Notices by Hippo 🍉 (badrihippo@fosstodon.org)

@aral this is worse than DMK admitting O. Paneerselvam

@aral WTF

@aral wait. Blender?

@lanodan yep, exactly! Contrary to the annoying trend of even desktops becoming less upgradeable (the gods forbid!)

I also like how it makes the boundaries between these things less relevant. If someone asks me a decade later about my MNT Pocket Reform or my MNT Desktop I'll be like "eh what? That's just old parts from my laptop that I put to good reuse"

(More likely I'll make it into some kind of modular snap-off-the-parts thing if I can figure that out)

(Since I'm still saving up for the Reform, I've had to compromise that to "two")

My requirement is very simple: I don't want to have to buy more than one #laptop in my life.

https://mnt.re/

#RightToRepair#Consumerism #OpenHardware #MNT

@evan my bias towards #XMPP came through in my vote, but that X.500 thing looked pretty intriguing too. I think I've seen something like that somewhere...maybe #LDAP?

@kelbot a flip phone with a T9+dpad keypad, an #eink display, and a long-lived but swappable battery, which is #OpenHardware and programmable and running mainline #Linux of course :linux:

@valhalla @praveen it also depends on the hardware, doesn't it?

#Debian on a #PocoF1 is very much a smartphone, but if you put the same label to Debian on a #Beepy it won't quite live up to expectations

Unfortunately, many people have the impression that "being small with a physical numpad" and "capable of running complex applications" are mutually exclusive resulting in most manufacturers not giving good specs to such devices. So in practice #KaiOS phones are closer to feature phones 😕

This day in history...I mean present: first ever end-to-end encrypted message to be sent from a #dumbphone?

https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo/commit/c95d048c9dafa51ceef5c5c07b241abe6290696b

Using #Convo on #KaiOS, powered by #ConverseJS, #XMPP, #OMEMO, and #libsignal :xmpp:

I just realised that the two protocols I consider to be most underrepresented in public consciousness, #XMPP and #RSS, are both based on #XML! 😮

Is it a cultural thing? 👀

Just "released" the first usable version of #Convo, an #XMPP messaging app for #KaiOS and #JioPhone feature phones! :xmpp:

https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo/releases/tag/0.1.0

I was hoping to release a more complete version as 1.0, but that's taking a while, and people are already starting to use it as it is (especially with the impending shuttering of #WhatsApp on KaiOS) so I decided to get this out right away 📦

I've also submitted to the #BananaStore, so hopefully it should be out there soon 🍌

My search engine escalation matrix:

📑 Start with @marginalia - https://marginalia-search.com
:mojeek: Then, check on @Mojeek - https://mojeek.com
:duckduckgo: Dipping into the megacorp indices - @DuckDuckGo - https://noai.duckduckgo.com
🐶 If all else fails and I really, really need a good answer now - @kagihq - https://kagi.com

I'm excited to announce that #Convo, my #XMPP messaging app for #KaiOS has received a grant from @nlnet, or, more specifically, @NGIZero! 🎉 🤸

https://nlnet.nl/project/Convo/

I can now turn what began as a quick project made in a providential three weeks of free time into an app that can...actually do basic things like add contacts 😅

More importantly, it'll make the open and standardised messaging protocol available to a mobile platform where few large players have dared to tread 👟

#NLnet #NGIzero

@Mogleg can we talk about the fact that it's not about religion at all?

I would have had the same reaction about the #genocide of #Gaza even if #Netanyahu was from Belgium and the terror organisation that is the #IDF were primarily Buddhist.

@aral @oatmeal

@evan yes, but it hasn't entirely happened yet?

(Just my possibly uninformed hot take)

@notclacke ah yes, symptom but not the root cause: that sums it up for sure! Billionaires shouldn't exist, but artificially restricting won't really help

@ted @evan @ghostdancer @malte @screwturn

@evan so many good 'but's for the "yes, but..." option. I like @malte's idea of billionairism being a fleeting condition that's disappeared through generosity (or maybe @ghostdancer's more violent version?) 💸

But maybe the more reasonable answer is what @screwturn and @ted said: let it be allowed in theory without artificially denying it, but treat it as an error condition —i.e. if any actually pop up then there's a flaw in the system we've got to fix ⚠️

@Sylvhem when proprietary software copy the interface or UX patterns of a free software: "Wow, look at this cool new look they invented! They must have put a lot of effort into this!"

@ruari wow I didn't know *that* was the reason for embossed cards 😮

I'd just assumed they were just there for style or something 😅