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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • I mean, I get why you wouldn’t necessarily want to constantly remind people of past wars. It’s a matter of pragmatism really. The guys you murdered yesterday may help you to murder someone else tomorrow. Or maybe we eventually stop doing so entirely, not constantly reminding people of past enemies might help either way.

    I think the Anthem of Europe (‘Ode to Joy’) is really what a hymn should be. It’s not about the past at all, it’s about the future and ideals. The German Anthem is kind of nice too (even the part the Nazis generously reinterpreted in their favour, thus banned/omitted today). It’s also about things to strive for, not triumph or wars. Would be really weird to sign about getting murdered by the French, liberating from the French, murdering the French, or murdering the French again, when I never even had a fistfight with a Frenchmen.

    That’s not to say I don’t care about the past, but particularly the relationship between France and Germany goes to show what happens when you don’t leave things in the past, and what is possible when you do.







  • Matrix is a good idea in principle and the 2.0 protocol (as well as the implementation) is in very good shape. Sadly Element is the most feature complete client for using it and frankly: it’s trash. Both desktop and app, X and non-X. It’s buggy, unreliable and unpolished. It certainly has gotten better, seeing how they went from borderline unusable to at least the core stuff working, but they move incredibly slow. If you think Signal is moving slow, you haven’t waited for Element features (to properly work) yet.

    I personally find Fluffy Chat to be more enjoyable, but tbf I basically have to use it, because I need to use multiple accounts. Element just straight up doesn’t support that for whatever reason - I don’t think any other client either. It comes with its own set of issues and shortcomings however. There simply is no app that supports everything and works flawlessly at the same time. To stick with my Signal comparison: Signal just works. It self-explanatory and you need to do next to nothing for it to work. This is not the experience you can expect from Matrix in general, because the way the protocol works makes everything more complicated.

    The only major alternative I know is XMPP, which in my experience next to no one uses. I have very limited experience with it, but ‘Conversations’ seemed fantastic on the surface. Much, much simpler and cleaner than anything Matrix. But again, couldn’t actually test it, because no one uses it lol