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• Post #2437939

  The certificates on my XMPP account have expired yet again, there's also some unknown DNS-related issue that's had my account defederated for a good while now. Honestly I don't feel like trying to solve it and there's not much reason to, so I think I'm just going to turn it off.

• Post #2437938

  Something I realized recently when I found a phrase for it: protocols can only go so far, then they get stuck in the past. XMPP is very much like this, HTTP and email are, and even IP itself (cough cough IPv6). Central development gets around all of that -- and you can still use protocols. The best example of this model I can think of is DeltaChat's core library & app set. You can use that core library pretty much anywhere, and build an app off of it that's fully featured up and dow...

• Post #2437935

  I think the biggest thing I want in #DeltaChat is a "unified inbox" where, unless I specifically exclude it, chats for all of my profiles are listed. Any duplicate contacts would show the profile icon on the list, and if I have multiple accounts in the same group for some reason, it would let me switch between them in the composer. Seems like it would be rather simple? There's probably some implementation detail I'm missing. (For a more advanced implementation: you'd be a...

• Post #2437934

  I'm knee deep again in this idea of a command-palette oriented operating system... Everything runs through command palette plugins; the plugin system would let you register search providers and global-search entries (which also includes "home screen" list entries you can scroll through) through standard channels (Unix sockets, D-Bus, and individual plugin files). Registered entries would point to how that plugin can be invoked (Unix socket, D-Bus, spawned process I/O [recommended]...

• Post #2437933

  I'm sorry, the location on this being Cary is distracting me Why Cary of all places? RE: https://oldfriends.live/@paul/115092053108637462

• Post #2437932

  the YIF Image Format