If you like delta chat and know somebody experienced with iOS developments please send them our way, retoots welcome.
With all other platforms.we have at least two devs engaged but would like to up our iOS game .... Even advising on a day-per-week or loose pro-bono basis could be helpful but someone who gets their hand dirty would be even better. Remote paid job available. For more background see https://delta.chat/en/2022-12-15-uidevjob and adjacent recent blog posts.
The talk from @hpk about "Delta Chat and WebXDC" at #cccamp23 is online at https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57191-delta_chat_messenger -- at our camp village a lot of people onboarded from hackspaces around the world and we've had many fun discussions with various people, among them Paul and Niklas from @briar , @ninabreznik from wizardamigos and DAT, security trainers from the "Cybersyn" project in latin america, @maxigas from CILAB Amsterdam, @okdistribute to name just a few ... #cccamp23 was wonderful time, thanks everybody!
The talk from @hpk about "Delta Chat and WebXDC" at #cccamp23 is online at https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57191-delta_chat_messenger -- at our camp village a lot of people onboarded from hackspaces around the world and we've had many fun discussions with various people, among them Paul and Niklas from @briar , @ninabreznik from wizardamigos and DAT, security trainers from the "Cybersyn" project in latin america, @maxigas from CILAB Amsterdam, @okdistribute to name just a few ... #cccamp23 was wonderful...
We are waiting since 8 days on @fdroidorg to publish a) our disabling of the 1.40.0 release b) our 1.40.1 fdroid release that we did a few hours after users reported crashes. Status is tracked here https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/2639#issuecomment-1692416810 .... We had dozens of users reporting that their fdroid #deltachat install became unusable and we are very sorry about it but also can't do much else than wait. Don't deinstall anything, please, but wait for fdroid to publish the update after which things will function again.
We are waiting since 8 days on @fdroidorg to publish a) our disabling of the 1.40.0 release b) our 1.40.1 fdroid release that we did a few hours after users reported crashes. Status is tracked here https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/2639#issuecomment-1692416810 .... We had dozens of users reporting that their fdroid #deltachat install became unusable and we are very sorry about it but also can't do much else than wait. Don't deinstall anything, please, but wait for fdroid to publish...
1.40.1 is available now from inside the @fdroidorg app - this will "unbrick" all devices that had 1.40.0 installed and could not start delta chat, phew! 🥳
Delta Chat is not as popular as other messengers but with decentralized messaging it's not doing so bad, is it? Or which decentral messengers do you know that
- have an as strong Usability driven development model,
- is constantly reaching out for cross-project collab
?
Delta Chat is not as popular as other messengers but with decentralized messaging it's not doing so bad, is it? Or which decentral messengers do you know that
- have an as strong Usability driven development model,
Nice surprise! Thanks to @lk108 we now have "DeltaTouch", the Ubuntu-Touch/UBports version of Delta Chat! It's pretty usable already .... read more on https://delta.chat/en/2023-07-02-deltatouch about the journey of bringing #deltachat to a non-Android/iOS mobile platform 🎉 cc @linmob
End-to-End encryption is one of the good things we have with the current internet and app ecosystems. But it is under constant threat -- be it from EU's #chatcontrol, UK's "online safety bill" or the current renewed "EARN IT" effort in the US: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos ....
anyone of these efforts succeeding would be a dangerous dam break. Let's collectively make sure all these governmental anti-privacy efforts fail!
Wouldn't it be nice if you could migrate with Delta Chat from one e-mail provider to another and keep all your chats and communications and encryption working seamlessly? With 1.32 Delta Chat releases we added initial support towards this goal on all platforms 🥳 "Introducing Automatic E-Mail Address Porting (AEAP)". https://delta.chat/en/2022-09-14-aeap
A little tech preview for Delta Chat iOS to easily setup a second device, under the hood using the fast evolving Rust implementation of @IPFS@twitter.com https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh/ -- not the only use we are envisioning of this interesting P2P effort ;)
"Decentralized" systems are susceptible to catastrophic failure if every node runs the same software created by a single entity. Open Source doesn't change this. *Social* decentralization and diverse implementations for a protocol provide better resilience and distributed agency.
Russia asked for access to Delta Chat user data ... so we had some explaining to do :) Cheers to decentralized app designs and the e-mail system's separation of apps and message transport, something that Whatsapp, Telegram and the likes fail to offer ... https://delta.chat/en/2020-05-01-roskamnadzor