Instant messaging is more complicated than you'd think. Sending a message from one device to another seems simple, but it's hard; especially on mobile. NAT, Firewalls, smartphone battery optimisation are all technical challenges, but then you also got user expectations. Users expect to see the same messages in the same order on every device. They want to be able to send photos, files, locations, voice messages and much more. On top of all that, full end to end encryption is a must have nowadays. Especially if you let average people run their own servers.
Matrix seems overly complex, but once you attempt to reinvent it, you end up with the same level of complexity.
Reproduction in humans is not very efficient. Only around 30% of natural conceptions result in successful pregnancies. Of the failed pregnancies around 85% are due to implantation failure.
Seems like it’s extremely normal for a fertilized egg to fail to implant and be flushed out during your next period.
🌔 #mondrausch Die #IM-1 ist seit gestern im Weltraum und befindet sich auf dem Weg zum Mond. Wieder ein Versuch, die Raumfahrt zu industrialisieren. Um den 27. Februar werden wir wissen, ob das Unternehmen ein Erfolg ist, oder wieder Weltraumschrott um teures Geld produziert wurde. Bislang wird der Maschine "excellent health" bescheinigt:
"The promise of XMPP was to deliver federated instant messaging: anyone would be able to spin up an #IM server capable of exchanging messages with any other XMPP server in the world. Unfortunately, XMPP never delivered on this promise.
The goal of this project is to deliver on #XMPP's original vision: create a modern open platform for federated instant messaging with an emphasis on mobile communication. A secondary goal is to create a #decentralized IM platform..."
Au cas où vous auriez raté l'info, @dansup, à qui on doit Pixelfed, est en train de développer un service de messagerie instantané pour le #Fediverse, et ça s'appelle Sup.
Hab versucht, 'nen #Instagram Account zuberstellen - unter meinem Namen. Wurde direkt nach einem Post gesperrt. Nach dem Versuch, es wiederzubeleben, wurde es unwiderruflich gesperrt. Wa soll icht tun, wenn ich morgens beim Kaffee nicht so aussehe, wie auf dem Bild beim Photoshooting.. Fuck #Meta
"Simply connect your Facebook account with the instant messaging client of your choice and start chatting. You will not need to stay logged in to Facebook.com to continue to access your Facebook friends."
Just learned about @simplex and I must say it looks fairly promising as a future #InstantMessaging app to replace #Signal in the long run (I do like #Matrix but it's good to see an alternative and their tech looks solid).
I was not 100% sure about #SimpleX ToS, though, and couldn't find out who the company was, nor their business model (though donation is at least a part of it).
Couples race to move frozen embryos out of Alabama after court defines them as children (www.telegraph.co.uk)