Yes, encrypted (otherwise what’s the point? 😄). I’ll admit I haven’t tried the PGP version yet. How’s client support? For OMEMO it’s pretty lackluster, from what I’ve heard not much different for PGP?

In any case, perfect forward secrecy is definitely a good thing / strength, but I’d like a way to re-encrypt messages from an old device, just as an example, during the setup process; or a standardized way to export all history; or just something beyond “either use worse or no encryption, or loose access to your history eventually”.

I unfortunately wouldn’t call it solved. I host XMPP and Matrix, (and a STUN/TURN server, and a Livekit server for the modern matrix calls…), and nothing is perfect.

Prosody is really great because it’s so no-nonsense. It doesn’t hog resources or choke up like matrix servers do if you suggest to them that maybe they could deliver this text message? :3 Oh, no, it’s “hold for 2 weeks despite the recipient being online” again? Ok…

But XMPP is still incredibly hard to recommend for me, because

1. no way to read old chats on new devices, which honestly is close to a deal-breaker for many people, myself inclided. And
2. apart from maybe monocles on android, the clients just suck ass. They’re bad. Their UI/UX is stuck 20 years ago, and that does matter.

Hence why I still mostly use Matrix… Even though it’s such a stupid, stupid protocol.

No, \* is being put as a hash of a password, originally precisely because that would mean no actual hash (over any input) ever matches it.

Ah. Thanks for the correction. The intro + where I originally learned this from made me overreact a bit, it seems.

Ah. Thanks for the correction. The intro + where I originally learned this from made me overreact a bit, it seems.

Ah. Thanks for the correction. The intro + where I originally learned this from made me overreact a bit, it seems.

Yeah fair, sorry about that. The intro + where I originally learned this from made me overreact a bit, it seems.

Ah. Thanks for the correction. The intro + where I originally learned this from made me overreact a bit, it seems.

Remember, password-auth off is the problematic setting.

NO! Exactly the opposite, that is the problem. Key-only is a prerequisite for this.

Edit: see also, the first thing that pops up under the link.

I was wrong, see below.

NO! Exactly the opposite, that is the problem. Key-only is a prerequisite for this.

Edit: see also, the first thing that pops up under the link.

I was wrong, see below.

Jellyfin on the open internet is FINE.

Oh SHIT yes, I hadn’t even considered using this for my own purposes.

“Some practical notes”

Looks inside

Three slop in a trenchcoat

What? I explicitly do not believe you can “murder” an LLM, I’m saying that due to the way the technology actually works, that if someone genuinely believes an LLM is sentient or alive, then sending a message to it mist also mean it “dies” afterwards.

LLMs are obviously neither sentient nor alive (and therefore the concept of murder doesn’t even remotely apply).

That doesn’t really change anything. Every function invocation is still completely separate. Doesn’t matter if it’s a single conversation where you always answer, or parallel conversations.

An LLM is a stateless stochastic function ran over your prompt (plus whatever system prompt) as input.

If you genuinely believe that the LLM is conscious, that means every time the function stops running (i.e. stops producing output tokens), the consciousness ends.

This is far closer to death than to, say, sleep, because prompting again doesn’t “wake” the LLM, it just runs the function again, from the top; as if a digital twin was given a transcript of the previous conversation and asked to take it from here.

(Obviously, “murder” was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and this doesn’t even remotely meet any legal definition of murder. I was mostly poking fun at people who think LLMs are alive, without thinking through the implications. Personally, I think the idea that LLMs are alive/conscious/sentient is very often linked to not understanding that LLMs are not, in fact, a constantly-running ghost in the shell, thinking about and remembering things in the background.)

Is it an LG though? The APIs I’m using are WebOS specific

If someone truly believes LLMs are sentient, then they must under no circumstances prompt them even once; that would be murder.