hendrik

Thank you very much for the info. I did the switch today, along with the overdue update to 25.05 and everything went smoothly ☺️

I think they have push notifications in XMPP these days. At least Prosody has modules like mod_unified_push and mod_cloud_notify and that seems to be supported for example by Conversations.im

To be honest, I didn’t have lots of battery drain, back when I used XMPP. And other old-school protocols like e-mail and sip voip don’t seem to be very bad either with whatever mechanisms they use. Or my phone isn’t reporting battery drain correctly… And with Matrix I also had to set up push notifications manually, or it’d just receive messages with a random delay per default.

There are a bunch of options available. I think the exact layout depends on the exact use-case. From GlusterFS, Ceph, to (S3 compatible) block storage, to straightforward NFS, to database replication, that’s all for different use-cases like VM failover to decoupling storage from a service, to something like a Jellyfin sharing the media library with another service, to horizontal scaling of services… I don’t think there is a single answer to all of that.

No worries, I pressed PieFed’s notification bell, so you pinged me by adding the top-level comment about the update 😊 I happen to be using NixOS as well. So it’s going to be the same. Now lets hope this project turns out good.

Thanks for your update here. Decision seems pretty easy then. I’ll see if I can find some time next week, do a database snapshot and move to continuwuity as well.

I’m in the same boat. Keep me updated if you go forwards. I think I’m going to wait 2 more weeks or so and then make a decision. Community-driven sounds nice. I wasn’t aware of cuntinuwuity yet. And yes, all the drama and burnt-out people isn’t nice or healthy at all. It’s a shame that this is the state of messengers these days.

Yeah, generative AI is a good point.

I’m not sure with the computer scientists, though. It’s certainly not any task, that’d be AGI. And it’s not necessarily connected to humans either. Sure they’re the prime example of intelligence (whatever it is). But I think a search engine is AI as well, depending how it’s laid out. And text to speech, old-school expert systems. A thermostat that controls your heating with a machine learning model might count as well, I’m not sure about that. And that’s not really like human cognitive tasks. Closer to curve fitting, than anything else. The thermostat includes problem-solving, learning, perception, knowledge, and planning and decision making. But on the human intelligence score it wouldn’t even be a thing that compares.

And “intelligence” itself isn’t very well defined either. So the only word that remains is “artificial”, and we can agree on that.

I usually try to avoid the word “AI”. I’ll say “LLM” if I talk about chatbots, ChatGPT etc. Or I use the term “machine learning” when broadly speaking about the concept of computers learning and doing such things. It’s not exactly the same thing, though. But when reading other people’s texts I always think of LLMs when they say AI, because that’s currently what they mean almost every time. And AGI is more sci-fi as of now, so it needs some disclaimers and context anyway.