Notices by JC Brand (jcbrand@mastodon.xyz), page 5

RT @tracyalloway@twitter.com

The absence of true price discovery in an increasingly financialized economy and the subsequent failure of the private sector to allocate capital in a manner that is productive and useful for societies. https://twitter.com/katieeeeebell/status/1155958313579732992

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tracyalloway/status/1156368667652657152

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." - Paul Valery

I was reminded of this quote as I cut the 5.0.0 release of Converse.js #XMPP client last night.

This is a huge (yuuuge) release, but there is still much more that could be done and bugs that aren't yet fixed. Alas, I ran out of time.

A big new feature is support for XEP-0198 stream management with websocket. I'm now only using BOSH as a fallback, otherwise it's not really necessary.

https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases/tag/v5.0.0

RT @mccrory@twitter.com

So WhatsApp scans your content as you create it, if it find anything of interest it will silently send it to FB servers for analysis (all pre-encryption on the device side). Basically wiretapping on device. Pretty horrible stuff! https://twitter.com/paul_shetler/status/1155301922603094016

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mccrory/status/1155869427226808320

@61

"Russian poet Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was sentenced in 1964 to five years of banishment from Leningrad to Arkhangelsk Oblast for "social parasitism". In 1987 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism_(social_offense)

RT @deadprogrammer@twitter.com

In the USSR two things could land you in prison: not having a job (known as social parasitism or idling) or entrepreneurship. There's a significant overlap between these two groups of people, and that's where most of the economic output of capitalism comes from.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/deadprogrammer/status/1146876847587807232

@strypey @stevenroose @Muto @debacle

I've noticed something similar with open source code in general.

When writing FOSS, you often have to write more generic code and take more edge-cases into consideration than when writing closed-source code where you can make all kinds of time-saving assumptions on how the code will be used or executed.

Writing more abstract or generic code is often harder, but if done well it results in much better code quality IMO.

RT @realDonaldTrump@twitter.com

In order to get elected, @BarackObama@twitter.com will start a war with Iran.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/141604554855825408

@Muto @strypey @debacle

It's not meant just as a standalone chat app... it's built to be as versatile, customizable and configurable as possible.

In a way, it's a lot like XMPP. Everybody laments the proliferation of XEPs and the lack of a unified experience.

I agree when seen from a certain perspective, this is a big drawback.

But the advantage of this approach is that you can use XMPP as a framework within which you can build unlimited functionality.

@Muto @strypey @debacle

#conversejs has some unique characteristics which no other chat app which I'm aware of has.

It has view modes, so you can have separate chat boxes overlayed over an existing website, a fullscreen app or an embedded "widget".

It's pluggable and you can remove core plugins to shape it into the form you need. E.g. you can remove groupchats entirely, or the roster view or OMEMO etc.

Almost anything is changeable or overridable and it has lots of configuration settings.

@strypey @dazinism @debacle @imacrea

Converse's first commit was in 2012. For a JS project I think you can call that long-term.

RT @sitnikcode@twitter.com

The best pull request in 2017

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sitnikcode/status/945565187792363520

RT @qikipedia@twitter.com

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." MARK TWAIN

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1140242627364700160

You can add Nintendo to the list of companies that uses #XMPP to push notifications to devices.

https://blog.process-one.net/ejabberd-nintendo-switch-npns/

RT @miziodel@twitter.com

interesting concept: #DataColonialism - raw information mined in numerous countries, processed mainly in the imperial hub, and then used to exercise control throughout the world

https://foreignpolicy.com/gt-essay/who-will-win-the-race-for-ai-united-states-china-data/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/miziodel/status/1136316590729891840