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OMEMO issues (key exchange not working, or OMEMO keys getting lost or something when both clients involved were working perfectly fine the day before - Telegram's E2E doesn't break randomly and no, there isn't a MitM issue)

Clients asking for encryption, but then get mad because you're using Thunderbird's XMPP implementation and complain they don't like the encryption supported by Thunderbird.

Not being able to disable encryption on some clients (I actually rather not have encryption anymore because of all the problems)

Multi-device messaging issues (fresh chats can have messages going to one device but not the one the user is active on or history synchronisation)

Mobile notifications inconsistently working, even when using external push messaging providers (it works consistently always on Telegram, it's even more consistent with Matrix, even though Matrix has more push disadvantages)

Client crashes (I can't even remember when Telegram last crashed, but Pidgin crashed on me today and it has only a single XMPP account on it)

Clients failing to connect without useful information (Siskin no longer connects to my account and the only indication is that the "enabled" button becomes disabled, despite the account working on other clients and devices)

UI lockups (Miranda NG, Psi, Gajim, and Pidgin all tend to become unresponsive for short periods of time, probably a blocking wait being imposed in the UI for some reason?)

Common issues that every modern messaging application has, like voice and video, are barely supported overall despite being fully supported in the XMPP standards (file sending is even an issue for Thunderbird)

There is next to no failure recovery on most XMPP clients. Anything that fails on Telegram will try to recover and resend without needing the user to intervene and helpfully displays it's working on it.

Comment · 2 months ago

It's funny because I remember having an issue where my friend was sending me messages, and he couldn't read my messages, and my mobile client (Siskin) didn't let me turn off encryption for outgoing messages.

Comment · 2 months ago

Why is every XMPP client a worse experience than Telegram? I don't get it.

Comment · 3 months ago

When the majority of the code is written by AI, it is more than 50%.

Comment · 7 months ago

> Switch to an electric vehicle

I can't afford it. For context, I paid £500 for my current vehicle back in 2020. My bills have only gone up since, but my salary has not.

> Migrate from gas appliances (range, furnace, water heater) to electric (induction, heat pumps)

I can't afford that either. When I got my home assessed, switching to heat pumps requires replacing all the radiators in my house and extra insulation, etc. My gas boiler does have a built-in electric induction system, but it's only used when the tank is cold.

> If your power grid isn’t clean, add rooftop or balcony solar

I can afford the solar panels, but I can't afford the battery storage, nor the installation, and my area does not allow for an inverter connected to the main grid.

Comment · 8 months ago

The company I work for used to have a hybrid where 95% was on-prem, but became closer to 90% in the cloud when it became more expensive to do on-prem because of VMware licensing. There are alternatives to VMware, but not officially supported with our hardware configuration, so the switch requires changing all the hardware, which still drives it higher than the cloud. Almost everything we have is cloud agnostic, and for anything that requires resilience, it sits in two different providers.

Now the company is looking at doing further cost savings as the buildings rented for running on-prem are sitting mostly unused, but also the prices of buildings have gone up in recent years, notably too, so we're likely to be saving money moving into the cloud. This is likely to make the cloud transition permanent.

Comment · 9 months ago

> it's the hundred of thousands of people with no interest in music whatsoever, that will flood the platforms in order to make a quick buck.

Whenever I look at popular artists on streaming platforms, I see 'remixes' where people just slowed down the particular original song and added reverb or some other silly effect to it. I don't think AI existing or not will change the behaviour of people trying to make a quick buck. If they aren't using AI, they'll use a different tool as they did before.

Comment · 6 years ago

Considering a bunch of the farms cross the border, that would be hilarious.

Comment · 6 years ago

> Well, this means a border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Hi, I live in that region. I thought I might be able to give a little more insight in the situation here.

> This means the return of violence to that region.

It's kind of funny you guys assumed it stopped... It's reduced, but it's not stopped. When the Good Friday agreement came in, it gave Northern Ireland the option to leave the UK when it wants. It turns out that the general public that live here do not want to leave the UK, which diminished the influence unionists and separatists had over people... Turns out having a democratic option made it hard to convince people to join a fight on either side.

Further, most people are more practical, self interested than ideological currently. For many, the Republic looks like a worse future for NI, with less money to go around than if it stays in the UK. The Republic government of course also views NI to be a horrible drain on their resources, so have repeatedly stated over the years that "now is not the right time".

While this has been happening, both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have lost significant populations of natives. The Republic has had a massive increase in immigration, so much to the point that the nationalism and that sort of ideology has declined, reducing that want for conflicts even further.

None of the politicians in Northern Ireland have a desire and cannot be compelled to create a physical border between the Republic of Ireland. This of course does not sit well with the EU. The UK parliament does not actually give much of a shit about Northern Ireland outside of how much we spend and leaves NI to its' own autonomy out of fear of violence in the mainland UK.

At this point, I am convinced that if a border is going to be imposed, it will be from the Republic's side. The Republic government doing this of course would put the Republic and EU into a very negative light. So of course, the Republic is very unhappy about this and has voiced this in confidence a few times.

Taking the temperature here, there is a lot of uncertainty, but, I think regardless of what happens, Northern Ireland is probably likely going to benefit more through this. It will be the only UKish territory (ignoring Gibraltar) that shares a border with an EU country that retains easy access to Great Britain, which will make it either a special trading partner, or a special back door. Whether the UK and EU like it or not. I do not think the violence in Northern Ireland will be increasing much more than it is now; they do not seem to have the people or the resources.

The UK parliament of course has made some new acts so that the people of Northern Ireland can control our own fate in face of brexit after a deal is made, democraticing what is happening here.

The UK and EU in my opinion are both trying to use Northern Ireland to get a better trade agreement.

Comment · 6 years ago

> In the original comment you made a simply, wrong claim. I disproved it with a fact including a citation.

I don't see how? The current EU membership demands CFP, AGP among other things. This is why Greenland is not in the EU and is actually one of the big reasons why Iceland refuses to become a member.

> This apparently is "dismissing discussion" while your random uncited claims are "opening discussion".

I'm no intellectual, so you can stick your assumptions on my knowledge of etiquette where the sun doesn't shine.

Iceland: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/17/the-m... Funny Goldman sachs dealings: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greek-debt-c... https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/goldmans-greek-gam... Barroso: https://www.goldmansachs.com/media-relations/press-releases/... CFP: https://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/cfp_en ERM: https://www.economicshelp.org/macroeconomics/economic-growth... Greece: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr10110.pdf https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22791248 https://www.wsj.com/articles https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/breaking-greece... /SB10001424127887324299104578527202781667088 https://www.economist.com/briefing/2010/02/04/a-very-europea... China: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-china/china-greece... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/world/europe/greece-china... https://www.ekathimerini.com/253122/opinion/ekathimerini/com... https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/06/18/china-greece-relation-... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/18/greece-eu-crit...

You can see above I'm not being disingenuous. But, after having read your entire post and the previous posts, I believe you genuinely are being disingenuous with me. You have repeatedly addressed an audience instead of me either directly or indirectly. No matter what class you are, that's rude.

> Then its on to the fishing trade deal on fisheries. Which wasn't part of our EU membership, and isn't a trade deal.

Joining the EU requires agreeing to prior agreements like the CFP. It's why Greenland left https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/if-algeria-and-greenland-... and it's why Iceland expressedly refuses to become an EU member - https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/iceland-of...

> So what is so great about Icelands deal with China vs the EU one? No comment on that.

I mean, literally didn't go into it because it was already a long comment, who you acknowledged. But.... It's a minimal agreement that does not impose any additional tarifs on the exchange of goods and just requires that each country meets each one's internal standards for sale, no sales tax. Comparatively, the EU despite having a 'free trade deal', is imposing import VAT for protectionism (Iceland does not). Meanwhile, both Chinese citizens and organisations can buy EU goods at lower rates than EU citizens can because they do not impose an import sales tax. Much like how the rest of the world is able to purchase 'excess' (or 'quota') food from the EU cheaper than the EU citizens do.

> it didn't allow enough fishing destroying British towns. You're ability to have these contradictions in the same paragraph is further evidence that you've left reality.

So, you're going to assume I've left reality because I didn't go out of my way to explain how the Total Allowable Catch works and that basically, they're set without sufficient understanding of the environment which leads to overfishing. Then the UK government, knowing how bad it is, restricts our own people from fishing to save the environment (under their interpretation of TAC) without us actually being in violation of TAC. This is worsened by the fact that roughly half of our local fishing companies are actually owned by foreign companies now, which are some of the same ones that are getting good use of out of the poor TAC policy via other countries. TAC is set by the European Commission, now this might sound confusing because they actually get data from ICES, but what the EC does not have to follow any of ICES recommendations and the only ones who can make proposals is the EC. So if the EC wants to push something through, they can just not propose any better alternatives. EC does the same thing in parliament too and if they want something, they can force it regardless. But, you should know that already, being that you're such a pompous arse towards anyone who holds the 'wrong' view point and you have succeeded in getting under my skin.

> This is the whole brexit case in a microcosm: you're unhappy about something that isn't the EUs fault

I have earnestly tried to engage with you, but you have chosen to completely ignore all the issues raised, quickly dismiss arguments by any convenient means possible, including, complaining about not flooding a post with a bunch of links, because you posted a single link that didn't actually show the cost of membership.

> Greenland isn't a nation, its part of Denmark and (for trade purposes) the EU.

Greenland is a self autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark and it isn't part of Denmark for trade purposes in the EU, it's heritage is older than the EU...

> Again, facts bro!

Since you want to address an audience, I will do the same.

There is a reason why us in the working class won't engage with middle class/university people/intellectuals (regardless if brexiteer or remainer), they dance around us like we're trash and try to slip us up on petty etiquette instead of actual engagement. They twist everything we say through manipulation as being too ‘simple’ to understand, simply because we don’t have the right articulation and they genuinely don’t really care about our issues, I don’t know what their motives are. We are just disposable subhumans to them, emotional punching bags that they can blame.

Regardless of why I think the EU is bad, I’m certain people voted brexit in a majority, it was because they were massively unhappy, it wasn’t a protest, it was just an attempt to change things for the better, because they are not good right now. Both the EU and UK government failed their citizens. They should have done a better job and unfortunately, remainers are so stuck that on the idea the EU is great, they refuse to acknowledge this very simple fact. What’s worse is that I tried to demonstrate this in my posts and you can see the complete blindness to it, the utter refusal to acknowledge anything could be wrong.

Comment · 6 years ago

> Competitive tax framework

I genuinely hope we can get rid of VAT once we leave the EU as it won't be mandated anymore, but that's wishful thinking on my part. We're probably too dependent on it now. :(