matrix-bifrost
sucks
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Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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matrix-bifrost
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The first beta of Slidge (XMPP bridges) is out
tbh Matrix was pretty green 5 years ago, so you probably didn't miss much. Thanks for considering a slidge-matrix bridge. On the Matrix side, we already have https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost as our main Matrix<->XMPP bridge, but it could definitely be better, and the more interop between open protocols the better \o/ :)
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XMPP, a Comeback Story: A Protocol for Robust, Private and Decentralized Comms
Unfortunately XMPP<->Matrix end-to-end encryption is a contradiction in terms. You have to speak the same protocol from end-to-end, otherwise you'd have to break the end-to-end encryption to translate from one protocol to the other. The closest you could get would be to run the Matrix<->XMPP bridge clientside alongside your Matrix client... but at that point you might almost as well be running a multihead messenger that speaks both Matrix & XMPP.
In terms of adding Matrix to MUCs; i believe we're working on it in Bifrost, which is in active albeit slightly sporadic dev: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost.
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Beeper - All Your Chats In One App
Matrix itself looks like it may be able to serve xmpp via this bridge
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Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
Yes, there is: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost/wiki/Address-sy...
sucks
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Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
This is correct, and it's why most open-source software will never have much in the way of users:
> They're written from the perspective of the developers
And I get it. A few years back I had an open-source project [1] get users and it was terrible. What had previously been a fun technical exercise became a pain in the ass that felt a lot like actual work. I was relieved when my hardware broke and I had an excuse to archive the project.
But that does create a huge gap that mostly gets filled by commercial interests.
[1] https://github.com/wpietri/sucks
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Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
It seems like you haven't quite got the concept of open source. If everybody consumes and nobody contributes, how long will that last?
A while back I bought a cheap robot vacuum. Their scheduling feature didn't meet my needs, so I reverse-engineered the protocol and open-sourced a cron-friendly CLI tool and a library so people could do other things with it: https://github.com/wpietri/sucks
Honestly, this was a mistake on my part. It was a demanding audience of home-automation hobbyists mostly without programming skills. The company was thoroughly unhelpful. When my vacuum finally broke, I was relieved, as I had a good excuse for trying to hand off the project. Nobody stepped up, so I shut it down. I just ran out of interest in doing free work to support a company worth billions.
I really admire the community spirit of open source But it's not sustainable if companies making their money off it keep depending on the niceness and generosity of others without giving back enough to keep them happy, healthy, productive people.
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XMPP, a Comeback Story: A Protocol for Robust, Private and Decentralized Comms
I reverse-engineered the comms for my cheap Ecovacs robot vacuum and was surprised to discover that, like some angsty teen, it spent all day hanging out in an XMPP chatroom waiting for somebody to talk to it: https://github.com/wpietri/sucks/blob/master/developing.md
What are some alternatives?
cinny - Yet another matrix client
maubot - A plugin-based Matrix bot system.
meshnet-lab - Emulate huge mobile ad-hoc mesh networks using Linux network namespaces.
signal - A Matrix-Signal puppeting bridge
sh - Python process launching
weechat-matrix - Weechat Matrix protocol script written in python
polyjuice_server
stickerpicker - A fast and simple Matrix sticker picker widget
selling-partner-api - A PHP client library for Amazon's Selling Partner API
deon - DeObject Notation Format