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   Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي) (mitch@posts.dumb.stuff.donaberger.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 00:24:55 JST Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)

   IM clients that use S3 OBJ storage are an absolutely genius idea. It's a fully encrypted, highly available chat client with a protocol-level server implementation. Egress for most S3 providers is usually cheap as fuck or free, and some of these apps use automatically keying PGP to make it work using plaintext files.

   Try one here: https://cweb.gitlab.io/StoneAge.html

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 00:24:54 JST feld

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     @mitch How does it keep state? You can't just use the S3 for that as listing / walking the objects is slow and expensive. Does it store a sqlite db in S3 too or something?
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     Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي) (mitch@posts.dumb.stuff.donaberger.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 00:44:47 JST Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)

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     @feld yes, as far as I understand the way it works is that every user gets a SQLite-style single file database that functions as a mailbox to accommodate the need for async usage.

     https://cweb.gitlab.io/Cweb.html

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 00:45:35 JST feld

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     @mitch Interesting approach.