debacle @debacle@framapiaf.org

Another exciting addition to Converse.js 6.0.0 is support for message retraction (i.e. removal) by the author (XEP-0424) or by a groupchat admin (XEP-0425).

These are brand new XEPs that I helped author and I'm not aware of other #xmpp clients which already support them. Hopefully they will do so soon.

#conversejs

#Kaidan for the Masses: Our Upcoming 9-seconds-registration https://kaidan.im/2020/01/08/Easy-Registation/ #freesw #accessibility #xmpp

Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal gave a talk at 36C3 on Saturday titled “The ecosystem is moving”. The Fahrplan description of that talk reads as follows: Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies from the perspective of a product that many would like to see decentralize.Amongst an environment of enthusiasm for blockchain-based technologies, efforts to decentralize the internet, and tremendous investment in distributed systems, there has been relatively little product movement in this area from the mobile and consumer internet spaces.This is an exploration of challenges for distributed technologies, as well as some considerations for what they do and don’t provide, from the perspective of someone working on user-focused mobile communication. This also includes a look at how Signal addresses some of the same problems that decentralized and distributed technologies hope to solve.https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/events/11086.html Basically the talk is a reiteration of some arguments from a blog post with the same title he posted back in 2016. In his presentation, Marlinspike basically states that federated systems have the issue of being frozen in time while centralized systems are flexible and easy to change. As an example, Marlinspike names HTTP/1.1, which was released in 1999 and on which we are stuck on ever since. While it is true, that a huge part of the internet is currently running on HTTP 1.0 and 1.1, one has to consider that its successor HTTP/2.0 was only released in 2015. 4 / 5 years are not a long time to update the entirety of the internet, especially if you consider the fact that the big browser vendors announced to only make their browsers work with HTTP/2.0 sites when they are TLS encrypted. Marlinspike then goes on listing 4 expectations that advocates of federated systems have, namely privacy, censorship resistance, availability and control. This is pretty accurate and matches my personal expectations pretty well. He then argues, that Signal as a centralized application can fulfill those expectations as well, if not better than a decentralized system. Privacy Privacy is often expected to be provided by the means of data ownership, says Marlinspike. As an example he mentions email. He argues that even though he is self-hosting his emails, “each and every mail has GMail at the other end”. I agree with this observation and think that this is a real problem. But the answer to this problem would logically be that we need to increase our efforts to… <a class="more-link" href="https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2019/12/29/re-the-ecosystem-is-moving/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Re: The Ecosystem is Moving</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">→</span></a> https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2019/12/29/re-the-ecosystem-is-moving/

Today #XMPP's service operator meetup at #36c3 is a 5pm! We would like to orient the discussion towards creating a public list of servers and also encourage #librehosters to join!

Conversations, der wohl beste Android-Messenger für die XMPP-Welt, ist aktuell kostenlos über den Play Store beziehbar.

Alternativ und zu bevorzugen: Über F-Droid herunterladen.

Schöne Feiertage!

New progress note (W51) available at https://www.goffi.org/b/JLPTTHfRnqhxNozHjRz553/progress-note

This one is about Kivy, infinite scroll and other changes, and OMEMO with e2e file sharing

#salutatoi #XMPP #progress_note #kivy #OMEMO #e2ee #e2e #encryption #aesgcm

Dino's app menu now contains a "Keyboard Shortcuts" list and an "About Dino" dialog that displays the app version and other meta info. The current git master has the version 0.0~git594.20191218.9fe84505. Upcoming: Version 0.1. #Dino #XMPP

#XMPP #Sprint in #Berlin!
Mark the date: March 26th to 29th 2020.

(Link in German)
https://tooldoku.dbjr.de/2019/12/ankuendigung-xmpp-wochenende-im-maerz-2020-in-berlin/

The December XMPP/Jabber newsletter is out!
"XMPP in all languages! 03 Dec 2019"
https://xmpp.org/2019/12/newsletter-03-december/
Read it online, or subscribe to receive it in your inbox!

A new version of the go-xmpp library, which can be used to write XMPP clients or components in Go, as been released.

https://blog.process-one.net/go-xmpp-0-3-0/

#golang #xmpp

New progress note (W48) available at https://www.goffi.org/b/R5PeQUPBCSZWvabRNXtAE9/progress-note

It is talking about Cagou on Android and Python 3.8

#salutatoi #XMPP #progress_note #cagou #android #python

#XMPP will have their own assembly at #36C3. Let's wait for the event all together on our channel! https://chat.cluxia.eu/i/#36c3@chat.cluxia.eu?join

Gajim has a new website, and a new series on its development.

"Oktober’s development brought improvements to MacOS, Jingle File Transfer, Delivery Receipts, and more. "

https://gajim.org/post/2019-11-06-development-news-october/

Movim 0.16 Cesco is available

https://nl.movim.eu/?node/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/e10a8998-5e4d-4b52-9b9e-2f103b446d94

* Drawing and content sharing, via "snaps"
* Attachments menu
* Chat improvements
* Chats and chatrooms list improvements
* Refactoring of capabilities
* Search panel improvements
* Slight design changes
* Performances boosts

Get it now!

Want to run the #Dino #XMPP client on startup in the background? I just learned this weekend from @larma that it is as simple as calling "dino --gapplication-service". This solves a long standing feature request from me. Thanks a lot for the hint and the nice chat at #SFScon