Boulth6

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by Boulth6 5y ago
Agreed on both points. XMPP is nowadays so much different than decades ago. I've migrated my family to Conversations and they're super happy with it. Google's constant messanger churn tires regular users that just want to com
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by Boulth6 5y ago
> The Internet never delivered on its promise. The commercial internet never did. Don't forget about Torrents and lib gen rus. They're part of the internet too. > The fact that e.g. Netflix offers different movies for every
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by Boulth6 5y ago
> Where is symmetric key cryptography used for nowadays in normal applications programming? Practically every time you use asymmetric keys what they really encrypt with them is a symmetric key that encrypts the underlying data. Thus symm
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by Boulth6 5y ago
I don't know why but comparing Matrix.org Foundation with standardization organizations such as IETF seems just not right. Maybe it would be more correct to compare Matrix.org with XMPP Software Foundation?
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by Boulth6 5y ago
This is mostly for legal reasons and the "for X" where X is a trademark is a common theme. (just look at Google Play store "for Twitter" or "for Reddit"). Looks and sounds weird though!
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by Boulth6 5y ago
Thanks for the confirmation!
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by Boulth6 5y ago
Indeed that is likely but I wonder why didn't they at least require a Developer's Cerificate of Origin [0] that kernel.org uses. This is really lightweight (just append one line to git commit message) and supposedly provides a min
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by Boulth6 5y ago
> they have been receiving legal letters from S440 SA demanding the removal of any negative articles and user comments from their websites about the UseCrypt Messenger app I guess S440 never heard about the Streisand effect....
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by Boulth6 6y ago
I was under the impression that DMARC always requires DIIM. One unanswered question: should the mailing list software rewrite Return-Path? (to detect bounces) wouldn't that trip DKIM alignment?
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by Boulth6 6y ago
> To defend against an attacker sideloading a different OS, I rely on secure boot to only load my kernel and hence my userspace. You could additionally seal the TPM key to specific PCR values so that only booting your kernel would allow
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by Boulth6 6y ago
You may want to check out Dino.im. For easy XMPP there is also Quicksy.im that's a fork of Conversations (from the author of Conversations) but using contact book for people discovery.
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by Boulth6 6y ago
I'd rather advise to use Web Key Directory that is trivial to setup (have https and put a key file in one special location). WKD is also widely supported by OpenPGP software (including ProtonMail, GnuPG, OpenKeychain). See: https:&#x2
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by Boulth6 6y ago
> Hopefully they'll also build something like Keybase's proof integration https://book.keybase.io/guides/proof-integration-guide as well. As far as I've seen the proof integration is used only for Mas
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by Boulth6 6y ago
> There's things like https://keybase.io that did try to solve this to a reasonable extent, PGP but more modern. It looked hopeful, but Zoom seems to only keep it on life support. Maybe someone will continue It seems the
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by Boulth6 6y ago
I've seen that with Delphi. The unique factor was that the examples were not a basic call of the function but an actual real world practical sample that usually solved the problem one was looking for.
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by Boulth6 6y ago
The press release mentions only FIDO2. Where did you get the OpenPGP smart card bit?
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by Boulth6 6y ago
> When I want to reply to someone, do I email the list or the person? Reply to person, CC the list. > How do I make sure the emails are threaded properly? Using In-Reply-To header that references parent Message-ID. Git asks for it whe
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by Boulth6 6y ago
> This is one of the books which I will gladly buy once more when it is updated. Agreed, Programming Rust is really nice and I read a dozen of Rust books already. I'll be buying 2nd edition as soon as it's available.
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by Boulth6 6y ago
This is a solution to a non-problem. Hosting taken down git repos is easy an due to gits design all developers already have the source code. The real problem is hosting issues and PRs in such a way. Github has an API and it's possible
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by Boulth6 6y ago
> The other thing I'm wondering about is how this will integrate with OpenGPG, more specifically if it will allow the use with smartcards. And it looks like it planned ![1] Actually smartcards were already supported when I tested al