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Well, you can see it here.

Also, here’s a nice overview of what it is and why it’s so expensive. I didn’t know that particular species of fish was almost extinct because of overfishing.

As humanity we kind of suck, don’t we?

Can we not give them ideas? Thanks.

I’ve been trying OnlyOffice recently - seems pretty nice so far.

I don’t know, the memes seem to be working…

Here’s a link to the Wikipedia article of Reddit - it mentions the protests that ensued after her firing.

Here’s a good r/OutOfTheLoop post about her.

Edit: Let’s round off our coverage of Victoria with a Snopes article about her firing.

A rather infamous Reddit employee/administrator who’s generally regarded as being responsible for the Golden aga of IAMA on Reddit (as she personally vetted and brought in some big name AMAs).

She was let go, which was one of the first instances of Reddit’s foray into the realm of anti-community bullshit.

Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota who has been dogged by controversy (…)

Oh, the Guardian - I see what you did there, and I love it.

Regardless, happy to see at least one troll creature slithering away from the public light. I wish the same would happen to some of the more prolific, Jewish-Space-Laser-Conspiracy touting types.

A man can dream.

Edit: Should have read the whole thing through before commenting. Looks like she’s just trying to sweep the bad PR under the rug, which was linked to her old account. The dream is dead.

I always liked their UX, and never noticed any outright bugs?

But, yeah, definitely dislike the Spyware - I recall having to adb shell into the device and manually disable those processes after each update.

Shame they include that, their devices are (otherwise) really great.

Mine is in 6 days, oh boy.

As a Turk, let me just add:

It’s very well known that the AA is basically just Tayyip’s propoganda machine. It’s a very hard bias towards whatever he’s looking to say, at that point in time, not necessarily right or left wing.

Works fine, here?

Same here, my dude… Same here. Why does my back suddenly hurt?

Steam goes down for maintenance at this time every week.

Edit: Tuesdays ~3pm PST

I hope they continue to do good, but am also skeptical.

And, man, I miss the old Gravatar.

The not cool parts just relate to any sort of hosted bridge. If you don’t trust them with decrypting messages on their end, then don’t give them your data - there are no bridges capable of doing that, anywhere.

So it really comes down to “trust someone else with your data, or host it yourself”; and if you’re - understandably - frustrated with those options blame companies like WhatsApp or Discord that make it nigh impossible to integrate their services with outside networks.

Functionally, these bridges just forward your content to a library acting like a headless client - there’s no way to encrypt that as the reverse engineered clients are not libraries and need to take raw input. You can’t end to end encrypt it as the client is one of the “ends”.

As an example, the WhatsApp bridge uses WhatsApp web as a backend, and has all the limitations of WA web.

As a result, I find the expectations to be a bit unrealistic.

I am worried about that acquisition, to be honest.

I’ve been supporting them via Github sponsors for about a year, now - as I only use their open source software; I’ve no intention of touching the service or closed source client.

As a result, I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was anxious about their new owners basically telling them “hey, why are you releasing all your bridges for free, anyway?”

Really hope that doesn’t happen, as their bridges have been my primary communication channels for a long time, now. I love not having to keep WhatsApp or Discord installed on my phone.

Fair point, if you’re just against the fact that they wrote a closed source client.

It’s frustrating that closed source software exists, but in this context I’m (personally) okay with it as it funds the development of free software.

I disagree. Beeper’s client is meaningless, it’s the service being offered that has value.

If you don’t mind trusting a third party service with your Matrix instance + bridge hosting, use Beeper.

If you’re into OSS and owning your own tech stack, self host the whole thing.

At no point do you have to use their client for any reason.

You were asking how it interacts with Discord. That is the code.

Beyond that it’s running a version of Synapse and has its own client - the latter being optional.

Just use any open source client. You can literally do that.

And if you don’t trust the company - for any reason - use their code to deploy your own backend.