Michael Vogel

@Zerush Microsoft is a long time contributor to the Linux kernel. Also for some years now they are shifting their focus. They make more and more money with their subscription based “cloud” services that can be used with every modern operating system. They also use Linux quite intensively on their “cloud”-systems itself.

They realized over time, that you can make much more money with monthly subscriptions than with single time purchases. So they aren’t that interested anymore in selling you OEM versions of Windows, but instead they try to lur you into monthly subscriptions for services.

@blue_berry Friendica does have both a chronological feed (that can be sorted by creation date of the post, the date that the post arrived at the system or the date that thread was changed the last time) and also some algorithmic feeds (called “channel”) that displays posts of their followers based on some rules. Also there are channels with posts of all kind that are discussed a lot in the last times. Another channel shows content from people that are followed by the people that I follow. Other ones are language based, etc.

This is a brand new feature and will be part of the upcoming release. Of course the plan is that the user can tweak the rules.

@spitz @olivier Eventually Benjamin, one of the main developers, completely rewrote the communication stack. I can remember sitting together with him at the C3 in Hamburg (not sure which year), talking about possible protocol extensions, which I then implemented in Friendica on the fly. Fun fact: With the exception of the polls, Friendica supports more parts of the Diaspora specification than Diaspora itself 😁

At that time I had the idea to abandon our own protocol (DFRN) and to completely switch to Diaspora. But there were some things (like our groups), that weren’t implemented in the protocol. Also then ActivityPub got momentum and I started the implementation. And later Friendica switched to AP as their default protocol. But we still - of course - support our own protocol and the Diaspora protocol.

@CoderSupreme Friendica.

@maynarkh But when you click on a post there, this won’t reveal your Fediverse handle.

@deadsuperhero @r00ty @Arotrios Concerning the IP address: I have the hope that all systems in the fediverse use some proxy mechanism, to redirect for example picture requests, so that the users will always fetch the pictures from their own server that then fetches it from the remote system.

@deadsuperhero @Arotrios

will result in sharing data about their profile that could (and most likely will) be matched back to their Facebook account.

How could this be done reliably?

@deadsuperhero Well, they have to collect this data to be able to federate. Question is only, what they are doing with this data. When they don’t block communication with European servers, they have to follow GDPR here. And these rules limit what they are allowed to do - and the fines for breaching the rules hurt even large companies.

One additional point: Most (all?) AP services perform signed requests when querying the profile and the profile related endpoints. So in the current Friendica version we already added a coding, so that unsigned requests only get some basic data that is needed for the communication, but nothing more. AFAIK some other services are doing so as well.

This coding can be extended so that signed requests from Threads will always result in only returning the basic profile data.

@baseless_discourse @3l3s3 Subscribed.

@hoshikarakitaridia Yeah, I tend to understatement. As a company that is so depending on the user base, I cannot understand why they seem to act that way. Especially it is hard to comprehend since they are a young team. I can understand that they are overworked, since this is a regular problem in IT. But I cannot understand this abusive behaviour especially against women.

@magnor Phew … Looks like there isn’t everything shiny there.

@soyagi For me it is simple: When they are able to calculate the invoice for the customer, then they are surely able to show the said customer the real costs in advance.

@achayanzz Here is a larger resolution: api.kalyansilks.com/media/vega…

@Alperto @SamsonSeinfelder There is “the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement”:
norway.no/en/missions/eu/areas…

@BaroqueInMind @BrikoX I’m against the death penalty, because I don’t think that the state should have the right to end a person’s life.

Even in countries with a more liberal legal system (like Germany, where I live), there is the possibility that the judge decides that a person is a danger to the community even after the end of their penalty. It is called “life imprisonment followed by preventive detention”.

@igalmarino In my childhood our remote worked by emitting electronically generated ultrasonic sounds. It looked like that one: kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/tel…

@worfamerryman Fibre is not my field of expertise. But it seems as if we have got some experts here in the thread.

@dingus @worfamerryman On DSL you have a limited set of frequencies that you can use for either upload or download. So you have to split these frequencies between upload and download. Also the DSL speed is highly depending on the length of the copper between your home and the switch cabinet on the street. (Just remember: DSL is the transmission of high frequencies over unshielded cables that never meant to transmit high frequencies) So the longer the cable, the lower the total possible bandwidth. And most people have a demand for a higher download than upload. So most people will prefer some 16 down, 2 up instead of 8 down and 8 up.

@Jamie Ah okay. I’m paying around 25€ per month including unlimited traffic and unlimited phone calls.

@Jamie @riotrick How much do you pay?