That’s great. My group of friends are normies so they need custom emojis :D which element doesn’t support, so I’m trying out different Matrix clients. We generally don’t do any voice chat and screen sharing so our use case is simpler. With another group of friends we kinda moved on with voice chat from discord to steam.

Some people I read here used Mumble in addition to matrix for call stuff maybe can work for you too.

Where the license plate numbers at?

What was the main problem that eventually made everyone move from it ? I remember back in my teen days it was Teamspeak, Skype and IRC. Somehow I got by with mostly Skype so don’t have much experience with it.

Summary:

• Users in the UK (subject to the 2025 Online Safety Act) reported being prompted to verify age via Persona, an age-verification vendor.

• Discord’s support page now notes that some UK users are part of an experiment with Persona.

• Data submitted to Persona will be stored temporarily for up to 7 days—a departure from Discord’s earlier claim that facial scans would be processed and stored only locally.

• Persona’s lead investor is Founders Fund, co-founded and directed by Peter Thiel.

• Thiel is a co-founder of Palantir, a data-surveillance firm that works with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and harvests private data from U.S. citizens.

• Thiel’s writings and public statements (e.g., “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”) have drawn criticism.

• Thiel’s name appeared over 2,200 times in the latest Epstein files, showing extensive coordination with the convicted sex trafficker.

• Some users speculate Discord is testing Persona because its primary partner, k-ID, may have vulnerabilities or workarounds.

• Discord has not publicly explained why Persona is being used for some verifications.

I haven’t been following much of the new developments of these self-hostable AI. Can you actually self-host anything decent?

I have played around these smaller models in the past and honestly anything smaller than LLama 4 Scout was just not very useful. Now Llama 4 Scout was “17B Active parameters, 16 experts and 109B Total parameters” so not sure what that even means.

I do wonder despite the flaws of the old system, was there something genuine lost?

You had to actually “hunt” down what you wanted to watch, make discoveries, build context and knowledge to what you want to watch / listen to. IMO the “hunt” is part of the joy in the same way as perhaps building a PC is a big part of the whole gaming enjoyment and at the end of it you can sit down and fully emerse yourself into the art. Now? You are presented with an almost infinite choice of what to get spoon-fed and I feel it de-incentivizes everything. The distinction between music and noise isn’t about the physical properties of sound. Instead, it depends on how we perceive and assign meaning to what we hear. My point is, it’s harder to create that meaning these days.

They did touch upon this in the video. Seems like the new streaming model creates a passive, scrolling consumer rather than an engaged enthusiast where “art” becomes just disposable content pushed by algorithms.

Also, streaming pushes you to over-consume on stuff, which causes the same problems.

I was also searching for one a couple of months back. I went through these ones : termpdf.py, tdf ,fancy-cat, meowpdf

Most of these support pdfs only though from what i can recall. I ended up with Sioyek (not a terminal reader)

and many don’t know there are alternative chatbots like Gemini and Claude that many people think are even better.

Alphabet (Google) paid Trump also though:

YouTube Capitulates to Trump - YouTube

Twitter (X) paid him $10 million to settle a case they’d already won. Facebook (Meta) followed with $25 million. And now Google (Alphabet) has paid $24 million - not to Trump personally, but funneled through tax-exempt trusts supposedly for the National Mall, but really to fund construction of a massive 90,000-square-foot Mar-a-Lago-style ballroom on the White House.

Seems like more of the same ass kissing for most of these big tech companies. Is Anthropic any better?

Did not know that is something people do on arch!

He talked about this in a interview recently ! Echasnovski (mini.nvim creator): “gpanders is WRONG About the Setup Call” (allegedly)

Thanks for sharing, bookmarked. Was just reading about the problem of free parking and parking minimums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdQ5FZSGLK8

In Neovim after re-writing my config I actually opted out of even using a LSP. If you have a picker with grep + fuzzy finder honestly the experience is not that bad and keeps things lean. You will need to change your workflow a bit but very doable. So I can stand behind the “meme”.

Is it built into the editor itself? In neovim you need to install a separate plugin “nvim-treesitter-textobjects” to get that.

I bought my ADATA Lancer Blade DDR5 6000 MHz CL30 back in May for 95 eur.

I checked December 6 the prices were around 300 eur. Now I check again and it’s 500 eur. This is so cooked. I heard SSD’s are about to get expensive also. I’m so lucky I did a full upgrade that will last me for a long time, i was even considering whether to upgrade then or wait until winter.

Thanks for giving a more balanced perspective.

Damn… had to look it up, apparently it’s true. Unbelievable what ideas their minds back-flip into.

I’m shocked :D

Terry Davis was right…

Edit: For anyone that don’t know : https://youtu.be/3HD43lvNvCA?t=2084 He was mentally unwell but he called it !