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by pmlnr 6y ago
Indeed. But ever since Whatsapp started advertising e2e, people want it.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I've been exploring options with a friend, their requirements: 1) option for large groups (around 250) This drops Signal out which has a limit of 150 on groups: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles&#x2
843.
by pmlnr 6y ago
E2E chat is an interesting topic. Say I'm using XMPP, my own server, talking to a federated one, all over TLS, including S2S. E2E on top of that, in my personal opinion, is a massive overkill for most cases and people. Related read: h
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by pmlnr 6y ago
"off the grid" - except for the social media presence, the website, the cloud backups, etc which are all outsourced, on-grid, big power eaters. Articles like these always feel like Japan itself: clean, because all the trash and po
845.
by pmlnr 6y ago
Anything can be de-platformed.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Why would anyone do a twitter clone that doesn't support activitypub or at least ostatus these days?
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I've been trying Dendrite for a few days: a single user in the system - me -, being in two, federated, medium (<1k) sized rooms on matrix.org, the memory usage runs between 250MB to 1.5GB.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Yes, there has: https://conversations.im/ EDIT: more to read: https://blog.wirelessmoves.com/2020/05/xmpp-voice-and-video-... https://homebrewserver.club/have-you-considered-the-al
849.
by pmlnr 6y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying. XMPP got attacked a lot because of how XEP support was lacking in certain clients, but was implemented in others, yet nearly every federated system out there has the exact same, inevitable problem -
850.
by pmlnr 6y ago
Most of them in alpha state, with some functionality - read not all XEP implemented ;)
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I'm one of them, and I love it. Desktop clients are lagging in support compared to Conversations[^1] on Android, but even Pidgin can be flogged into an acceptable state[^2] - no video or audio though, I couldn't get that working,
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Wasn't the point of the comment.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Yes. I have a 2004 Toyota Avensis. I fully own it; no loans, no leasing.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Read on FIR panels; they are pretty new, and, after testing one, highly pleasant to use. EDIT FIR = far infrared, eg. https://www.herschel-infrared.co.uk/
855.
by pmlnr 6y ago
Heat pump is a no, thank you. 10k for air source, noisy, ugly, big; 3x100m deep holes for ground source, don't even want to know the price. EDIT: for <5k I'd have the whole house on FIR panels and electric boiler, then I could
856.
by pmlnr 6y ago
Yet governments insist newbuilds to be on electric heating... I was saying this won't be nice for a long time. Example: my house, a 1954 built semi-detached - the official average unit in England - has a single phase 100A main cutout.
857.
by pmlnr 6y ago
Heh? Your - your device - is one of the "End" in End-to-End Encryption.
858.
by pmlnr 6y ago
Nah. You need to donate real money.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Works for my friends me, though I didn't out URL (.org) in the status.
860.
by pmlnr 6y ago
> I refuse to use Signal because it doesn't offer chat sync Install Pidgin with signald ;)
861.
by pmlnr 6y ago
I was looking for this information as well. They have a donation page - https://www.signal.org/donate/ - unlike the Mozilla Foundation/Firefox, so if enough people decide to use it, and to make regular(ish) donati
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I've never heard of Threema and Zom before, so I checked them. Zom is... well, just another messenger. Threema on the other hand looks very interesting, but it's a paid app - I don't know if any app will be able to pull what
863.
by pmlnr 6y ago
Could you please add XMPP to the list? Just in case. I run a Prosody server, and it's surprisingly pleasant with Conversations on Android.
864.
by pmlnr 6y ago
A/B testing, probably.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> I'd change to Signal or Telegram in a heartbeat, but the inertia is so great it's not possible. It has to start somewhere. It is possible, but it takes will, and the acceptance that you will lose some contacts.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
HN, I linked this yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25656842 . Good thing it got completely ignored.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
This is disturbingly good summary. I remember Matrix being presented as less bloated compared to XMPP... sure.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
BS The only thing "killed" XMPP was that proprietary made money, XMPP didn't. Apart from that, it's alive and well. See Conversations for android, Prosody for server.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
That's it, I'll move from [closed source, centralized, paid service] to [closed source, centralized, paid service]!
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I do miss them, terribly. Lightweight, fast, brutally simple. Even with splits, it was better, and ever since IRC bouncers exist, like ZNC, they are rock solid.

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