🆕 blog! “I'm never going back to Matrix” I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea … 👀 Read more:
I’m never going back to Matrix – Terence Eden’s Blog
 ⸻ #foss #Matrix #OpenSource #rant
When did #CompuServe first start operations? (Your best guess. Look up the answer after you've voted. Please don't post spoilers in the replies.)
I've found that replying to unsolicited messages with "杀猪盘?" is a remarkably effective way of flushing out scammers 😆 image
Here's an interesting (to me) question about #GDPR. I've asked BSky for a copy of all my Direct Messages. I assume they will provide everything I've sent as it is data I've generated. What I'm less sure about is whether messages sent *to* me would be in scope of GDPR. Any thoughts? (NB, I'm not interested in your views about Online Safety / rival social networks / whatever batshit politics are going on. Don't make me mute you, please.)
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Buggeration. People can send me DMs. I get a notification. But no way to clear it. Wonder if I can GDPR my messages?
For those of you on #Lemmy, which are your favourite communities? Looking for entertaining and UK-based for preference, but anything non-depressing will do.
🆕 blog! “1KB JS Numbers Station” Code Golf is the art/science of creating wonderful little demos in an artificially constrained environment. This year the js1024 competition was looking for entries with the theme of "Creepy". I am not a serious bit-twiddler. I can't create JS shaders which produce intricate 3D worlds in a scrap of code. But I can use slightly obscure JavaScript… 👀 Read more:
1KB JS Numbers Station – Terence Eden’s Blog
 ⸻ #code #HTML #javascript #tts
🆕 blog! “We've got to stop sending files to each other” Another day, another data breach. the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people.  ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach Why are people still sending files to each other? I … 👀 Read more:
We’ve got to stop sending files to each other – Terence Eden’s Blog
 ⸻ #rant #skeuomorph #ux
Are there any good collaborative code editors? I'm sick of this antipattern of downloading files from git, sending pull requests, merge conflicts etc. Why can't a group of us edit source code as easily as using Google Docs?
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