dwdbah

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   by dwdbah 13y ago

   Hmmm... As the author of XEP-0286, I think I ought to chip in a bit. 1) Compression does help keep the transmissions under the FACH threshold on most networks. This more than outweighs the CPU cost. 2) The bulk of the data to be compressed
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   by dwdbah 13y ago

   Not sure I'd agree with over-engineered, but anyway. End-to-end privacy with multi-device support has been specified in XMPP for years; the problem is that it's vastly complicated and therefore nobody ever implemented it. In part this is be
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   by dwdbah 13y ago

   The only thing Google actually did fro mobile XMPP was google:queue, which bunches together presence updates such that the antenna efficiency is improved dramatically. Facebook also have a private extension, as I understand things. I should
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   by dwdbah 13y ago

   Right - there was a lot of noise about federation being turned off, although it never was. 1) Subscription requests to/from other domains were blocked. 2) Only for a short period (about a month, tops).
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   by dwdbah 13y ago

   Sure. Much of the Google Talk video stuff was all designed for XMPP; they actively took part in the standardization at times. WhatsApp is XMPP, fundamentally, in any case.