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One thing that’s different today is authentication options. Modern APIs (eg WebAuthn), Oauth, passkeys, WebID… Also password managers were not as ubiquitous as they are today.

I think there’s the potential to make using many different sites a lot more frictionless nowadays.

Maybe the only missing part would be an aggregator to keep track of the different communities.

Thank you! That IBM project is pretty cool, too! I was surprised how well the AI is at guessing!

Your comment just motivated me to write another blog article about something recent I've learned. Thanks ^_^ My last post had already been more than a year old :O

No, sadly I do not.

Has been down for me in Berlin, Germany, for an hour or so.

Trying to log in via web gives me this error:

Method: auth.sendCode Result: {"_":"rpc_error","error_code":420,"error_message":"FLOOD_WAIT_438"}

Maybe a localized DDoS attack?

Based on what I've seen source code is almost exclusively English, apart from a few identifiers here and there that are hard to translate, e.g. legal terms.

Oh the poor people who try to learn German by reading Kafka. I'm not sure literature in general is suitable for learning a language that you don't already have a tight grip on. Maybe children's books, but even then it's too far removed from spoken language for some languages.

It's certainly interesting in theory. But in practice, how do you distinguish between a bookshop, library, office and desk when all of those things can be referred to by "maktab"?

And does inferring / generating words this way actually work? For example, can I say "makra" (مقرأ) for "Library", a place where you read? Based on the verb "yakra" (read).

To be fair the native iOS development with Xcode (10) isn't much better. My builds unpredictably fail for no reason at least once a day. Sometimes I have to build three times before all errors disappear, without touching any code or project files at all, mind you.

But at least Xcode doesn't crash any more.

We use the desktop client and our group often has problems with words being dropped not only at the end but also in the middle of someone talking if they're using voice activation. :-/

It's usually specific users whose words get dropped, maybe their activation threshold is just low enough. But still, seems to me like this should not happen, especially in the middle of sentences, since the beginning of the sentence is recorded just fine.

(Windows 10 Pro)