Security nerds have launched a Gofundme to buy back securityfocus.com, a domain that hosted the Bugtraq site and more than 120,000 links from the National Vulnerability Database that are now dead. Whoops.

Dont let anyone pay into it, that's a scam. If someone has the NVD database put it up on a new domain assuming a group of people have the time and resources to manage it.

same here, we never left IRC

the only problem, as usual, is the network effect

Maybe for friends and family? But then, if their phone might be compromised by the state...

And telling friends and family they need to setup a Jabber connection to talk you will make you "That guy/girl who...". And if the idea spreads, then talking to n people requires n accounts on n servers. At least Pidgin (last time I used it, which was last decade) supports such a configuration. I wonder if the mobile apps can do the same.

> And if the idea spreads, then talking to n people requires n accounts on n servers.

No, it doesn't.

XMPP is like E-Mail and Matrix a protocol which supports federation, i.e. a protocol which specifies how many service providers can cooperate, specifically forward messages to other service providers to reach their users.

what about

- single point of failure of rooms (server creating the chat room)

- media access via 3rd party servers

- gossiping encrypted message access across multiple devices

- encrypted audio-visual (group) communication

- good clients for iOS

- reliable server-side storage of messages (of all(!) chats)

- realistic verification concept for e2ee with multiple devices

Not my project, but I was hoping to see more stuff like https://prose.org/

As others have pointed out, for iOS Monal is good.

> for iOS Monal is good.

Monal looks like something that would be good in 2005, not 2025. There is no way you'll convince people nowadays to use it unless you force them to.

same with IRC except IRC never went down.

no but apparently you can have some kind of coup on one of the most popular servers and cause a huge dent in it...

Ditto with Usenet albeit there's always cool people there.

... and never will :)

Spaceships bearing our genes will still beam IRC from somewhere down deep in engineering.-

What would be the purpose of launching a decaying lump of monkey meat into space when the AI can explore just as well with a tiny fraction of the mass requirements?

I'd wager that it will be AI's using IRC from space, but IPv6 still won't have replaced IPv4. :)

> wager that it will be AI's using IRC from space, but IPv6 still won't have replaced IPv4. :)

You are indeed totally correct on all points!

(But IRC it will be :)

that escalated quickly.

but I agree.

there is invariably a vantage point at which non-fiat payments are accepted. this may be crypto, given that there is still infrastructure available for it to operate, but that's unlikely imo.

There are those very few sites that work poorly with Dark Reader. Now, this is one of them.

Haha. On point! We will fix it tho :) Would you mind signing up?

nice

I'm more tired of off-topic, especially political posts.

the European mind can not comprehend this high level of capitalism