benparsons | 5 years ago | on: Automattic invests in Matrix
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benparsons | 5 years ago | on: Automattic invests in Matrix
libpurple bridging support is being achieved through matrix-bifröst (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost), this is via node-purple.
benparsons | 6 years ago | on: WebThings Gateway Goes Global
What changed your view on HA? I was about to get started with it...
benparsons | 6 years ago | on: The Horror of Microsoft Teams
That isn't true at all - Matrix has a rich and growing ecosystem of chat clients. For Slack clones, you're well stocked, but the links given to you by the parent shows there is much more out there.
benparsons | 7 years ago | on: How Discord Went Mainstream
When did you last try Riot? Version 1.0 was released last month, and in general Riot performance has improved a lot in the last ~year.
benparsons | 7 years ago | on: How Discord Went Mainstream
There is a new and much more actively maintained WeeChat plugin, take a look: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/weechat-matrix
benparsons | 7 years ago | on: France Enters the Matrix
Thanks for pointing this out - the website is updated now to include poljar's work. (We did feature it on the blog but important to keep the projects list updated too!)
There are several competing Python libraries, those you mentioned plus https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-python. We'll do a round-up and review of the options soon.
benparsons | 7 years ago | on: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
Riot is currently undergoing a lot of UX work, the results look really promising. Take a look in January for an update.
Disclaimer: I work on Matrix (should have made that clear in the parent comment too)
benparsons | 7 years ago | on: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
Self-hosted, decentralised solutions such as Matrix (https://matrix.org) are available, and allow you to keep control of your own access and data.
benparsons | 7 years ago | on: Decentralised, Real-Time, Interoperable Communication with Matrix
There is support in Mozilla Thunderbird - but as a chat mode, rather than email as you might be expecting. You can enable it by changing the value of "chat.prpls.prpl-matrix.disable" to false in the advanced config editor. Still, since it really just enables a chat client, another Matrix client might be better suited.
benparsons | 7 years ago | on: Decentralised, Real-Time, Interoperable Communication with Matrix
Email is a good analogy - this is even alluded to in the project FAQ: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq#how-is-this-like-e-mail%3...
benparsons | 12 years ago | on: Why do Americans write the month before the day?
tldr: "dunno"
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: The next generation of Instapaper
I have no particular loyalty to Instapaper, but their major feature over Pocket, for me, is sending a compilation to kindle as an ebook (Kindle sees it as a magazine, complete with TOC.) People have been asking for this feature from Pocket for a while now (http://help.getpocket.com/customer/portal/questions/286894-k...), but without much encouragement that it will appear.
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: Bing doesn't support SSL
I don't understand - that's never resulted in an error for me.
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: Is Polite Disagreement Becoming Grounds For Removal From A Flight?
Per-route monopolies. It is clear what was meant.
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: Things a text editor must do
All I've taken from this page of comments is that HN users have no sense of humour.
Any attack on Vim or Emacs is blasphemy and must be resisted!! No, calm down.
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban
1993? Probably fair to say a lot has changed in the last 20 years! I don't really follow EA closely, but even so they have a poor image (of what it's like internally.) Google "EA spouse" for a start, the resulting material presents them in a very poor light, even in the (poor) context of the games industry.
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: What's in a Side Project?
Since this is the current most recent post it doesn't matter yet, but the correct URL is http://founderdating.com/whats-in-a-side-project/. A mod should change the submitted URL.
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: How PHP's foreach works
Can you provide an example of this?
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up
This post until the problem is at least acknowledged, let alone addressed. Took me a long time to realise the problem was real ("it's a meritocracy, everyone is welcome in tech!"), and now I can't stand to look at the comments in threads like this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279118 without cringing.
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Good place to get started reading: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction