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by zaik 5y ago
If a service requires my phone number, it is indeed a privacy concern. Phone numbers are strong identifiers; for most people they are tightly coupled to their real world identity. Most XMPP servers do not even require an email address (+ I
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Gajim Development News October 2021(gajim.org)
13 points by zaik 5y ago|1 comments
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by zaik 5y ago
Were those arguments valid? If you recommend X instead of Y, it seems reasonable to discuss not only the downsides of Y but also how X is better or worse in comparison to Y.
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by zaik 5y ago
MEGOLM seems to be encrypted group chat. OMEMO already provides that. Cross signing OMEMO keys would be nice indeed. Not sure what a session is or why it needs sync. XMPP is decentralized, maybe even more than Matrix, since almost everyone
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by zaik 5y ago
Why should I use Matrix over XMPP? All the problems mentioned in this article also apply to Matrix.
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by zaik 5y ago
> We strongly recommend hosting your own XMPP server in a controlled environment or switching to instant messengers that either implement client-side account management or enforce end-to-end encryption for account management. Sadly, the
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by zaik 5y ago
Does it support existing Internet Standards like CalDAV and CardDAV?
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by zaik 5y ago
Fading into insignificance does not make him a martyr.
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by zaik 5y ago
Do you have any experience using XMPP with Linux phones? Are there any clients which support OMEMO for one-to-one and group chats and encrypted A/V calls?
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by zaik 5y ago
> It’s nothing for the FBI to subpoena any server you’ve connected to I can choose to use a server outside the US. I can choose to run a server in my basement and still talk to all my contacts. You simply do not have this freedom with Si
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First Jami beta with Swarm support(jami.net)
3 points by zaik 5y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 5y ago
Not owning any server would also help. Metadata, contacts and groups can easily be recorded if you own the server. Federation is a big reason why I consider XMPP superior to Signal.
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by zaik 5y ago
You might be interested in this: https://github.com/uds-psl/coq-library-complexity
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by zaik 5y ago
> I always wonder whether all these proofs have been refuted Sadly, no. I have talked to the author of one of those papers and apparently there is not a lot of motivation to check new proof attempts from the relevant people anymore.
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by zaik 5y ago
If there already is a proof of P-NP which is correct but not yet recognized it can probably be found on this page: https://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm (If you can verify any proof using Isabelle or Coq PM me
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by zaik 5y ago
> minus group OMEMO on iOS siskin.im has support for OMEMO encrypted group chat
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by zaik 5y ago
I think Monal can't do encrypted group chat yet.
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by zaik 5y ago
I decided to delete all proprietary messaging apps and use XMPP exclusively in Janurary this year. It took some time to explain but now most of my friends and family can now be reached via XMPP.
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by zaik 5y ago
> Coding a real project is the equivalent to math's proofs, I think. Surprisingly, this turns out to be true: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_corresp...
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by zaik 5y ago
By funding campaigns, lobbying, running think tanks, owning media reaching millions of people, having people of your company sit in government agencies (...) economic power quickly translates to political power.
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by zaik 5y ago
I learned my kanji with Wanikani. Beyond level 30 I found myself ditching the mnemonics and basically "brute force" the learning process. If I had to start all over again I would choose Anki and example sentences (my current learn
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by zaik 5y ago
> But mistrusting the science doesn't mean turning to the snake oil salesmen. Unfortunately those who 'mistrust science' usually do. Snake oil salesmen will sound trustworthy to them, because they also 'mistrust the
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by zaik 5y ago
That sounds nice but doesn't help me when deciding things like "should I get the COVID vaccine?" or "should I support action against climate change?". I do not have the time, knowledge and tools to answer such quest
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A Simple OpenPGP API(blog.jabberhead.tk)
4 points by zaik 5y ago|0 comments
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WeeklyOSM 585(weeklyosm.eu)
1 points by zaik 5y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 5y ago
Or humans who use Tor and do not whish to install some kind of browser extension because of Cloudflare.
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by zaik 5y ago
You can also have fun by tagging arbitrary objects in git: [...] you can tag any Git object. In the Git source code, for example, the maintainer has added their GPG public key as a blob object and then tagged it. You can view the public ke
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by zaik 5y ago
> This color extraction algorithm is basically a map from the set of all possible images to the RGB color space. The set is infinite and the RGB color space is limited by 2^24 combinations. Theoretically, this means every RGB combination
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by zaik 5y ago
This is likely a solved problem for people who are in the money laundering business.
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by zaik 5y ago
What if we made a Internet Standard for messaging and presence?

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