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by Arathorn 3y ago
The main remaining Nebuchadnezzar issue is mitigating server-controlled group membership. The first step has been to kill off the 1st gen E2EE implementations, which were responsible for the implementation vulns found by RHUL - and we shou
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Element X also is geared up for powerusers (e.g. as project lead, I consider myself a poweruser) and i've been absolutely loving it as my daily driver for the last few months on mobile. For instance, my account is in around 4,000 chat
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by Arathorn 3y ago
https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2016/12/11/riots-magical-push-n... is a great blog (back when Element was called Riot) explaining how it works :)
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by Arathorn 3y ago
It's more that Matrix is different to Jabber/XMPP. In Matrix, your chatrooms synchronise chat history between servers (rather than passing messages around), and that history is replicated equally over the participating servers, a
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by Arathorn 3y ago
wtf is going on is that: a) p2p matrix works pretty well as a proof of concept - you can try it from https://arewep2pyet.com ; it’s not remotely vapourware. b) funding has been spent on core Matrix dev and making Element kick ass
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by Arathorn 3y ago
The plan on Discord-style voice/video/screensharing features is Element Call ( https://call.element.io ) which is built to be embeddable into Matrix clients. It’s already in Element X, and is in Element Web/Desktop
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Sorry. As per the sibling comment to yours, we made a decision on Element Web/Desktop to rip out the old encryption implementation and replace it with matrix-rust-sdk’s crypto implementation about a year ago, and while it’s due to land
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Sounds like you’re talking about Element Web or Desktop here. On Mobile, we just rewrote the app as Element X and it addresses almost all your concerns (other than per-room nicks, although ironically Element Web does have that today - try
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Yup, good call point, which is why we deliberately implemented two different independent group VoIP implementations - the one in Element Call (based on matrix-js-sdk) and the one in Hydrogen (based on hydrogen-web-sdk). Admittedly the new l
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Hmm… we haven’t had notification problems like that in many years, from memory. Any idea if this was trying to deliver push notifs to Android without using Google? (Which historically has been painful thanks to Android OS versions terminati
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by Arathorn 3y ago
The team rewriting Element as Element X is completely different to the folks who would need to make the change in Synapse to not send push to devices who are currently syncing. Agreed we should have fixed this years ago, especially as it&#
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Matrix 2.0 is a major step towards getting friends & family on Matrix. Firstly, it's not introducing new features - it's just making the current featureset work super-efficiently (while retaining compatibility with today'
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Because the API is still evolving, and it's also useful that it supports other homeservers than Synapse. It's also written by an entirely different bunch of people (it's effectively written by the Dendrite team rather than th
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Matrix itself is a protocol, so is as hard or easy to use as the client that you use to access it. Matrix 2.0 is all about demonstrating that a really really fast, mainstream-grade app can be built on Matrix, in the form of Element X: http
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Matrix evolves as a protocol by folks proposing new APIs (e.g. MSC3575), implementing them, showing that they work, and making the case that they should be merged into the main spec. Sliding Sync is an interesting case in that it clearly do
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by Arathorn 3y ago
(We actually renamed Riot to Element because the nice people at Riot Games sent us a cease & desist :)
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by Arathorn 3y ago
what bits of Matrix make it appear fundamentally broken btw? (asking from the pov of ensuring they get fixed)
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by Arathorn 3y ago
The reason that P2P Matrix (arewep2pyet.com) exists is precisely to provide a 1st class P2P mode to Matrix - it's not just for awesome reliability and network resilience, but for easier onboarding; killing off public-service homeserver
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by Arathorn 3y ago
This writeup is questionable in many places - I provided a point by point response at https://lobste.rs/s/wvi9xw/why_not_matrix#c_erbsnb
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by Arathorn 3y ago
The root cause of the confusion seems to be https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1699405364968423828 , which appears to be based on a wildly overenthusiastic misreading of this coverage: https://www.ft.
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by Arathorn 3y ago
Precisely!!! At this rate Signal's inexplicable desire to claim this as a victory ( https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1699405364968423828 ) is distracting at the very worst possible time - this is the last
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by Arathorn 3y ago
As I tried to explain on the thread about the Financial Times coverage of this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37416203 ), the headline here is COMPLETELY WRONG. It's doubly frustrating given i'm quoted in t
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by Arathorn 3y ago
and another datapoint at https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-minister-says-position... > "We haven't changed the bill at all," she told Times Radio. > "If there was a situation where the mit
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by Arathorn 3y ago
> What this may be politically is a way of the Government saying they won’t actually do it But this is the problem: the Government is NOT saying they won't actually do it. They're saying "we'll do it (when we consi
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by Arathorn 3y ago
This article is completely wrong , and almost sabotages the fight against the UK Online Safety Bill, given it claims a victory that simply doesn't exist, and so lures everyone into a false sense of complacency. The UK govt must be ec
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Matrix.org Foundation hires first Managing Director(matrix.org)
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by Arathorn 3y ago
SIP’s instant messaging support and capabilities are basically the same as SMS. You can also negotiate MSRP over it, which adds group chat, which is what RCS does (the thing Google Messages speaks), but stuff like scrollback and e2e encrypt
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by Arathorn 3y ago
fwiw we’re plugging away at acct portability in Matrix via MSC4014, which is even implemented in the Dendrite server impl now…
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by Arathorn 3y ago
E2EE is back on, on the develop branch. Just needs a release.
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by Arathorn 3y ago
> what other E2EE anonymous web-browser accessible tool is as available to the masses, that they can be convinced to use? https://element.io/blog/element-call-beta-3/ maybe?

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