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I recently developed a thing to turn a Conversations chat* into a PDF.

codeberg.org/moji/typst-conver

That story began with a friend of mine that had got a XMPP group chat where they shared updates and pictures of their latest travel adventure. Now chat is rather ephemeral and they wanted to preserve those memories in an easy accessible format that is PDF. And so I put something together.

* actually any chat as long as you can get the raw data in the expected format

Summary card of repository moji/typst-conversations
Codeberg.orgtypst-conversationsA parametrized Typst document to visualize a chat conversation with text and image messages — closely matching the design of Conversations.

There are no known security issues with "Siacs OMEMO" / OMEMO v0.3¹ despite of what some very loud Signal fans would like you to believe. It has been audited by a third party² who took a longer look at it than all of the Signal fans combined.

Yes, #OMEMO v0.7+ (or TWOMEMO 😜) is a cleaner spec with more features (most notably Stanza Content Encryption). That’s why we wrote it. I’m a co-author. That doesn’t mean v0.3 is insecure.

¹: xmpp.org/extensions/attic/xep-
²: conversations.im/omemo/audit.p

xmpp.orgXEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption

Deine Daten. Deine Regeln. Deine digitale Zukunft.

monocles startet heute seine Crowdfunding Kampagne auf StartNext! 🎉

monocles bietet die Lösung für eine europäische Unabhängigkeit von Big Tech. Sei es der Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselte Chat, der sichere E-Maildienst oder die privatsphärefreundlichen Smartphones mit unserem eigenen Betriebssystem. monocles schafft ein dezentrales, faires und ethisches digitales Ökosystem für alle.

Seid dabei!

startnext.com/monocles

The XMPP Software Foundation has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support true messaging interoperability using the XMPP protocol.

Meta had previously integrated this protocol, and WhatsApp is actually built on XMPP for its message routing system.

We support this initiative as it represents the best approach for genuine interoperability. Federation is the way to go !

Learn more by reading the open letter: xmpp.org/announcements/open-le

xmpp.orgXMPPXMPP - The universal messaging standard
🎉️ Profanity 0.15.0 has been released 🎉
Profanity is a console based XMPP client written in C using ncurses and libstrophe, inspired by Irssi
🙏️ 9 people contributed to this release.

✨️ Change default download location /url save $someurl will now download to ~/.local/share/profanity/downloads/from_jid/date/filename instead of ~/.local/share/profanity/downloads.
✨️ Introduce /redraw command
✨️ Handle alt+enter as newline char
✨️ ... and more ...

#Profanity #XMPP #ncurses
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@Gerbsen @qbi @signalapp

"Nutzt Signal!"

Außer, wenn man kein Google Android/Apple iOS hat/haben will.

Außer, wenn man nicht Amazon AWS nutzen/finanzieren will oder befürchtet, DJT könnte jederzeit den Zugang sperren.

Außer, wenn man seine Telefonnummer nicht als Chat-Id verwenden will.

Email vs. Signal ist eine falsche Dichotomie. Es gibt freie, föderierte Alternativen mit Clients für die meisten Betriebssysteme und ohne Telefonnummernzwang.

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@xmpp Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. That's the predictable strategy all big corps will take: to use Open Standards as a ladder they can climb up, to popularity and profit. Then kick the ladder out from under them. Gullibility in this regard will only set back Open Standards for a very long time. #XMPP should have pretty much taken over the world by now, but was passed over time and again by the likes of Meta and Google/Alphabet, who usurped it, then betrayed it.

Dos clientes #XMPP actualizados a su versión 0.15.0 en el mismo día .. y los dos son clientes que se usan desde la consola!

#Profanity llevaba más de un año y medio desde su última versión, y #Poezio llevaba ya más de tres.
¿Cual era la chance de que los dos publicaran su versión "0.15.0" el mismo día?

En fin. Poco importa. ¡Un día para el disfrute de los que usamos clientes de #xmpp desde la consola!