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I pay yearly more for IPv4 address space for virtual machines on my dedicated server than for that dedicated server itself _(ツ)_/.

Let that thing die.

Monthly summary:

54.40€ - 30 IPv4 addresses
0.00€ - 18 quintillion IPv6 addresses
38.39€ - whole server for dozens of services

Really bullshit ISP indeed.

Checklist for Migrating to HTTPS:

• Disable all 443 port traffic

You can call it GNU/Linux if the same name for OS and kernel turns out to be confusing for you.

At least it's not the other way around.

They should look at GNU Taler for having it in the future.

UBlue developer likes and use Homebrew so he thinks it is essential tool so his distro preinstall it to be better and more "user friendly".

Yes. And yes.

It's normal for things to implement stuff from each other? 🤷

Microsoft is late with many things too. And I don't nessesarly think a feature here and there is what makes a good OS, the base stuff is more important.

It's like making a .txt document with tables and ASCII art and then on my God other text editors use different fonts and the look breaks. Only the most popular, Windows Notepad is supported.

Web was supposed to be bulletproof, easy to archive and implement. If a webpage break because a browser is supporting 99% of super bloated web standards instead of 99.5% of Chrome, there is clearly something wrong.

My rule of thumb is, try to randomly remove some HTML tags and CSS declarations. If whole site break and is unusable because of one/two lines missing, this website is a hack exploiting browser monoculture.

Bot: Just a user account, with normal login and password, that we call bot because it is used by some automatic program. Nothing particilar in the Matrix protocol itself.

Appservice: Some application (on the Internet or local) that the server is configured to listen to and give special priviledges. See it like a plugin, can reserve a namespace for usernames (like only this appservice being able to register names starting with @telegram_).

Bridge: Just some system, program or anything really that we call bridge because it connects two chat networks. It can utilize appservices and/or bots to work, but again it's a common name not special thing in Matrix.

Integrations: A really forgotten thing in the recent Matrix development, but still somewhere there. If you ever used old Element there is a chance you opened integrations menu. It's a graphical interface in the end-user app side to graphically invite or manage bots or other things. They also have widgets to pin website on the chat for users to easly interact, like a calendar, it is mostly use to integrate Jitsi calls as Matrix-native calls are still developing.

So integrations and appservices are in the protocol. Bots and bridges are just names.

One bridge can use multiple things. Can use a normal client-server API to act like a bot (again, just some account) to listen to and write messages. Can use appservice API to bypass rate limits, reserve username space and have permissions to spoof it's avatar and name. Can use integration to give a menu for management, but I haven't seem it used.

Taler is not ment to be completely censorship resistant. It takes the side of dealing with goverment, law and other things and is expected to be used in areas with working democracy.

A private alternative to MasterCard, PayPal, Stripe, etc. not a new currency or completely different banking system. And we need it.