No, I was just saying that as I know mostly which messengers are covered in the bridges for Matrix. I have many that are not. I know that Matrix has more bridges than probably any other social network.

Exactly, that is why I have to have them installed

Yes I’m using Jami, Manyverse, YouMe Social, Threema, Wire, WickrMe, Planetary, etc which are generally not bridged. But they do have some good options there.

With Python 3 the command is: python -m http.server

Not for all the messengers I use, and some of Matrix’s bridges are commercial as I recall. Certainly Matrix helps me with IRC and Telegram bridging.

One problem is so many friends etc are on Signal so you always have that challenge anyway moving people. It’s one reason why I have 10 to 13 messengers on my phone, problem is most others have two or three max.

That’s one very long discussion so no idea what part you are referring people to, but there is an issue with various apps that don’t support push notifications. So those that run as web apps have this issue, as do many apps on iOS where they also don’t subscribe to use the OEM’s push notification system eg. like iQuassel. So yes, great to distribute via a 3rd party service but many users again see it as a non-starter if they won’t get push notifications. True that a lazier dev can just use the Google of iOS push notification system, which of course requires their users to use those app stores then to get the app.

I use Qownnotes which syncs to my Nextcloud. I document all my installations and tweaks over time, and it is easily searchable.

I should add though that for me for sensitive skin, super close with a sharp blade is an issue. I can use the Feather blade in a Merkur 34C (mild) but for a closer more aggressive shave I need to use an Astra or Derby blade with my Edwin Jagger DE89 razor. So it did need some experimenting in the best combination. Sharpest is not always automatically best with safety razors.

OK interesting as my beard is also fairly course with a sensitive skin. Not overly course though. Some tug usually indicates not sharp enough blade (can’t be the case with Feather blades) or possibly that razor aggressiveness is too mild. It may be worth throwing the issue up on the https://sharprazorpalace.com/ forums and see what advice is given.

Interesting design that Saiver razor. I tend to stay away from double or more blades as I got terrible ingrown hairs, where a hair is cut lower on the second blade, and drops below skin level with a sharp edge to it. For super close I use Feather blades my Edwin Jagger DE89 razor which is slightly more aggressive than the Merkur 34C razor. But otherwise I generally use Astra blades in the Merkur 34C which just gives no problems as it is fairly mild and I can rush if needed without any nicks. I do have two adjustable razors but tend to just stick with a normal non-adjustable. So many options ;-)

I’ve never actually tried a slant-bar razor.

Yep too much of it is deliberate, and too many believe it. It is not so much about ‘censorship’ but more about having proper fact checking or accountability for information being broadcast. The worst is people actually quoting something as their evidence, yet that information has already been proven to be false. That’s just messy.

“Freedom” is horrifically relative in many cases. You either have freedom or you don’t. Once you start justifying degrees of freedom, it is not freedom at all, but just degrees of censorship. Yes terrorism (relative to particular countries, or they called freedom fighters), hate speech, incitement to violence, happiness, child pornography, drugs, whatever are all free, or they are not. But in the US, it seems that “freedom of speech” seems synonymous actually with political opinions. Then why don’t we just call it politics or political opinion?

Most Western countries are OK with freedom of speech along the lines of political opinion, but most are not OK with incitements of violence, hate speech, incitements to commit crimes in that country, etc.

But you can choose the country of hosting for DigitalOcean which is the most compatible with what you want to host. My personal opinion is, it is often better to host it somewhere outside your own country, if the concern is about your own government.

Worth noting that if you want to show the Linux stats correctly, never respond to the request for the hardware survey whilst you happen to playing whilst booted into Windows, otherwise you’ll show up as a Windows statistic even though you may play 98% of all your games on Linux.

“Mainstream” often means big businesses, advertising, news outlets, etc - they find their business easier on centralised networks, and at the end of the day their money often drives scaled centralised hosting… I’d hope the Fediverse goes mainstream as interoperability should be how we all go foward.

That’s what the article states: “This watch is now available, pre-programmed with Espruino on KickStarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/banglejs-2-the-open-smart-watch”

I did a video about it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AHFqqw1zGM

Yep me too. Think I have two of them still - batteries lasted and could view in bright sunlight.

I use my password manager as less room for error

No, isn’t USB 4 (USB-C) an open standard which is why it is cheaper to produce than Thunderbolt and others? See https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/usb-4-everything-you-need-to-know/.

Remember that international standards bodies approve open standards, but for some reasons they seem to copyright their documentation, like ISO standards. There is a lot of pressure for open standards documentation to also be fully open and available.