Pretty sad Element is fucking themselves over. The death of Dendrite makes more sense now. There are a lot of other Matrix clients, but very few re-implementations of the server (none?). The blog post talks about government service. Congratulations Element, you're now selling yourself to wasteful entities that only by overpriced shit and screw over the population.
It's like they're managing to piss off all communities and forcing themselves to the mediocre middle.
Glad to know you're open source product is literally designed to fail! Great marking in your blog post.
You will never be Slack, and now you'll also never be XMPP.
Yea one of em blamed me for running proprietary JS on my web browser (I do actually have it off by default and enable it per site, but not due to any FOSS ideology, just because the the web is dark and full of paywalls and modals).
It's really impossible to tell if they're just trolling or actual zealots ... and I'm not sure if it matters. 🥲
"No bugs" what? Seriously, everything has bugs. Almost every major distro does have all its basic crap working out of the box. The default window manager, tools and even USB drives should work on anything major, from Ubuntu to Alpine these days.
If you encounter some weird thing, well you just gotta look it up (and likely 20 other people have reported it or have workarounds). If not, you can report it yourself, or ask in IRC.
Feels like impossibly high standards. "I want to use something that was developed for free, but I expect it to work 100% out of the box without contributing back anything including tests and bug reports" 🙄
oh I didn't realize that about Greyjay. Does FUTO keyboard/voice have the same issues? They claim all the text-to-speech is done on device, but they're also in their own repository and not part of default F-Droid :blobcatshrug:
oh and TikTok hired people directly from the CIA years ago into high ranking director positions over content moderation. All the fake-anger from congress is likely just Alphabet/Meta lobbying because TikTok is stealing all their ad-revenue.
UCKING BUYS THE DATA WITH THE TAX PAYER MONEY to spy on them
I think you have it backwards. Look at "Digital Life Log" by DARPA and it's connections to Peter Thiel, Palinter and Facebook and you'll realize the government doesn't buy the data. It funded/created all the companies that collect it for that specific purpose.
The CIA literally has a startup incubator fund called In-Q-Tel.