@diffrentcolours@lunareclipse@andrewnez I don't know much about this, but it seems like the tradeoffs/gains would need to be measured on a case by case basis still
silly@rampagerslife Clair's uses a chip-gun that can't be properly sterilized and is difficult to precisely aim. Much safer to go to a proper vet to get your pets chipped.
alternative software :)@lunareclipse It may be a little silly to host an xmpp server just to be a unified push distributor, but that's also an option with Conversations codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/up (Ejabberd also has a module now too).
speculation@lunareclipse You may already know this, but I wonder how much of this is people being confused by Android's rather terrible IMO UX for battery usage. It doesn't show how much percent of the phone's battery an app used, it shows the percent of the decrease it thinks an app is responsible for. (your phone battery dropped 10% over 10 hours, and it thinks the app used 50% of that). So this number naturally depends on how much or little every other app is using, even if the actual battery usage stays the same.
@lunareclipse I should note there are not any known vulnerabilities in the old version implemented by clients, but there are still things that aren't great, like unencrypted reactions and metadata (this message edits that message id, or is a reply to that message id. the contents are still encrypted)
The invisible salamander problem may be possible, not sure, but being able to send messages that decrypt to different things is also possible by any server admin in a group chat, because the server can send different ciphertexts to different people. At least as far as I can tell.
@luna@tragivictoria@lumi It made for great drama on the kernel mailing list (which is the only reason I know about this, I'm not a kernel dev or anything). The RC period or release candidate period is supposed to be for bug fixes and such, no new features, and he kept trying to get large patches merged in while going on rants about why every other filesystem was worse. After idk how many warnings, bcachefs got kicked out the kernel.
@lunareclipse having high quality libraries with bindings for multiple languages would help as that's a major obstacle. most clients use an old version of libsignal before they rewrote it in rust
