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nik_ca

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About nik_ca

Robotics and Embedded Systems Engineer

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    Comment #46864959

    Location: London, ON, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: C, JavaScript; ARM Cortex-M (STM32, NRF52, etc); Node JS, Fastify, Bash, PostgreSQL; SolidWorks; KiC…

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    Comment #46023768

    That's actually done already in XMPP (Jabber). Federativity, voice calls, E2EE, direct and offline file exchange, no sms verification and other bs, max privacy and convenience.

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    Comment #45965516

    That sounds like perfect match for XMPP / Jabber. You can set up a server on your domain (e.g. 'Prosody') and then two XMPP clients that support calls (e.g. 'Conversations' for and…

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    Comment #45928927

    Yes, you're right, matrix too. However, I've tried ruining servers for both, synapse for matrix and prosody for xmpp and I should say matrix felt very sluggish and limited, while p…

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    Comment #45902974

    Do you know where there is no chat control possible? XMPP / Jabber [1]. Private, convenient, reliable, distributed, free. [1] https://xmpp.org/

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    Comment #45526447

    omg, not the electron, please! How about NW.js?