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by zaik 4y ago
Surely there is better way to store important documents than Google Photos. That Google is able to identify the type of document that is uploaded to Google Photos is even more terrifying.
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A gateway from IRC to other IM networks(bitlbee.org)
7 points by zaik 4y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 4y ago
https://snikket.org/ could be the thing you're looking for.
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by zaik 4y ago
Sounds like sunk cost. What are your chances to influence Signal leadership in any way? A better idea would be to use internet standands for messaging to avoid vendor lock-in.
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by zaik 4y ago
Have you tried XMPP? The server and client implentations are both a lot more resource efficient.
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by zaik 4y ago
> they tend to take criticism as attacks Makes sense, but it might as well not be the case.
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by zaik 4y ago
It's an email client that looks like a messenger. It's like saying "I'm not giving Thunderbird my e-mail login".
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by zaik 4y ago
Thus DeltaChat was born.
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by zaik 4y ago
Maybe the organization behind Matrix wants to retain control over the protocol instead of standardizing it? XMPP covers the use-case of Matrix anyways.
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by zaik 4y ago
That's probably also the reason TCP failed to catch on: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protoco...
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by zaik 4y ago
People make bridges for XMPP (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420784 ) but bridges are just band-aids anyways: Most important they don't support e2e encryption. If we want to have messenger interoperability
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by zaik 4y ago
The draft doesn't mention Matrix, but it's nice to see that they consider standardization even if the use case for their protocol is probably already covered by the existing XMPP standard.
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More Instant Messaging Interoperability(datatracker.ietf.org)
141 points by zaik 4y ago|78 comments
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by zaik 4y ago
Just like email.
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by zaik 4y ago
Is there any information on this working group? I had hopes for the IETF standard XMPP, since the largest IM provider WhatsApp uses it internally.
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Gajim 1.5.3 has been released(gajim.org)
1 points by zaik 4y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 4y ago
Ironically, Mastodon addresses work just like email addresses.
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Slidge Beta2 and Some News(nicoco.fr)
2 points by zaik 4y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 4y ago
At the very least they had children, but also a lot of small things probably have a very long lasting effect.
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by zaik 4y ago
> Nothing that you do or say will matter after a couple of hundred years. I don't think this is true at all.
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by zaik 4y ago
> steal my computer This shouldn't work if you use a strong passphrase for your private key ;)
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Ejabberd 22.10(process-one.net)
3 points by zaik 4y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 4y ago
> ban Twitter Yes. Twitter is a lot less essential than you might think.
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by zaik 4y ago
Then every system must be 100% insecure.
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by zaik 4y ago
Is there ActivityPub federation yet?
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by zaik 4y ago
Besides Organic Maps there is also the less polished but more feature complete OsmAnd (also available on F-Droid).
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by zaik 4y ago
Not if we don't want to.
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by zaik 4y ago
Can we invest in getting our friends on the independent XMPP standard?
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Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse(fedi.directory)
10 points by zaik 4y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 4y ago
> And there was one time where, after waiting for the gate to open, already a couple hours late, the captain said that someone stole the airplane!! Do you have a link to a news article? I find this hard to believe.

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