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2025-11-12 21:52:52 UTC

I rarely read #philosophy books, but one caught my eye, and I'm reading it. Is also about #psychology ("Adlerian psychology")
"The Courage to be Disliked", by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
'Say there’s someone who worries about himself and says, “I am a pessimist.” One could rephrase that to instead say, “I have a pessimistic view of the world.” You could consider that the issue is not personality but rather the view of the world. It seems that the word “personality” is nuanced and suggests being unchangeable. But if we’re talking about a view of the world, well, then, that should be possible to alter.'
#Buddhism also agrees strongly here, in that people have "dittis" (views), rather than speaking of distinct personalities. These views can goi very deep, and can be foundational for a sense of core identity. But this is _anatta_ ("not-self"); isn't set in stone.
#books #reading

2025-05-19 13:57:17 UTC

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they're intermittent bugs, making them hard to reproduce. unreproducable bugs - on your side - cost the most effort to prove the clear existence of.

2025-05-19 08:02:55 UTC

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I've been using #Monal for about a month casually, and as much as I wish I could like it, I feel it's the Achilles heel of the whole #XMPP ecosystem. #iPadOS is left without a really good native XMPP client. It's lackluster at best and occasionally buggy.

2025-04-25 12:11:04 UTC

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Another anecdote: A friend of mine in the #Philippines couldn't connect to my #XMPP server in #Singapore, *until* he turned on a VPN with an exit node in Singapore. There's all sorts of strange QOS rules lurking in the various ISPs' routers here in Asia.

2025-04-25 08:36:50 UTC

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I'm OK with all these hostnames being split up in XMPP, but as to using all those non-443 ports... sooner or later, a "standard" #XMPP server will surely heavily use ALPN and port 443.

2025-04-25 01:48:08 UTC

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Thanks for that, but I'm puzzled how the various #XMPP-related hostnames (like upload.example.com, proxy.example.com) get assigned/bound to different kinds of traffic in that nginx config.

2025-04-24 22:19:37 UTC

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any tutorial for that, which you can link to?

2025-04-24 11:30:01 UTC

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it uploaded to the XMPP's server's port 5281. It's a #prosody server which I run.

2025-04-24 07:59:37 UTC

I tried out the #ooni network tester app from #FDroid. I have good connectivity here in #Malaysia, both from a cellular SIM card connection, and the monastery wifi (a fiber internet connection).
But alas, the Ooni tests don't test for #XMPP, in their instant messaging apps testing! Only #Facebook, #Signal, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger are tested for, apparently. I do have trouble with XMPP, on the fiber internet here. Insidiously, brief XMPP text messages can be sent, but any video memo (say, 40MB in size, about 4 min worth of video) will only 1% upload, then get stuck. Attempts to resend will keep getting stuck. It seems that the XMPP traffic gets throttled to nothing after a small amount of data is sent: say, 400kb or so. I *can* send these video memos from my cellular SIM card connection.
I wish Ooni could have warned me about this, as it caused a friend to not receive a video memo for about 10 days, until I caught on to what was happening.

2025-03-04 23:57:07 UTC

I'm taking another timeless read through Aesop's fables. This is sort of like #Buddhism's Jataka Tales, but for Westerner culture.
"The Wolf And The Lamb"
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.” Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.” “No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.” Again said the Wolf, “You drink of my well.” “No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.” Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.” The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Translated by George Fyler Townsend

2025-02-24 01:35:27 UTC

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I too have been doing some similar evaluating of alternatives. I would recommend adding:
- #Zulip (Slack, #Mattermost competitor) More info: https://c.im/@sbb/114034480079879818
- #Conversations/ #Gajim/ #Prosody (is similarly E2E encrypted, but additionally federated, unlike Signal), this is my #XMPP "stack" at present (more info: https://c.im/@sbb/114032786446300932 )
- #DeltaChat (is federated, unlike #Signal) More info: https://c.im/@sbb/114043962394278098
- #flarum , a forum similar to Discourse, but will run on a #RaspberryPi, unlike Discourse
- #calibre-web for your ebook collection
- #shiori, for private cloud bookmarks
#OpenSource

2025-02-21 21:19:26 UTC

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+1 for Deltachat. Requires an auto-crypt-compatible email address. @npub1tk7…0m5c , would you please add #deltachat compatible auto-crypt goodness to your offerings?
PS: I have tuta, proton, and posteo.net email addresses (and thanks for the free service!). I pay for, and favor the posteo.net one the most. Why? Because of the auto-crypt support. (BTW: I am not paid in any way to endorse one over the other.)

2025-02-20 08:44:20 UTC

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Since #Android is so much more overwhelmingly popular in #India than #iOS, it makes sense to make a push for #XMPP/#Prav there. iOS/MacOS XMPP clients are sort of the Achilles heel of the XMPP world, but this won't really be an issue in India! Nice one, Prav! Prav cleverly turned this "weakness" into a strength. :dy62:
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/india

2025-02-19 21:57:14 UTC

Even though #Signal *itself* has sound security - taken in isolation - it's always moored in an ecosystem (that of smartphones which run #iOS or #Android) which, by default, have #AI set up to shoulder-surf Signal, sending reports back to the mothership. In #iOS, that AI is called "#Apple Intelligence", and in #Android, it's called #Google Assistant. Repeat, these are on by default. *Only a small percentage of your family, friends, colleagues, and fellow country-persons will pain-stakingly disable these.*
Sure, Signal itself is secure by default, but "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link". And the weakest link is the ecosystem which Signal is moored in - that of smartphones policed and patrolled by AI, which report back to their respective motherships *in a strong majority of cases*.
Alternatives like #Deltachat (for normies willing to open their wallets/purses to rent an auto-crypt-compatible email address) and #XMPP (easily free to use, however realistic and mature only for non-iOS/#MacOS-users at present) have comparable E2E encryption. Deltachat and XMPP *don't* require smart-phone "moorings" - thereby making it much more realistic to dodge the almost-pervasively AI-patrolled ecosystems.
#infosec

2025-02-18 10:59:49 UTC

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"I think an issue is still the state of the ios clients."
Can you please tell me more? What is lacking, as you see it?

2025-02-18 05:56:17 UTC

#XMPP enthusiasts out there: what would you say the ultimate Achilles heel of the XMPP ecosystem is, at present? Fragmentation of clients? What?
My sense is that it's this: when one goes to store an XMPP address in one's addressbook, there doesn't seem to be standard way to store an XMPP address. #Android doesn't have that as an allowable field, and #Thunderbird and #Nextcloud have an "Instant Messaging" field, where the type can be set to "XMPP". But are these two compatible with each other when trying to sync between them? Edit: Yes, but there's a catch: *the XMPP address must be prefixed with "xmpp:"*
So "user@foo.bar" is not an OK XMPP address, but "xmpp:user@foo.bar" is.
Then to make matters worse, now there's a wish to change the labeling of "XMPP Address" to "Chat ID": https://gultsch.social/@daniel/114012904576436518
It might be a long time before the address synchy-ness ever works again between Android <-> #Davx5 <-> Nextcloud <->Thunderbird
Note: Android allows a "Jabber" type for an IM address, where you *don't* prefix the address with "xmpp:".
(#DeltaChat gets to gloat hard here, as they have plain-old email addresses)
#prosody #conversations #gajim #dino #snikket #monocles #monal

2025-02-11 02:36:12 UTC

I'll be teaching a week-long, in-person #meditation retreat here at Brahmavihara monastery, Melaka, #Malaysia. This is from Feb 15 to 23, 2025.
#Buddhism #Buddhist

2025-02-07 22:18:47 UTC

After taking a closer look at #XMPP clients for the #linux desktop, there's this frustrating "tie" for finding a favorite.
#Dino, which is likeable for being able to do video and audio calls, only has limited support for multi-user chat (complete with fancy moderation tools). These audio and video calls it can do are AMD64-only at this time.
#Gajim, which is likeable for being able to do multi-user chat well (with great moderation tools), alas, can't do audio and video calls to the other XMPP clients (like, say, #Conversations, as they use a newer #WebRTC-based method now).
So there's this strange situation where one is tempted to use both at the same time.
My takeaway is that #Conversations for #Android is the only xmpp client that I would possibly and carefully recommend to family and friends at this time, as it can cover all of the above. (#Monal on #iOS/#MacOS only has "partial" support for Multi-user chat, BTW.)
Yes I'm aware of the existence of Snikket, Quicksy, and Prav. No need to chime in on those.

2025-02-03 00:02:13 UTC

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I looked at the "XMPP Software Comparison" page:
https://xmpp.org/software/software-comparison/
...and put my 4 favorite #XMPP clients in there: #Conversations #Gajim #Dino and #Monal. It compares compatibility across many XEPs.
Alas, when it comes to #OMEMO, no distinction is made as to the version of OMEMO.
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2024-11-29 23:27:08 UTC

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albeit crude, sometimes you've just got to hand it to Skeletor when he slams it out of the park.

2024-11-24 21:44:44 UTC

Some of the nice flowers here at Wisdom Park retreat center, near KL:
#Malaysia #meditation #Buddhism
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2024-11-06 22:55:39 UTC

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Part 2: More exquisite Quan Yin sculptures here at Brahmavihara #Buddhist monastery, Melaka, #Malaysia
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2024-11-06 04:45:58 UTC

I'm visiting Brahmavihara Monastery in Melaka, #Malaysia. Lots of great #Buddhist art here, among other things. The first 3 #photos are #KuanYin, and also some bonus #owls
#photography #sculpture
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2024-07-26 21:57:14 UTC

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Have you ever read Susan Pinker's "The Village Effect"? It has research relevant to what you're trying to understand.
BTW: She was on TED here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptIecdCZ3dg
Also relevant:
"Kitestring: Friendship project":
https://www.hinterlandlab.com/case/kitestring
#psychology

2024-03-18 05:51:34 UTC

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...said #Dhamma Talk video "Tasteful Dharma Poetry":
https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2024/03/18/Dhamma_Talk_137.html
#Buddhist #dharma #Theravada #Malaysia
Topics: Poetry, Mahayana, Monastic culture, Holy Life, Jhanas, not-self, anatta, atta, atman, #Hinduism, integration of insight into daily living, maintaining one’s peace of heart, maintaining #mindfulness despite various distractions, Classic #Taoism, Chuang Tzu, the simile of the shoes that fit well, and the belt that doesn’t pinch; a lifestyle and relationship with #technology where it just disappears
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2024-03-18 02:02:22 UTC

I'll be doing a live-stream Dhamma Talk soon entitled "Tasteful Dharma Poetry".
Visible here, **ad-free**, live-streamed (starting in 30 min from the time of this post):
https://bhikkhu.ca/video_dhamma_talks/
Sincere questions are also invited (there is a live chat server), or DM me, for perhaps answering on a future livestream.
The recorded video will be posted later (non-live) here:
https://bhikkhu.ca/
#Buddhist #Buddhism #Dhamma #Dharma #Theravada