Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Ciro Santilli's discord ID: cirosantilli#8921. See also: how to contact Ciro Santilli.

You gotta be born after the year 2000 to understand it.

This is becoming more and more popular as a group chat with channels and threads possibility as of 2020.

Very similar to Slack.

No user URLs? support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360041519131-UserProfilesLinks

They force your username to have 4 random digits? www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43kjdl/whats_the_number_next_to_the_username/

Not possible to anonymously join just one server without creating a new account? What's the point of servers then! www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/6gmjl7/changing_nick_before_joining_a_new_server/ Oh, also nicks don't hide your username from the server in any way, you can get the original username by just clicking on the person's username.

No proper threaded discussion without creating new channels? As of 2022 there is kind of a way, but it was a bit obtuse.

As of 2022 they also have a school hub: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406046651927-Discord-Student-Hubs-FAQ which auto creates groups by university email access. Good idea, and shows popularity amongst that user group.

Servers don't have an ID to join them? www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/b9zdt6/join_discord_server_from_id/

Can only make public servers if you have 1000 members?? support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023968311 Why so much bullshit?? www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/6jouf8/how_do_i_make_my_server_public/

Also asked at: webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/163441/how-to-create-a-public-discord-server-that-anyone-can-join-without-an-invite

Ciro Santilli worked on it for a brief time in 2016, when it was still called Ring, before he got fired. :-)

The people were quite nice and the project idea is fine, Ciro hopes they succeed.

No chat only? .... community.jitsi.org/t/chat-function-only/79067

As of 2020: end-to-end encryption optional and turned off as default, and marked as experimental...

Appears to be based on XMPP: community.jitsi.org/t/jitsi-users-is-jitsi-a-regular-xmpp-server/13211

Basic must haves:

Other cool stuff:

TODO what's the fucking official discussion/feature request forum?

Feature overview:

Not end-to-end encrypted by default, WTF... you have to create "secret chats" for that:

You can't sync secret chats across devices, Signal handles that perfectly by sending E2EE messages across devices:This is a deal breaker because Ciro needs to type with his keyboard.

Desktop does not have secret chats: www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/9beku1/telegram_desktop_secret_chat/ This is likey because it does not store chats locally, it just loads from server every time as of 2019: www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/baqs63/where_are_chats_stored_on_telegram_desktop/ just like the web version. So it cannot have a private key.

Allows you to register a public username and not have to share phone number with contacts: telegram.org/blog/usernames-and-secret-chats-v2.

Has Reproducible builds on Android and iOS: core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds

Self deleting messages added to secret chats in Q1 2021: telegram.org/blog/autodelete-inv2

Can delete messages from the device of the person you sent it to, no matter how old.

Claimed to remove metadata from servers unless legally obliged to collect it: www.quora.com/Does-WhatsApp-store-messages-on-its-servers-or-is-all-deleted-after-delivery-and-only-stored-on-recipients-phones/answer/Ciro-Santilli

They've had a few breaches: www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/

They claim to delete metadata: www.quora.com/Does-WhatsApp-store-messages-on-its-servers-or-is-all-deleted-after-delivery-and-only-stored-on-recipients-phones/answer/Ciro-Santilli

The 3D structure of GFP is so cool. It is so clearly a bottle with a fluorescent bit well isolated right in the middle. Like a little lamp.

OMG those devs are brutes, it's beautiful.

Nice, nice place. Natural sciences only, no bullshit.

Not really dedicated to open source course material, nor to free courses...

The "Open" in its name only made sense in the 60's, when it was founded, nowadays, there isn't much about this institution that is very different compared to traditional Oxbridge. "Cheap more online university" would be a more adequate name for it.

A system that would truly live up to the name "Open" in the year 2020 is the one described at the ideal university by Ciro Santilli.

Wikipedia even says that the initial focus was on broadcasting learning material on television and radio, so what happened to that now that we have an even more powerful on-demand tool called Internet!

They even created their own MOOC website, FutureLearn. But www.freecodecamp.org/news/massive-open-online-courses-started-out-completely-free-but-where-are-they-now-1dd1020f59/ mentions:OMG. God why.

A few open sources at: www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses. The 5-hour course on particle physics says it all. Stated as of 2023 at www.open.ac.uk/about/open-educational-resources/openlearn/free-learning:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj0rbafFBak What's an Open University Degree Like? by Luke Cutforth (2021) mentions that it is more autodidactic/online, and it encourages part time learning.

youtu.be/rsWwffX-u0A?t=99 Open University - How does it work? by Matt Greg Vlogs (2017) shows that they do have their own custom institutional material. And it is not open???? Please. youtu.be/rsWwffX-u0A?t=222 mentions that there is no entry exam, and you can change your courses at any time, that is good at least.

Israel apparently also created their own version in the 70's inspired by the British one: Open University of Israel. Same story it seems.

Located in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Second largest number of Nobel Prize as of 2019, need on say more? en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation&oldid=934987075

Their only undergraduate courses that matter: