Actually those animated gifs might have been better than all those "me too", since a text-only post informing about the situation would have stuck out much better.

It's like a relay/proxy/bouncer but actually uses its own protocol between the GUI and core, so you get infinite backscroll, proper sync when running multiple GUI instances at the same time etc. Oh and there is a decent Android client called quasseldroid.

[1] https://quassel-irc.org/

Great that these claims always come with no links to any halfway credible source.

Just like a few days ago this guy claiming in another thread that the hospitals weren't actually newly built but just some re-purposed resort facilities, with the construction videos being fake. Suuure.

Telegram for example doesn't exactly tick the "not as questionable" box for me, not least because it isn't entirely open source either, but also because I always find it weird if someone is pouring money into software that is available for free, with no obvious benefit for them in return.

As an American it's probably easy to make a choice here, but as a 3rd party I'm not so sure. The US has definitely wreaked more havoc across the globe during the past century, from overthrowing democratic governments to bombing the shit out of countries. The Chinese are reckless whenever they see someone threatening their authority, but egoistically speaking, that 99% applies to Chinese nationals or people living in China. Not my problem.

If my country would go with US equipment, I already know they will get all my data because of things like the patriot act and all the niceties Snowden revealed the NSA et al have.

The Chinese probably have the same, but we don't know anything definitive, which makes it more scary, also they are evil commies. But then again, having access to telco infra only means they get meta data, since traffic is all encrypted nowadays, while the US still gets all my content thanks to Facebook/WhatsApp, Google/Gmail, Amazon, ..., no matter what the 5G equipment is. So is it safer to then say you better buy the 5G stuff from the US so only one party can steal all your data?

Also that person chiming in calling Jimmy anti-capitalist cracked me up.

Oh an OT: WTF is a cashtag? I'm not using Twitter, the linkified $BSV in the very first message was new to me, and on hover the URL reveals it's a cashtag. I'm feeling old.

This was impossible to debug. You could send some signal (USR1 or 2 iirc) to sssd to force it into online mode, we even tried a crude script that would run after system resume and spam sssd with that signal for a minute to no avail. Shortly after I left that department the decision was made to move to Centrify. It's a pita in other ways apparently, but everything I know about it is just from hearsay from old colleagues aynways.

Since they traveled to Wuhan in December, from then to last week, that would've been more than 24 days, so in case they did not get sick yet and I read that wrong, it should also be pretty much impossible, since that would be the longest incubation period of ncov by quite a bit.

When I saw his LAN gaming center I though it would be cool if he'd retry that project for that. :->

And they might actually achieve this there, since SSSD is another abomination that kinda does that and mostly works, but once it doesn't and you try to debug it, you want to stab yourself in the brain with a dumb object.

For any other distro, I very much hope this thing is not enabled or even installed by default. Since I don't get the complaints about ecryptfs. I've been using it since around 2012 on multiple machines, multiple dist-upgrades and password changes and it never failed me once. Oh and SSHing into the machine works as expected!