offbeatwit.ch
here to break the AT protocol
fediverse: https://toot.cafe/@obw
homepage: https://offbeatwit.ch
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frog-type games all the rage these days
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finally
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uk 🤝 canada
hating on FPTP elections
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oh, that quote is from docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... btw
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but i have no idea if thats currently true. i'm on @j0.lol's PDS because I'm a did:web, and I think having manual control over my DID document means I could shuffle my account anywhere with no PDS involvement whatsoever, though i would presumably lose data if I just up and did that
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funnily enough i think one of the stated goals of atproto is resilience against a PDS going offline:
> We assume that a Personal Data Server may fail at any time [...] The goal of the AT Protocol is to ensure that a user can migrate their account to a new PDS without the server's involvement.
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to be fair, i think basically any piece of software is more stable and easier to use than fucking Synapse
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one time the the dev of trombone champ tried upgrading from unity 2019 to 2021 and we had a brief beautiful moment of the funniest rendering issues imaginable
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debugging networking issues truly is like xkcd 2259
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trident is dying, reblog to kill it faster!
BYOND, a game engine from the 90s, also recently switched from trident to webview2
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all trans women deserve a little treat at all times
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the way you're instantly on the verge of tears 5 seconds in is killing me
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i recommend tomatoes
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i think the computer just does this sometimes to keep you on your toes
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i'm an F#-all-the-way gal but I thoroughly enjoy the concept of making your UI language F# instead of XML
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i'm so on board
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it's like this but more
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you can use AI to serialize to JSON. but watch out! prompt injection attack
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this looks like an @alexsteacy.bsky.social type game
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overall I think it's a shame that matrix is often touted as *the* open-source chat app because I think the above points do have real usability impact for non-programmers trying out the network
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I think it's kind of silly for a chat protocol to be globally federated like Matrix is. we already tried that with IRC 30 years ago and it turned out to be a great way of generating network-wide spam! so now IRC networks are only internally federated, with a small pool of trusted servers
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matrix e2ee is a "Unable to decrypt message" simulator, though I understand there is work to improve that these days, and that's more of an implementation issue than a fundamental design problem
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the protocol architecture of syncing messages between servers not only has load issues (joining #matrix:matrix.org is impossible if your server is hosted on low-end hardware) but also regularly results in split-brain network partition scenarios that have to be resolved by recreating the room
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jokingly, but also annoyed at matrix's design because I and friends who have tried it out have concluded it doesn't really work. the protocol is kind of fundamentally broken and the experience of using Riot/Element kind of sucks
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if i wanted to use a chat app that doesn't work I think I would rather just unplug my ethernet cable
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yeah first impressions VERY positive... requires further study
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im so excited!!!
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i volunteer as tribute. my research will require kissing all of them