What you want is 4K77, 4K80, and 4K83.

These are not official releases that have been “despecialized”. These are fan made 4K scans of the theatrical release film (film that was actually shown in a theater).

https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/

It is the best way to watch them, because it is basically as close to what you would have gotten in the actual theater as possible, film grain and all.

(Idk about the prequels, sorry.)

What a perfect time to stop using social security numbers for specifically the thing they were not designed to be.

Yeah, I suppose so. It just sucks that it seems like every single company is run by a monster.

I don’t know how all these tech companies keep making obviously stupid and immoral decisions like this.

“We need someone to process our emails.”

“Oh well we have two options. This one costs a hundredth of a cent less per email, but they also run their machines on the blood of children and they ritualistically sacrifice minorities as part of their business model.”

“You said a hundredth of a cent? Perfect!”

Ok, fair enough. I don’t know exactly what effect nuclear weapons would have on the egress graph, but I’d imagine it wouldn’t be good.

Oh, so just 1.4 billion people.

By whom? Even the largest botnet in existence wouldn’t be a blip on their radar. I used to work as an SRE at Facebook. The egress graph didn’t even show ddos attacks. That’s how insignificant they are at that scale of infrastructure. There were things that affected the egress graph, like the superbowl.

Honestly? Hundreds of billions (maybe trillions) of dollars to invest in engineering, infrastructure, staffing, creator incentives, marketing, etc.

You’re talking about taking on a household name that has 2.75 billion monthly active users. That’s more than a quarter of the humans on this planet, and probably some in space too. They make over $50 billion dollars a year to make sure their competition is absolutely crushed.

Realistically though? Enforcing antitrust laws.

VDO Ninja is really nice. My friend self hosts it, and it didn’t seem that hard.

There are plenty of easy to set up open source servers. I use a bunch of them. Here’s a few that come to mind:

• jellyseerr
• navidrome
• jswiki
• homeassistant
• docmost
• rustdesk

Those are all ones that only require three or fewer services in a Docker Compose stack. And the docker-compose.yml files are short and easy to understand.

There are plenty that are hard to set up, like:

• jellyfin
• nextcloud
• wordpress
• immich
• mastodon

I’ve installed all of these, and they were not as straightforward, but not too bad.

Matrix is the only one that has taken me more than a day. And I couldn’t even get everything working. Element Call still doesn’t work after trying to set it up for two days.

There is a lot of variance in how difficult these servers are to set up, but Matrix stands alone as the absolute hardest, most convoluted setup process I’ve ever experienced.

Because the performance gain was basically negligible. That was their explanation in the issue.

What appears to be the person behind the agent resubmitted the PR with a passive aggressive bullshit comment:

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31138#issuecomment-3890808045

Not to my knowledge.

Apples to oranges.

It’s the most popular one by a huge margin, and it’s the reference implementation from the protocol devs.

If you set up your community on an existing server, like Matrix.org, it’ll be really easy. And it’s pretty easy to join as an end user.

But if you have your own domain, and you want to host your own Matrix server (mine is matrix.port87.help), be prepared to spend at least a day trying to get everything to work. There are six different services you need to run:

• synapse
• postgres
• element
• coturn
• jwt
• livekit

And there’s no guide for just setting up everything easily. You have to follow several different guides that sometimes have conflicting information. Not all the guides are exactly comprehensive, too, so be prepared to read a lot of documentation. You’ll also need to forward a bunch of ports, and then a port range (thousands of ports, for coturn).

It’s very easy to mess something up, and sometimes it’s very hard to tell. For example, I was running federation on 8448, like you’re supposed to, but my server was advertising that federation was on 443. This caused some rooms on other servers to be unjoinable. It gave me a cryptic error message about it, and I had to read through a few Stack Overflow posts and GitHub issues to finally figure it out.

Synapse will complain about Postgres’ collation and encoding, and that’s quite difficult to fix. You have to add some arguments to the startup command to force the right encoding.

Synapse will also log fucking everything, so make sure to set log level to “ERROR”.

None of this is meant to scare you away from running your own Matrix server. If you want help, I’d even be willing to zip up all my docker compose files and send them to you. This is more meant to indicate that the Matrix team should focus on making this process easier.

I’m in the process of switching my two communities to Matrix. It’s not bad from a user point of view, but running your own server is such an enormous pain in the ass. Like, way harder than it should be.

Why does the notepad app do anything but edit text?

I highly doubt that when you start a “Discord server”, there’s any new machinery spun up. There is a near 100% chance it’s just an entry in a database. Nobody’s running a server just for him. So I don’t think there’s even reason to be charitable.

I’ve been dragging my feet to migrate my support servers for SMUI and Port87 from Discord to Matrix. I think now is the time.