MattJ100

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by MattJ100 10y ago
In general package maintainers only take existing software projects, and apply some glue to make them fit into the Debian distribution (think: build framework, file system location policies, documentation policies, etc.) so that the whole o
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by MattJ100 10y ago
Similarly to how they staff support phone numbers, with teams of people trained in domain-specific knowledge (of the product, account management, etc.). Sometimes these teams are in-house, sometimes they are contracted to a third-party (i.e
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by MattJ100 10y ago
You're not wrong, but just want to note that Ubuntu has a number of options in the graphical settings interface to control updates, including automatic installation of (either security, or all) updates.
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by MattJ100 10y ago
This article[1] (1999!) has a pro-GM scientist seemingly arguing that Bacillus thuringiensis can be fatal to mammals, criticizing its use in organic farming. Is this just blatantly incorrect, based on outdated science (given that it was pub
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by MattJ100 10y ago
An oldie here. Some recent discussion I read on HN reminded me about it, and I'm curious how applicable people think this still is in 2016.
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Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used to It. (2001)(joelonsoftware.com)
15 points by MattJ100 10y ago|3 comments
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by MattJ100 11y ago
XEP-0136 was pretty complex, and didn't see that much adoption. XEP-0313 is a modern replacement, focusing on just the things that people actually need. It's implemented in many servers and clients already (see https://
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by MattJ100 11y ago
> my workflow and screen `real estate` were impacted in very distracting ways. I doubt that was unintentional.
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by MattJ100 11y ago
Having implemented MQTT on both client and server sides, I have no idea why people keep saying it's easy to implement. Not my post, but an overview of some of its issues: http://vasters.com/clemensv/2014/06&#x
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by MattJ100 11y ago
Your XMPP example is incorrect, what you pasted is a notification that the user you were chatting with closed the conversation. A user going offline would be: <presence from="juliet@capulet.com/balcony" type="una
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by MattJ100 11y ago
- https://github.com/otalk/stanza.io - https://github.com/xmpp-ftw/xmpp-ftw It's really a shame when people can't look past the surface, and just emit vague subjective rebukes like this.
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by MattJ100 11y ago
Relevant to some here (and really every internet user), Cameron started his election campaign with a pledge to "ban encryption" if he was re-elected: - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30778424 - ht
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by MattJ100 12y ago
If you have tried Prosody and have any feedback on it, I'm all ears (or drop us an email at developers (at) prosody.im). I love to receive feedback (of any kind), as it's the only way we know what we're doing right and wrong!
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by MattJ100 12y ago
Scroll down on the page for some suggestions.
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by MattJ100 12y ago
> Suckless gets a bad rep (probably because of their openness about their opinions of the projects of which they create alternatives) I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. However I also love the software the projec
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by MattJ100 12y ago
Another fun ice fact is that hot water freezes faster than cold water: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
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by MattJ100 12y ago
If you look at the source of that page, you'll see: <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" href="/feeds/p/dcef3/gitchanges/basic"> which refers to an A
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by MattJ100 12y ago
For what it's worth, they do allow credit roll-over now (up to some limit). Still, I'm annoyed at the DRM, I can't listen to what I want where I want, and there are alternative DRM-free alternatives, so I'm also seriousl
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by MattJ100 12y ago
Right. It is questionable why self-signed certificates trigger scary warnings in browsers when totally unencrypted connections do not. I think the whole UI aspect of web transport security needs re-thinking.
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by MattJ100 12y ago
Anecdotal I know, but interestingly I also received one last week. I've had the account since Spotify was in private beta and this has happened only once before that I recall.
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by MattJ100 12y ago
Two clearly unbiased and factual analyses there :) It would take quite some time to sit down and address all the points gathered on the PSYC page. That page has been around a long time, and used to be a lot more aggressive than it reads now
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by MattJ100 12y ago
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0322.html (originating from the IoT community, where XMPP is commonly, and successfully, used on embedded devices like you describe). Just please don't mention ASN.1 again :)
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by MattJ100 12y ago
I'm not an expert in this field, but as far as I know ZRTP trust is bootstrapped from the signalling channel (in this case your XMPP connection). So a MITM there could also MITM your voice/video. And again, your metadata and signa
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by MattJ100 12y ago
OTR only protects the text content of your messages. It doesn't protect the metadata, or many of the other features XMPP provides from status to file transfers and voice/video calls.
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Funnily enough, that's exactly what they did do, back in 2008 :) Originally Android included an XMPP API that applications could use to connect to Google and other XMPP services. This got replaced by a Google Talk-specific API at the
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by MattJ100 12y ago
Naive implementations of XMPP on mobile can indeed get quite power hungry, but it doesn't have to be that way. Thankfully I've seen quite a bit of interest lately from mobile clients who wish to improve on this - all the resources
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by MattJ100 12y ago
A self-signed certificate is free, you don't need a CA-issued certificate just to use encryption. Most XMPP servers on the internet today are forgiving of certificates they don't trust - they will encrypt the connection and then u
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by MattJ100 12y ago
It's possible to achieve quite secure group chats in XMPP, as long as you have a server that you trust (emphasis on that last part). You're probably talking about OTR though, which is quite tricky for multi-party situations. This
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Mandatory encryption on XMPP starts today(blog.prosody.im)
191 points by MattJ100 12y ago|98 comments
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by MattJ100 13y ago
For the people that wrote Moonshine, it was the ability to use the same language across all platforms[1]. They already have a lot of Lua code on other platforms that was unable to run on the web (without using Flash, which also has a Lua VM

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