Nope, too many side effects.

Installing Synapse with docker and a TLS reverse proxy is a relative breeze. Like almost all server software, it requires some setup and general LInux knowledge. I haven't personally noted a lot of performance issues, but I concur that choosing Python (they even started with version 2) was a bad design choice. Good for prototyping but definitely not suitable for large-scale production usage. Hopefully Dendrite will reach feature parity soon. Moreover, they're doing some serious work on the p2p end and a working client exists already (https://p2p.riot.im).

I don't think Element has a bad UI, but there's definitely some room for improvement. Am not a fan of their use of HTML/CSS/JavaScript, I would have preferred a Rust GTK/Qt client but I understand that at this point in the project stage it's important to support the widest variety of platforms to serve the largest possible userbase. Performance and optimisation can always come later.

Salve, serve, moriturus es.

I have a friend who works for the oil industry in Mexico. He's been telling me some pretty shocking things lately. The company he works for pays way above average wages for the area and no ones applying for jobs anymore. In the closest major city, people with good stable jobs (by Mexican standards) are walking off or taking vacation to attempt to cross the border.

Apparently it was slowed down by that wave of cold weather earlier in the month. It now accelerated to unseen levels. The locals all believe if they cross illegally soon they can get amnesty. There is no way to prove when someone crossed if they did it illegally. Also, the cartels are making huge profits off the situation.

In so many ways btrfs isn't ready for prime time. If was stable, its benefits would be pretty strong. However, its code base is changing too rapidly and its ability to recover from problems is pretty poor. It tragic that several distributions changed to using btrfs by default.

Mexican and Colombian was always the best pot back in the day, before the homegrown speedy skunkweed crap took over. Maybe some decent pot will become available.

Was kind of hoping you used it longer to try to get the feel for it, but I get it. I'm running a new OS and environment for me, that I'm unfamiliar with as well in a VM right now. Artix, and I kind of feel the same way.

For the last 10+ years I've been using Debian or RHEL/CentOs based OSes so throwing something unfamiliar in the mix has me scratching my head and wondering how much is user error, the OS, etc.

All the people I knew who took the thing ended up with regular covid symptoms for at least a week if not more. I think I'll pass for now.

I want to live in a world where a web browser has a permanently fixed timer in the corner of the screen. After that timer reaches zero, you need to either buy some vbucks to keep using the site or move on.

Matrix itself is decent, but the official software is utter shit.

Element is a bloated electron mess that's somehow bigger than pisscord and it's buggy as all hell (from small UI bugs to losing connection/not receving messages). Don't get me started on the mobile version. Oh and fun fact, even though olm is implemented in C so it can run natively on pretty much anything, desktop Element still goes through wasm for EVERY MESSAGE, because the devs are retarded enough to not be able to link a binary to a release exec.

The server is even worse, even installing this piece of shit can be a challenge (especially out of the Linux comfort zone) and it hogs EVERYTHING. Say goodbye to like 3 GBs of RAM for a few rooms and users. Say goodbye to your disk space & cpu because python.

The only thing they haven't fucked up yet is Dendrite, the second-gen server which actually looks promising, but it's still in beta it's probably too early to call.

seethe further newfag

That's true, it's hard to get motivated to keep learning/practicing a language.

Ave, Imperator.

It's more like, "I was going to get vaccinated anyway, so go ahead and 'give me my freedom.'"

https://gab.com/ Up as of March 12th 1PM.

I have not been all that reliable at keeping abreast on the subject, but last time I checked, your ISP will not know you are using TOR if you go in via a VPN, as the trail deadends there. As for Musk, he's too busy playing Star Trek, and imagining himself Zefram Cochrane, than focus on anything more practical:

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/01/14/tim-berners-lee-reinvent-internet-created-promote-innovation/

Great video.

All the words

There's no shortage of apps, but I can't stay motivated. Worse, if I learn these without context, it's less effective. I'd need to play a game that doesn't have too much Japanese and then look up things as I go, but alas, looking up Kanji is a pain in the butt.

That's a classic

I feel like watching anime with dual language sub helps (though that's hard to come by). I have forgotten a lot of the Japanese grammar rules now, due to not using it for many years. If only I had tried to go to Japan right after graduating college and live there for a year or 2, that probably would've improved my Japanese and cemented the skills.

For learning kanji, I think the only way is to be exposed to it constantly, which is not easy if you don't live in Japan. Maybe there are some language learning apps that helps? Writing it out (even on a touch screen) should help with memorization.

Yeah, I also had this during formal education. It's just that I never paid attention. At least not in the languages. Was more of a math guy. That half a year I learned English privately was still during my schooldays, so my English teachers were somewhat surprised.

The only way I learned Japanese was by watching anime with subtitles. That has been enough to get at least 60-80% of movies watching them RAW. Still can't write or read, though. If only there was a way to look up Kanji within half a second, while being deprived of the copy/paste ability.

Then I'd just switch to Japanese subtitles, give it another half a year and would be fluent in Japanese, too. Well, maybe not fluent, but it would be enough.

I tried buying Kanji cards to memorize them, but this type of learning doesn't work for me. If there's no immediate use like understanding a movie, I won't bother to keep up the effort.

At least initially, I learned English by teachers of my native language, so I would get the grammar explained in my native language. Now that I've been living in the US for so long, I'm used to just think in English without translation, but during the time when I was learning, I had to memorize all these irregular rules.

I also learned Japanese, I took some Japanese courses in college (also for the love of ACG and Vocaloid), so it was also taught (at least the 100 and 200 level courses) in English and the textbooks are in English. I felt that the Rosetta Stone style of just learning the language doesn't work with me.

Not in my case. I didn't learn the language by translating what I would want to say in my first language, so I never noticed these irregularities while learning. I'd just read books and watch movies and translate English words I didn't know to my first language, which at first were all words.

So, I've got zero grammar knowledge in English. But it's fine. I've got zero grammar knowledge in my first language, too. I'm of the opinion that grammar will impede language learning. It took me about three months to half a year to learn English my way out of school, since I wanted to watch anime that happened to only have English subs. I'd have learned Japanese, but looking up Kanji is a major pain in the ass.

What I've instead got is a feel for the language, so even if I can't tell you the grammar rule, I'll notice mistakes. Like when someone uses shined instead of shone. Both words are correct, but used in different contexts. I couldn't tell you what the exact difference is, but if I see it wrongly used in a sentence, it just hurts my language feeling. Funnily enough, that doesn't happen when someone uses "of" instead of "have". I'll subconsciously read it correctly and don't notice that mistake at all.

English is my second language, as I was learning it I noticed there are a lot of irregular words and rules you just have to remember. Like why I would need to say "Are you ok?" instead of "Is you ok?" when I'm referring to a singular person. Also why is persons a word and yet we use people to refer to multiple humans? This is the kind of stuff that comes naturally to a native speaker that a second language learner will have to learn and remember.