astro1 | 1 year ago | on: Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
We've had this with XMPP already.
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astro1 | 1 year ago | on: XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging
Sure, Element syncs much faster than other clients (FluffyChat is unusable for Instant Messaging) but leaving the browser tab open still thrashes one CPU core.
astro1 | 1 year ago | on: NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
If you don't setup the mount, microvm.nix will create an erofs/squashfs image for /nix/store.
astro1 | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Which tools are you using for Virtual Machines?
Me too
astro1 | 2 years ago | on: I Use Nix on macOS
I guess you ran nix-shell which left you with an updated `$PATH`?
astro1 | 2 years ago | on: Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform
Are there are any differences at all between Scuttlebutt and Nostr?
astro1 | 2 years ago | on: Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server
These shortcomings bug me like hell, too. I tried to overcome these by building https://fedi.buzz but the Fediverse community is quite split over its usefulness or it being a threat to their privacy.
astro1 | 3 years ago | on: Not-OS – NixOS-based OS generator that outputs an OS with 47MB squashfs (2022)
Me too :-)
astro1 | 3 years ago | on: NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”
astro1 | 3 years ago | on: WireGuard – Simple and Modern VPN
wg ain't layer 2 like Ethernet. It's IPv[46]-only, no MAC addresses.
astro1 | 3 years ago | on: Digging into a QEMU problem of slow data copying
FWIW, the contemporary alternative to 9p is virtiofs. It is implemented as a separate service that is running aside the hypervisor. Originally out of qemu, it was rewritten in Rust as a freestanding project that can also be used with cloud-hypervisor and crosvm.
https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd
On NixOS: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
astro1 | 3 years ago | on: Aparté – Simple XMPP console client written in Rust
There's a OMEMO proposal for the underlying XMPP implementation: https://gitlab.com/xmpp-rs/xmpp-rs/-/merge_requests/147
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