I read the transcript of the talk and at various times he refers to NPM burning community goodwill the last few months, but he doesn't say what exactly they did.
Could someone fill me in? I'm curious what specifically happened the last months that people are now so pissed with NPM.
Yes, the world wide web contains a lot of misinformation. But this is what one Niccolò Perotti wrote to his friend Francesco Guarnerio in 1471, a twenty-odd years after Gutenberg's invention (quoted in Robert Darnton, The Case for Books, 2009, pp. xiv-xv):
Whenever I talk with people into chemtrails, flat earth, or other conspiracies, I'm struck by how appealing a worldview with a "them" must be. If only we could stop "them!" As dark as those worldviews are, it is perhaps darker if there is no "them." That this world is just... us.
I'm not an expert on Matrix, so I don't want to say much.
XMPP is older than Matrix and I got involved there before Matrix existed.
There have been many more large-scale XMPP deployments than Matrix ones, some with tens of millions of users. IMO the protocol has proven itself and it's more versatile.
Matrix is going up through the hype cycle currently, XMPP went through its own in the early 2000s already.
Greens in Germany see a big surge in EU election. Greens easily taking 2nd place w/22%, double their result 5yrs ago. Have won voters mainly from the 2 major popular parties.
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Implementing this proposal might lead to multi-IM messengers, but not necessarily.
If we force messenger silos to allow for some kind of federation with other silos, that doesn't imply to me that clients will be able to connect to all of them.
You could see it that way, you could also see it as a reward for risk taking and an incentive to create a business in the first place, without which there wouldn't be any wages to talk of.
Attached are some older pictures of blackholes that predate the one released today, they are real, not simulations. Enjoy.
Just a reminder. Today's "first-ever" picture of a blackhole is not the first-ever. We have countless pictures of blackholes. This is just the first time we have been able to resolve the event horizon such that it takes up more than a single pixel. But like with all blackholes the blackhole itself is invisible and all you can see is the gravitational lensing around it. Something we have had for decades now.
It isnt the first ever photo of a blackhole, it is just the highest resolution of a blackhole we have.
Here, we can see the impacts of falling auto sales, retail slump, and slumping Ind Pro. Wait. No we can't. All we can see is the effects of the most recent $1 trillion money-dump by the central banks.