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Mozilla Public License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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status-desktop
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[1 Year Review] Status still hasn't released anything or gained any real market share in private messaging
In the meantime, desktop already exists but it's just at the finish line w.r.t. good enough feature set and performance to launch broadly. Go check it out at https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop. This recent tweet also highlights some of the massive performance improvements the desktop team is focused on (which will also immediately be available to the mobile app): https://twitter.com/ethstatus/status/1662857323889524739
- Faster Python with Guido van Rossum
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Is this project dead?
The application consists of the combined efforts of the Status organisation and community contributors, you can follow our development at github.com/status-im/ — you're welcome to contribute as well! If you're running into any bugs, we'd love it if you could file an issue in our mobile or desktop repositories.
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FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent
For those looking for a no-censorship-ever-of-any-kind alternative, consider Status:
https://status.im/get/
If you don't need or want a crypto wallet or dapp browser, then simply don't use those parts of the app.
Relevant specs:
https://specs.status.im/
https://rfc.vac.dev/
Relevant repos:
https://github.com/status-im/status-react
https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop
There are trade-offs, for sure: since there's (deliberately) no integration with contacts lists (address books) of the OS or other apps, your social circle probably isn't using the app already, or in any case isn't discoverable.
The public chats facility has turned out to be too spam-prone for "well known" / advertised chats, e.g. #status. However, if you create a public chat that has some unguessable component (e.g. #myfriends-a9e72ab5) and you share it with friends (even lots) in a reasonably private context, then the chances of it being spammed are quite low. Note that public chats, while "public", are still E2EE, using the chat's name as the basis for a symmetric key.
1-to-1 and private group chats are highly secure; the latter have a max size, and depending on their size and your device, sending messages can be a little slow.
Creating a robust alternative to the existing public chats facility has involved a lot of work: the forthcoming Communities features provides a discord-like facility whereby founders/admins of communities can take advantage of various mechanisms for moderation and governing membership. The Communities feature can already be enabled in advanced preferences of both mobile and desktop apps, but note it's a WIP.
The moderation mechanisms for communities don't undermine the no-censorship principle of Status because:
(1) Any user can create a community.
(2) A community's rules are managed by those with a stake in the community, there's no override by Status-the-org nor anyone else.
(3) The underlying nodes of the network form a decentralized p2p network, i.e. there's no central actor/authority that controls the flow of messages.
Re: (3), running a Status node should be easy and incentivized.
The "incentivized" aspect is a challenging problem and not solved yet. Long story short, engineering an incentivized decentralized messaging network (not a blockchain!) is harder than incentivizing a blockchain network.
That being said, the "easy" aspect isn't too difficult to solve, sneak peek:
https://github.com/status-im/status-node
Finally, with pertinent laws and regulations in flux across the globe, there could come a day when binaries aren't readily available (from app stores, GitHub, etc.), but thankfully there's always `git clone` and `make`.
Disclosure: I'm a core contributor at Status.
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Opinions on Status, peer to peer messager(status.im)
My only big issue is that it does talk to googleusercontent.com. Not sure how that can fit with privacy. Heres the github issue.
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It looks like Signal isn't as open source as you thought it was anymore
Current numbers re: adoption were discussed in Status' most recent Town Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98wsQe6hHHs&t=365s
As for dev support: Status has teams of full-time devs working on various projects related to the mobile[1] and desktop[2] (beta) apps, as well projects that are related to the larger Ethereum ecosystem, e.g. nimbus-eth2[3]. Our teams aren't particularly large, but are working steadily to squash bugs and add/improve features. We also have teams dedicated to UX and design.
[1] https://github.com/status-im/status-react
[2] https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop
[3] https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2
skybison
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What happens in a garbage collection system where only a local variable in the host language has a pointer to an object?
Check out our handle implementation here.
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Would it be good to add inconsistency to add a small string variant in the value payload?
This is what we did in Skybison and it worked just fine.
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The Toit language is now open source
The codebases have very similar naming patterns and structures that mean that once you've read one, the others are much easier to understand. Check out, for example, Dart's VM. Or https://github.com/facebookexperimental/skybison
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Faster Python with Guido van Rossum
Guido appears to have meant to refer to Skybison (https://github.com/facebookexperimental/skybison), which is not 100% compatible.
- GitHub - facebookexperimental/skybison: Instagram's experimental performance oriented greenfield implementation of Python.
- Facebook's experimental performance oriented greenfield implementation of Python
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Skybison, Instagram's experimental performance oriented greenfield implementation of Python
In particular, what was the performance impact of your moving GC? (The documentation for the GC, https://github.com/facebookexperimental/skybison/blob/trunk/doc/garbage-collection.md, appears to be a dead link, is it present somewhere?)
- Show HN: Skybison, an optimized greenfield Python runtime
What are some alternatives?
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
nimporter - Compile Nim Extensions for Python On Import!
mobilecoin - Private payments for mobile devices.
beartype - Unbearably fast near-real-time hybrid runtime-static type-checking in pure Python.
libsignal - Home to the Signal Protocol as well as other cryptographic primitives which make Signal possible.
toit-color-tft
status-mobile - a free (libre) open source, mobile OS for Ethereum
toit-lsm303dlhc - Driver for the LSM303DLHC
td - Cross-platform library for building Telegram clients
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
cinder - Cinder is Meta's internal performance-oriented production version of CPython.
badger - Keyboard firmware written from scratch using Nim