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Re:Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:22PM (#34778824)
The reason for this limitation is actually on the IRC side - we can only have so many users connected via Matrix, so we need to time out stale ones.
Re:Google Maps' moat is evaporating (2020) on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @07:44PM (#32406134)
For trip recording, in OsmAnd~'s sidebar check out the "Plugins" menu item and enable Trip Recording.
Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:03PM (#25849637)
Looks like that's a bug that occurs when javascript is disabled. It should have another two entries.

I assume they're now aware of it :)

I would say it's equivalent to opening all email attachments in a VM, as there is a sandbox these things run in. That's security-wise though.

Privacy-wise there's certainly more fingerprintable data available to the program than what you would get in a typical VM.

Re:Slack was down on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:50PM (#23162103)
Which you can bridge to your slack rooms to keep the existing conversation going!
Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:58AM (#21836684)
We've just hired a new full-time employee to work on Dendrite and p2p matrix. Expect rapid progress on Dendrite as of a few days ago.

https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite