Arathorn

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by Arathorn 4y ago
https://arewemlsyet.com . We won’t retire the current olm/megolm but complement it with MLS, and perhaps transition entirely if MLS works out.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
I assume you’re talking about https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/254... . There is nobody from the spec core team or for that matter the matrix core team on that thread; Sorunome, deepblu
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Indeed, the jury is still out on Moxie’s post. https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom is the counterpoint.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Quite easy actually when you look at the number of governments who rely on Matrix - https://element.io/case-studies/tchap , https://element.io/case-studies/bundeswehr and many more (US, UK, Sweden,
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by Arathorn 4y ago
This is not true :| We do everything to encrypt new features - eg voice messages, polls, location share etc are all encrypted. It’s the old features which predate e2ee (state events like topics or sticker packs and aggregations like react
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by Arathorn 4y ago
for the sake of completeness: they aren’t orthogonal. the reason that element web can take tens of seconds to launch is not just because it’s syncing with the server, but because it is loading hundreds of MB of json from indexeddb. Sliding
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by Arathorn 4y ago
I know. I’m not sure this was the case in 2014 though when we made the decision to switch to Python.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
fwiw, the team that created Matrix almost exclusively used Java serverside from 2003-2014 (when we switched to creating Matrix). The last gen of Java servers we wrote were super efficient and nice to maintain thanks to netty. The only rea
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by Arathorn 4y ago
I wouldn't waste time trying to be nice; I'll turn up whatever if you'll have me. Cryptographically constrained room membership in Matrix is still stuck behind consolidating on matrix-rust-sdk for E2EE, so we only have to add
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Fixing this has been the primary focus of the core Matrix team over the last year - we revealed the end result at FOSDEM a few weeks ago, and it literally improves performance to be better than Telegram/Discord/Slack or anything e
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by Arathorn 4y ago
The only irony was that you were expecting to be corrected, and instead I largely agreed.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
ironically, i agree with much with this: Matrix began in May 2014; we started E2EE in Feb 2015 and turned it on by default in May 2020. Centralised systems are way simpler and easier to reason about and present a smaller attack surface. I
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by Arathorn 4y ago
I’m not sure you could kill Matrix now even if you wanted to? Heck, given people still run gopher & WAIS & fidonet servers today, so even if everyone runs away from Matrix, it’ll still keep burbling away somewhere :)
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by Arathorn 4y ago
In the current wording: yes, you can go encrypt your messages with PGP before sending them. However, the worst-case scenario is that Ofcom would then say to Apple and Google: "Hey, you are communication service providers (thanks to iMe
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Element was founded as half French/British, but we also have German & US legal entities now, and we will shift our HQ out of the UK if forced to.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
To be clear, this is a really serious situation . The current Online Safety Bill wording from https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49376/documents/282... ( https://bills.parliament.uk/bill
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Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption(bbc.co.uk)
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by Arathorn 4y ago
The perl equivalent is much better: https://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
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by Arathorn 4y ago
you’re running on 2018 vintage data. plus there is no centralisation on matrix.org (beyond it being the biggest server), as has been pretty obvious in the situations where matrix.org has gone offline.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
The problem is that even a single user matrix server can be very resource intensive if that user joins big rooms with thousands of users spread over thousands of servers. Synapse is very database heavy, so the parallelism in Postgres helps
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by Arathorn 4y ago
> There are 8 people who vote on changes to the Matrix spec (the Spec Core Team), 7 of which are Element employees (including Matthew, Element's CEO). Element also controls the development of clients and servers used by the large ma
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by Arathorn 4y ago
thanks :) yup, the old Synapse walk-through should still be accurate - I need to record a new one!
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by Arathorn 4y ago
I've been dogfooding the iPad layout of Element X under macOS on Apple Silicon since day 1 - it works pretty well. We could also ship it via Catalyst to run as a pure macOS app (albeit with the iPad layout) on both Apple Silicon and I
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Matrix's moderation should be at least as good as Gitter. The GitHub integration is okay (it lets you create/comment/resolve issues using your GitHub identity from Matrix, and also can expose GitHub issues as Matrix rooms us
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by Arathorn 4y ago
We're not planning to rewrite Element Web/Desktop in Rust (yet), so the current app will remain there - although we're going to give it a fairly major UI refresh to match the new mobile apps.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Well, if you want end-to-end encryption, then obviously that's going to be hard to write from scratch(!) - especially if you want it to be secure. However, we make it trivial to get up and running by piping your client through a proxy
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by Arathorn 4y ago
1. The Tchap issue was specific to the French deployment, rather than being a bug in Synapse or anything Matrix specific. (It was actually a bug in python, fwiw: https://bugs.python.org/issue34155 . Agreed that it should hav
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Matrix 2.0 will run so smoothly there won't be any nasty rattling r's in the onomatopoeic voom :P
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by Arathorn 4y ago
There's https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ralston-mimi-matrix-t... and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ralston-mimi-matrix-m... and associated work around the IETF MIMI group, whe
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by Arathorn 4y ago
The Matrix team spent 15 years building SIP stacks before we gave up and created Matrix, so I can answer this with some confidence: Superficially, Matrix looks a bit like SIP: for 1:1 calls, you send an m.call.invite (like a SIP INVITE) to

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