Arathorn

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by Arathorn 1y ago
yup, for the last 5 years: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/06/cross-signing-and-end-to-...
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by Arathorn 1y ago
It’s ironic that the next graphical programming environment similar to Hypercard was probably Flash - and it obviously died too. What actually are the best successors now, at least for authoring generic apps for the open web? (Other than vi
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by Arathorn 1y ago
The ETA scams (which bit me when rushing through an eTA form when transiting through Canada a few years ago) are more sinister than just overcharging you by $70 - it looks horribly like they gather your passport details and way more persona
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> That is still a failure (to spam check), even if it is not a failure to deliver the messages altogether Yes, but it is not a single point of failure. You can have multiple different policy servers per room, or additional antispam rules
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> In any case, the single-point-of-failure server is needed to process all the messages and give the go/no go instruction to the larger network. No, it is not a SPOF. If the PS goes down, traffic keeps flowing as normal; it just doe
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Almost everything you’ve said here is false. Matrix’s DAG replication scales pretty well - eg rooms like matrix HQ with 65K users spread over 10K+ servers. Policy Servers are not a kludge, and they do not work by “routing all messages t
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by Arathorn 1y ago
https://matrix.org/support/ is how to support the Foundation, which uses the $ to keep the protocol independent and on track, and lets Matrix developers like Element spend more time building implementations.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
The strategy on Element has been to try to get sustainable by selling secure comms systems for governments - https://element.io/sectors , simply because govts have always been the main folks willing to fund Matrix dev (star
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Introducing Policy Servers(matrix.org)
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by Arathorn 2y ago
fwiw, there's a XEP for OIDC in XMPP from last year: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0493.html . ATproto is also moving to it as its primary auth mechanism: https://github.com/bluesky-social/a
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by Arathorn 2y ago
It's just because all the effort has gone into EX over the last ~2 years, and it's a way way way better app (even if it doesn't have threads/spaces yet). Meanwhile, Element One will support it shortly - the missing piece
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by Arathorn 2y ago
yup, encrypted metadata is very much on the roadmap. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/425... is one of the more recent proposals for it.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
MAS can be used as an OIDC IdP, and in future MAS will be embeddable in Synapse so you can use your homeserver as an IdP in the way you want, all in one package. That said, MAS is deliberately not a very featureful IdP - it's focused o
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by Arathorn 2y ago
MAS and Next Gen Auth open up the way to things like QR-login (complete with syncing all E2EE state and verification!) which should help enormously with common-case UX. See https://youtu.be/ZiRYdqkzjDU?t=966 for a demo of i
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by Arathorn 2y ago
That's .well-known based delegation, which was proposed in MSC1708 in Nov 2017: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/old... and merged into the spec in Jan 2019 (prior to Matrix 1.0 i
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Telegram certainly has an excellent UI/UX. On the Element side, its quality bar has very much been the target for Element X - and (in my biased opinion) we are getting very close, if not exceeding it in some places. For instance, we
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Element is the company formed by the team who created Matrix to work on Matrix, almost all of whom are still there; there is no falling out :) The Matrix Foundation is the non-profit set up by the Matrix team in 2018 to keep Matrix itself i
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by Arathorn 2y ago
The new authentication server (MAS) is at https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-authentication-service (AGPLv3) and entirely self-hostable - e.g. https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm for the bran
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by Arathorn 2y ago
fwiw, Matrix has had video rooms since 2022: https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-ro... - and VoIP calling since day one in 2014.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
On the Matrix side we still want to get back to working on this; it's just needs dedicated funding.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> What's funny is that Discord is scrolling smoothly and elegantly, while ElementX is stuttering and floundering and looking pretty bad graphically ... but ElementX definitely moves faster. Can I check which platform you are doing t
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by Arathorn 2y ago
I’m not sure I’m seeing what you’re describing. Here’s a screen recording of send performance (on fast internet, a few ms ping to the homeserver): https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/issues/3810 The f
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> But still not sure why Element X isn't featured more prominently on matrix.org then. That looks to be a snafu. It’s featured on https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/ for instance. > And surprised to
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by Arathorn 2y ago
This is probably because you’re using matrix.org, which hasn’t yet rolled out the new Matrix 2.0 authentication thet Element X uses (given it involves migrating 50M accounts or something). This is planned for March however.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
and if we had a dollar for every time someone said how much it sucked when they tried it 5 years ago, we’d have more than the $1.2M target! :D
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> But the software produced by the foundation is simply bad. The foundation produces things like the spec and the e2ee libs. The last time the foundation produced a client was in 2015, and servers in 2023 - in both instances the wider co
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by Arathorn 2y ago
iOS. I suspect you are hitting perf issues on Android due to lack of caching (which bite Android way more than iOS due to JNA being way slower for calling the rust-sdk than Swift’s rust bindings). This should be fixed by https://
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by Arathorn 2y ago
the frustrating thing is that Element X really did fix the encryption issues. getting people to give it a second chance is hard though.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
yup, only on mobile. Element on Desktop is yet to be revamped, but hopefully we’ll do so this year.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Element X exited beta in September, and is the preferred app from Element, as per https://element.io/app-for-productivity It doesn’t have threads or spaces yet; threads are underway currently; spaces will follow. Dendrite o

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