Better yet, stop using shitware like Slack, Matrix, etc, where all the data is kept locked behind closed doors ("in the cloud") and you can only access it through a 500 MB bloated shitware app that drags your 8 core workstation to a crawl.
IRC sucks, but it sure beats the alternative. AIM or other Pidgin-based alternatives wouldn't be too bad either, if you had your own private server with everything logged.
Edit, because I'm a really shitty commentator, apparently, who isn't allowed to post any more today:
No, your comment was completely tangential to the content of my post.
"Live chat" as it's currently implemented and widely used, a la IRC, Slack, etc, certainly has its downfalls, much of which can be mitigated however by logging to disk, with a quality search engine to index it.
Look at all the "alternatives" this guy is suggesting.
It's basically "switch to a forum instead of chat." Most of the suggestions are proprietary, closed junk. Not exactly a smart formula for long data retention.
He lists all these advantages of forums, and yet seems to have overlooked the advantage of chat, which is precisely that it gives a direct connection to someone, rather than having to wait a day or a week for a response.
Better advice would be to use IRC (or other locallly hosted, open source alternative) for your team, but use discipline in your conversations so that you don't bloat the chat log with a bunch of chatter that makes searching it harder. Then perhaps designate certain persons to organize and summarize the proceedings so they are more easily referenced.
There certainly can be better improvements in chat, but "just switch to a forum" isn't it.
I believe the entire point of Wayland was to pull away talent from Xorg development, to keep people in a quagmire for a decade plus working on that junk instead of fixing up Xorg to be what it should be.
Just like how the entire purpose of a certain very Gimped graphics editor was probably to occupy and exploit people who could have worked on some better project. It seems to have worked for a long time; only now after many years do we finally have Krita, but it's KDE only.
It's obvious microcomputer UNIX has been under assault for a long time by those who don't want the dream of a free, open desktop to be realized.
To save yourself from 'vague, inchoate paranoia', you instead took a nosedive into cluelessness and naivete.
"I've got nothing to hide" won't save you, because it's exactly the fact that you have 'nothing to hide' that makes you so utterly contemptible to the very evil people who own your mind, body, and soul. Your ignorance and complacency, in their opinion, is one of many damning factors making you unworthy of life. To them (and to me, honestly), you are nothing more than a "useless eater."
This is why they are working so diligently to exterminate you--after they've used you, of course, to do as much damage as possible to those who preach truth.
To make it clear: the only value you personally have in this world, to your owners, is that you make them money. The only reason you are allowed to live is so that you may serve them. As soon as your usefulness has expired, you will be tossed into the fire. "Having nothing to hide" not only won't save you, it will fuck you.
Yes, and Wayland is a pile of shit, so what's your point? Xorg has this one problem, Wayland has countless problems.
Xorg is stable and proven for decades; Wayland has been incomplete and buggy for decades.
I don't run Wayland, PulseAudio, DBUS, or SystemDumpsterFire on my system, and don't miss any of them.
I don't run strange binary code on my system either, so keyloggers aren't really a concern.
I find it ironic that people who routinely shovel foreign binary code onto their system (even automatically downloading and installing it, no less) from untrusted and untrustworthy third parties, are so all-fired concerned about these trifling imagined Xorg security problems.
> 'Because Twitter and Facebook are private companies, their bans on the President do not violate the First Amendment, which protects speech from being limited by the government.'
Actually, Facebook and Twitter, just like Google et al, are the product of intelligence agencies.
Completely changes the meaning of everything that is said or written about these 'companies', when you understand this.
There's a reason China blocks FB, and it has nothing to do with "censorship." Yes, it is really about protecting their citizens from data mining by foreign intelligence agencies.
I think this ISP's action is a good first step, but they don't go far enough. What people really need right now is a new-age Information Service which is not an "internet service provider" at all, or is only such in the loosest sense of the term; a service that gathers up useful data and information from the internet and other sources also, datamining and collating it and presenting in a convenient form for the customer, minus all the ads, Javascript, malware, etc. Sort of like a CompuServe/AOL/DMOZ/BBS renaissance. Limited direct access could be provided to certain whitelisted internet sites, with the vast majority of the cruft excluded.
The solution is to man up and take your country back from the fascists. Do you really want to live in such a shithole, where you have to register with the Stasi just to use the internet?
> 'What makes you think this is the case? X11 has an ordered event queue and there is no reason an application can't process the keystrokes in the correct order.'
Frankly, it is completely fucking unacceptable for software to miss keystrokes or read them out of order. This is basic programming 101. Any code which exhibits such a problem has a shit design and needs to be rebuilt from scratch.
This sort of thing is exactly what drove me away from the mainstream Linux distros, to create my own from scratch. If and when I ever happen to boot up something like Linux Mint and use it, (shudder,) the sluggishness of gnome3/cinnamon/whatever and all the other bloatware running on the system is readily apparent. My system is always FAST and snappy. Input lag or missed keystrokes? Not on your life.
Reading through the HN comments on articles having to do with speed, snappiness, responsivness of a UI, and excessive bloat of software, it occurred to me one day that these kids (here's the root of the problem) don't actually have a clue that things could be any different than they are. And that's why we're stuck here.
They have literally grown up with slow, bloated shitware for their entire lives, so they actually think all the bloat and slowness is normal and necessary.
Notice how the GP blames X11? They grasp for excuses rather than exercising deep thought, while demonstrating low standards, complacency, and laziness. This is what happens when the common masses take over anything. Shallow thinking and low standards prevail.
These kids have a false conception that doing away with the bloat would mean losing a bunch of features. But in reality we could indeed have fast, responsive, light weight systems, with all of the same features and even more, if only programmers cared enough, or were talented enough to write good software.
Linux Puttering is not only a talentless programmer, he's a horrible, evil, wicked person, who in a just world should be beaten to death with a claw hammer, or thrown out of the nearest airlock.
This little bastard knows EXACTLY what he is doing to Linux.
You are of course free to make some smart fuck remark in response to this, or "report" the post to the local Gestapo, or whatever other fuck-ass action strikes your fancy.
No, I'm not new around here, and your disingenuous 'welcome' is unhelpful and unwelcome.
> 'You might be used to a Twitter style dismissiveness, but do read the guidelines. People take them seriously.'
I don't post on Twitter, but THAAAAAAAANKS.
> 'This is true. It's also a non-sequitur. You're arguing against a very easy, stupid argument that I did not make'
Yes, that is exactly the argument that you obviously did make. Just like all the other extremely naive tools always do.
> 'and you argued it rather aggressively.'
So what?
> 'How about you quote the specific sentences that led you to this, and we'll sort it out together.'
Sort what out together? Your cowardice? Your naivete? Sort that out for yourself. I only posted to demonstrate to others your foolishness.