Having lots of fun using Delta Chat. I've set up two accounts on my mail server, one for myself and one for my husband. We're both surprised at how fast it is compared to more traditional centralised chat apps like Signal. It's so cool to be able to self-host this and not rely on centralised infrastructure that is outside of my control.
Now I just need to convince everyone I know it's really cool :)
@gmc great and welcome :) did you try out the v86 app in a chat yet? It allows to run 32bit iso images, and if you configure eth0 on multiple devices the chat members will have an end-to-end encrypted private lan (using #webxdc realtime channels). Telnet/netcat/ping etc works. This virtual Ethernet even degrades in performance if too many devices do traffic :) tip: try it better on a desktop not mobile (although should also work)
@RandamuMaki @gmc no bigger write up, but if you have a desktop:
Go to message input, attach-app and select "v86 emu" app and start it.
Inside v86 app "Choose file", select an iso (download for example https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/releases/x86/alpine-standard-3.21.3-x86.iso) and hit "Start" button. Login as "Root", no password.
@RandamuMaki @gmc do you have a recent version like https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.54.2/deltachat-desktop_1.54.2_amd64.deb ?
@RandamuMaki @gmc hum, that's odd. Could you open an https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop or on https://support.delta.chat ? cheers and thanks.
@palemoon @delta @gmc @Discourse The Pale Moon team and community is great. I don't blame you at all, I'll just keep calling out when sites like #Discourse are being dumb. ;)