cyclohexane

@cyclohexane@lemmy.ml

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cyclohexane ,

For XMPP, have you looked into using snikket? It does most things you'd want out of the box without having to setup extensions yourself.

cyclohexane ,

Which sites or apps does it not pop up? It is rare for it not to pop up for me.

cyclohexane ,

I got into ocaml recently. I love it. I honestly don't see issues with the syntax, maybe because I haven't used it enough.

cyclohexane ,

I've been wanting to do this exact thing. I already have wireguard setup. Please update us if you do this.

Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

I'm looking into hosting one of these for the first time. From my limited research, XMPP seems to win in every way, which makes me think I must be missing something. Matrix is almost always mentioned as the de-facto standard, but I rarely saw arguments why it is better than XMPP?...

cyclohexane OP ,

Why is JSON better than XML? It's more modern, sure, but from technical perspective it is not objectively better right? Not something worth switching protocols for.

You mention XMPP has transports as opposed to Matrix bridges. I thought they give you roughly the same outcome. What's the difference?

cyclohexane OP ,

cumbersome to parse

Parsers have already existed for so long in every major language. Why need to worry about parsing?

And why need to worry about transports working differently if they achieve the same thing? They seem similarly convenient if I understood what you said correctly

cyclohexane OP ,

This makes matrix even less attractive to me lol. But you're right, that's a very good point.

cyclohexane OP ,

Here is a docker compose:
https://snikket.org/service/resources/docker-compose.yml

You only two configuration options in the config file: domain and email.

[Question] Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

I'm looking into hosting one of these for the first time. From my limited research, XMPP seems to win in every way, which makes me think I must be missing something. Matrix is almost always mentioned as the de-facto standard, but I rarely saw arguments why it is better than XMPP?...

cyclohexane OP ,

Makes sense, but to me newness alone is not a benefit. In fact, it is a bit of a disadvantage. XMPP has more clients for example, and they are more mature.

cyclohexane OP ,

From a quick look into XMPP's clients for android, they seem nice and some have modern features too.

Is there any technical limitation that would prevent xmpp client from having a WhatsApp-like UI?? WhatsApp started out with XMPP and probably still uses a variant of it. If anything, I'd imagine its harder with matrix given the complexity of the protocol.

cyclohexane Mod ,

Arch works well for gaming. However, depending on what you're doing, you should keep this in mind:

  • on any distro, updates may break things or change the behavior of apps. The difference in arch is that youll update no less than weekly on average, maybe biweekly at worst. This would matter more if you have a complex setup. If you're just using steam, I wouldn't worry
  • arch only uses the latest versions of software. If you ever install something from outside the arch repos, you have to make sure it is compatible with recent versions. Sometimes it may not be.
cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Why not matrix?

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Can you please explain what this is?

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Markdown is awesome, I agree! I did not realize you could extend markdown with anything other than html. The html extension is quite nice to do anything that markdown doesn't support natively, but I wish there was an easier way to extend markdown. Maybe the ones you listed are what I need.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Is it practical outside of academia? I heard the learning curve is kinda big

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Outside of academia, would you say it still provides significant upside over markdown?

cyclohexane OP ,

I'm aware of tails, but I am not confident it qualifies. With Tails, I still connect through my own Internet connection, presumably. I know using tor obfuscates this, but is it to the degree of, say, Monero?

Moreover, I am still at the mercy of the platform I use. Most of them require email or phone verification, and creating an account with lots of data sent over from the clients.

Tails is a necessary component, but the platform is also important.

cyclohexane ,

Doesn't work on Mull browser (hardened Firefox for android) :(

cyclohexane ,

It uses the arkenfox thingie. It doesn't block JS, but it does block a lot of things and possibly certain JS features.

cyclohexane Mod ,

Wouldn't you be able to do the same with NFS?

cyclohexane Mod ,

Yes you're right. Did not realize that's what you meant 😅

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Why would one be discouraged by the fact that people have options and opinions on them? That's the part I'm not buying. I don't disagree that people do in fact disagree and argue. I don't know if I'd call it fighting. People being unreasonably aggressive about it are rare.

I for one am glad that people argue. It helps me explore different options without going through the effort of trying every single one myself.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Why would one be discouraged by the fact that people have options and opinions on them? That's the part I'm not buying. I don't disagree that people do in fact disagree and argue. I don't know if I'd call it fighting. People being unreasonably aggressive about it are rare.

I for one am glad that people argue. It helps me explore different options without going through the effort of trying every single one myself.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

The terminal world has Ctrl+C and Ctrl+(many other characters) already reserved for other things before they ever became standard for copy paste. For for this reason, Ctrl+Shift+(C for copy, V for paste) are used.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

This is not a good argument imo. It was a miracle that xz vulnerability was found so fast, and should not be assumed as standard. The developer had been contributing to the codebase for 2 years, and their code already landed in debian stable iirc. There's still no certainty that that code had no vulnerabilities. Some vulnerabilities in the past were caught decades after their introduction.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Unlike other commenters, I agree with you. Debian based systems are less suitable for desktop use, and imo is one of the reasons newcomers have frequent issues.

When installing common applications, newcomers tend to follow the windows ways of downloading an installer or a standalone executable from the Internet. They often do not stick with the package manager. This can cause breakage, as debian might expect you to have certain version of programs that are different from what the installer from the Internet expects. A rolling release distro is more likely to have versions that Internet installers expect.

To answer your question, I believe debian based distros are popular for desktop because they were already popular for server use before Linux desktop were significant.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

I disagree. Stable, yes. But stable as in unchanging (including bug-for-bug compatibility), which imo is not what most users want. It is what server admins want though. Most newbie desktop users don't realize this about debian based systems, and is one of the sources of trouble they experience.

Debian tries to be secure by back porting security fixes, but they just cannot feasibly do this for all software, and last I checked, there were unaddressed vulnerabilities in debian's version of software that they had not yet backported (and they had been known for a while). I'm happy to look up the source for you if you're interested.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Lots of eyes is not enough. As I mentioned earlier, there are many popular programs found on most machines, and some actually user facing (unlike xz) where vulnerabilities were caught months, years, and sometimes decades later. xz is an exception, not a rule.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Not sure what that is. Plesse explain more.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Thank you 😄

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Please feel free to make me a mod too. I am not crazy active, but I think my modest contributions will help.

And I can make this kind of post on a biweekly or monthly basis :) I think weekly might be too often since the post frequency here isn't crazy high

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Here's an example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/pgv3wc/debian_chromium_package_has_many_security_issues/

Being able to run a distribution on multiple machines does not mean it is free of vulnerabilities. You'd only know if you're checking CVEs for each package you use.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Running something at start-up can be done multiple ways:

  • look into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
  • systemd (or whatever init system you use)
  • cron job
cyclohexane OP Mod ,

I unfortunately don't recall them by name, but there are distributions that are specific to Macbook and run better.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Debian is not bad. It is just not suitable for newcomers using it for desktop. I think my arguments hold this stance.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Why is that? It shows proof of the exact thing I said. If you don't like that it's on Reddit, I can copy paste it here.

If you want more examples, I'm happy to provide them. Here is another example:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/linux

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

Are you able to demonstrate with supporting evidence?

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

wine is not a distribution. It is a program that allows running windows applications on Linux, and is available on most distributions.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

To summarize: the major difference is that Arch Linux gives you the latest versions of all programs and packages. You can update anytime, and you'll get the latest versions every time for all programs

Debian follows a stable release model. Suppose you install debian 12 (bookworm). The software versions there are locked, and they're usually not the latest versions. For example, the Linux kernel there is version 6.1, whereas the latest is like 6,9 or something. Neovim is version 0.7, whereas the latest is 0.9. Those versions will remain this way, unless you update to, say, debian 13 whenever it comes out. But if you do your regular system updates, it will only do security updates (which do not change the behavior of a program).

You might wonder, why is the debian approach good? Stability. Software updates = changes. Changes could mean your setup that was previously working, suddenly isn't, because now the program changed behavior. Debian tries to avoid that by locking all versions, and making sure they are fully compatible. It also ensures that by doing this, you don't miss out on security updates.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

What do you mean by other roots? Isn't root only one?

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

I do not have a lot of knowledge on this, but I suspect that nvidia does not support the GTX1070 that well on Linux.

AND supports Linux better. As for nvidia, newer cards have a bit better support but I bet there's still some disparity.

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

I'm sorry I don't know of any way to do that :( does it appear even when you're browsing your main feed??

cyclohexane OP Mod ,

I just unpinned the post. I figured there may be others bothered by this, and plus its been enough weeks at this point. Thanks for voicing this to me :)

cyclohexane Mod ,

Unpopular opinion, but Gentoo is perfect for ARM. Availability of pre built binaries for ARM can sometimes be an issue. Gentoo gives you the option to compile from source, so that if a package is available for x86, it will still most likely work with ARM

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