Yes, good question. That's why I'm saying that I'm integrating a "variant of it" with Matrix. I've made some modifications (brief notes at gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/m…) to make it work in a decentralised system. There is more than one group working on approaches to decentralising MLS, and hopefully the next version of MLS will support a decentralised mode.
Messaging Layer Security (MLS) has been accepted by the IETF for publication as a standard. MLS is and #EndToEndEncryption method designed for group messaging. I've been working on integrating a variant of it with @Matrix.org (keep an eye out for demos coming soon). I've sat in on some of the IETF meetings, and the (not yet published) RFC may even contain some words that I've strung together. Congratulations to everyone who worked on it!
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 16:35:43 EDT
Hubert ChathiI recently bought a new keyboard. My (20-year old) Kinesis was dying, so I needed something new. I opted for a split keyboard, this time, so that I could angle and tilt it however I wanted. I got a cantor remix https://github.com/nilokr/cantor-remix, pre-built by https://shop.beekeeb.com/ (because I don't trust my soldering yet). It takes a bit to get used to only having 36 keys, but it's quite doable. I hope to do a longer writeup on my blog at some point, but the summary is that there are some things that I wish were different, but overall, I'm liking it.
On the plus side, it's taken less than 40 hours for the progress bar to make it past the half-way mark. On the minus side, the progress bar hasn't moved for the last little while, and is no longer giving a time estimate.
Well, at least trying to run "cc" has prompted it to try to install the command-line developer tools, which is all I wanted anyways. I just hope that estimated 80-hour download time is wrong.
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jun-2022 10:06:38 EDT
Hubert ChathiOK, I got the strangest spam message today. It was someone asking if I performed liposuction, and claiming to want to book a consultation for their mother. I don't really understand what their scam is. Are they actually hoping to get responses from people who do perform liposuction? I can't imagine that they'd get very many responses, as a percentage of the number of messages they send out. But I guess sending spam is cheap. Or are they hoping to verify active email addresses from people responding and saying that they don't perform liposuction? It just seems like a really strange spam message to send.