My open letter, to the European Commission digital markets act team:
Hello,
I am joining other developers, concerned about Googles new plan, to approve every app and effectively destroy most of the competing 3rd party stores this way. The biggest one of these alternative stores, most known for their focus on user and developer privacy, already states, this would make it impossible for them to operate: https://f-droid.org/cs/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
Even communities like the XDA forum, where new developers are often introduced to the world of Android development, would likely be strongly impacted, as making, publishing and installing Android apps is made less accessible.
I am not just writing on their behalf, I run a small website myself (https://thecanine.ueuo.com/), that both provides legal modifications, for some android apps - for example adding an amoled dark theme, to the most popular XMPP chat client for Android, or increasing one of Androids keyboard apps height. This all comes after Googles previous changes to the Android operating system, that prevent users from installing old apps (old to Google, can mean only a couple of months, without an update - https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/target-sdk and the target version gets increased every year). I rely on apps developed by a single developer, even for things like making the pixel art presented on my website and sideloading as a way to make these apps work, before developers can catch up to Google’s new requirements - if Google is allowed to slowly kill these options, us digital artists will soon lose the tools we need to create digital art.
@bender@twtxt.net Believe me, I’ve never been more tempted to switch, than now, as Google is one by one, removing (or at last trying to remove) all the reasons why I chose Android, over iOS. In fact, many friends who were fellow “Android diehards”, ended up switching recently.
Sadly what I need is a headphone jack, ability to modify apps on device (decompile, change file, recompile), many specific mods, strong XMPP support, Pixel Station,… nothing switching to iOS, would give me.
@bender@twtxt.net I think it’s actually a new XEP proposal ( https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0084.html#proto-info ), but it’s still a bit unclear. Sorry for the late and vague response, I’m still trying to test it and see what it’s even about, didn’t yet find a server, that supports it.
@thecanine@twtxt.net with this you meant Conversations, not XMPP, right?
“Also, finally getting full screen view for avatars in XMPP - a better integrated one, after 25 years. Y@ay!”
QR codes, already posted about them in the last two posts, but I want to hear your hot takes: Should they only be black and white, are they even worth doing in 2025, incorporating them into things,..?
Also, finally getting full screen view for avatars in XMPP - a better integrated one, after 25 years. Y@ay!
@bender@twtxt.net NOOOO i self host an XMPP server and also revolt but as much as i love XMPP (gajim client reminds me of using skype as a kid highkey) i don’t use it much and revolt is a bitch to maintain. like i broke revolt file uploads and it stayed that way for months until literally last week lmao. i never bothered with matrix tbh maybe i should’ve but it seems not worth it
I left XMPP because I found no interactions. Long live IRC!
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[ANN] Phantom Circuit: Introduction
Phantom Circuit is a fictional short story generated entirely by AI. It was inspired by a Darknet Diaries podcast episode [..] I also managed to work in some mention of Monero…
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In nostr/simplex you did not bounded account to server because its just a relay. In matrix, xmpp and salty.im you store account data on broker and when broker is down you will no longer to communicate
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Evening, hackers! I feel a column coming on!
TL;DR: In which we learn about the EU parliament election, some
ruminations about the death of XMPP, MC’s flat being without drains
for two months, a visit at the Lund Linux Conference, another at the
Security Fest conference, fighting against a Supermicro server, and
some other recent shenanigans,
I voted today. Yes, I know. The EU is still a strange marvel of
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Lack of comments are definitely a shortcoming of JSON. I don’t like TOML because it lets you have nested categories ([foo] [foo.bar] [foo.baz]
) and it just feels confusing to me, even with indentation. Simple INI files are okay.
The Prosody XMPP server’s configuration file is just a Lua script because Prosody is written in Lua, and that’s excellent.
Hi guys! My first ever Yarn post 😺 📦
I already think I am going to like this better than mastodon. My question is, is this federated… @support@twtxt.net ?? If so I am a lifer. Haha and I’ve been here 5 minutes 💖
I like to occasionally do some graphical artwork from time to time. For the first place to get all my art and other’s too check out XMPP at this address: xmpp:artwork@chat.toofast.vip?join
Another question, is this using markdown for markup? @thecanine@twtxt.net ?? Follow me back mateo! 😎
I guess Google Hangouts is finally dead.
Why is Google such a mess at making messaging apps? This has more or less been a solved problem for decades. Google Talk worked well enough, and since it was based on XMPP and Jingle it was perfectly suited to become a large-scale text/voice/video messaging system. If they’d run with that they’d have been able to dominate that space, I think. Instead, they’ve created and shitcanned half a dozen messaging apps and platforms, flailing around copying someone else’s app (now they’re trying to copy Slack I guess).
@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk Ah.. that is probably the XMPP verify code.. it doesnt really work that well. I aught to take it out.
@prologic@twtxt.net Re: Chat system, What if the base specification included a system for per-user arbitrary JSON storage on the server? Kind of like XEP-0049, but expanded upon. Two kinds of objects: public and private. Public objects can be queried by anyone, private objects cannot and must be encrypted with the user’s private key. Public keys could be stored there, as well as anything else defined by extensions. Roster, user block list, avatar, etc.
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@benk@kwiecien.us I’ve logged in to Monad now (iOS XMPP client) but I’ve gotta be honest: I don’t know if I’ve created a user in the app or logged in to tilde.team 🤔 Do you happen to know how I join a group? And which groups do you recommend?
Matrix vs. XMPP
XMPP and Matrix are two decentralized and federated free sofware projects for chat, including true end-to-end encrypted chat.
Users can either install the software on their own server if they want, but they can also easily register on any public server—both allow any XMPP or Matrix user to talk to users on their server or on any other one. In essence, it works like email: you might have an em … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net sometimes I think it would be nice to have a XMPP instance. then I remember it’s all XML and I think “nah.”
I am constantly in awe that IRC remains the only realtime chat that isn’t unnecessarily complex. name another that can run chatops bot with just nc and sh?
The #XMPP #newsletter about November is out: https://xmpp.org/2020/11/newsletter-11-november/
@prologic@twtxt.net (#gqg3gea) ha yeah. COVID makes for a timey-wimey mish-mash. Worked on some WKD and fought with my XMPP client a bit.
The new #XMPP newsletter is out: https://xmpp.org/2020/10/newsletter-10-october/
@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t automate anything but I have sensors in every room to warn me if the humidity is too high and one in the fridge to warn if it’s too warm/cold via xmpp message. It’s working pretty well and was not expensive. I have fhem running on a raspberry pi which also serves other services.
@prologic@twtxt.net So far it doesn’t mean much but being a member is a precondition to participate in the work teams. I want to join the editor team https://xmpp.org/about/xsf/editor-team and maybe also the commteam https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/CommTeam
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, busy with work and life. 😂 Also I got voted into the #XSF so probably I’ll be more busy with #XMPP im the future. How are you doing?
#XMPP brews #coffee ☕, the #August newsletter: https://xmpp.org/2020/08/newsletter-08-august/
@lukem@twtxt.net Nice. As I don’t know how to create an android app I just wrote an xmpp bot for using twtxt. It’s probably very hacky as I am no programmer at all.
Go and xmpp-client ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/xmpp-client.html
The new #XMPP newsletter is available: https://xmpp.org/2020/07/newsletter-01-july/
The new #XMPP newsletter is available: https://xmpp.org/2020/06/newsletter/
On Wednesday 10.06.2020 the developer of the #XMPP client conversations will talk about implementing audio/video calls with XMPP during the Berlin XMPP meetup (held online with Jitsi-Meet): https://nl.movim.eu/?node/pubsub.movim.eu/berlin-xmpp-meetup/3e091c00-5e20-4727-a61d-c92a247b106e
As it seems to be not well known I advertise it again: Please join the (inofficial) #twtxt #XMPP room at xmpp:twtxt@chat.mdosch.de?join
https://t2bot.io/docs/2020-matrix-org-lag/ Some confirmation why I prefer the good ‘ol (actually it’s improving to current demands all the time) #XMPP and don’t switch to the fancy new kids in town like, currently, #MATRIX.
#Conversations with #VoIP is released. 🎉 https://nitter.net/iNPUTmice/status/1254662039592742913 #XMPP
There is now a nice monitoring service for #XMPP service operators: https://observe.jabber.network/ (Thanks jonas´)
First release candidate of android #XMPP client #Conversations is available and working smooth with my server. Hope it will be released soon. 😃
#Conversations beta with #VoIP is working already for me. Not yet perfect but for beta stage already pretty good. #XMPP
First impression of the VoIP feature for the #XMPP client #Conversations https://nitter.net/iNPUTmice/status/1250309288506974209
@von@tilde.town What is session? For chatting I use #XMPP since ~2003 😃
The TUI #XMPP client #Profanity released 0.8.0 https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/post/release-080/
#Snikket - a new kid in #XMPP town. https://snikket.org/
Since beginning of this month the #XMPP TUI client #profanity started a blog: https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/index.html
@sarmonsiill@twtxt.ti-l.de I have an xmpp bot running on my vps and the bot updates my twtxt.txt using txtnish. So I use twtxt via xmpp.
If you can read this my twtxt (including my twtxt #xmpp bot) is up and running again. 😀
If someone is using this niche microblog thing twitter: #profanity has a poll what terminal #xmpp client you are using: https://twitter.com/ProfanityIM/status/1207317970667606022
@lucidiot@tilde.town I think I’ve heard it’s using #XMPP but I don’t find a source right now.
The new #xmpp newsletter is available: https://xmpp.org/2019/11/newsletter-08-november/
@von@tilde.town I moved my family to xmpp. For friends you might consider quicksy that works like WhatsApp but you can reach them via normal xmpp. Maybe you will also find some interesting groupchats there: https://search.jabber.network/rooms/1
The #xmpp newsletter 10/2019 is the first one which got translated to German: https://www.jabber.de/xmpp-newsletter-01-oktober-2019-fosdem-2020-modernisierung-von-xmpp-peer-networks/
Some news from the #xmpp #Stockholm sprint: https://bouah.net/2019/10/sprint-in-the-cold-north/
The #XMPP Newsletter is out! Read the latest news from the XMPP/Jabber communities: articles, events, software releases with servers, clients/apps, and services… https://xmpp.org/2019/10/newsletter-01-october/ #social #instantmessaging #chat
@kas@enotty.dk Your link made it into the libraries test. 😂 https://github.com/FluuxIO/go-xmpp/commit/005c8823d9a3d57c133737f1f889658c3ddb869b
@kas@enotty.dk Oh, it’s so bad? I created an issue. So you might comment there if you have knowledge of possible vulnerabilities. https://github.com/FluuxIO/XMPP/issues/6
@kas@enotty.dk yes, gosrc.io/xmpp is using a lot of fprintf and seems to not do escaping for % 😒
@kas@enotty.dk It looks like the message is f***ed up by the #xmpp library I am using and not by my code. :-/
Regarding my problem with some chars from @kas@enotty.dkdk: The txtnish output looks fine. As I don’t see anything in my program that could cause this I asked in the #golang #xmpp room. Let’s see if someone has a good idea.
@kas@enotty.dk I don’t know. I will check what txtnish output in the terminal looks like. Right now I only access #twtxt via my #xmpp bot.
@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I think my pulse would be high a lot of times if using iOS. I hear of so many problems from #xmpp devs fighting iOS and push. Not having a reliable chat app due to apples design constraints would really piss me off.
@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com Looks nice. But it supports strange things like telegram, hipchat and so on but not the standard #xmpp 😡
@leo@www.gkbrk.com maybe my #xmpp bot is doing something wrong, but everything else works.
I totally prefer #XMPP over #IRC. I like it being federated and with #Conversations you have a good mobile client, also you don’t need to setup a bouncer.
@nonlinear@nonlinear.radiofreqs.space there is an #xmpp muc: xmpp:twtxt@chat.mdosch.de?join but unfortunately not much used.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @von@tilde.town This is also my only tweeting thing. 😃 I am active in some boards and #xmpp mucs though.
If this is due to the xmpp wttr.in bot I shared here you should fix your certs.
Today I got a lot of s2s errors on my #xmpp server because of servers with invalid certs are trying to connect.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net You can also send your location to xmpp:wttr@mdosch.de using #xmpp
“A pathway to a well regulated instant messaging market”: https://gultsch.de/regulations.html #xmpp
If you can read this my twtxt-over-xmpp bot is also up and running. :D
2019: The year I stopped caring about XMPP.
@kas@enotty.dk to (1) he explained that phone numbers are too predictable to have any advantage by hashing and I don’t understand (2) as this might be a step to increase the xmpp user base.
Easy XMPP with WhatsApp like contact discovery via phone number: https://quicksy.im/ #xmpp #quicksy #conversations
Anyone using sendxmpp wants to try go-sendxmpp. It should already cover the most important use cases and I would be interested if it was compatible in your use case. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/go-sendxmpp #xmpp #golang
My feed-to-muc #XMPP bot now filters some tracking from URLs: https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/feed-to-muc/commit/4577ec34c103b0a7c40b0606602aa2f7918a403d
It is probably an evil hack, but it is working: I created a #XMPP bot which monitors news feeds for updates and posts them to a MUC. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/feed-to-muc
Oh, https://wttr.in has run out of weather queries. I hope that’s not caused by xmpp:wttr@mdosch.de 🙄
Built a little #xmpp bot that queries wttr.in: https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/gowttr Just try: xmpp:wttr@mdosch.de
I changed the code of #goxtxt (my #twtxt #xmpp bot) a little bit. If all went good there should be no change in functionality but it is no more depending on #head and #grep.