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Re: Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader

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Post by rakshazi » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 8:31 PM UTC

SahAssar wrote: post #200

southerntofu wrote: post #196

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Not upvoting or downvoting, but Matrix is an experimental choice at this point. I have some hope for the near future, but so far Matrix protocol is far from an established standard. > supports federation and encourages alternative clients Currently, the only featureful matrix server (synapse) uses gigabytes of RAM just for a handful of users (see also progress on dendrite and conduit). As for supporting alternative c…

> overdependence on 3rd party web widgets (eg. Jitsi) Is there any other example than Jitsi? I thought that was the only third party integrated in the core, and even that can be self-hosted.

Actually, Jitsi is the only one, but it used only in case of group calls, so I can't complain. 1:1 calls handled without any 3rdParty

Re: Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader

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Post by southerntofu » Sun, Aug 29, 2021, 10:07 AM UTC

SahAssar wrote: post #200

southerntofu wrote: post #196

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Not upvoting or downvoting, but Matrix is an experimental choice at this point. I have some hope for the near future, but so far Matrix protocol is far from an established standard. > supports federation and encourages alternative clients Currently, the only featureful matrix server (synapse) uses gigabytes of RAM just for a handful of users (see also progress on dendrite and conduit). As for supporting alternative c…

> overdependence on 3rd party web widgets (eg. Jitsi) Is there any other example than Jitsi? I thought that was the only third party integrated in the core, and even that can be self-hosted.

It may be the only one. I was simply aware of this example. My point is not that Jitsi cannot be selfhosted but that using it in your client means your client requires a full web rendering engine to provide that feature, making clients more resource-hungry. To be clear, i'm great it exists at all. It has provided useful services for tech conferences like FOSDEM. I'm just concerned with interoperability and the webification of everything.

Using HTTPS for transport as part of the matrix protocol is great for punching through firewalls, i'm just not convinced the rest of the web stack is well-suited to social networking usecases with a lot of information pouring in. Web engines and the DOM model were designed for static data, not for highly-dynamic information, although there's ongoing R&D around virtual DOMs to optimize those usecases.

Re: Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader

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Post by southerntofu » Sun, Aug 29, 2021, 10:33 AM UTC

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #198

southerntofu wrote: post #190

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> Monopoly or Duopoly Yeah or any kind of cartel, really. It's hard enough for a small coop to fight economies of scale, but in many areas you're facing an actual mafia. Somewhat off-topic, but what's the situation with DIY non-profit ISPs in India? If you're not familiar with the topic, you can look up NYCMesh (New York), Guifi (Spain), Freifunk (Germany), FFDN Federation (France) or Rhizomatica (Mexico). Another in…

ISPs by itself are heavily scrutinized entities in India, Even Starlink hasn't able to get its license yet AFAIK. I've seen couple of small for-profit ISPs come up and disappear in the form of both non-innovative distributors of bigger ISP and innovative original technology ISPs like WiFi Dabba(YC)[1](Not disappeared, but changed USP from mobile Internet to home broadband & moved the HQ from B'lore to Delaware). As f…

> non-profit ISP (...) cannot be open i.e. without oversight

That's also the case here. In France you need to declare your ISP activity to the telecoms regulator and follow some regulations. In Germany too there are regulations, but Freifunk as an activist collective ignored them in order to protect their users' privacy, and went up to the supreme court and won their right to operate a privacy-friendly ISP.

> jmp looks great, Google Voice has been shutdown in India can I use jmp as a replacement?

JMP is great from what i heard. It may not be as featureful as Google Voice yet, but there's active development and the user support (i hang out in their channel despite not being a client) is the best i've seen across the entire telecoms industry, and by far. The maintainers are very happy to work on new features and open to suggestions, but due to being a very small organization they're prioritizing obviously new features requests on a "who would pay for that?" basis.

Re: Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader

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Post by dmm » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:59 AM UTC

enriquto wrote: post #86

dmm wrote: post #73

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If you install signal from the apk they(moxie, signal) provide it works without google play services and it will update itself automatically, just requiring you to click a confirmation every few weeks. Calyxos ships with Signal installed. I think it's an install time option? And it updates in an identical fashion.

> it will update itself automatically is it possible to disable the auto-update? i'd rather see signal stop working than auto-update behind my back.

By auto-update I mean it opens a prompt asking you to update. If you choose not to update it eventually stops working because they change the protocol periodically.