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Sun 20 Nov 2022 11:26AM

A blog post on Praveen's adventures in Dino

RD Ravi Dwivedi Public Seen by 78

Today FSCI blog published Praveen's adventures on Dino to emphasize importance of software freedom https://fsci.in/blog/importance-of-free-software/. Comments/suggestions are welcome.

NE

Nandakumar Edamana Sun 20 Nov 2022 1:11PM

Thanks for sharing this. Was the fix submitted to the upstream? Or are the hesitant to add this feature? If so, why?

RD

Ravi Dwivedi Sun 20 Nov 2022 1:20PM

As far as I know, it was submitted upstream but Dino does not like it. @Pirate Praveen can shed more light.

PP

Pirate Praveen Sun 20 Nov 2022 2:43PM

Yes, it is submitted upstream and it was linked in the blog post https://github.com/dino/dino/pull/1309 They have not commented on it yet, but earlier discussions in their group indicated they are opposed to this policy. They claim sharing device ids with strangers violates privacy, though I disagree with them (as is most other xmpp clients which shares public keys with everyone). The whole idea of public keys is that, you want to share it with the world.

Even if they want to do this by default, not even allowing users to override it via a setting is not acceptable for a Free Software app.