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Someone deleted an interesting comment about adversarial interoperability [0]
I’d love to see and give money to a project to create and maintain easy to use and stable “adversarial interoperability” APIs for as many services and products as possible.
Perhaps companies and projects would not often use these directly because of the risks (hopefully some would, though!) but individuals could drop the library or the URL to a server hosting it into their apps to gain extra features.
If standardised, whole open source apps could be built around them that allow querying and analysis of data from services and aggregating and automating using the services including optimising prices, taking advantage of offers, and using undocumented APIs to the users advantage.
Perhaps something like https://thegraph.com/ for adversarial intercom and undocumented APIs. Building as a network of nodes and funding with crypto would make it harder to attack and take down.
[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
As a small company who spends $70-80k per year on Google's official Translate API, it's disappointing if Google allows this type of abuse to continue.
If they don't want to pay, they should be using open source translation like https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate
Telegram is great if you like shiny native features like stickers and having lightweight native clients, but at everything else Telegram is at risk of losing in the long-term.
The big reason for this is that Telegram decided to roll everything mostly on their own (including e.g. MTProto), Telegram is not compatible with Matrix unless you use a bridge, it is not e2e encrypted (unless you use mobile 1-to-1 secret chats. The server side code is proprietary, and the builds of the clients that are published to the app stores could be anything.
While I love using Telegram right now for talking to some groups of friends, I would look at supporting https://matrix.org , since it will likely become the de-facto standard of building messaging platforms.
As from the blog post, the source is public[0] and the Android review is almost entirely automated static/dynamic analysis of apps submitted, so it wouldn't be super hard to find UA-like strings and have some elevated manual review if there are a lot of them (if they decided to implement this sort of abuse policy).
0: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/c1c2ebaf4690fd91c116d...
- The native clients for Matrix suck.
- No custom emojis; every chat application known to man has regular emojis supported in UTF-8, so the author must be talking about custom ones. Which Matrix still does not have: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1951
- I don't think doing what PGP does is really impressive, but okay, fine, one point.
- Matrix group chats are broken and this is why Synapse eats resources like a bear.
- No searchable history on all but one Electron client on one platform when using E2E is terrible, and further supports the argument that all clients suck.
- Point; this is pretty convenient.
- XMPP sucks. Matrix is modern XMPP. People don't like getting confused with servers and similar nonsense, and when your homeserver goes down, you're out of luck. Federation sucks. The question wasn't made to exclude Matrix, it was made to point out that federation sucks. Matrix didn't invent federation; it chose it long after it failed.
- E2E degrades experience greatly. To list my two biggest complaints: It ruins search for all but one client, and the UX around keys is terrible. I frequently have conversations with incredibly technical people and they'll still get absolutely stumped by the UX around keys, because it's awful.
I use Matrix every day. I have for years; long before the recent rebrand, and multiple presidents have vacated office since I started using Matrix. I love Matrix. But there's no reason to act like it's some golden goose when there are problems from 2015 that are no closer to being fixed than they were at the time.
On-device translations is quiet feasible, and there are ways to legally do this, such as this app [1] which translates other apps. Surprising Telegram chose such a route.
