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   by cvwright 4y ago

   Maybe you were spared because you also use other browsers. They really don’t like Firefox though. Had a coworker get bitten by this recently. Mozilla should sue them. Or start suggesting matrix.org when the user tries to visit Discord.
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   by cvwright 4y ago

   That’s part of the problem though, isn’t it? Because they certainly want to serve some huge amount of traffic for free while they attempt to become the next abusive monopoly platform. They’re trying to have their cake and eat it too.
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   by cvwright 4y ago

   Does not inspire confidence in Cloudflare, that’s for sure.
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   by cvwright 4y ago

   GCHQ is for it. Ross Anderson is arguing against them. He’s right BTW.
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   by cvwright 4y ago

   That’s pretty darn mild as far as current day politics go. Kudos to whoever fought the good fight on this one.
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   by cvwright 4y ago

   So what then is the argument about them needing more employees to serve more users? The frontend apps are all the same, whether they have 3 users or 3 billion.
7. 307.▲
   by cvwright 4y ago

   Matrix servers still control group membership, and probably will for a while (ie, months). The vulnerabilities that allowed such users and devices to steal keys have been fixed.
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   by cvwright 4y ago

   What’s your alternative? Sneakernet? Anything that goes over a network could be stored.
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   by cvwright 4y ago

   Yes, unfortunately the platform providers are the only battery-efficient way of doing notifications on mobile phones.
10. 310.▲
    by cvwright 4y ago

    Are you not also nervous about allowing them to continue assaulting and murdering random people?
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    Agreed with a lot of the points here, like starting small with a single piece of your API, then slowly expanding your tests once you’re comfortable that you know what you’re doing. Note that if you use the Locust framework to write your loa
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    More likely something on your end was listening, if you’re the one who got the ad.
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    Fair point
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    You block this guy from the internet for a week —- for no apparent reason —- and then you come in here with a nitpick about how another related system works? Really?
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    Hey, that’s my project! Thanks for the link. We’re working on figuring out some sort of compatibility with MinesTRIX btw. In a healthy social ecosystem, there would be multiple interoperating clients AND servers.
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    Better option is probably to run a reverse proxy like nginx on a cheap VPS, with a Wireguard VPN back to the “origin” server in your house.
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    I wrote a little service to handle some of the Matrix client-server authentication API. The first version used Vapor before we had async/await. That was painful at times but doable. Earlier this year I got some time to rewrite it in m
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    There’s a very fast Matrix homeserver implementation written in Rust, called Conduit. https://conduit.rs/ I’m not one of the developers, but I am looking at using it for work.
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    And with async/await, server side Swift is really nice now. The old stuff with eventloops and SwiftNIO was painful. Now it feels almost like writing Python, only with a real type system and not slow.
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    Faster has a usefulness all its own
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    Funny you should ask. My employer is starting something along those lines: https://www.futo.org/grants
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    by cvwright 4y ago

    I'm not the OP, but I'm updating my iOS app now to use async/await instead of callback hell for all of its networking code. It is much, much nicer. I also recently did some work with Vapor on the server side. Night and day
23. 323.▲
    by cvwright 4y ago

    Why wait? Let’s just build.
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    by cvwright 5y ago

    Fair point. But OTOH Twitter isn’t really innovating anymore either. Arguably the “move fast and break things” phase is over. Now we’re heading into the “monetize or commoditize” phase.
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    by cvwright 5y ago

    I think Tivo did a similar thing too, back in the day. (I wasn’t a Tivo customer but I had friends who were.) Sadly, these things never seem to end well.
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    by cvwright 5y ago

    Let me guess: root?
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    by cvwright 5y ago

    Awesome. Are you using the matrix-media-repo to connect the Matrix homeserver to Garage?
28. 328.▲
    by cvwright 5y ago

    Aw man, sorry to hear that Matrix didn't work out for you. There's definitely a cost to building on an early-stage technology with a lot of its own complexity. (Heh, ask me how I know...) Still, super impressed at what you'
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    by cvwright 5y ago

    Hey James, Congrats on launching! Great minds think alike. I also have a similar app (heh, also called "Circles") still in beta at https://testflight.apple.com/join/cwsJZed9 There's also now MinesTRIX f
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    by cvwright 5y ago

    Futo ( https://futo.org ) | Software Engineer | Austin, TX or Remote FUTO, a new organization devoted to giving people control over their data, is searching for a talented Android engineer to work with an elite team of former acad