JMP: Newsletter: New Staff, New Commands
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: What are the key trends in digital payments? part 2/2
In the second and final part of this article, we take a look at some of the important developments in how payments work using our fintech industry knowledge and experience working on some of the most performant fintech systems in the world such as Vocalink’s Instant Payments Solution (IPS).
In part 1 we looked at the rapid growth in e-commerce, demand for faster payments and consumer adoption of relativel … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: What are the key trends in digital payments? part ½
Payments are the backbone of a functioning global economy. A payments system can be defined as any system that can be used to settle a financial transaction by exchanging monetary value. Payments are a part of financial services that have undergone rapid and transformational change over recent years, and the Erlang Solutions team has been at the cutting-edge of many of these changes working on exciting cli … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Understanding Processes for Elixir Developers
This post is for all developers who want to try Elixir or are trying their first steps in Elixir. This content is aimed at those who already have previous experience with the language.
This will help to explain one of the most important concepts in the BEAM: processes. Although Elixir is a general-purpose programming language, you don’t need to understand how the virtual machine works, but if you want to take advantage … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Introducing Stream Support In RabbitMQ
In July 2021, streams were introduced to RabbitMQ, utilizing a new blazingly-fast protocol that can be used alongside AMQP 0.9.1. Streams offer an easier way to solve a number of problems in RabbitMQ, including large fan-outs, replay & time travel, and large logs, all with very high throughput (1 million messages per second on a 3-node cluster). Arnaud Cogoluègne s, Staff Engin … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Computing International Call Rates with a Trie
A few months ago we launched International calling with JMP. One of the big tasks leading up to this launch was computing the rate card: that is, how much calls to different destinations would cost per minute. While there are many countries in the world, there are even more calling destinations. Our main carrier partner for this feature lists no fewer than 59881 unique phone number prefixes in the rates they charge us. This list is, quite frankly, incomprehen … ⌘ Read more
Maxime Buquet: Updates from the Poezio ecosystem
Releases have happened recently that revolve around Poezio, a TUI
(Terminal UI) client for XMPP, including Poezio itself, its backend XMPP
library Slixmpp, and also the poezio and
slixmpp plugins for OMEMO.
 plugin version 1.2.3 released
Earlier today, version 1.2.3 of the Openfire Message of the Day plugin was released. This version adds a German translation to the admin console (thank you, Stephan Trzonnek, for providing the translation)!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin dir … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.0 released!
Earlier today, version 1.8.0 of the Openfire REST API plugin was released. This version adds a new endpoints for readiness, liveliness and cluster status!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugin-arc … ⌘ Read more
Maxime Buquet: Interoperability in a “Big Tech” world
As an answer to the announce of the EU parliament to force some service
providers to allow others to interact with them, that we call
“interoperability”.
In theory, interoperability is a way to allow different networks to
communicate together. And it’s great, it’s even important for … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12
This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.
When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.
A more detailed explanation of those … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Cheogram Android Release, Matrix Alpha
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free … ⌘ Read more
Profanity: Profanity and OpenPGP for XMPP (OX)
We have been to implement OX in profanity. OX is
XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging which
may replace XEP-0027: Current Jabber OpenPGP Usage.
It is part of Profanity since version 0.10 but got some fixes since then.
Feel free to try and test the implementation. Let us know, if you have some
issues and support the development via testing and reporting bugs.
Ho … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: GoJara plugin for Openfire version 2.2.3 release
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a maintenance release of the GoJara plugin for Openfire. GoJara provides an implementation of XEP-0321 “Remote Roster Management” and helps out with monitoring Spectrum 2.
Your Openfire instance should automatically display the availability of the update. Al … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2022
Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change.
While no two projects are the same, we’ve observed some common themes for using scalable futureproof technologies to build diverse fintech systems. Taking advantage of these learnings sets financial service provi … ⌘ Read more
Maxime Buquet: Am I allowed to say no?
People often take photographs for granted. It does seem obvious in our society
that people like to appear with their friend on Facebook, TikTok, and what have
you.
Early on I started telling people I didn’t want to have my picture taken. It
has never really been clear why, not even to myself to be honest. It might have
been out of shyness – a trait that is still ever so present – or because I
didn’t like the way I look in them, or perhaps some other reason. But I kept
telling th … ⌘ Read more
Sam Whited: Joanna
”`
Sipping my tea, I think back and remember Joanna:
Quietness isn’t the same for me now.
You came to America, wondering what you’d find:
Atlanta in a forest of broken dreams,
A people in turmoil, and no one seems to know why.
Communities falter before they’ve begun.
A lawnmower hums and I wake from my reverie.
I’d forgotten, about your America.
Driving to the North, far away from the city.
You looked for meaning in every farm passing by.
I bought you peanuts and gave you a tour of the mountains.
We d … ⌘ Read more”`
Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | March 2022
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Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.0 released
ÄNTLIGEN! It’s finally here! After 3 years of development and through some chaotic times, Prosody 0.12.0 is released!
What’s the significance of this release? Like many software projects, Prosody follows a “branch” development/release model. We frequently make minor releases with bug fixes and improvements from our stable branch, while we implement more adventurous changes in our development branch, ready for the next major release.
Well, this is one of those adventurous … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2022.
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more a … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.5 and 4.5.0-alpha1 released
We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.5. Thanks to numerous contributors this patch level release includes many fixes and improvements.
For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.4, check out Smack’s changelog
The shortlog for the 4.4.5 release is
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Florian Schmaus (21):
Smack 4.4.5-SNAPSHOT
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Erlang Solutions: Is Elixir the Right Choice for Hypergrowth Startups
We always love to see and share stories that so perfectly capture the benefits of using Elixir. Today, we’ll be taking a look at an example that captures why Elixir is the perfect technology for startups that are anticipating fast growth, including how choosing Elixir allows your development team to focus on improving the product.
 any user of either protocol to contact any user of the other protocol without creating an account. This is not possible with all protocols, but works well when both sides are federated.
Take for instance sip.cheogram.com, which is a bidirectional gateway between XMPP and SIP. Any … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 4/4 | Innovating with Erlang and Elixir
Why do companies use Erlang & Elixir for their blockchain solutions?Building a robust and scalable blockchain presents a number of challenges that a research and development team typically needs to address. Often the ambitious goals to drive decentralised consensus and governance require unconventional approaches to achieve extra performance and reliability.
Improved Transa … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Saving lives with Elixir
When you think about programming languages, you might not think about them literally changing people’s lives, but they do more often than you would expect. Elixir has empowered Linda Achieng and Sigu Mawa to build emergency software that is already saving lives in Kenya. What started with the death of a close friend, has expanded into an inspirational project, with Elixir being used to empower local com … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.1 Released!
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.1 release of Openfire. This release fixes a number of bugs and represents our effort to provide a stable 4.7.x series while work continues on the next feature release of Openfire.
Notable fixes include security updates to bundled database drivers, logging configuration fixes, and an important fix for users experiencin … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: JMP is 5 years old today, and now with international calls!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.7.1 released!
Moments ago, we’ve released version 1.7.1 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version fixes changes to the API (notably the JSON representation of some entities) that inadvertently sneaked into the 1.7.0 release. The API in 1.7.0 should closely resemble that of releases prior to 1.7.0!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternative … ⌘ Read more
Dino: Dino 0.3 Release
Dino is a secure and privacy-friendly messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive, clean and modern user interface.
The 0.3 release is all about calls. Dino now supports calls between two or more people!
Calls are end-to-end encrypted and use a direct connection between … ⌘ Read more
Monal IM: Funding campaign: Mac Mini for faster Monal development
Update 15.02.2022 Thank you very much. We reached our target of 1000€ within less than a week. We will order our new Mac mini tonight. Stay tuned for a big development blog post.
Dear Monal Community,
as you know the Monal project is developed by volunteers and has no general funding so far.
To improve the development situation it would be of advantage to have a physical build server for the developers.
This would have … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2021 & January 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of December 2021 and January 2022!
We hope you had a great shift into the new year by now as well as are happy to have you reading the new release! We guess that this episode has caught some weight over the new year’s holidays :-)
Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and sof … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: How HCA Healthcare used the BEAM to fight COVID – Code BEAM V Talk review
We often talk about the suitability of the BEAM VM for the Healthcare industry. Afterall, when it comes to Healthcare, downtime can literally be deadly, and no technology is better equipped to deliver high availability and minimal downtime than the BEAM. At Code BEAM V 2020, Bryan Hunter, an Enterprise fellow at one of the biggest Healthcare providers in the world joi … ⌘ Read more
Profanity: Profanity on Pinephone
Hi all,
So far, in my pinephone I used mainly GUI applications, because I was using a touch screen. Terminal applications are not user-friendly when it comes to one-handed operation.
I tested different distributions on my pinephone (mobian, manjaro, archarm), but usually most based on Phosh. In my opinion it is currently the best mobile graphics environment and stable as well.
In Phosh I tested few xmpp clients:
- the default application installed with Phosh is chat … ⌘ Read more
Snikket: Server updates for ARM systems
We have a couple of important announcements relevant to people running the
Snikket server software on ARM devices, including Raspberry Pi. Systems using
ARM processors are increasingly popular for self-hosting due to their
increased efficiency, lower cost and minimal energy consumption.
The Snikket January 2022 server release was an
exciting release for us, but some users on ARM-based systems reported some
difficulties upgrading to … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: The Underlying Theme
In a comment on my recent post about Aristotle on ways of life, my friend Kurt wondered if, according to Aristotle, the best life must have a single purpose (in Greek, a telos). I would say so: at the very beginning of the Eudemian Ethics, he says that it is a sign of great folly to not organize your life around some telos. Yet I think this can be interpreted in several different ways…. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Snikket Hosting, Billing Overage Limits
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Fr … ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.13 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a(nother!) release for our stable branch to fix a memory leak caused
by the security fix. Deployments using websockets, SQL storage and possibly
other configurations may have noticed increasing memory usage after upgrading
to 0.11.12. This is resolved by this new release.
A summary of changes in this release:
Minor changesPeter Saint-Andre: Philosophies and Ways of Life
In his book What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Pierre Hadot almost singlehandedly resurrected the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life. Consider this observation about the philosophical schools of Greece and Rome: “For us moderns, the notion of a philosophical school evokes only the idea of a doctrinal tendency or theoretical position. Things were very different in antiquity. No university obligations oriented the future philosopher toward a specific school; instead, the futur … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.0 has been released!
The Ignite Realtime Community is elated to be able to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.0!
This release is the first non-patch release in more than a year, which brings a healthy amount of new features, as well as bug fixes.
I’d like to explicitly thank the many people in the community that have supported this release: not only were a significant amount of code contributions provided, the feedback that we get in our [chatr … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: MLK and Personalism
In my recent post on idealism and identity, I mentioned my attraction to the philosophy of personalism, with its emphasis on human dignity. It is perhaps a little-known fact that Martin Luther King, Jr., was greatly influenced by that very philosophy. Early in life he ventured north to study at Boston University, then the center of personalist thought in America, where he completed his doctorate under theologian Edgar Sheffield Brightman. We can see the deep influence of personalism on King’s … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Idealism and Identity
Personal identity is a deep, and deeply meaningful, subject: at some level, what’s more important than what makes you you? Paradoxically, throughout history and across cultures, often personal identity has been a social construct, tied closely to tribe, clan, family, ethnic group, race, caste, class, societal role, and so on - usually in opposition to some Other (“I’m a Capulet, not a Montague”, “I’m a proletarian, not a bourgeois”, etc.)…. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.12 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a security release that addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability in
Prosody’s mod_websocket. For more information, refer to the
20220113 advisory.
A summary of changes in this release:
Security- util.xml: Do not allow doctypes, comments or processing instructions
As usual, download instructions for many platforms can be f … ⌘ Read more
JMP: How to use Jabber from SMS
The Soprani.ca project, and Cheogram in particular, is pretty big on bidirectional gateways. The most popular Cheogram-hosted instance, so popular that it gets to own Jabber IDs on cheogram.com, is a bidirectional gateway to the telephone network. How is it bidirectional? Don’t you need a Jabber ID to use it? Of course not!
From any SMS-enabled device, add +12266669977, which is the gateway’s phone number. Send the foll … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Cultivating Curiosity
In my drive to hold fewer opinions (or at least hold them less strongly), for a while I tried to cultivate a healthy skepticism about things I believe - for instance, by attempting to question one opinion every week. This didn’t work, at least for me, because it felt too negative. Instead, now I’m working to cultivate curiosity. Here are a few thoughts on the process…. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.5.6 is released
Openfire 4.5.6 has been released, that addresses an annoying issue that was affecting the earlier 4.5.5 release. We’ve updated the bundled log4j library to version 2.17.1 for good measure.
The changelog denotes the two Jira issues closed by this release. You can find Openfire build artifacts available for download [here](https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/rel … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | January 2022
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Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.7 released (Log4j 2.17.1 only change)
Openfire 4.6.7 has been released with only a single change to bump the bundled log4j library to version 2.17.1. Whilst we do not believe Openfire to be vulnerable to the CVEs associated with the log4j 2.17.0 and 2.17.1 releases, we realize that many folks are running naive security scanners that are simply checking for bundled jar versions.
The [changelog](https://download.igniterealtime.org/open … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Monadnock Valley Press Annual Report 2021
Happy Public Domain Day!… ⌘ Read more
Paul Schaub: PGPainless 1.0.0 Released!
Close to the end of 2021 I’m excited to announce the release of PGPainless version 1.0.0! After a series of release candidates, it is finally time to party! The OpenPGP library successfully underwent a security audit in late November and I feel like it finally reached a state of sufficient maturity to be worthy of a major release with a “1” at the front.
, who directly influenced philosophers and musical theorists in the Bach’s orbit: for instance, Bach’s student Lorenz Mizler (1711-1778) was a follower of the Leibniz scholar Christian Wolff (1679-1754). In chapter 5 of his book Music in the Culture of th … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Dynamic XMPP domains in MongooseIM
IntroductionMongooseIM is a robust instant messaging server focused on scalability and performance. It makes use of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), an open technology used mainly to develop instant messaging solutions. The protocol is highly extensible and has a very active community supporting it, which results in a variety of possible use cases, be it one-to-one text messaging, mobile group chat or collecti … ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.11 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This release contains some fixes to PEP to control memory usage, along
with a small batch of fixes for issues discovered since the last
release.
This will likely be the last release of the 0.11 branch.
A summary of changes in this release:
Fixes and improvements- net.server_epoll: Prioritize network events over timers to improve performance under heavy load
- mod_p … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: A Friend by Any Other Name
It is said that when the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus died, he left behind thousands of friends. This was 2300 years before Facebook, so how could he have befriended so many people?… ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.6 and 4.5.5 releases (Log4j-only changes)
As we’re monitoring developments around the recent Log4j vulnerabilities, we’ve decided to provide another update for Openfire to pull in the latests available updates from Log4j.
Since the previous release, the Log4j team released a new version (2.16.0) of their library, that provides better protection against the original vulnera … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Aleksander Lisiecki’s prize-winning eArangoDB at SpawnFest 2021
It’s tempting to say that SpawnFest is an event that doesn’t need an introduction, but we’ll give it one anyway. SpawnFest is an annual remote hackathon, where teams have exactly one weekend (48 hours to be exact) to create the best BEAM-related application … ⌘ Read more
Isode: Successfully Managing HF Radio Networks
With the potential for new technologies to cause interference to traditional communications networks and even space itself at the risk of becoming weaponised, it is important to make sure that you always have a backup plan for your communications ready and waiting.
Should the worst happen and your primary network, typically SatCom, go down you need to ensure that you can still communicate with your forces wherever they are, and that c … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.5 released
Although we’re preparing for the Openfire 4.7.0 release, the recently discovered vulnerability in the Apache Log4j utility prompted us to push an immediate release of Openfire to address that issue. This release, Openfire 4.6.5, is available now.
We urge you to update as soon as possible. If that’s not feasible, then we advise you to apply the documented workaround (in the form o … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12
This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.
When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.
A more detailed expla … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12
This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.
When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.
A more detailed expla … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12
This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.
When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.
A more detailed expla … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 2/4 | Myths vs Realities
This is the second part of our ‘Making Sense of Blockchain’ blog post series – you can read part 1 on ‘6 Blockchain Principles’ here.
Join our FinTech mailing list for more great content and industry and events news, sign up here >> … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.0 beta & Hazelcast plugin 2.6.0 releases!
After a long few months full of hard work, we are happy to tell you that we are close to a 4.7.0 release for Openfire!
This next version of our real time communications server has received a lot of improvements and bug fixes.
A key area of the code that has received updates is the Multi-User Chat (MUC) impl … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2021
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of November 2021 - the last release for this year! After our editorial break we will be back in February 2022!
Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider to say thanks or help these projects!
[Read this Ne … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: inVerse plugin for Openfire version 9.0.0.1 released!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a an update to the inVerse plugin for Openfire, which makes the Converse.js web client available to your users.
This release updates Converse to version 9.0.0.
Your Openfire instance should automatically display the … ⌘ Read more
Jérôme Poisson: Libervia v0.8 « La Cecília »
I’m proud to announce the release of Libervia 0.8 « La Cecília » (formerly known as « Salut à Toi »), after more than 2 years of development.
This version is a big milestone preparing the future of the project. Let’s have an overview of some major changes.
Project RenamingIn the interest of simplicity, the project has been renamed to “ Libervia ” (with was formerly the name of the web frontend), and all official frontends have now a … ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Development News November 2021
Annoyed of spam messages in public channels? Gajim just gained support for Message Moderation! Also this month: better message corrections and improved notifications.
If you’re participating in public channels you might have witnessed spam from time to time. Someone comes along and pastes some URL about a promising business opportunity, or leaves an offending picture. Moderators can kick/ban spammers, but that does not remove those … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Aristotle Research Report #17: Let the Re-Reading Begin
Just under two years ago, I thought I was done with phase one of my research into Aristotle’s views o human flourishing, having at that point read around 120 distinct works by or related to Aristotle (including all of Plato’s dialogues). Well, I was wrong: since then I’ve read an additional 150 works, almost exclusively in the scholarly literature on Aristotle. Now I have three whole shelves of books about Aristotle in my office…. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive ¼
INTRODUCTIONBlockchain technology is transforming nearly every industry, whether it be banking, government, fashion or logistics. The benefits of using blockchain are substantial – businesses can lower transaction costs, free up capital, speed up processes, and enhance security and trust. So it’s no surprise that more and more companies and developers are interested in working with the technology and leveraging its potential than ev … ⌘ Read more
Snikket: November 2021 server release
We’re excited to introduce a new release of the Snikket server! The Snikket
server is an easy-to-install server package that allows you to run your own
private messaging service for family, friends and other small groups.
Since the previous server release, we’ve been focusing our work mainly on the
Snikket apps, especially the first release of our iOS app. We’ve continued
work on the server part of Snikket though, and we’re glad to share a range of
new imp … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophy vs. Ideology
Today I’d like to explore some implications of my recent series of posts about the nature of opinion; specifically, the dangers of ideology. (As a reminder, so far I’ve discussed holding fewer opinions, opinions about opinions, holding multiple opinions, opinions vs. truths, and opinions weak and strong.)… ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.4 released
We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.4. Thanks to numerous contributors this patch level release includes many fixes and improvements. I’d like to especially thank the folks from Jitsi, namely Boris Grozev, Damian Minkov, Ingo Bauersachs, and Jonathan Lennox. Who tracked down multiple bugs, including a nasty concurrency bug. Furthermore, thanks to Ingo, Smack and its important dependencies [jxmpp](https://github.com/ign … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.0 released
I’m happy to be able to announce that we’ve released version 0.9.0 of the Push Notifications plugin for Openfire!
This version does not bring new functionality. It does fix a bug that older versions of this plugin had, when running on Openfire 4.6.4 or later.
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Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #8: Two Quotes from Pablo Casals
Here are two quotes from the great cellist Pablo Casals, who re-introduced the Bach Cello Suites to the world in the early twentieth century…… ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Action required for SIP accounts, new inbound call features, and more!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly https://jmp.chat update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone num … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: There’s No Such Thing as a Kudo
It always warms my heart when we import a word directly from ancient Greek into English. Often they are are philosophical locutions, such eudaimonia and ataraxia. Yet at times more mundane terms make the leap; perhaps the most common one these days is kudos (e.g., “kudos to you on aceing that algebra test!”). Consistent with modern English usage, people tend to pronounce it “koo-doze” and think of it as a plural (“that algebra test was really hard so you deserve many kudos for ac … ⌘ Read more
Paul Schaub: A Simple OpenPGP API
In this post I want to share how easy it is to use OpenPGP using the Stateless OpenPGP Protocol (SOP).
I talked about the SOP specification and its purpose and benefits already in past blog posts. This time I want to give some in-depth examples of how the API can be used in your application.
There are SOP API implementations available in different languages like Java and Rust. They have in common, that they are based around the [State … ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.3.3
This release features improved Ad-Hoc Commands and brings back spell checking. Gajim 1.3.3 includes many bug fixes and improvements. Thanks everyone for reporting issues!
The Ad-Hoc Commands window has been ported to Gajim’s new Assistant. This unifies the look and feel with other actions using an Assistant and it also fixes some issues.
More Changes New- Profile: A NOTE entry has been added
- API JID for search.jab … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2021
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of September 2021.
Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider to say thanks or help these projects!
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Gajim: Development News September 2021
September brought many updates under the hood. With big changes coming up in Gajim 1.4, many parts of the code have to be touched. These changes remain mostly invisible for users, but make Gajim more robust. In some cases, this results in visible improvements as well: Both Add Contact and Start Chat windows are now detecting the type of chat behind an address.
Since development on Gajim 1.4 started, a lot has changed under the hood. … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: 5 Erlang and Elixir Use Cases In FinTech 2/2
We talked in our recent blog post about some of the success stories of FinTechs and banks leveraging the Erlang, Elixir and the BEAM virtual machine – including Vocalink, Goldman Sachs and others. In this post let’s examine a further 5 interesting use cases spanning building a bank from scratch in Elixir to using the most deployed open sou … ⌘ Read more
Jérôme Poisson: Libervia progress note 2021-W38
Hello,
it’s time for a new progress note. The work is currently focused on ActivityPub Gateway, and progress has been done on pubsub cache search and the base component.
Pubsub Cache Full-Text SearchNext to the pubsub cache implementation, it was necessary to have a good way to search among items.
So far, Libervia was doing pubsub search using pubsub service’s capabilities, and notably the [XEP-0431](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0 … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Opinions Weak and Strong
Continuing a thread that I started to explore earlier this year, I’d like to take a closer look at the intensity of opinions. Here as almost everywhere, there is a continuum: we all have opinions we hold strongly and opinions we hold weakly. Not only do the specific contents of these buckets change over time, but in general the intensity of one’s opinions can change over time, too. We’re all familiar with the sophomoric young adult who has strong opinions about everything (yes, I resemb … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | September 2021
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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2021
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of August 2021.
Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider to say thanks or help these projects!
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Snikket: Snikket iOS app now publicly released
This is the announcement many people have been waiting for since the project
began!
Opinions are often strong about which is the best mobile operating system.
However, while it varies by region and demographic, wherever you are it’s very
likely that you have Apple users in your life, even if you don’t use one
yourself. We want to ensure that the platform you use (by choice or otherwise)
is not a barrier to secure and decentralized communication wit … ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces
The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.
Of course, your feedback is important! No interface can please everyone, so please react to this post with how this change would impact you positively and negatively, and ideas you have to make it even better … ⌘ Read more
Snikket: Improving Snikket’s usability in collaboration with Simply Secure
One of the primary goals of the Snikket project is improving the usability of
open communication software. We see usability as one of the major barriers to
broader adoption of modern communication systems based on open standards and
free, libre, open-source software. By removing this barrier, we open the door
of secure and decentralized communication freedom to many vulnerable groups
for which it was previously inaccessible or i … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Blog, New Registration, New Billing, New App!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: FinTech 2021 State of Play
While things have undoubtedly changed considerably for the financial services industry over the past 18 months, the ascendency of FinTech remains quite unabated, with global fintech investment reaching $98bn. In the UK, FinTech investment hit a new record of £18bn in the first half of 2021, placing it second only to the United States, impressi … ⌘ Read more
Monal IM: Monal 5.0.1: Synchronized builds and bugfixes
We have released Monal in version 5.0.1 which contains mostly corrections and small improvements. Now the iOS and macOS builds are also synchronized and available in the Apple App Store.
Here are the changes in this release:
- Show warning if camera permissions are missing while trying to use camera
- Fixed duplication … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #6: Further Instrumental Considerations
Although the first five of Bach’s suites for unaccompanied cello lie quite naturally on the bass (when tuned in fifths, that is!), the sixth suite in D major (BWV 1012) is a slightly different story because it was originally written for an instrument with five strings, not four. The exact identity of this instrument remains a mystery - some think it was written for a viola de spalla, others for a violoncello piccolo. Whatever the truth of the matter, p … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.3.1-1 released!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 4.3.1 release 1 of the JSXC plugin for Openfire, our open source real time collaboration server solution! This plugin can be used to conveniently make available the web-based JSXC client (a third-party developed project) to users of Openfire.
The upgrade from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 brings a small number of changes from the JSXC project whi … ⌘ Read more
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