MattJ100

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by MattJ100 3y ago
Pidgin deserves a mention - 24 years and still under development. The project has been undergoing a huge rewrite for 3.x, which has stalled visible progress somewhat, but I'm really hoping it will be worth it, as I'm excited to se
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Naming Schemes(namingschemes.com)
3 points by MattJ100 3y ago|0 comments
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by MattJ100 3y ago
I get your point about PDP-11's, but I'm not sure how it applies, practically. My family communicate with each other via XMPP, but I doubt they would be happy to use a PDP-11 for their daily computing :) My comment was not intende
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by MattJ100 3y ago
> And the XEPs. Millions of them. 482 of them. A XEP is how someone proposes a feature, and how the community collaborates around the protocol's development. Many XEPs never gain enough traction to be marked as "stable", a
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by MattJ100 3y ago
You could make similar arguments against just about any mature network protocol (see the recent HN post about regrets in TCP/IP's design). Luckily we have plenty of choice, and there are bridges between the open solutions. The fac
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by MattJ100 3y ago
Corrupting your repo with a one-line change? Is there more to this story? A bug report, for example? It's not my experience of Mercurial at all.
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What Was Selling Out?(anildash.com)
2 points by MattJ100 4y ago|0 comments
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by MattJ100 4y ago
I think you misunderstood the article. This is not about running a private registry. Running a public registry (e.g. for an open-source project) exposes you to bandwidth costs and such. The solution in the article allows such projects to us
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by MattJ100 4y ago
Snap! 2007 was my year too, and yes, it really sparked everything for me. Very new to the community, my accepted GSoC project was adding some features to an XMPP library. I discovered recently that this library is in use by the Zoom desktop
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by MattJ100 4y ago
I don't know that crypto is really necessary in this case. It's already standardized, and is there something specific that worries you about the security of it? That said, the answer to your question is "yes" - the branc
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by MattJ100 4y ago
Fact check: The Digital Markets Act explicitly calls out end-to-end encryption as a feature that MUST be preserved if the platform supports it. From Article 7: "The level of security, including the end-to-end encryption, where applicab
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by MattJ100 4y ago
The DMA requires interoperability without a decrease in security - this explicitly includes end-to-end encryption, which iMessage supports. Since SMS has no standard for key distribution/discovery, it already fails at that hurdle. It a
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by MattJ100 4y ago
The problem is that SMS is nowadays a poor fallback, lacking support for a number of widespread features that are part of the EU's required baseline for interoperability.
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by MattJ100 4y ago
The latest version of the Cheogram app (Android) has a neat implementation (demo video: https://kumi.tube/w/1LQQp5Uia4u8Pdojxen1y8 ). At the XMPP summit in Brussels last week we had several developers across different
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by MattJ100 4y ago
> The really frustrating thing was how SIP just mimics the 1:1 circuit switched calling semantics of the old PSTN. Stuff like messaging and group-calling and group-conversations is bolted on badly. Yeah, I remember the period when XMPP w
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by MattJ100 4y ago
I sense there was probably some irony in your post. Nevertheless, I'll bite :) The "XMPP camp" is doing well and very busy: https://xmpp.org/newsletter/ We're lacking a nostr bridge if anyone wants
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Ask HN: What's your favourite bot API/SDK?
2 points by MattJ100 4y ago|0 comments
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by MattJ100 4y ago
In case you haven't seen, there are a number of things you can do about spam: https://blog.prosody.im/simple-anti-spam-tips/
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by MattJ100 4y ago
JMP.chat is a commercial provider, but their infrastructure is open-source. The central bridging component is actually cheogram.com (maintained by the same team). If you're determined enough, there are other providers you can bridge th
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by MattJ100 4y ago
My family were WhatsApp users, and I moved the family-family chats from WhatsApp to Snikket (XMPP) a few years ago. They still have WhatsApp installed, but consider Snikket the go-to for reaching family members. It's not a WhatsApp clo
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by MattJ100 4y ago
Prosody developer here. Sorry that your first experience developing with Prosody was a poor one. I think about this a lot - we've had a lot of people come from the direction of Jitsi, wanting to extend things for various purposes, and
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by MattJ100 4y ago
Valid question! Honest answer: the folk involved (including me) have more experience with Prosody these days. Jabber.org previously ran ejabberd for years, in fact that's what it was running when I joined the admin team (I was also run
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by MattJ100 4y ago
It does not. But if they haven't used jabber.org in over 6 months and then randomly try to log in just once, they're probably not that desperate. Either way, their account will be imported and waiting for them when they try in ano
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by MattJ100 4y ago
Breaking the existing deployed network every time a new feature is added is unfortunately not a solution for an open ecosystem. While there are obviously limits to how far backwards compatibility should go, it doesn't make sense to den
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by MattJ100 4y ago
It was running M-Link from Isode: https://www.isode.com/ . Their focus and expertise is mostly military and government deployments, rather than public IM services. We are extremely grateful that they offered to sponsor the
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by MattJ100 4y ago
If this news has anyone tempted to dust off an old jabber.org account, you may get an "account disabled" notification when trying to log in. Try again in an hour or so and you should be able to log in successfully. Why? We've
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by MattJ100 4y ago
The client/server ecosystem in XMPP is going strong. Fragmentation is no more of an issue in XMPP than any other open ecosystem. That's not to say it's easy to prevent things being fragmented in an open ecosystem, but it&#x27
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by MattJ100 4y ago
Placing new STOP signs in the UK required written permission from the secretary of state until some years ago. They're still quite uncommon here, typically reserved for more risky junctions. We most commonly use the "Give Way&quot
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by MattJ100 4y ago
If every app held open a truly idle TCP connection, only exchanging data when necessary, you're right. Open idle connections are pretty lightweight. There are a number of problems. One is that apps weren't doing that. It's to
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by MattJ100 4y ago
It's not about ideals, but technical limitations. UnifiedPush isn't an app like Pushover. It's plumbing/APIs for delivering notifications to apps, and it replaces the plumbing provided by the OS vendors. However, that&#x

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