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  1. Show HN: A modern XMPP client in Tcl/Tk (github.com)

    I've been building Tacky, a desktop XMPP client in Tcl/Tk 9. It's pre-alpha, but it has working OMEMO and audio/video calls compatible with modern clients like Conversations/Dino. It's meant to be trivially…

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  2. Ask HN: Why is Android not just another GNU/Linux distro?

    I'm not asking why it's not classified as one, rather, why it wasn't made one. Android's goals seem to be: 1. Make the UI play well with touch screens 2. Restrict the user's freedom And I just don't see how either of…

    15 points 35
  3. Ask HN: Why do smartphones and SoCs require a custom build per model unlike PCs?

    Take Linux distros for x86: there's a single .iso for all devices Linux supports at all, be that laptops, desktops, servers, etc. And my 10y.o. PC is still getting updates smoothly. But then if we look at say Armbian,…

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  5. Is XMPP any good? Also, let's write a client in Tcl, maybe (wusspuss.neocities.org)
    101 points 143
  6. Ask HN: Why does the modern web hate users?

    Twitter takes 20 seconds to load on my phone made in 2020. It then takes about 5-10 more seconds for me to close all the popups and that's IF it doesn't fail along the way (which it does sometimes), IF I don't misclick…

    64 points 89
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