derin
@derin@lemmy.beru.co
- Comment on Hades II - Sign Up for the HADES II Technical Test - Steam News 4 weeks ago:
Same here, my dude… Same here. Why does my back suddenly hurt?
- Comment on Hades II - Sign Up for the HADES II Technical Test - Steam News 4 weeks ago:
Steam goes down for maintenance at this time every week.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
I hope they continue to do good, but am also skeptical.
And, man, I miss the old Gravatar.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
The not cool parts just relate to any sort of hosted bridge. If you don’t trust them with decrypting messages on their end, then don’t give them your data - there are no bridges capable of doing that, anywhere.
So it really comes down to “trust someone else with your data, or host it yourself”; and if you’re - understandably - frustrated with those options blame companies like WhatsApp or Discord that make it nigh impossible to integrate their services with outside networks.
Functionally, these bridges just forward your content to a library acting like a headless client - there’s no way to encrypt that as the reverse engineered clients are not libraries and need to take raw input. You can’t end to end encrypt it as the client is one of the “ends”.
As an example, the WhatsApp bridge uses WhatsApp web as a backend, and has all the limitations of WA web.
As a result, I find the expectations to be a bit unrealistic.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
I am worried about that acquisition, to be honest.
I’ve been supporting them via Github sponsors for about a year, now - as I only use their open source software; I’ve no intention of touching the service or closed source client.
As a result, I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was anxious about their new owners basically telling them “hey, why are you releasing all your bridges for free, anyway?”
Really hope that doesn’t happen, as their bridges have been my primary communication channels for a long time, now. I love not having to keep WhatsApp or Discord installed on my phone.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Fair point, if you’re just against the fact that they wrote a closed source client.
It’s frustrating that closed source software exists, but in this context I’m (personally) okay with it as it funds the development of free software.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
I disagree. Beeper’s client is meaningless, its the service being offered that has value.
If you don’t mind trusting a third party service with your Matrix instance + bridge hosting, use Beeper.
If you’re into OSS and owning your own tech stack, self host the whole thing.
At no point do you have to use their client for any reason.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
You were asking how it interacts with Discord. That is the code.
Beyond that it’s running a version of Synapse and has its own client - the latter being optional.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Just use any open source client. You can literally do that.
And if you don’t trust the company - for any reason - use their code to deploy your own backend.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
You can use any Matrix client with Beeper, you don’t have to use theirs.
Regardless, there’s nothing stopping you from recreating the same stack using the available tools.
What makes their service unique are the bridges. Download their sources, compile them, and then pair them with any server client combo you want.
If you insist on using their stack, you can still use an OSS client. They chose not to make their client open source as it is, by design, for their service only.
It absolutely isn’t “Anti Commercial Ai thingy”.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of FUD in this comments section, so I’d like to clear the air. I’m pretty big on OSS myself, so it pains me to see a company doing all the right things get lambasted like this.
Beeper is just a Matrix server running in tandem with a series of custom, open source bridges written by Beeper. The value proposition is not having to deploy a Matrix server yourself, and not having to deploy each bridge yourself.
However, if you want to do that you absolutely can. I’ve been running Synapse + a subset of their bridges for a couple years now (the WhatsApp one being the oldest), and they are fantastic.
The devs contribute back to Matrix all the time and are great about supporting the spec as a responsible third party.
Their only closed source software is their client, which is - by definition - only written to work with their servers and not generic Matrix servers (e.g. It’s just a preconfigured matrix client which expects each bridge to be deployed, and doesn’t ask you for things like what server you want). As a result, you wouldn’t want to use it with your own stack; you can just pick one of the myriad OSS clients available for Matrix and go with that. I use SchildiChat, for example.
I don’t understand why, after doing all this work and publishing the source online for free (free as in freedom), they aren’t allowed to offer a preconfigured service to non tech savvy folk?
Honest question: Shouldn’t they be paid for their work?
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Not closed source. It’s just a Matrix server instance running their own bridges. All the backend stuff is open source, the only closed source part is their client.
The client is specific to their site and unnecessary: just deploy Synapse, then pick and deploy the bridges of their suite you want to your server. You can then pick and use any of the available Matrix clients to get the same exact features. You can even sponsor them on Github, as I’ve been doing for months.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
It’s not proprietary, lol. You can download and deploy each of their bridges yourself to your own servers.
Source: been using their WhatsApp, Discord, and Signal bridges for over a year. I use Github sponsors to pay for development, as I appreciate how great they are.
The only closed source part of their stack is their client, which you don’t have to use.
Also, they’re some of the most prolific contributors to Matrix outside of Element. The emoji picker in Element was literally PR’ed by Tulir.
Love it when folk see people trying to make money off OSS and immediately resort to hysterics. It really makes closed source development look appealing if you’re going to be damned by idealogues regardless of whether you release the source or not.
- Comment on Thoughts on BOOX Tab Ultra C? 3 months ago:
I’m a Remarkable 2 user, but if the writing feel is anywhere as decent as the remarkable’s, I would consider buying one of these (assuming I’m making a first time purchase and don’t already have an eink writing tablet).
Most of those features are super unnecessary (but I love the idea of having them), but damn if that color screen doesn’t get me feeling super excited.
- Comment on Scott Pilgrim Takes Off | Official Trailer | Netflix 6 months ago:
I just saw it as Scott going after a girl and getting her in the end. Didn’t really any notice any other message at all, so I’m curious if it’ll come through in the show. (haven’t read the comics)
- Comment on ‘The Continental’ EPs on “Terrifying” Undertaking of a ‘John Wick’ Spinoff Without Keanu Reeves 7 months ago:
I really liked the last one :(
- Comment on Stephen King blames Bill Maher for breaking the Hollywood writers’ strike 8 months ago:
Fair enough!
- Comment on Stephen King blames Bill Maher for breaking the Hollywood writers’ strike 8 months ago:
I also think his more extreme views make him tough to cast for larger roles, nowadays.
- Comment on Stephen King blames Bill Maher for breaking the Hollywood writers’ strike 8 months ago:
Yeah. He’s also despised by most of his peers, so it’s not like he can join anyone in raising money for his staff - like the daily talk show hosts who started a podcast to raise money for staff salaries.
It’s not supposed to be easy, it’s a strike.
Fucking Scab Maher, lol…
- Comment on Surprise: Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki has failed to retire a fourth time 8 months ago:
G.