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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • picnic@kbin.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Belief or Betrayal? Ukraine’s Conscientious Objectors Face Hostility.
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    1 year ago

    Thing is, while I cant of course completely fathom these alternate service requesters’ pain as the alternative is horrible war, I served my time in the compulsory military service back in the day. And the alternative to that was jail time at worst.

    As citizens, while people have righs, they have duties, as well. Protecting your family, friends and country is supposed to be your duty, while that hasnt really been the case in the west really in a long time (specifically protecting YOUR contry from aggressors), its something I feel I’m obligated to participitate in.

    It’s something one should do when the government calls because tomorrow it might be too late, and there’s no coming back from losing in this battle

  • picnic@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How many people here have actually used XMPP?
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    1 year ago

    You’re not getting an objective answer to the “did most of the Gtalk/Facebook messenger users even know they were using xmpp, or care?” from lemmy/kbin/fediverse users in 2023, as most here likely do care a wee bit more of the technical and privacy matters than the average joe.

    However, I used XMPP personally via integrating it to my irc (weechat+bitlbee) so I could get all the IM services under one interface. I’m doing the same now with Matrix: I have irc, whatsapp, my smart home messages etc all forwarded to matrix.

    We also built XMPP chat at our company which I was working for back in the day. I think it was called Jabber back then. Biggest drawback in my opinion was the lack of encryption out of the box - encryption should’ve been more integrated to XMPP from the get go, instead of being an extension.

    XMPP/Jabber is once again a thing that could’ve been great for everyone. We could have one singular decentralized technology to IM which would’ve been open to all and interoperable. If approx 20% of the world’s population has a google account and 35% facebook account, at least every third person in the world would’ve been reachable via XMPP. And if it would’ve reached critical mass, it would’ve likely been even bigger.