Erlang Solutions: Blockchain in Sustainable Programming
The benefits of blockchain implementation across multiple sectors are well-documented, but how can this decentralised solution be used to achieve more sustainable programming?
As the effects of the ongoing climate crisis continue to impact weather patterns and living conditions across the planet, we must continue to make every aspect of our lives, from transport and energy usage to all of our technology, greener and more sustain … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: How ChatGPT improved my Elixir code. Some hacks are included.
I have been working as an Elixir developer for quite some time and recently came across the ChatGPT model. I want to share some of my experience interacting with it.
During my leisure hours, I am developing an open-source Elixir initiative, Crawly, that facilitates the extraction of structured data from the internet.
Here I want to demonstrate how … ⌘ 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