On second day of #PravConf we demonstrated voice and video calls using a local wifi network.
@athulvis @badrihippo and @untrusem did a great job of pulling it together with #prosody running on a 500MB ram raspberri pi hanging on the podium of the stage!
WiFi netwok was created on untrusem's phone. Athul logged in via Monocles Chat and one of the participants, Sreedev logged in with Conversations.
It was fun when usb cable was pulled out live from the raspberri pi server.
for whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.
Amazing blog post by @Tymscar where one goes down the rabbit hole of curved vs straight brick walls. https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/crinklecranklewalls/
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A woman who is a mathematician that specializes in differential equations, call that a FEM solver.
AfD kommt nach Umfragen in Landesregierung.
Alle so: Was ist mit Polizei, was mit Bildung und Universitäten? Wie will die Bundesregierung die Leute da schützen?
BuReg: 😴
Die Linke kommt nach Umfragen in Landesregierung.
Alle so: 😁😴
BuReg: Wir müssen vergesellschaften verbieten!!1!1 🤬😡🤬😡😡😡
Do you remember NFTs? I remember NFTs. They exploded onto the scene in 2020 and were *everywhere* in the public discourse. At their peak in 2021, there were something like $25 billion in NFT sales globally. There were NFT Super Bowl ads. Jimmy Fallon had Paris Hilton on his show to awkwardly shill for NFTs.
And then, by 2022, 2023 at the latest, the bubble had burst and NFT market had lost up to 99% of its value.
Blessedly, I never have to think about those fucking Bored Apes ever again.
I remember thinking, when NFTs first appeared, that they were so obviously a scam, but also a vague sense of surprise that such an obvious scam was proliferating while we were still living through the previous blockchain-related scam, cryptocurrency. And since the NFT bubble burst, we moved on absurdly quickly to the next tech scam-bubble, AI.
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