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mirukana / mirage

mirage

A fancy, customizable, keyboard-operable Qt/QML & Python Matrix chat client for encrypted and decentralized communication.

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A fancy, customizable, keyboard-operable Qt/QML & Python Matrix chat client for encrypted and decentralized communication.

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Jun 2021	2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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feanaro·Jun 14, 2021

For a nicely documented and clean Matrix client implementation in Python, see weechat-matrix[1] and the matrix-nio[2] library it's based on. There's also Mirage[3] which is also based on matrix-nio and is a GUI client. [1]: https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix [2]: https://github.com/poljar/matrix-nio [3]: https://github.com/mirukana/mirage

In Adventures in Fuzzing Matrix’s Encryption

avery42·Sep 16, 2020

I'm currently using Arch Linux ARM (Alarm), but most/all of these things should (or should soon) be working on Mobian (Debian Port), PostmarketOS (PmOS), UBPorts (Ubuntu Touch): - Calls/SMS are working and fairly reliable, although I haven't used them a huge amount - There is some suspend/power saving stuff implemented, and while I haven't had to take it on the go with me for very long (due to quarantine), I think the battery should at least last a full day now, but I think there's definitely room for improvement - Camera should be working on all distros, and there's recently been developments to get 1080p photos, and a 30 FPS "preview" (viewfinder?). These improvements should be on all the distros soon, but IIRC they're only on PmOS and UBPorts right now - Firefox is working pretty well for web browsing. PmOS has a mobile configuration f

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or it [0] (that's also shipped with Alarm now), that fixes/improves some of the UI, adds pinch zoom support, etc. Aside from the occasional crash, I've found it to be pretty fast and reliable (at least compared to when I last tried Gnome Web). The downside is that it's still not fully optimized for touch/mobile compared to other options. Will be interested to see if Mozilla/someone else add some kind of mobile interface to desktop Firefox. - Tested yesterday and bluetooth headphones are working pretty well. Had some issues pairing in the UI, so I had to use SSH and bluetoothctl, but after that everything was pretty smooth. pavucontrol also seems to be working ok if you need something that's missing from the Phosh settings app. - Fractal and Nheko work pretty well for Matrix, but I'm going to try compiling Mirage [1] soon, it's been pretty great on desktop, and apparently the UI supports mobile. This is a rough and very incomplete list, but feel free to ask if there's anything specific I missed. [0]: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox [1]: https://github.com/mirukana/mirage

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throwaway525142·Aug 22, 2020

Apart from the official official clients: weechat-matrix: https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix/issues/188 (doesn't support cross-signing) weechat-matrix-rs: https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix-rs/tree/9c249f14038... (build failing, would be surprised if it supported cross-signing) Mirage: https://github.com/mirukana/mirage/issues/32 (no support for cross-signing) Nheko: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/70 (automatically accepts keys as far as I understand) gomuks: https://github.com/tulir/gomuks/pull/154 (seems to be the only mention of encryption, I don't see verification of keys or cross-signing) Seaglass: https://github.com/neilalexander/seaglass/tree/dc97893343407... (seems to support e2e, but unfortunately macOS only) OCRCC Chatbox: https://github.com/nomadic-labs/ocrcc-chatbox (404, couldn't find it) FluffyChat

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Flutter: https://gitlab.com/ChristianPauly/fluffychat-flutter/-/tree/... (might support cross-signing, first client that I could actually use) Daydream: https://github.com/daydream-mx/Daydream/issues/11 (sounds to me like there's still some way to go) Can you please not say that it's "completely untrue and disingenuous"? To me, working end-to-end encryption means that I can verify my own and other devices. Out of these, maybe Seaglass (macOS only) and FluffyChat Flutter support end-to-encryption in a way that I would use them. That's not "loads of Matrix implementations". Can you recommend a non-official client with end-to-end support including cross-signing and device verification?

In Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication

Hitton·May 7, 2020

Alternatively Mirage[0] - Qt + Python. There is really a lot to choose from with Matrix. The beauty of open protocol. [0]: https://github.com/mirukana/mirage

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