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t3chguyon Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS

You say that, but Element X (Android & iOS) already lacks full support for the oldschool way. It only supports certain flows therein AIUI.

t3chguyon Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server

Whilst the reply from the CEO seems sound, their team promptly closed the path the plugin used to make self-hosted full-featured Sync & Publish work. "For Security" - ignoring the handful of other gaping security holes as less important I guess?

Anyway, I decided to fork and make it work with v1.4.5. Enjoy https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync/issues/19#issuecomment...

t3chguyon Fish shell

I could not agree more, I'm sure zsh can do everything fish can and a lot more, but getting it to that stage would take me more time than I'll spend interacting with fish for the next few months

t3chguyon WhatsApp and most alternatives share the same problem

Open Source but not actively accepting contributions is not a great place to be. Especially when you can't federate, so you are stuck using the central server which basically doesn't accept code contributions. Take a look at https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=https://github.com/sig...

Also it is somewhat interesting that this Open Source centralised Signal server, where centralisation means you can move quicker, hasn't seen a commit in 10 months.

Compare it to Matrix Synapse https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=https://github.com/mat...

The story with the flagship clients in both spaces is very similar.

t3chguyon Riot is now Element

> Why would that be?

One password that you send to the server to authenticate. The other is a passphrase used to seed an encryption key for the data you store on the server securely in a manner the server has no access to.

t3chguyon We’ve decided to rename Riot

There are multiple Matrix server implementations, just like there is Apache, Nginx and more for Web server implementations.

t3chguyon We’ve decided to rename Riot

Synapse is just one Server capable of providing a self-hosted Matrix server. Just like for self-hosted Web servers you have options like Nginx and Apache and more.

t3chguyon We’ve decided to rename Riot

It is quite clearly marked as Beta. Betas don't last forever :((

t3chguyon Matrix.org hacked

This is not right at all, the hack was due to an outdated Jenkins instance and could have happened regardless of what other software was running on the infrastructure.

t3chguyon Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im

Also the latest development version adds transparency as to exactly what it collects

t3chguyon Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im

web and desktop are opt-out, but it all is very minimal and redacts anything personal

- Dev who wrote Riot's Analytics

t3chguyon Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im

It hasn't been bought, Status had contractually selected some features/bugs that they wanted fixed but apart from that they do not control riot.im's roadmap.

- Contracted Matrix Dev