ptman's comments

On: A sufficiently detailed spec is code

[ptman]

I've heard various suggestions of only committing spec.md or change requests in the git repo and using that as source of truth.

We have spent decades working on reproducible builds or deterministic compilation. To achieve this, all steps must be deterministic. LLMs are not deterministic. You need to commit source code.

On: Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc

[ptman]

use gemini and ask it to summarize a youtube link

On: /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem

[ptman]

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

On: Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification

[ptman]

Teamspeak is using matrix under the hood

On: Running My Own XMPP Server

[ptman]

There are several independent clients and servers. None of them support all features, not even synapse/element. But most keep improving steadily.

On: Discord Alternatives, Ranked

[ptman]

There are other terminal clients.

On: End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git

[ptman]

Maybe put the git repos on radicle?

On: Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

[ptman]

Room addresses/aliases (like #matrix:matrix.org) must point to a single room (in fact, they point to a room version, so when rooms are upgraded, addresses must be pointed towards the new room). But for communities, a better way to organize the rooms would be spaces. Spaces can be joined. Spaces can contain rooms and other spaces. Like discord "servers" (guilds), but more flexible.

On: Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

[ptman]

In my case matrix with bridges allows me to ignore many separate apps: whatsapp,telegram,slack,irc,...

On: Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

[ptman]

nothing, but people these days expect more from chat