Re: FSFE and the war in Europe

2022-03-17 Thread Carsten Agger
On 3/17/22 19:15, Paul Boddie wrote: On Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:13:28 CET Vitaly Repin wrote: Yes, FSFE is not a polictical organisation. But what happens now is beyond any politics. This is a full-scale war which happens now and here, in Europe. I feel that FSFE MUST issue an official stat

Re: FSFE and the war in Europe

2022-03-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:13:28 CET Vitaly Repin wrote: > > Yes, FSFE is not a polictical organisation. But what happens now is beyond > any politics. This is a full-scale war which happens now and here, in > Europe. > > I feel that FSFE MUST issue an official statement about the war and acti

Re: Criticisms and choices

2022-03-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday, 17 March 2022 09:54:42 CET Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > Hi Paul, > > to me your statements are too general to lead to more insights. > You draw specific conclusions from observations made on a much larger scale, > so I cannot see a valid chain of arguments. > The follow paragraph is an

Re: Is Matrix a good choice?

2022-03-17 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi all, Am 17.03.22 um 08:04 schrieb Dr. Trigon: Thanks a lot for the details on this decision! Hmmm, I am wondering whether its fair to say that to me it looks like XMPP development has slowed down and Matrix is still going strong? As I would assume all point from your list could implemented

Re: FSFE and the war in Europe

2022-03-17 Thread Jonke Suhr
I don't mean to derail the discussion, but something simple everyone can do, right now, is use the Snowflake addon in their browser (and yes, it's Free Software): https://snowflake.torproject.org/ On 17/03/2022 10.13, Vitaly Repin wrote: Hello, I have to raise your attention to the fact tha

Re: Is Matrix a good choice?

2022-03-17 Thread Nico Rikken
On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 08:04 +0100, Dr. Trigon wrote: As I would assume all point from your list could implemented in XMPP as well, right? Certainly, if you look at the overview of XMPP standards, there are some new ones in progress that cover features like replies and stickers: https://xmpp.org/e

Re: Is Matrix a good choice?

2022-03-17 Thread Dr. Trigon
Thanks a lot for the details on this decision! Hmmm, I am wondering whether its fair to say that to me it looks like XMPP development has slowed down and Matrix is still going strong? As I would assume all point from your list could implemented in XMPP as well, right? (again this efficiency-cent

Re: Criticisms and choices (was Re: Is Matrix a good choice?)

2022-03-17 Thread Dr. Trigon
This is an intressting read, thanks for your thoughts. You are right that some patterns on how we think and what we value should be reflected and questioned. I am a tech guy and thus I also tend very much to think in 2 categories only; working ("good") and not working ("bad") solutions. And fro

FSFE and the war in Europe

2022-03-17 Thread Vitaly Repin
Hello, I have to raise your attention to the fact that since February, 23 we have a war in Europe. Latest press releases from FSFE are: - 2022-03-16 KDE's Okular becomes the world's first eco-certified computer program- 2022-03-15 Germany: 100 days of coalition agreement - hardly one day for Fre

Re: Criticisms and choices

2022-03-17 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Hi Paul, to me your statements are too general to lead to more insights. You draw specific conclusions from observations made on a much larger scale, so I cannot see a valid chain of arguments. The follow paragraph is an example, but others display the same problem. Am Mittwoch 16 März 2022 16:33