I didn't read much past their headline and blurb, but I don't think they're aiming to compete with normal browsers. This seems like a Selenium situation but with AI integration on top.
What did I say that suggested they intend to compete with a normal browser?
Right now their browser is trivial to block, it provides no value that I can see. curl-impersonate is more useful than what they offer, at least it won't be stuck on captchas as often.
I've donated quite a bit through the Kofi and Tipjar payment systems for neat OSS apps I use. I agree that it's not enough, however we do have other systems in place via Github sponsorships, Patreon (consistent funding), etc.
It's up for the community to adopt those platforms for their project
Valve predates Google by two years (at least per the wiki), and was started by Microsoft employees who didn't particularly like Microsoft's operation. Hoping Valve has a long future ahead of them :)
Valve has had all the triggers and opportunities to change for the worse and it didn't. Short of Gabe Newell not controlling it anymore, I don't see what would ruin it now.
You can argue they did, depending on what you value. If you loved valve as a premier developer discovering unique experiences and narratives, thars been gone for 14 years now. If you valued not having your software locked down to middlemen or preferred physical media, Valved killed those off in the PC market. If you are a dev and wanted to set your own prices, Valve is current under litigation for price parties.
Its not all sunshine and windows.
>Short of Gabe Newell not controlling it anymore, I
In the same way Bill Gates did not force you to use Internet Explorer, yes. Both are free applications with alternatives. Let's not forget our history.
Sure, Valve may turn bad after Gaben. It is also possible that he thought of something for the long term that will prevent enshittification. Some companies have managed.
> Apple's HomePods ... for many years. I could write a blog of interesting Pod behavior. I thought having one or a pair in each room would be nice. No, more of them is not nice. Constant bizarreness.
Yeah, these have quite the DIY / Jailbreak following I've noticed. They look like neat little devices for music and HA stuff, but I've read similar stuff to your comment.
Interesting. I have one HomePod and four minis scattered about. I can’t remember having problems with the hardware or setup. Siri, on the other hand, is a pain in the ass.
Aren't terminals also called... terminal emulators? All modern terminals would be an approximation by this logic. Some approximate backwards compatibility with VT** spec more than others.
Whatever is going on in Matrix land isn't stable enough for most people to switch.
I gave up after they broke their calling system after changing something to this livekit system. It doesn't work, my existing TURN server became useless, and Matrix was left as a very slow chat application.
I don't plan to give up just yet. Switching is way too difficult and I don't see many platforms having both solid desktop and mobile versions with e2ee.
But if they dare rewriting anything again from scratch I am leaving. They MUST stick with what they have and make it good at this point.
None of my friends ever migrated from Discord to my server for over a year, so not much is lost. I'll join more actively maintained instances to stick around the communities and chats I found for myself.
I gave up after I upgraded my server from a SQLite backend to a PostgreSQL one with their conversion script which introduced errors into my DB.
Maybe one day I'll dig into it and see if I can fix the DB by extracting whatever data in it that's causing the errors, but like, is it really worth it at this point?
> What does running a matrix server get me in 2025?
Is there any other FOSS, self-hosted, decentralised platform with E2EE chat & E2EE group VoIP - i.e. the equivalent of Signal, but without depending on a centralised service?
From my pov (which is biased, as Matrix project lead), the downsides are:
* We still expose too much metadata to the server. Work is afoot to fix this, though - e.g. https://youtu.be/Q6NSmptZIS4?t=933 for encrypted state events.
* Synapse is still uses waaaaay too much database. I proposed a solution here: https://youtu.be/D5zAgVYBuGk?t=1852 but it needs to get properly implemented.
* Element's transition from the legacy apps to Element X has not been smooth, causing much of the gnashing of teeth in this thread (e.g. lack of interop between 1:1 voip and group-e2ee voip, or teething problems in the new apps).
* Post Quantum Encryption hasn't landed yet; it's been painful to get funding together for it.
I would say the biggest issue is not any of those things, it's that issues of this magnitude (including many of the ones fixed in the last year) are still being identified and requiring things like a "transition from legacy apps", breaking server changes, etc. In other words, it is not stable.
Haven't been on the main matrix.org server for many years, but they used to have a lot of issues with latency - it wasn't really instant messaging but more like email. When I felt it was the worst, I decided on self hosting it. That improved things significantly - it started to behave like an instant msg platform. Now with OVH migration I am even able to scroll through hundreds of attachments super fast and everything feels snappy.
And I also know there is no online status on the main server.
Other than that, no idea
Author of the article here. Similar happened to me, I had a lot of broken and empty rooms that appeared in some clients but not others, and I could not leave. This is what prompted me to write the room cleaner / admin panel.
For what it's wroth, I didn't know anything about the tshirt situation and have been a happy paying customer for the better part of four months-ish now. Great search engine, although I do agree that this sort of stuff doesn't make a lot of sense.
Political campaign staff often keep hours way past what a volunteer with a 9-5 job has. It's a terrible life, terrible profession but it still draws in people that are willing to find meaning in being a workaholic and seen as "politically savvy".
From what I could find, working in a presidential campaign is mostly volunteer-based and pretty much full-time.
It sounded fun and like an incredible experience, but I was already working full-time and didn’t have that kind of availability. So I politely declined.
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