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by ge0rg 8y ago
Yes, large amounts of money can help rationalize working against your ideals, especially when there are always more potential engineer candidates to do the work that your conscience tells you not to do.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Pidgin essentially stopped supporting new XMPP features a decade ago. This includes multi-device support and many new convenience features (delivery receipts, file uploads). There are some plugins that might be able to compensate, but at si
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Facebook got into trouble for opening data about users to its business partners. I'm sure this is not the same kind of "open API" that you would use to access and control your account and your interactions with the Silo. Howe
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by ge0rg 8y ago
This is the 2013 presentation about firmware analysis / modification of the internal controller inside of uSD cards.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
It only makes sense from a shortsighted "today's" perspective. What happens if there is another API change? Do you call the new new suffix _NEWER? _NEWNEW?
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by ge0rg 8y ago
I wish Pidgin would just disappear. It is absolutely unusable without all these plugins in a modern multi client world, and most users don't know they need them. The delivery receipts issue is a decade old [0]! Libpurple is a mess to i
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Hey Jeremie! It's really awesome to have you here! I've tried to dig up some more historical background besides of the Slashdot announcement, but failed. Do you happen to have an old copy of the 1999 changelog / code base (ma
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Twenty years ago, ICQ and AIM were two different, incompatible, networks, and AOL did everything it could to prevent third-party clients: From http://www.linux-mag.com/id/902/ : But AOL has always been adamant ab
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Happy Birthday, XMPP: 20th Anniversary of Jabber(fr.movim.eu)
148 points by ge0rg 8y ago|54 comments
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by ge0rg 8y ago
My favorite is actually the NIH reproach at https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15607&cid=2048695 - somebody always tries to reinvent the wheel!
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Open Real Time Messaging System: Jabber (1999)(slashdot.org)
15 points by ge0rg 8y ago|9 comments
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by ge0rg 8y ago
I wouldn't subscribe to the "15 years ago" statement, but we have figured out mobile battery use pretty well, and the respective solutions are avialable in both server and client implementations. Have a look at [0] and [1] fo
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by ge0rg 8y ago
What measures can you take upon receiving such an alert? Shutdown the server? The reporting doesn't include the task / user causing the error, so you don't get anything actionable.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Some siloed messengers offer some subset of XMPP connectivity. However, we need to differentiate multiple aspects here: - does the messenger allow users to use an XMPP client? This was possible on Facebook messenger for a while but was di
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by ge0rg 8y ago
JMP.chat gives you a new phone number that you use via XMPP, with Quicksy you use your phone number to automatically discover other users on the (federated) xmpp network.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
This looks like a nice way to get your non technical friends onto the federated network, and shows that xmpp really isn't behind centralized silo messengers in functionality and usability.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Indeed, it would be great to have a standalone recipe / how to for setting that up. From the scripts there is no black magic involved, except a tiny bit for the integration with LE certificates.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Looks like this is similar to other self hosting projects like FreedomBone and NextCloud. It's great to see more tools to take back control over our data.
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FreedomBone – Software for an internet of people(freedombone.net)
4 points by ge0rg 8y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 8y ago
What's the problem with leaking your IP address? If you host a website or any kind of API there, your IP is public anyway?
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Do you have some hints on effectively using DDG, based on that experience?
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by ge0rg 8y ago
I can't see how it is satire if it is a more fitting description to what the system is designed to do.
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Scanning for breached accounts with k-Anonymity(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by ge0rg 8y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 8y ago
We have the XMPP Compliance Suites 2018[0] providing an overview of protocol-level specifications that a modern client or server should implement, and there was recently a nice article[1] for some example use cases. What is still missing is
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by ge0rg 8y ago
It's really nice to see this web based Jabber client making progress! Congratulations to the 4.0 release!
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by ge0rg 8y ago
It's really sad that you can't read this article on mobile Chrome without getting trapped into an annoying "you have won" ad page that also clears the browser history.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
OTR hasn't aged very well (it doesn't support asynchronous communication, multiple parties or multiple clients per party). For XMPP there is OMEMO, which is gaining traction (and is based on the Signal ratchet), but like with OTR,
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Customers with HipChat installed on their own servers will be able to use it for an extra few months or as long as two years, depending on the version. Slack and Atlassian will make it easy for customers to move, but they won’t be forced t
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by ge0rg 8y ago
It's funny how almost one hundred years after the Phoebus cartel[0], Philips is still participating in anti-competitive behavior. Apparently the invisible hand of the market is not so well suited after all. [0] https://en.wi
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by ge0rg 8y ago
This is a very interesting insight into how AI and blockchain are seen by VCs. I agree with IoT and AI being the next big things, but I fail to see how the blockchain fits into the picture. The author linked the "blockchain is the wors

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