Hacker News: JadedBlueEyes

Mayhem's Legacy: Why MetaBrainz Matters More Than Ever

JadedBlueEyes — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:07:26 +0000

Article URL: https://compassmapandkey.com/2026/04/18/mayhems-legacy-why-metabrainz-matters-more-than-ever-and-why-were-looking-for-someone-to-lead-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842262

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Vibe Coding Trip Making a sponsor panel

JadedBlueEyes — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:09:52 +0000

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/vibe-coding-sponsor-panel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302115

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

JadedBlueEyes — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:13:11 +0000

I got the ThinkPhone as a consumer (via lenovo.com) and am quite happy with it.

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages"

JadedBlueEyes — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:31:33 +0000

Yet again [0] quality standards seem to have slipped on the cloudflare blog. I'm not able to point at a cause, but it's not painting a pretty picture.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781516

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

JadedBlueEyes — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:37:45 +0000

You might want to move to a maintained fork like https://continuwuity.org if you haven't already

Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't

JadedBlueEyes — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:45:45 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/115967791152135761

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781516

Points: 579

# Comments: 211

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver"

JadedBlueEyes — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:44:43 +0000

This is vibe coded and filled with trivially proven false claims - the most blatant to me being that Tuwunel does not and has never used Postgres or Redis,

https://tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/115967791152135761

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

JadedBlueEyes — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:30:05 +0000

https://jade.ellis.link - My blog, plus a bit of a personal link directory.

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

JadedBlueEyes — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:44:40 +0000

https://rimgo.vern.cc/a/1un20s7

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

JadedBlueEyes — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:13:35 +0000

FTR the server stats are from https://matrixrooms.info/stats. It's not a full view of the network but it's a reasonable sampling, based on servers discovered through public room aliases and servers that use it as a notary (trusted key server).

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

JadedBlueEyes — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:27:49 +0000

This doesn't really excuse it, but to give you some idea of why Element haven't spent any time on dendrite right now, here's a sample of active servers on the federation as of today:

    2025-12-01
    synapse : 10068 (85.8%)
    conduit : 476 (4.1%)
    dendrite : 369 (3.1%)
    continuwuity : 303 (2.6%)

To add on to that, none of their customers use it, and there's no real community around it, unlike the independent Conduit-family servers that make up that remaining 11%.

Dendrite was a bet for two things: Could they make synapse faster? Yes. Synapse is faster now, and Synapse Pro is apparently even faster. And, can we make Matrix peer to peer? They ran out of money, and didn't have any customers who would fund it themselves. They're left with this project that is idling without a community, a customer, or a reason to exist.

Apparently, they have some funding to do work on the foundational parts of p2p now, but that will take a long time, and Dendrite is unlikely to be a part of that for a while, possibly at all (the Rust ecosystem seems to be where Element invested their time on the client, while Beeper invested in Go).

In the end, a lot of Element's pain is because of ambitious technical decisions made without a way to back them up practically or business wise. Things would be amazing if everyone working on Matrix had infinite time and money. Unfortunately, they don't, and Element is eating the consequences for acting like they did for a while. They seem to be better now, though.

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

JadedBlueEyes — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:48:56 +0000

> Synapse is the only choice that supports bridges

This is not true, at least today. Continuwuity, which is an alternative server implementation, and its predecessors support bridges very well.

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart"

JadedBlueEyes — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:00:38 +0000

If you look it up, you'll see that JMAP is 6 years old now. It's a protocol for doing email (and now other things) over HTTP, without many of the legacy issues from IMAP and SMTP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Meta_Application_Protocol / https://jmap.io/index.html

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights"

JadedBlueEyes — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:00:58 +0000

Aside from the other comments, I would say that a modern chat application is anything but 'simple' - there are a vast amount of features that you expect, from pinned messages to file downloads to threads, to say nothing of end to end encryption.

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights"

JadedBlueEyes — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:52:56 +0000

the Matrix foundation is a UK company.

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights"

JadedBlueEyes — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:40:37 +0000

You do have to keep bridges up to date, because they need to remain compatible with the internal APIs of other platforms. Beeper.com (mentioned by a sibling comment) is a commercial deployment of the mautrix matrix bridges, along with some propietary components. You can deploy the exact same bridges using their documentation: https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/ - although you won't have access to the propietary beeper client or hungryserv.

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "Ink deformation"

JadedBlueEyes — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:06:28 +0000

Ink and switch is a research lab. As far as I'm aware, they're not a building any specific products, just exploring what is possible for human computer interactions

The Internet Roadtrip Pathfinder

JadedBlueEyes — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:57:29 +0000

Article URL: https://matdoes.dev/internet-roadtrip-pathfinder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45088186

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

AI Can't Help You Write Well

JadedBlueEyes — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:36:08 +0000

Article URL: https://jade.ellis.link/blog/2025/08/18/ai-can%27t-help-you-write-well

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44950458

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by JadedBlueEyes in "I hacked my washing machine"

JadedBlueEyes — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:25:25 +0000

Nex is a cybersecurity student in a house of similar people, they're gonna take every way :3

quote:

> The plan is, in future, since we can't hack something that doesn't have a brain, to instead attach a brain to it. The dishwasher is easy, we can just whack that on a smart plug and monitor when the power use surges and drops. The dryer is a bit more difficult, since they pull a LOT of power, and smart plugs typically either don't support that much power, or are incredibly expensive. So that's likely going to be some fancy vibration sensor-based thingy