Shoutout to continuwuity! UwU Queer people power the internet~

Once fluxer gets e2ee and federation and better docs and adoption and professional support and a mature org behind it. Then it can be just like Matrix 😂

Yes, Spectacle is a screenshot tool, but also not more than this, equivalent of the by default inbuild one in Windows (Snipping Tool, screenshot/cast, annotation...), which do more or less the same. better other tools like Flameshot (Windows, Linux, Mac), etc.but not a real alternative to ShareX.

Thanks for your reply, wasn't sure if it was just a new WINE mod or its own thing (just similar in some elements like prefix and dot folder stuff). It is kind of awesome that part of ReactOS is being used while the main OS is still not ready.

The thing I'll be interested to see is more what type of software support this will have in reality. Benchmarks might be good, but if it has the same issues Wine has (you have to look up which versions are compatible and change these settings and download these .net runtimes or whatever to get one app to work) then it really just isn't worth it. I have a Windows virtual machine and I can run any EXE I need to on it, which isn't many, usually just for testing Windows applications I need to test out. The thing that is most annoying for me isn't necessarily performance, just the fact I need to change Wine settings for every app I install. I really hope this takes off, but I also hope it is better than Wine not just in performance, but also in simplicity.

You need several different apps to do the same as Irfanview.

Why would I want an all in one? Wouldn't I want ones that are the best at what they do, but can hand off functionality to other programs if they excel at it? I just don't find the case for it compelling at all. From any viewer in linux I can launch others applications or have complex workflows.

As for ShareX: Spectacle (default in KDE) covers the capture end (snips, ocr, edit, etc), and then of course uploading is simple enough with various tools. Automation is easy.

Although I gotta give ShareX some love. I used to use it at work, it was great at the time. Being open source made it even better.

I switched from synapse to continuwuity about 9 months ago and it has been a MUCH better experience. Also switched from Element to Sable recently and it is a much more comfortable and reliable client. Not much more complicated to set up than Discord IMHO.

Judged by what it does, not how it was written. The “AI slop” label is rampant — Flathub PR queues, Reddit, everywhere — and it routinely dismisses good software with no actual review behind it. FlatPark refuses that reflex: every app here was built, run, and reviewed against a published bar — the only labels we apply are ones we can defend

Was it all reviewed by the same LLM that wrote all the text on the website?

And it was hard to explain to friends/family how to set it up.

That's why I gave up on self hosting it. I can sit here and mess around with recovery keys and verification and whatever else, but if the people that would use it with me can't just sign up and chat, then I've got no one to talk to. They don't care much about privacy, which I'm finding is most people.

Why would ppl use group chat for 100+ ppl, just why? Should not something like Lemmy plus Notification suit the role better? I saw ppl use group chat as gallery sharing but when I saw it is WhatsApp, wechat, line... Well, those big corp deserve it.

You need several different apps to do the same as Irfanview. Yes, there are several image viewer for Linux, also multimedia viewer, image editors, batch converters, etc., but not all in one like Irfanview. Same for ShareX, there is no other with editor, screenshot, screencast, OCR, of any type of files, uploader customizable and more. The nearest alternative is Greenshot, but also not for Linux, only for Windows and Mac. It is a fact, most soft for Linux exist also for Windows, not the other way arround.

It's more that wine tries but often fails silently for some reason, hopefully this is more user friendly and will actually just tell me "you need .net framework click here to install" and that sort of thing.

Oh awesome, I had misunderstood that paragraph as it being a VM solution like Winboat, but your clarification makes the project much more exciting

Now for comparison's sake, try snikket, or even barebones ejabberd on a (featuresfriendliness) vs (admin overheadserver resources) basis. Mix in some https://mov.im/ if you must.

The fact that simply opening the store gives you a faceful of AI slop (12 out of 15 apps on the front page), and the editor picks are almost exclusively slop or partially slopped (one application without explicit AI code in it), it does paint a pretty clear picture of them allowing more of it compared to flathub.

I don't think either Sharex or Irfanview are superior to the alternatives. What is one thing that you can do with Irfanview that I can't do elsewhere? I am familiar with the program, its ok for what it is.

ugh matrix sucks and I wish it wasn't the preferred form of communication for everyone on fedi.

once fluxxer gets federation I'm gonna be done with matrix forever.

Criticism of the matrix protocol: https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html.

I will not access the posted video as it's hosted on hostile infrastructure. I request that the author share their videos in a way that honours freedom. Continuing to use the current provider is to enforce the existing monopoly on video distribution and is counter productive to libre software. I will list some viable alternatives: Mediagoblin: https://mediagoblin.org/; Peertube: https://joinpeertube.org/; or via BitTorrent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent.

I will not use the matrix protocol due to its origin with Israel's intelligence community. Its design is nonsensical in the contexts of liberty, privacy and cryptography. However the design is strikingly coherent if the goal was to design an encrypted communication protocol that was 'decentralised', but still auditable by external agents. This design is why government agencies would consider its adoption, but knowing its origins I can not endorse it.

The full context of the paragraph, which is important here:

A virtual machine boots a guest operating system. Raven instead implements Windows interfaces through these guest components and supervisor services. Wine also implements Windows interfaces; the distinction here is how Raven divides that work and supervises the guest, rather than whether system libraries exist inside the application’s process.

I'm not entirely understanding this, but it sounds like a hybrid concept between WINE and a virtual machine. So its only partially virtualized.

I use eg ShareX and Irfanview, only two examples of a lot of apps for Windows only, superior to anything from Linux alternatives, for Gamers (despite there are changings in last years) there are also only an limited catalogue for Linux in comparision (even worse in Mac), same also in the case of official and professional apps. Windows has the biggest catalogue of software of all other OS (even FOSS), don't confuse it. The strong and advantage of Linux is other, but not respect the list of high quality soft. This in the future may change, but currently Windows is the, by far most used OS and because of this, also the most devs of soft for it. So an good working Windows emulator for Linux isn't a bad idea and for sure usefull for a lot of users.

Ha yeah!! I wish there was a way like piefed does where it gets a collection of requests all at once rather than just DDOSing tiny servers.

I tried a couple. Synapse was the one I did the longest if I recall.

I've said that before, but the O(N²) issue with E2E encryption only exists in an ideological sense. If your group chat is large enough that the overhead is unbearable, you don't have a private and secure group chat to begin with, just because a group chat of this magnitude is very much public by definition.

With that said, you can keep server logs encrypted while avoiding the payload/key rotation explosion by using static keys (available since forever with PGP in XMPP) or wait the decade (but most probably, the eternity) that it will take for MLS to be bolted on top of Matrix (and the new protocol design that this entails due to the absence of guarantee about messages ordering)

My CPU on my tiny server was being used like crazy for matrix.

Have you tried joining a community with 50k or so users in it on a fresh Synapse instance? Your network gets absolutely beat into the ground because it needs to synchronize with every other instance apart of that community, I have had power outages occur and whenever my server would start back up Synapse would just DDOS my network due to how many request it needs to make to stay in sync.

My poor PiHoles flooded with synapse queries.

Host my own Lemmy instance and have yet to experience the same federation troubles I get with Synapse.

Thankfully there really aren't any windows (only) applications worth running. So no need.