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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I did my own by pranking my boss. We discovered an issue with parts made by a contractor recently and he didnt know yet how far back the parts were affected. So i edited the serial number of a few months old part onto a picture of a new part that has that defect. For a good 30 seconds or so he thought we had something like 200.000€ of bad parts and started getting pretty salty. I love my boss, funny guy.














  • I think self hosting this kinda thing is a pretty rough first project. At the moment you would also have to host your own matrix server to make this work.

    This is the code for hosting the bridge: https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp

    There are also ones for signal, telegram, etc https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/

    The EU and the matrix foundation do a lot to push changes to make this interoperability more user friendly while maintaining E2EE, but its just not there yet.

    At some point the messages just need to be decrypted because the encryption algorithms all these apps use are different. So unless you directly add whatsapps or signals code into your app, this will have to happen elsewhere, like your or someone elses homeserver. If you dont care about that or if you trust that server, you can try to find a server that has an existing bridge running.

    tchncs.de for example is running a signal bridge https://tchncs.de/en/matrix/ (scroll down all the way)


  • YSK that these kinda bridges break E2EE. Your matrix homeserver will register as a whatsapp web client and forward the messages to you basically. It does work really well tho, with read receipts and media and everything.

    You can always self host the bridge ofcourse, then its not an issue. There are also plans to make local bridges that are basically just a headless whatsapp and matrix client in one app that talk to each other locally on your phone or a spare one.