Brutkey

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

matrix E2EE channels are fucking stupid because they leak all sorts of metadata

for example, the topic is unencrypted

reactions are unencrypted

replies reference unencrypted MXIDs so you can tell what is being replied to even if the payload itself is encrypted

do not use them. do not waste your time on them. it is not worth it.

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

the terraform provider creates and owns the channel. it is the only user with the right to turn on encryption for said channels. voila. this is a perfectly reasonable solution.

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

like with all things there is a solution: using terraform to manage the channels in the space

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

THE CHAT PROTOCOL OF THE FUTURE

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

RichiH has a strong message to kick this one off, definitely saying what everyone is feeling

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

they have swapped out for another machine running KDE (free software). it is showing a slideshow authored in Google Slides (non-free software), and the browser appeared to be Firefox (free software).

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

last year the computer they used for this was running KDE 🙃🙃

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

i am just pointing this out because, you know, it's FOSDEM, the free and open source developers' european meeting.

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

here in the main hall, they have on royalty-free techno music. the music is being played on a mac (non-free software), in the brave browser (non-free software). in the dock there are several icons for microsoft and other non-free software.

Ariadne Conill 🐰🐰:therian:
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

someone has a sense of humor here