Arathorn

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901.
by Arathorn 4y ago
what? you don't need an authentication provider like Microsoft to use Matrix! You just sign up with a username/password on the server :)
902.
by Arathorn 4y ago
it's the underlying library for nheko, fwiw.
903.
by Arathorn 4y ago
email (cyrus + spamassassin), matrix (both synapse & dendrite)
904.
by Arathorn 4y ago
> On that note, Matrix can replace twitter and a lot more if they weren't chasing seemingly random features. Not just twitter but email also can be replaced by matrix, the api amd federates architecture allows for it. What random fe
905.
by Arathorn 4y ago
nheko and mtxclient isn’t too archaic, last time i checked ?
906.
by Arathorn 4y ago
Also new from Matrix today: arewemlsyet.com :)
907.
Is Matrix MLS Yet?(arewemlsyet.com)
3 points by Arathorn 4y ago|0 comments
908.
by Arathorn 4y ago
i think you're asking for https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean . there's nothing stopping someone from building that out; we released it as FOSS hoping someone would pick it u
909.
by Arathorn 4y ago
Our countermeasure is that in Matrix you can’t build gatekeepers, as conversations replicate between the participating servers. You can’t talk to someone on another server without literally sharing ownership of that conversation with them.
910.
by Arathorn 4y ago
It works both ways. With an open network, someone can build a better client than WA or iMessage and then there is social pressure to converge on the better one. The best app ends up winning rather than the one with the biggest walled garden
911.
by Arathorn 4y ago
arewep2pyet.com gives the details for Matrix - we’re making progress :)
912.
by Arathorn 4y ago
> This is a question to, mostly, Element developers really o/ We’re currently rebuilding Element on mobile (and native desktop apps) so it behaves much more like Telegram or similar, built on matrix-rust-sdk. The codename is curre
913.
by Arathorn 4y ago
As others have said, we created Matrix 2 years before AP, targetting generic pubsub+history - but with the initial applications being Slack/Skype/WhatsApp style use cases. In fact, Element/Riot’s internal codename as a refere
914.
by Arathorn 4y ago
> Sorry for spreading it if it is FUD indeed np; thanks for listening :) > I think my other points about E2EE still stand, don't they? I think the question is whether the recipient should be able to move message keys between thei
915.
by Arathorn 4y ago
> You seem to like the matrix protocol, where even if you self host, a lot of data is sent to the mother ship, cf https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html That article is bullshit and FUD (as its subheading seems to ack
916.
by Arathorn 4y ago
> I assume there is a good reason for that. We spelt out the good reason in the original blog post: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/09/30/welcoming-gitter-to-matri... > However: in the medium/lo
917.
by Arathorn 4y ago
Element funds a lot of Matrix work, and we have a large team working on both Matrix, Element clients, Matrix hosting, and our various customer projects (around 100 people). And while Element has taken longer than I’d like to improve in term
918.
by Arathorn 4y ago
https://element.io/blog/an-unrecognisable-improvement-elemen...
919.
Third Room demos sandboxed WASM scripting(thenewstack.io)
1 points by Arathorn 4y ago|0 comments
920.
by Arathorn 4y ago
This is categorically not true, as per https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-en... . The only practical issue raised by https://nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io/ which
921.
by Arathorn 4y ago
(heads up that we're about to replace matrix-static, which powers view.matrix.org, with https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-public-archive - which is a way better public archive interface for Matrix, built on Hyd
922.
by Arathorn 4y ago
very cool to hear of Dendrite being used in the wild like this; it's still beta so we definitely don't make guarantees about it being bug-free yet. that said, would be interested to hear what weird bugs you hit (in #dendrite:matri
923.
by Arathorn 4y ago
This is why we're frantically building out http://thirdroom.io/preview on Matrix as a free & open alternative to the Facebook walled garden. It feels a little crazy that on one hand we're trying to outrun Wha
924.
by Arathorn 4y ago
We’re hoping to make progress on decentralised accounts on Matrix by the end of the year. https://cerulean.matrix.org is another POC Matrix based Twitter clone (built for Jack & Parag) that demonstrates this (but without dec
925.
by Arathorn 4y ago
awww - https://github.com/dekuNukem/RGBeeb/raw/master/photos/torch.... was my second ever computer. never thought i'd see one on HN; i miss the yellow-on-blue wonders of CPM :(
926.
by Arathorn 4y ago
yay - it still works :) Unfortunately I think it may have suffered from NIH syndrome.
927.
by Arathorn 4y ago
Signal has security bugs line the best of them. The most famous is probably https://thehackerblog.com/i-too-like-to-live-dangerously-acc... - which gave full RCE, letting the attacker steal all your messages or worse. The t
928.
by Arathorn 4y ago
We showed Matrix to Jack via https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean/ last year. We’re still hoping he may revisit it :)
929.
by Arathorn 4y ago
We showed Matrix to Jack and Parag last year - https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean/ was the demo. I think Jack might have been wanting with more BTC tho(?)
930.
by Arathorn 4y ago
For what it's worth, i just did a quick survey of other secure messaging systems to see how they manage group membership. These days Signal uses zkgroups as per https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system

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