Thanks for the clarification.

Well, I’d expect Meta to drag their feet as much as they can, tbh. So: Years and as many “regrettable” technical hiccups and UX inconveniences as they can get away with without having to pay too stiff a fine. Same as always.

I am aware of adverserial interoperability, but, frankly, it’s one of those ideas that make me chuckle benevolently. I don’t see much practical merit in it. As for Facebook getting big that way in the first place: I strongly disagree. They got big by being early, good enough to capture the zeitgeist, and then being as anticompetitve as they could. Just like Microsoft before them, for example.

Who ever promised that? Just because both use Axolotl/Double Ratchet? hat is far from enough. Not to mention that neither Meta nor Signal Messaging have any economic incentive to do it…

It must be good crap (technical term) ;-)

I’m not going to watch a video about it; But I assume the name is inspired by Neal Stephenson’s Anathem? That’d make sense…

As an autistic person that can barely cope with public transport (which is good in europe, obviously) and the associated density of humans without having a complete meltdown on a good day, a car greatly increases my mobility and quality of life. Not having one would also mean an increased frequency of grocery shopping (which, again, is quite a challenge most of the time, hence I try to go as rarely as possible) because neither an e-bike nor public transport offer the same carrying capacity. I could likely make do with a cargo bike, but I’d still have to relocate into a more densely populated area to have all the different shops I need (yes, I’m “picky” about what food is safe, what clothes I can bear, etc.) in bike-able distance, which would cost more money for housing and mental energy (“spoons”) to handle the increased population around me. Plus it’d cost a lot of extra time. As much as I’d prefer a car-less world in theory, it’s simply a fact that it’s an assistive technology for me, just like noise-canceling headphones are. I do hope we can move over to decent electrical cars though, no reason to run on fossil fuels (other than cost of the vehicles, and that is rapidly coming down).

IMHO XMPP is far more architecturally sound and not driven by buzzword-development.

printables, thingiverse, but mostly I make stuff myself with openscad (I do mostly technical/functional stuff)