    However, I feel as if joining a movement requires a bit of a deeper dive, as sympathetic issues can mask undesirable long term objectives. I don’t trust my gut instinct on these things.





  • They’re out there. The Venn diagram of people still choosing IRC (as opposed to being forced to use it b/c that’s where the community is) is probably just a circle.

    I was a big XMPP user back in the day, but because of the lack of multi-device message syncing and the really shoddy state of encryption, I wandered away. Plus, using XML for the protocol really geeked me out. XML is a document format, and per the spec, to be well-formed it needs to have an open and matching close tag. Jabber hacked around this by making a sort of infinite document - you get the open tag, but never the close tag - and it just felt really icky.

    I understand a lot of these things have since been addressed. I don’t know if XMPP still uses that bastardized version of quasi-XML without a close tag. But other things have come along that I like more. About 6 months ago I started running a client on my desktop again, but like you, nobody I knew was still using it, and nobody new was advertising it as their connection info, so… yeah. After a few months, I stopped running the client.


  • @Nikelui is 100% right: a chat room may be private, but it’s not secure. Even in an encrypted room, every additional person you add reduces your security. I’m sure there’s some paper out there that studies this, and that the graph of # of members vs security is an inverse power ratio.

    If it’s a public chat, there is no security.

    However, with Matrix, if you run your own server and restrict access to your friends, at least you can be fairly certain your chat room isn’t being used to train an LLM, or to harvest information about you for advertising.



  • I only wish I’d evolved it much earlier.

    For most of my career, I haven’t really needed it. I was a computer programmer for ages, and there were no to-do lists, aside from natural ones that fall out from trying to get from here to there. It was moving to management that really exposed my need for a process.

    todo.txt isn’t so much of a process as a data format, but it worked. The big evolution came with executive lists, which I read about on Lemmy of all places. I believe EL doesn’t really cover more than the EL itself; combining them was my innovation, although I’m certain I’m not the first to come up with it. I can’t imagine effectively doing it on paper.