I had very high hopes for matrix because of the bridging capabilities but I was sorely disappointed after spending a couple hours to set it all up. Some of the bridges require violating the TOS for other applications, or going into the dev tools to copy cookies. Basically completely unapproachable for non-programmers. Once you have a bridge it's impossible to start a new chat with someone in another app. You need to start the chat in the other app, wait for the matrix bridge to be notified of the chat, and then you can continue the conversation in matrix.
Of course it breaches plenty of ToS, they're third-party bridges for Matrix that are developed by people within the community. Do you really think that big corps are going to be happy about people not seeing ads? Of course not, ergo there are ToS clauses there to discourage people from doing so.
For non-programmers, there are cheap turn-key SaaS. Look at Beeper for example: https://www.beeper.com/
You also don't need to start the chat in another app, that's complete and utter bollocks, regardless of whether you use SaaS like Beeper, or your own home server.
I'll check back in with you in 5 years and we can laugh at each other: @hammy:matrix.splitanatom.com :- )
I bridge Signal/Whatsapp/Telegram and you can absolutely start chats through the bridge bot. It might be a little inconvenient, but for the rare occasion I do need it, it works absolutely fine.
As someone who went to multiple schools for undergrad including brown I fully disagree. Brown is a very libertarian school with regard to the student body. Sure this example sucks but how many people at brown were involved with this decision making process? This feels like a situation where technical administrators who are not in charge of normal student life made a decision which is both highly unusual and clearly controversial. I would say the main people I came into contact with at brown for instance RAs in dorms and my professors and course staff were absolutely understanding, kind, and liberal in a way that I did not experience in other schools.
I like this idea, but how do you deal with pseudo bleed elements overlapping with sidebar content? For example many websites put navigation elements on the sidebar [1], or margin notes [2], [3]. I personally would love to see a css only solution for pseudo bleed with margin notes. The only solutions I've found so far use resize observer to absolutely position the margin notes using js or have hand coded positions and offsets.
A compromise might be to hide navigation elements or margin notes until you hover / click on an element, sort of like how Wikipedia enables page previews on internal links.
I love this question. It’s plausible enough to imagine Apple charging for ads. But the implications are huge. Imagine every hardware platform charging for transactions made on that platform. It would be like landlords getting a flat percentage of your income on top of an annual fee.
It doesn't work for both the same reason as the example. Everyone who would be advantaged would leave to the one which doesn't charge fees based on something irrelevant to operation.
I would not even touch vega, it’s the engine vega lite is built on. Vega lite is a declarative json format for representing charts. The spec is very well thought out and you can rapidly iterate on prototypes. Altair is a python wrapper for vega lite
If you check out the livestream on youtube, you'll see that he does the writing in Bear (Mac/iOS only app). Presumably there's some custom code to export everything and build the HTML with backlinks, but as mentioned in the link posted here, this code is not public anywhere.
He has shared part of his toolkit, namely the exporting and syncing of the Bear notes, and “link-janitor” for the backlinks [1]. Although I wouldn’t recommend it in general - it’s a brittle prototype. And right now there are better tools out there (linked above) many of which appeared in the last few months.
