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RT by @mind_booster: The EU will fund a pilot project for a public directory of #publicdomain works. This is based on a whitepaper I wrote with @Senficon for the 2021 @creativecommons summit. Thanks for bringing us 1 step closer to making this a reality @echo_pbreyer & team! https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/kick-off-for-eu-database-of-public-domain-works-and-digital-access-to-scientific-works/
The EU will fund a pilot project for a public directory of [#publicdomain](https://nitter.net/search?q=%23publicdom … ⌘ Read more

Jérôme Poisson: Libervia progress note 2022-W45
Hello, it’s time for a long overdue progress note.

I’ll talk here about the work made on ActivityPub (AP) gateway and on end-to-end encryption around pubsub.

Oh, and if everything goes well, this blog post should be accessible from XMPP and ActivityPub (and HTTP and ATOM feed), using the same identifier goffi@goffi.org.

The work made on the AP gateway has been possible thanks to a NLnet/NGI0 grant (w … ⌘ Read more

I reworked the current ActivityPub implementation of GoBlog, fixed ActivityPub replies to posts and also added support for reply updates and deletions. Under the hood it’s using the comment system. 🥳 Using the go-ap/activitypub library, working with ActivityPub is much easier (but still more complicated than I wish it would be). ⌘ Read more

@justamoment@twtxt.net flightgear is great! I like the fact that it works on linux, same goes for xplane, that alone is the reason why I do not buy MS flightsim.

Brought our dog to work today, so nice to have one that handles the cold without any issues. He just chills in his crate in the car while I work, and I take some small breaks to let him stretch his legs. Loves to play around in the snow. I could then take the ‘long’ walk on my way home instead of getting home first - then head out again.

Today was already the 4th day that I worked using a mobile hotspot with a speed limit of 10 mbps down and upload. This is definitely doable. I’m glad I didn’t have to transfer any larger files. Faster internet is coming in two days. But I chose wisely when I signed my mobile contract last year without a data cap. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net git worked after upgrade. But I seem to have to reinstall go. I have not done that yet. I will see if I have time to fix that later tonight.

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The power of GitHub in the palm of your hand
GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you’re going. Untether yourself from your office. ⌘ Read more

The journey of your work has never been clearer
In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build! ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.0 Released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Spark 3.0.0 version.

We decided to increase major version to 3.x to coincide with a complete UI refresh of Spark which was contributed by Amos. Now Spark uses only FlatLaf Look and Feel. We are very much grateful for his incredible work. Along that Pade Meetings plugin was added by [Dele](https://discourse.igniterealtime. … ⌘ Read more

What is NATS - NATS Docs

Might play with this at work next week.

Great, last system update broke something, building from current master I get:

/usr/bin/ld: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: unknown type [0x13] section `.relr.dyn'

What the heck!?

And it also appears that I’m not really able to reproduce this unread bug. It only kind of works a single time. And it has something to do with my config. Not sure what it is yet. I also noticed that the <updated> timestamps in the entries somehow shifted between the old and new feed. Da fuq!?

starting work on felt - virtual tabletop for D&D

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.4 release
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.4 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 enhancements to cluster-specific implementation of Multi-User Chat functionality, improved websocket handling and improv … ⌘ Read more

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We don’t pay people based on how hard they work. If we did, stay at home parents would be filthy rich. Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019) | Hacker News

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 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 at t … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Great news from Austria!🥳 Other Member States must follow their lead and ensure that the CSA Regulation is rejected. We analyse the CSAR and propose solutions to protect children (and everyone else) here 👉 https://edri.org/our-work/a-safe-internet-for-all-upholding-private-and-secure-communications/
Great news from Austria!🥳 Other Member States must follow their lead and ensure that the CSA Regulation is rejected. We analyse the CSAR and propose solutions to protect children (and every … ⌘ Read more

Build, Share, and Run WebAssembly Apps Using Docker
Did you know Wasm and Docker can work together? Learn more about creating WebAssembly apps with Docker in this exciting demo breakdown. ⌘ Read more

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This is by design due to Google culture. The only way to get promoted into the higher pay scales is to ship a new product. So you have people shipping what worked before without regard to how it will exist within the product ecosystem. Also, why they seem to die off so quickly after launch. see allo and duo for example. The person that launches gets promoted to a higher level and off the original team and so it is left to wither and die.

This is by design due to Google culture. The only way to get promoted into the higher pay scales is to ship a new product. So you have people shipping what worked before without regard to how it will exist within the product ecosystem. Also, why they seem to die off so quickly after launch. see allo and duo for example. The person that launches gets promoted to a higher level and off the original team and so it is left to wither and die.

I guess Google Hangouts is finally dead.

Why is Google such a mess at making messaging apps? This has more or less been a solved problem for decades. Google Talk worked well enough, and since it was based on XMPP and Jingle it was perfectly suited to become a large-scale text/voice/video messaging system. If they’d run with that they’d have been able to dominate that space, I think. Instead, they’ve created and shitcanned half a dozen messaging apps and platforms, flailing around copying someone else’s app (now they’re trying to copy Slack I guess).

Creating a more inclusive security research field
A glimpse into the backgrounds and day-to-day work of several GitHub employees in cybersecurity roles. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
I have a cheap basic just alarm clock and nothing else. It tells the time and gives an alarm nothing else and it works 100% of the time.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk @xuu@txt.sour.is hello! @prologic@twtxt.net and I were chatting about the question of globally deleting twts from the yarn.social network. @prologic@twtxt.net noted that he could build the tools and endpoints to delete twts, but some amount of cooperation from pod operators would be necessary to make it all work together. He asked me to spawn a discussion of the subject here, so here we are!

I don’t have enough technical knowledge of yarn.social to say with any credibility how it all should work, but I can say that I think it ought to be possible and it’d be good to do for those rare times when it’s needed.

ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10
This ejabberd 22.10 release includes six months of work, over 140 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.

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This version brings support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.

There are no breaking changes in SQL schem … ⌘ Read more

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ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10
This ejabberd 22.10 release includes five months of work, over 120 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.

Image

This version bring support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.

There are no breaking changes in SQL schem … ⌘ Read more

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Because I used Prometheus and Grafana at work, I also tried them at home and I must say, monitoring isn’t as boring as I always thought. Next up Kubernetes? 😅 ⌘ Read more

Resolve Vulnerabilities Sooner With Contextual Data
OpenSSL 3.0.7 and “Text4Shell” might be the most recent critical vulnerabilities to plague your development team, but they won’t be the last. In 2021, critical vulnerabilities reached a record high. Attackers are even reusing their work, with over 50% of zero-day attacks this year being variants of previously-patched vulnerabilities.  With each new security vulnerability, we’re […] ⌘ Read more

Developer Engagement in the Remote Work Era with RedMonk and Miva
We met with Redmonk and Miva to talk about navigating developer engagement in the remote work era. Watch the full, on-demand video for details! ⌘ Read more

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@prologic@twtxt.net thank you, it was really nice. The dog wanted to get up at 8 this morning, so I put him in the car and went for a long walk so that the rest of the house could sleep in. I came back last night after 4 day work trip, so it was nice to get up today and just head out for a walk.

📣 NEW: Announcing the new and improved Yarns search engine and crawler! search.twtxt.net – Example search for “Hello World” Enjoy! 🤗 – @darch@neotxt.dk When you have this, this is what we need to work on in terms of improving the UI/UX. As a first step you should probably try to apply the same SimpleCSS to this codebase and go from there. – In the end (didn’t happen yet, time/effort) most of the code here in yarns will get reused directly into yarnd, except that I’ll use the bluge indexer instead.

Prosodical Thoughts: Mutation Testing in Prosody
This is a post about a new automated testing technique we have recently
adopted to help us during our daily development work on Prosody. It’s probably
most interesting to developers, but anyone technically-inclined should be able
to follow along!

If you’re unfamiliar with our project, it’s an open-source real-time messaging
server, built around the XMPP protocol. It’s used by many organizations and
self-hosting hobbyists, and also powers applications such as [Snikke … ⌘ Read more

**Here’s how a patent troll works:

1. Sit and watch as s codec is made specifically to avoid patent fees;
   
2. Wait a decade to let the codec be wildly implemented;
   
3. Try to monetize the work of others, using patents some other parties might have.**
   Here’s how a patent troll works:
   

1. Sit and watch as s codec is made specifically to avoid patent fees;

2. Wait a decade to let the codec be wildly implemented;

3. Try to monetize the work of others, using patents some other parties might have.

[nitter.net/Hi … ⌘ Read more

Some IndieWeb protocols are complicated and there are sometimes no programming libraries to simplify the use of them, but ActivityPub is another beast. Although the standard is documented, the way the specific implementations (Mastodon etc.) work often isn’t and it’s hard to debug. So huge respect for the big rework. 👍 ⌘ Read more

On the go with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile (public beta)
Stay connected and up to date on your work with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile, now in public beta. ⌘ Read more

The History of the First Computer Shell
BASH? PowerShell? It all traces back to 1963. And the work of an amazing Frenchman, CTTS, and Multics. ⌘ Read more

“WebVM: Linux Virtualization in WebAssembly with Full Networking via Tailscale”
When I tell people about programming or my work, they often say software development is too abstract for them. But there are moments when I think that about some software as well. ⌘ Read more

One year ago, I started using AdGuard Home instead of Pi-Hole to filter DNS requests and block ads and tracking. Yesterday, I switched to NextDNS instead. NextDNS has mostly the same features, but is hosted in the “cloud” and I have one less self-hosted service to care about. AdGuard Home is awesome, but NextDNS seems to be working great as well and also integrates with Tailscale easily. ⌘ Read more

Working on a creative project? Unleash your originality and start to tinker with the Aspiring Creatives Experience
Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground. ⌘ Read more

How AI Image Generators Work (Stable Diffusion / Dall-E) - Computerphile ⌘ Read more

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BBSing at 300 Bits Per Second
I recently acquired a 3M Whisper Writer 1000 communications terminal circa 1983, and restored it to working order. This is a short session of it dialing into my Kludge BBS over its internal 300 bps modem. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 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 mor … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: When it comes to improving access to AV works, the EU must — at the minimum — put an end to #geoblocking of publicly funded AV works. Here is our proposal that we have submitted to the @DigitalEU stakeholder dialogue last week: https://communia-association.org/2022/09/30/proposal-av-stakeholder-dialogue-geoblocking/
When it comes to improving access to AV works, the EU must — at the minimum — put an end to #geoblocking of publicly funded AV w … ⌘ Read more

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Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience. ⌘ Read more

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Why we signed the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy
As the home for developers, we understand the key role our communities play in steering digital transformation and maintaining societal infrastructure. That’s why we choose to drive and support policies and initiatives like the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy. We’re committed to working with like-minded organizations, governments, and civil society to make digital technologies work for democracy and human rights, … ⌘ Read more

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Why not focus on getting old LessWrongers to work on alignment instead of students? They might not be as skilled technically, but they probably have much deeper & well formed intuitions around the problem.

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Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience. ⌘ Read more

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Decided to use FLTK crate, that one is easy to get set up, works well.
Now I have to figure out how to make a class that holds the gui elements I need.
I want to parse the yarn status file, then show the statuses, then once that works I’ll make it fetch it online etc. Will take some time, but I feel a bit more motivated (for now) to do this in rust.

working with c++, windows, cmake and wxwidgets reminded me on why I want to learn more rust. rust and crates makes it really easy to get up and running, crossplatform. scrapping what I did today, I’ll start over and force my self to learn rust.

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How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions
The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year. ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Using Pushdown Automata to verify Packet Sequences
As a software developer, most of my work day is spent working practically by coding and hacking away. Recently though I stumbled across an interesting problem which required another, more theoretical approach;

An OpenPGP message contains of a sequence of packets. There are signatures, encrypted data packets and their accompanying encrypted session keys, compressed data and literal data, the latter being the packet … ⌘ Read more

Back Up and Share Docker Volumes with This Extension
You can now back up volumes with the new Volumes Backup & Share extension. Find out how it works in this post! ⌘ Read more

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Scaling Git’s garbage collection
A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories. ⌘ Read more

wsl-vpnkit: Internet for WSL2 distros behind a VPN
I’m still alive. 👋 Today, at work, I discovered a nice little tool for WSL2. On my work laptop I need to use Cisco AnyConnect to connect to the corporate network. Unfortunately this blocks Internet access in Windows Subsystem for Linux VMs (at least in the Ubuntu VM, I tried to use for some Docker stuff). I tried a lot of different hacks and workarounds, but none worked. Until I found wsl-vpnkit. It just works. 😄 ⌘ Read more

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net I have the same problem, at work I work with c÷÷, c#, java, python and qt. I want to learn more rust, but its a pain to get into.

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Async, Metadata with Thumbnails and some UI

Asynchronous programming is a neat tool, until you work with a foreign project in a foreign language using it.
As a messenger, Dino uses lots of asynchronous code, not always though.
Usually my progress wasn’t interfered by such instances, but sometimes I had to work around it.

Async in Vala

No surprises here.
Functions are annotated with async, and yield expressions that are asyn … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de test towers for rig equipment on the dock at our office :) the company I work for makes oilrig equipment. I work with simulator development for oilrigs etc.

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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 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 at the … ⌘ Read more

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Installing NixOS on my spare laptop today. It’s a fun OS to work with. Has its quirks, but I enjoy messing around with it and set things up the way I want it. :)

First work day in my new job
My first day at my new job is over, and it went quite well despite the lack of sleep. Super nice colleagues and I am already full in the training. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah I don’t know how I am going to know if someone wants to talk with me but I guess for now twtxt works.

Paul Schaub: Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Accessing Certificate Stores
Currently, I am working on a Web-of-Trust implementation for the OpenPGP library PGPainless. This work is being funded by the awesome NLnet foundation through NGI Assure. Check them out! NGI Assure is made possible with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme.

[![](https://nlnet. … ⌘ Read more

almost have getwtxt-ng in a usable state! finally got around to working on it.

@movq@uninformativ.de Do you know how I would find people that reply to my posts or replies or even mention my users? Prologic tried to contact me and unless I found him on the yarn pod then I would not know he exists and wants to talk to me. The user agents would work but I don’t know if I can view my web server logs from codeberg pages and I don’t know how to monitor my logs for mentions. What about the way yarn does it by added people you follow to your twtxt file and having friends of friends like yarn does it be a thing for jenny. Just an idea

@prologic@twtxt.net That is why yarn is better then something like activity pub. Everything over on activity pub tries to work with Mastodon not because its better but because its the most popular. Twtxt clients on the other hand tries to work with the yarn additions because most of the additions improve things even for twtxt users.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah I don’t even know how to use them once I added myself to the registries. The jarn search engine is similar to the registries thing but its easier to search and find things from. Also I assume its easier to use it in the yarn pods and whatever elese to get new posts. I would always like to see yarn work with regular twtxt because there is advantges to plain twtxt.

Kaidan: Kaidan’s End-to-End Encryption Trust Management
We worked several months on Kaidan’s upcoming end-to-end encryption and trust management.
Once Kaidan 0.9 is released, it will provide the latest OMEMO Encryption.
But it will also make trust decisions in the background for you if it’s possible.
Some trust decisions have to be made manually but there are many others Kaidan automates without decreasing your security.
That is done by automatically sharing … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I do think the post about how to setup jenny + mutt over on the uninformativ.de blog is still a great post. I used that post to see the steps to set it up and it works fine. Though I can write some blog post with some more documentation for things like auto publishing. The big issue with plain twtxt is that I would have not seen your post unless I looked on twtxt.net when I was looking at yarn a little bit more. Twtxt does overcome the issue by introducing the registry but I can’t figure out any way to use them for Jenny and almost no one uses them in the first place. So I can’t see anyones replies or mentions unless I am following them. Yarn does overcome the issue by friends of friends as you would know as the creator of yarn.

autopublishing works with jenny + mutt I think i am done configuring mostly everything now

last test and if this does not work then I just have to run the git commands myself then

test again to see if it works

got jenny setup and threads works completly fine but now I want to figure out how to get auto publishing working

@akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee Cool if I end up just running my own yarn pod but for now twtxt on my site hosted by codeberg works fine