greengnu

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

it would be better if one could git clone the wiki

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

unless the people make their power felt, they have no power but when they do the politicians respond to that power (not the individual people).

Most government systems tend to require submissions (licensing, welfare benefits, birth certificates, etc)

Easier makes it possible for low level employees to add support, harder requires political buy-in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Wrong Mom.

Remember, not everyone is born to the parents that deserve them and unfortunately I am sorry I made that mistake. Your bio-mom choosing to be a religious nutcase was why I left her. You deserved better and that is why I married your actual mom (although she wishes you stopped calling her Melissa and start calling her Mom) and she does care about you; even if you think she puts too much sugar in her cookies.

much love,

-Dad

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just focus on being your honest, authentic self.

No one trying to be cool, is cool.

The cool teacher is the one who authentically loves to teach and you'll only discover that if you find that you love teaching.

Also, trust me; you'll want to teach Queen. It is a classic for a reason.

-Love Dad

PS, call your mother more. She worries.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

no, the government doesn't serve the people it serves power.

Unless power thinks you as a group are worth the effort, they will ignore your mailed documents, state you failed to file paper work and you now have to deal with (problems incurred due to not having completed the paper work).

Paper processes are going away. Oh, they will keep mailing you stuff for a while but nations and states are implementing SSO systems and the scanning/indexing systems are disappearing. Replaced by "You scan and upload" combined with you extract the relevant bits so we can cut staffing again.

But the point was, there are no good XMPP libraries that would enable a willing government to easily onboard that support. If there were, it would be a very different discussion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Queen is the answer to most music questions; including teaching.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Well, my precious child.

Your mother has been telling you to write more but I guess I should have been calling you more often.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My general Digitizing VHS tapes advise is:

Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQioCb4KUHM

Look into:

https://legacybox.com/products/vhs-conversion

https://lotusmedia.us/convert-tapes/

https://www.memoriesrenewed.com/video-transfer-services/

and only if you have a shitload of personal VHS tapes should you get a TV tuner card and try to convert.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

let me know if they actually end up having full capacity, because slow drives I can deal with. That price per TB is close enough to spinning metal to finally tip the scale for me towards SSDs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

ok, lets just assume xmpp is reliable enough to use. And a government agency is will to adopt it to prove that all out.

What libraries for Java/C# are available under an FSF approved license that would enable one to securely send XMPP messages to the public?

As governments don't like being mailed or emailed anything. They want you to login to a thin wrapper around a database and perform basic data entry so that they don't have to pay someone to do that data entry.

They are only going to message you to deal with password resets or data entry tasks they want you to do (legally required renewals, reviews, etc).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I know but your aim is getting better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Well governments will use any open standard that can reliably contact individuals (as that is the easiest way to do their jobs) That is why the 3 most supported options are:

  • mail
  • phone
  • email

They would use IRC, XMPP, Matrix, etc if they would reliably send you a message and enable them to reliably receive messages from you. The problem is that those options are not reliable.

The other alternative is they provide a website (that they control) that you can login in to but it is then on you to routinely login and people are bad at that and thus few organizations even support that approach.

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