Posts by daniel@gultsch.social
(DIR) Post #B1gTH11V15EXAGqDA0 by daniel@gultsch.social
2025-12-26T10:52:25Z
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On my way to #39C3
(DIR) Post #B1jtQr0aHouTHae2mu by daniel@gultsch.social
2025-12-29T10:21:12Z
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Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith) has been invited to speak at #39C3 later today. If you make it to the mic in time, here is an interesting question for her: "If I’m put on a boycott list by the Trump regime because I’m openly anti-fascist or oppose war crimes, will you adhere to US laws and block my access to #Signal?"#DigitalSovereignty #DIDit
(DIR) Post #B1laNt3ghM0HxWt7a4 by daniel@gultsch.social
2025-12-29T18:57:56Z
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RE: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/115802352665594606I guess they are not answering any questions? 🤷♂️#39C3 #Signal
(DIR) Post #B1o6RZExuQLyVBsj2m by daniel@gultsch.social
2025-12-31T11:49:17Z
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I still find it a bit odd that Udbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith) stormed off the stage at #39C3 with ~20 minutes left in their slot without answering any questions. I always think of Chaos events as being among equals, and a Q&A after your presentation is just part of that. But I guess if you are earning close to $1 million a year, you are a bit more equal than others.I’m wondering if this was prearranged with the organizers and/or the Herold in that session.
(DIR) Post #B1q5dcKSXYDduzYMZk by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-01T10:36:23Z
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Happy New Year 🎆 🥳First commit of 2026https://codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/Conversations/commit/f21103ec6dd78ee88a3b80e361852560617e9f4a
(DIR) Post #B1sSwF1S6VoUOkQruC by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-02T13:40:47Z
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Instead of the usual #39C3 recommendations, here are my favorite underrated talks according to media.ccc.de (sorted by least viewed):• What Makes Bike-Sharing Work? (https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-what-makes-bike-sharing-work-insights-from-43-million-kilometers-of-european-cycling-data)• Celestial navigation with very little math (https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-celestial-navigation-with-very-little-math)• Von Groschen und SpurLos - GNU Taler auch auf eurem Event! (https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-von-groschen-und-spurlos-gnu-taler-auch-auf-eurem-event)• Don’t look up: There are sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites (https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-don-t-look-up-there-are-sensitive-internal-links-in-the-clear-on-geo-satellites)
(DIR) Post #B1uNnfSiJzyuL3CDZY by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-03T12:34:20Z
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I think #XMPP has a relatively clear and achievable path to drastically reduce the amount of metadata, but I’m increasingly worried that it is not going to move the needle in terms of adoption.For 99.99% of people, the only relevant feature for an instant messenger is simply 'Are my friends using it?' The other 0.01% are equally divided between people who already use XMPP and don’t mind the metadata, and people who won’t use it anyway.#Jabber #Conversations_im
(DIR) Post #B1uNoF97eJhV0iJ528 by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-03T12:49:04Z
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To anyone curious about the technical details:• Go roster-less. I seriously considered that for Quicksy. You basically just do it.• Per device offline queue. With SASL2 the server knows what devices a users has. Discard messages once you know every device has received them.• Sealed sender. With SASL anonymous and PEP we have some good building blocks for that. Basically just have to come up with semantics of which key pairs go where.• Stanza Content Encryption with MLS or OMEMO@masoud
(DIR) Post #B1ufp7L5xW2UGKTPRw by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-03T15:51:57Z
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Ich bin auch immer noch total hyped für Gnu Taler. Bargeld ist einfach total unpraktisch, aber die US Zahlungsdienstleister Visa, Mastercard bzw Google und Apple Pay sind aus offensichtlichen Gründen sehr kritisch zu betrachten.Gnu Taler ist einfach die perfekte Alternative zu beidem. Können wir das bitte in Zukunft auf jedem Chaos Event haben?#GnuTaler #CCC #39C3
(DIR) Post #B1w4Wg1dSraWLjdQAq by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-04T08:14:46Z
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Happy Jabber Day 🎂 🥳On January 4, 1999, Jabber was first announced to the public¹.Twenty-seven years later, Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform.In almost three decades, XMPP has never stopped evolving and remains our best tool for digital independence.¹: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/01/04/1621211#DigitalIndependenceDay #Jabber #XMPP #DiDit #DigitalSovereignty #DiDay #JabberDay
(DIR) Post #B1yHCbERGSDLPZIf4a by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-04T09:04:02Z
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My moral compass is aligned such that I would rather pay a little bit of tax than move my operations to the US, but I truly believe that granting non-profit status to open-source projects in Germany would be a net positive for the economy.
(DIR) Post #B2EkmlNfh0eRZ7tE6y by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-13T08:33:01Z
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Threema is being bought by private equity. This usually means terrible news for users and employees as every last penny is squeezed out of the company. Maybe #Threema is the one exception to this well-documented pattern. Probably not.
(DIR) Post #B2LXwp94c1Xsq6FRg0 by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-16T14:56:31Z
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Everyone is freaking out about Orion's heatshield and its ability to withstand a free return trajectory from the Moon.But did they ever get around to fixing the O-ring issues on the Shuttle/SLS boosters? February can get pretty cold.#Orion #SLS #Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA
(DIR) Post #B2PGLJW2KIW1RGMAqG by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-18T10:21:53Z
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Recommending #Signal is like giving a man a slightly less poisonous fish. Introducing them to federated, provider independent instant messaging with #XMPP is teaching them how to fish.
(DIR) Post #B2c4D3lY377TcFwIIy by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-24T14:42:06Z
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Dass unsere Politiker immer noch munter auf der CSAM- und NCII-Plattform X unterwegs sind, lässt mich vermuten, dass CSAM als Begründung für die Chatkontrolle eventuell nur vorgeschoben war.#ChatControl
(DIR) Post #B2eowkQmy8LaUnQ1Oi by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-25T10:57:06Z
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The only relevant feature for any instant messaging app (or social app, for that matter) is: Are my friends using it? People will gladly overlook minor inconsistencies or missing features as long as they can communicate with their friends. We shouldn’t recommend #Signal as a stepping stone before Jabber/XMPP becomes "good enough," if goodness is defined by the number of people using it.#Jabber #XMPP #Conversations_im
(DIR) Post #B2k1sVn9j35l83zUCO by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-28T10:33:09Z
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I just finished the slides for our talk on UnifiedPush (@unifiedpush) at FOSDEM 2026! Come see Simon (@S1m) and me in the FOSS on Mobile devroom this Saturday at 16:00.https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7HJJS7-unifiedpush_-_push_notifications_decentralized_and_open_source/#UnifiedPush #FOSDEM #FOSDEM26
(DIR) Post #B2mfsFnzY2PQ1wjWxU by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-29T17:02:18Z
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One of my key takeaways from IETF123 was that we should specify #XMPP over WebTransport. However, I want to reiterate that, even without QUIC, XMPP can be pretty FAST.
(DIR) Post #B2mgAGwo2YA4mkRqHA by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-29T17:35:48Z
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@wolf480pl yes. But with additional benefits such as working channel binding.
(DIR) Post #B2qIuD2xFridjxXFnU by daniel@gultsch.social
2026-01-31T11:24:49Z
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I'm at #FOSDEM. If you want to chat with me about #Conversations_im or #XMPP come by our Jabber/XMPP Realtime Lounge in AW 1.124. We also have lots of stickers and other merch!If you want to learn about #UnifiedPush, my talk is today (Saturday) at 16:00 in the FOSS on Mobile dev room.