All files stored on IPFS are public. It’s also incredibly slow and inefficient. You would be better off using BitTorrent.

Maybe it’s in an airport within a ski field?

They killed Cortana?

Let them go bankrupt

The NGO is a decoy organization with exactly the same people (minus one) as the VC funded startup. Go look at the “core spec team” and find out which organization they belong to.

Your information on XMPP seems to be quite outdated. File transfer in XMPP is now mostly done by uploading the file via HTTP and sending the URL. Audio calls are done using WebRTC and work two ways.

“protocol extensions” (aka: incompatible)

Reality shows that implementations can very well implement the same extensions. If you don’t use extremely outdated clients you will find they do have compatible file transfer and A/V calls. ActivityPub works the same way.

Meanwhile Matrix Ltd. cooks up a completely new, incompatible protocol instead of building upon existing internet standards.

I don’t see the reason we need a venture capital funded bloated protocol anyways. Just switch to XMPP. It’s much more lightweight and it’s the internet standard for instant messaging.

Here is what I used before I switched to desec.io: https://gist.github.com/haansn08/50565768c66c5fbf382b2bc2484e8a41

tar + netcat are really nice. Not very secure but gets a folder from A to B using standard tools.

I’m pretty sure they don’t profit from sending you to another McDonald’s.

Set the default download folder to /tmp. In the rare case you actually will need a file you download later, copy it to a better directory.

Thank you for your contribution.

Yes. It’s a window manager, not tmux.

Texstudio + git > Overleaf

Sync between devices. I only read RSS on one device so I don’t need it either. Besides if you don’t think a service is useful to you why do you host it?

Isn’t Bluesky much smaller than Mastodon?

https://monal-im.org/

https://quicksy.im/

Signal is just another walled garden silo with no real value over WhatsApp just owned by a different organization. I won’t use anything which is not XMPP compatible.

But it gets easier with every thing. You learn the more general concepts too.