Linux Dev Time

Linux Dev Time – Episode 146

Linux Dev Time

Show Notes

In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

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