it’s not “forever”.

So true. It got known that you only buy a license of the games from Steam. And since Epic Games works in the same way as Steam, this also applies to them. They can delete any games from your library whenever they want - just like that *click*. I stopped buying games on Steam when that came out publicly and moved to GOG instead.

XMPP is the universal standard when it comes to chat servers. WhatsApp is using it, just to name 1 example.

Conversations is a client for XMPP servers.

Prosody is a XMPP server just like what Snikket is.

And there we have the catch! If not one of them. Many thanks :)

They wouldn’t be making them free without making a deal with the developer first. There was a leak that showed the actual amount a while back.

That is what I was after! Not the leak, but the catch. Do you have the link to the source for the leak?

If you login to your account on your Snikket server on all the devices you have at home, and you remain logged in for all the time you use your Snikket server, everything will be synced over all these devices.

Let me explain it further. You login to your Snikket server on 3 devices (desktop, laptop, and smartphone) and you use only these 3 with no re-installing the operating system and not factory resetting the smartphone, you will keep getting the history on these 3 devices - synced.

But you decide to try out a new XMPP client, let say monocles chat. Since that client is new for your account, that client will get its own encryption key. Because of this, monocles chat can not read anything you and the contacts you have communicated with. This also applies when you re-installing the OS or do a factory reset.

End-to-end encryption 101.

Let say this would not be the case and monocles chat do see the history of all of your chats, that data must remain on the server and can be decrypted by the new client with maybe a master encryption key of some sort. This is not end-to-end encryption 101. That would be a security breach.

However, letting you export the chat history from the other clients and importing the chat history to monocles chat, that would be much better. Because then it is you who decides if you want to keep the chat history or not. You will be in control over your own data. This is a feature I miss in XMPP clients.

The chat history is there until you change client/device and got a new set of keys. New encryption keys can’t decrypt messages and files sent with a previous keys.

Snikket is FOSS, so yes, it’s free when self-hosting :)

• Requires a phone number
• Depends on Big Tech’s servers
• Got founded by the US government
• Seems to absolutely love Big Tech because they hide the APK download page quite well[1]
• It’s centralized

I use my own Snikket server to communicate with people using OMEMO (Signal Protocol). No phone number requirements, no centralized server, no Big Tech, just you and the people you write with, with your privacy fully intact. Just like in the good old days (as it should be to this days, greedy f*****s).

[1]: signal.org/download > Android redirects you to Google Play Store. signal.org/download/android > Download for Android redirects you to Google Play Store. signal.org/install redirects you to Google Play Store. You’ll search “forever” to find the “download APK file” link until you give up and using a search engine: “signal apk”.

Not until then you’ll find signal.org/android/apk. And when you visit that page, a link to Google Play Store is listed on top, and below it, in the “danger zone”, you’ll find the APK download button. Yes, exactly, the Signal team wants you to be on the “safe zone” by downloading the app through Google Play Store.

“focus on privacy” my ass. Close to forcing someone to use Big Tech shitty stuff is NOT focus on privacy.

Sorry, rant is over. Now breakfast time.

Only me not getting any list? Using Vanadium. First time this happens.

I’ve been using self-hosted Jitsi Meet for a few weeks now. Works perfectly. Haven’t tried the calendar feature, though.

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I am apparently the privacy activist (not using Monero, SimpleX Chat, Degoogled Chromium, or Keypass, though). I do use uBlock Origin (Gecko ffs!) and Bitwarden (self-hosted Vaultwarden). Unfortunately, I am using Telegram, but trying to move all my contacts to my own Snikket server. It’s a very slow process.

My vote goes to Kanboard. Awesome service by the people behind Miniflux.

For me it was elementary OS. Dual-booted with Windows back in 2015/2016. Maybe 1 year later, I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon and gradually used it more than Windows. Now I am using EndeavourOS XFCE and only using Windows virtually… when I am bored or need to use Adobe Lightroom Classic.

I understand :) But unfortunately, I will not create an issue on GitHub. Hopefully, someone else will do it in the future.

And if someone doesn’t have an account at GitHub? :) Can you please upload MAZANOKE to Codeberg? I rather use Codeberg (Germany) than GitHub (USA (Microsoft)).

This is my to-go solution before sending photos to someone. Excellent service!

But I miss adding options in Docker, for an example default quality. I often clear cookies and other data so it’s kinda tedious to select the same options over and over again :)