Andres

@TheButtonJustSpins @Wolfizen lol. I’m not the original poster, but my spouse and kids just use vlc.

(we do have kodi set up for TVs, but we don’t use it very often. Mostly everyone watches stuff on laptops.)

@chronicledmonocle @Vinstaal0 I used to work for a dial-up ISP. Every IP is registered to an account, if you’re going through your ISP (as opposed to, say, coffee shop or hotel wifi). Though the people who have the information are different (ICANN/registrar vs your internet provider), there’s no anonymity in your home IP address even with CGNAT.

As far as your domain, you should have privacy protection enabled so people can’t find your personal info via whois.

@exu @Wahots Yggdrasil, too.

@martinb @jerrimu I wrote the initial comment with the idea of saving just the username, but then figured “why not?” for the password. If the password is saved in browser memory (and based how I *think* the app functions, it would have to be), then it wouldn’t be much different than saving a password in firefox’s password manager (for example). Assuming reasonable crypto usage by the app, of course.

@jerrimu A usability suggestion, having just tried it out - save the username and room password in the export file to make it more like a traditional chat experience. So when you import the chat file, the username and password are pre-populated along with the room name.

@moonpiedumplings @jagged_circle
* I can’t speak on behalf of the author, but I could imagine handling it by simply not decrypting _everything_ on startup, and only decrypting an older chat if you click on it or attempt to run a search on everything. Although for a search, I would expect some kind of hashed (and of course encrypted) database that allows a quick search of all prior messages.

@moonpiedumplings @jagged_circle I read your initial question as 1,000 active chat *rooms* (with some large number of users for each), which… seems excessive. That’s what I was referring to.

1,000 individual private 1-on-1 chats (or group chats with 2-3 users), if that’s what you meant (and especially over a long period of time, with lots of inactive chats), seems like a more common scenario*. If that was your question, I apologize.

@jerrimu @jagged_circle lol!

I read this as a very diplomatic way of saying, “Why… would you do that? Don’t do that.” 😏

@puppycat @JuryNow These days I *always* do the audio (accessibility for vision-impaired folks) captcha, because 1) fuck training self-driving cars, and 2) captchas have gotten harder and harder over time and it often takes me several attempts despite my vision being just fine.

@claralistensprechen5th @rejinl @ECEC She said ‘street trees’, which are have shown clear benefits to dense cities all over the world. They’re incompatible with on-street parking, though.

@claralistensprechen5th @ECEC *sigh*

City streets are _not_ specifically for cars. Freeways aren’t even specifically for cars (buses, trucks), but city streets in particular are definitely not just for cars.

Tree roots are a solved problem. Lots of city master plans and similar documents have a list of trees allowed in the public right-of-way that have root systems compatible with sidewalks and roads. Some trees have roots that buckle concrete, others have roots that don’t. Choose wisely.

@ECEC Good lord the number of replies here from people whose brains have been destroyed by “planners”…

1. Trees lower the urban heat island effect.
2. There’s plenty of room for trees in dense places, so long as “density” means efficient housing and efficient transportation rather than parking lots and stroads and single-family homes.
3. Someone said “trees require maintenance”, as if asphalt & pretty much everything doesn’t require maintenance?
4. Trees harm cars. But cars harm cars too!

@claralistensprechen5th @ECEC Sounds like the problem is cars, not trees.

#FuckCars

@leodavinci @poVoq @sxan I can’t speak to iOS, but at least on android that’s not a problem as long as you grant it the proper permissions.

@poVoq @sxan Also, I used to maintain a matrix client in Debian, as well as self-hosting synapse. I went back to XMPP.

@poVoq @sxan I have a 200MB/mo data connection, and my XMPP client (Cheogram) is barely a blip. The main driver of data usage with it is when my family is sending around 0.5MB images to each other.

@mac @poVoq Just curious what you dislike about Cheogram’s UX?