Arathorn

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by Arathorn 2y ago
This sounds very strange. Element X on iOS is a native Swift UI app, and for me (even in an enormous account) it’s super snappy - similar to WhatsApp or Telegram or iMessage. It’s not Electron, which is only for desktop apps; is there a cha
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by Arathorn 2y ago
hm, Element X should outperform other chat apps; mine does and I’m in 5000 odd rooms. What platform and hardware are you on?
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by Arathorn 2y ago
the thing that changed is that Element rewrote the mobile apps and made them not suck. Web will follow shortly: https://element.io/blog/we-have-lift-off-element-x-call-and-... etc
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by Arathorn 2y ago
because if your friends start roaming around the public Matrix network and find public chatrooms full of abusive content, then they will indeed be affected. see https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/building-a-safer
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by Arathorn 2y ago
guess that explains the weird unicode middots. wonder if it’s random or targeted; anti-matrix/element spam seems to be a thing since certain govts started relying on it.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
making progress actually: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/building-a-safer-matrix/
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by Arathorn 2y ago
https://matrix.org/docs/older/faq/ has our BTC and ETH addresses: Bitcoin (address: 1LxowEgsquZ3UPZ68wHf8v2MDZw82dVmAE) Ethereum (address: 0xA5f9a4f9E024F6D727f7afdA9257e22329A97485) Thank you for being up fo
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by Arathorn 2y ago
the old Element apps were; have you tried Element X?
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by Arathorn 2y ago
This is probably because we literally just deleted everything but Matrix-related rooms on the matrix.org room directory to deal with abuse: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/curated-room-directories/
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> I'm shocked that Matrix Foundation is considering shutting down if they don't raise $100K - what's going on behind the scenes here? That’s not what’s happening. The point is that running and maintaining bridges requires
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by Arathorn 2y ago
the $100k is to fund folks to maintain the bridge software, as well as the hardware costs of running them.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
The irony is that I suspect we have fixed it - eg Element X and Matrix 2.0 is a massive step change forwards; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHyHO3xPfQU etc. But I can see why bad experiences in the past would stick.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
It’s probably worth reading https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/building-a-safer-matrix/ for more context on that. (PS sorry for blasting you, if it was me :)
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> Afterwards, the Matrix devs admitted they knew about the side-channels in libolm for years and never bothered to fix them. For anyone reading: Matrix didn’t bother fixing libolm’s sidechannels because instead we switched to a new Rust
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by Arathorn 2y ago
total: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
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by Arathorn 2y ago
This is very cool. Can you disclose how much funding NixOS is getting via NGI Zero?
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by Arathorn 2y ago
no; that was a different thing: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/12/unrelated-cybercriminal-netw...
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by Arathorn 2y ago
It means that in the last few weeks, we’ve seen multiple large Matrix tenders go through the process described in the parent post, and say “hey, actually we’re just going to use your opensource stack for free.”. We were hoping to use the $
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Hi folks - based on the feedback here and on Mastodon, i've updated the original blog post to try to spell out that the point of Synapse Pro is not to hold back general performance work from open source Synapse, but just eliminate scal
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by Arathorn 2y ago
We replaced Matrix's custom authentication protocol with genuine OIDC: see https://areweoidcyet.com/ and the rest of this thread for details. Therefore, we needed a basic Matrix-aware OIDC identity provider which could
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Firstly, thank you for paying to support the Foundation for so long and for sticking with Matrix & Synapse. > It's been quite a while since we've seen a new user-facing feature I'm not sure this is true, as you say you
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by Arathorn 2y ago
There are two different performance issues here. One is the stuff that Graphene is talking about, which affects all server sizes, and we are trying to fund work on to fix in FOSS Synapse - see https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by Arathorn 2y ago
> I imagine anything else would be quite irresponsible in a geopolitical climate where sanctions could pull the rug out on critical communications infrastructure. I'm not sure I follow the logic here: Governments can self-host their
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by Arathorn 2y ago
FOSS Synapse already is a hybrid of Python and Rust, and has been for years - with Rust used for the hot paths. Synapse Pro is just pushing that a bit further for worker processes, by having the host process itself being Rust-first rather
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by Arathorn 2y ago
I'll try to explain the situation: Some massive organisation (government agency, healthcare provider, network of schools etc) says: "Wow, Matrix is great, we should run our own instance rather than be dependent on Teams/Slack
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by Arathorn 2y ago
I have no idea. I hope it’s enough. Obviously we want to keep as much implementation work as FOSS as possible.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Precisely. Which is why we’ve given a this strong incentive to route money to the upstream - to get access to synapse pro.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
This is definitely true. It’s also completely normalised to build a large commercial service on open source and not even contemplate if or how the upstream project is funded, or consider funding the upstream a serious cost.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
This could be an option here; we haven’t thought about it yet.
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by Arathorn 2y ago
Most of that performance is nothing to do with whether workers are written in python or rust - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752911 . The hope is to fund maintenance for FOSS synapse, including core perf work, v

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