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NixOS 26.05 24 days ago

Removed 17532 outdated packages, in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure.

Thanks for this! I appreciate the acknowledgement that more software in nixpkgs is not necessarily better.

AFAIK the proprietary server can glean your IP, your phone number, who you talk to, and when you talk to them. This type of metadata is valuable information.

To the best of my knowledge, so can matrix.org or whatever servers you connect and federate to. This is required to route messages between users. What is your point?

your code

3P code is a thing

why

Sometimes there are edge cases with nil pointers that testing missed.

automatically restart

What about all of the other requests in flight? Letting those fail because one request hit an edge case isn't great for a production service with high throughput.

You can also phrase it a little more gently.

"I plan to start on this on X date, let me know if you have any concerns."

And send a reminder so that you're giving them multiple chances to respond.

I suspect that what you receive is determined client-side in software, and with some reverse engineering, you could force it to send you whatever quality you want (as long as your subscription allows for that quality level).