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Radxa Teases Upcoming AICore SG2300x Module with Octa-core SOPHON SG2300x SoC
Radxa Teases Upcoming AICore SG2300x Module with Octa-core SOPHON SG2300x SoC
Radxa has recently previewed a new compact embedded module, the AICore SG2300x, built around the SOPHON SG2300x System-on-Chip. This module promises significant computational power for AI applications, featuring dual PHYs and a high-performance Tensor Processing Unit. ⌘ Read more

What is infrastructure from code?
Member post originally published on AppCD’s blog by Lauren Rother Maybe you’ve heard of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which is the process of managing and provisioning computer data center resources (mostly but not entirely in the cloud) through version-controlled, machine-readable… ⌘ Read more

Docker Desktop 4.29: Docker Socket Mount Permissions in ECI, Advanced Error Management, Moby 26, and New Beta Features
Docker Desktop 4.29 introduces enhancements to secure and streamline the development process and to improve error management and workflow efficiency. With the integration of Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) with Docker socket mount permissions, the debut of Moby 26 within Docker Desktop, and exciting features such as Docker Compose enhancements via synchronized file shares reaching Beta, we’re equipp … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02
🚀 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release!

ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.

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– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin … ⌘ Read more

Building a Video Analysis and Transcription Chatbot with the GenAI Stack
Dive into a video transcription and chat project that leverages the GenAI Stack, along with seamless integration provided by Docker, to streamline video content processing and understanding. ⌘ Read more

NewsToday2: What it is & How to Disable NewsToday2 on Mac
Some Mac users have discovered a process named “NewsToday2” running on their Mac, typically found after they’ve noticed a slowdown on their machine, or if they’re browsing through active processes running in MacOS. We’re going to dive into the NewsToday2 process in MacOS, discuss what it is, and show you how to stop it from … Read More ⌘ Read more

What is fileproviderd on Mac & Why Does it Use High CPU?
A process named fileproviderd may be discovered by some Mac users, usually seen in Activity Monitor when someone has discovered that their Mac feels like it’s running slower than usual. There, fileproviverd may be using high amounts of CPU, and by using heavy system resources, the Mac slows down. What is fileproviderd? Fileproviderd is a … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/03/16/what-is-fileproviderd-on-mac-why-doe … ⌘ Read more

STM32MP2 MPU Series Enhances Performance with 64-bit Architecture and 1.35 TOPS NPU
Last week, STMicroelectronics unveiled the STM32MP2 series, its second-generation line of 64-bit industrial microprocessors. Designed for intelligent edge computing, this new series is tailored for a broad range of applications, including smart factories, healthcare, buildings, and infrastructure. These are ST’s first MPUs to contain a 64-bit central processing unit (CPU). In c … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Matrix gateway setup with ejabberd
As of version 24.02, ejabberd is shipped with a Matrix gateway and can participate in the Matrix\
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federation. This means that an XMPP client can exchange messages with Matrix users or rooms.

Let’s see how to configure your ejabberd to enable this gateway.

First, add an [HTTP h … ⌘ Read more

Fix WeatherWidget Using Heavy CPU & Slowing a Mac
WeatherWidget is a process you may encounter on a Mac when looking through Activity Monitor or a system stats app, a task that many advanced Mac users find themselves doing if they notice their Mac performance is slowing down. The reason, of course, is that Activity Monitor (or similar) will show you what processes are … Read More ⌘ Read more

Create a Budget on iPhone, Mac, & iPad, with Numbers
Budgeting is a critical part of life and financial management, allowing you to easily allocate your income and manage expenses. While anyone can overcomplicate the budget process, it doesn’t have to be that way, and thanks to Apple software that is freely available for iPhone, Mac, and iPad, you can easily setup a budget in … Read More ⌘ Read more

Create a Budget on iPhone, Mac, & iPad, with Numbers
Budgeting is a critical part of life and financial management, allowing you to easily allocate your income and manage expenses. While anyone can overcomplicate the budget process, it doesn’t have to be that way, and thanks to Apple software that is freely available for iPhone, Mac, and iPad, you can easily setup a budget in … Read More ⌘ Read more

Analog Discovery Pro ADP2230: New Mixed Signal Oscilloscope from Digilent
The Analog Discovery Pro ADP2230 is a mixed signal oscilloscope designed for a range of professional engineering applications. It integrates multiple functions typically found in various test and measurement devices into a single unit. Key components and capabilities include: For digital signal processing, the device includes 16 digital input/output channels, compatible with 3.3 V CMOS […] ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive | 6 Principles
Blockchain technology is transforming nearly every industry, whether 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.

We’re mapping out the six key principles for blockchain integration success, so businesses can navigate the challenges and opportunities this disruptive tec … ⌘ Read more

Collabora’s Recent Advances in Open Source Boot Chains and Vulkan Drivers
This month, Collabora has announced two significant advancements in open-source technology. Firstly, the integration of the NVK project, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs, into Mesa 24.1 marks a major development in graphics driver technology. Secondly, Collabora has improved the boot process for Rockchip’s RK3588 by including an open-source BL31 (Boot Loader stage 3.1) […] ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02
🚀 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release!

ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.

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– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: WebPush support on your fluux.io instance
We’re excited to announce the latest enhancement to Fluux.io services – the integration of WebPush support. This significant update extends our services beyond

FCM/APNs, enabling push notifications for XMPP across various platforms. Now, our push notification capabilities are not li … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd turns 20
ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago. This is a long time, even at the scale of Internet. And yet, what ejabberd represents has not always been obvious. It took us a long time to realize what was so important about ejabberd. Why have we been developing it for 20 years? Why are we pushing it further even today? What makes it so special?

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ejabberd is a scalable messaging server. That sum … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02
🚀 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release!

ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.

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– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.01

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Almost three months after the previous release, ejabberd 23.01 includes many bug fixes, several improvements and some new features.

A new module, mod_mqtt_bridge, can be used to replicate changes to MQTT topics between local and remote servers.

A more detailed explanation of those topics and other features:

Remember that support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is discouraged, and will b … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02
🚀 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release!

ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.

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– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04
This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.

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• Many SQL database improvements
  
• mod_mam support for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
  
• Newmod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
  
• Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers
  

A more detailed explanatio … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd
ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an external relational database, you might have to manually apply some schema changes that come with new features when you upgrade to a new ejabberd release. ejabberd can now handle this schema upgrade automat … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02
🚀 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release!

ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.

Image

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02
🚀 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release!

ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.

Image

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02
🚀 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release!

ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.

Image

– 🌐 Matrix Federation Unleashed: Imagine seamlessly connectin … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.10
A new ejabberd release, ejabberd 23.10, is now published with more than 150 commits since the previous 23.04. It includes many new features and improvements, and also many more bugfixes.

• Support for XEP-0402: PEP Native Bookmarks
  
• Support for XEP-0421: Occupant Id
  
• Many new options and features
  

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A more detailed explanation of improvements and features:

[XEP-0402 … ⌘ Read more

Concerns over visa applications as ‘rampant anti-Semitism’ continues
Sky News host Peta Credlin has raised concerns about visa applications being processed out of Gaza amid “rampant anti-Semitism” in Australia.

Ms Credlin expressed disgust over a pro-Palestinian protest held outside Town Hall last week.

“Only this time, the spectre of jihad was spoken about openly and publicly. Not contained to a fiery speech in a Sydney mosque b … ⌘ Read more

(Updated) Banana Pi teases RK3588-powered Single Board Computer with dual 2.5GbE
Banana Pi recently provided details about a new Single Board Computer with Pico ITX form-factor and built around the Rockchip RK3588 quad-core processor, Arm Mali-G610 Graphics Processing Unit and a 6TOPS Neural Processor Unit. This new embedded device joins Banana Pi’s lineup featuring the RK3588 SoC seen in other Banana Pi products like the BPI-W3 […] ⌘ Read more

SparkFun Thing Plus Adopts ESP32-C6 Module with Thread + Zigbee Support
The SparkFun ESP32-C6 Thing Plus, a compact and robust development board, is ideal for innovators looking to craft advanced wireless projects like smart home devices, wireless sensor networks, or other IoT applications. Additionally, it provides support for Arduino IDE, simplifying the software development process. At the heart of the SparkFun ESP32-C6 Thing Plus is the […] ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: A Match Made in Heaven – Transactional Systems and Erlang/Elixir
In the context of transactional systems, having a single process to manage each user interaction means any issues with one process remains contained and does not affect the rest, therefore, the system keeps running smoothly. This approach prevents the unfortunate situation where a solitary user’s problem could otherwise impact the entire platform, thereby preserving user trust and system integrity amid surges … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: WebPush support on your fluux.io instance
We’re excited to announce the latest enhancement to Fluux.io services – the integration of WebPush support. This significant update extends our services beyond

FCM/APNs, enabling push notifications for XMPP across various platforms. Now, our push notification capabilities are not li … ⌘ Read more

Made infamous by former links to the mafia, one of NSW’s biggest wineries is changing hands
Warburn Estate winery, established in 1968 by a man known as the “don of dons”, is sold to a family business best known for processing orange juice. ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: WebPush support on your fluux.io instance
We’re excited to announce the latest enhancement to Fluux.io services – the integration of WebPush support. This significant update extends our services beyond

FCM/APNs, enabling push notifications for XMPP across various platforms. Now, our push notification capabilities are not li … ⌘ Read more

Experiment & Explore with Fedora Linux on Mac with UTM
Running Linux on a Mac can be a big ordeal, but not with virtualization. By using UTM, you can run Linux in a virtual machine atop MacOS, contained entirely within an app. This allows you to explore and experiment with Linux, without having to go through any complex installation process or setup, it’s just a … Read More ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers Fully Automated

During the past year, the team behind the XMPP Providers project worked on automating the process of gathering data about XMPP providers.
Automating this process reduces manual work significantly (for example, checking websites by hand, verifying information, listing sources, etc.) and helps to sustain the team’s efforts.
Automation also enables the project to be up to date – every day!

[ … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Matrix protocol added to ejabberd
ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next.

ejabberd just get new ace in it sleeve – you can now use ejabberd to talk with other Matrix servers, a protocol sometimes used for small corporate server messaging.

Of course, you all know ejabberd supports the XMPP instant messaging protocol with hundreds of XMPP extensions, this is what it is famous for.

The second ma … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Automatic schema update in ejabberd
ejabberd 23.10 has a new feature that is currently in beta testing:

Automatic relational schema creation and update.

Previously, if you were using ejabberd with an external relational database, you might have to manually apply some schema changes that come with new features when you upgrade to a new ejabberd release. ejabberd can now handle this schema upgrade automat … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Happy New Year: Celebrating 21 Years of Innovation with ejabberd

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Time flies, and it’s hard to believe that ejabberd, our beloved open-source project, celebrated its 21st anniversary last November 16th! It’s a milestone that we’ve proudly highlighted over the years – remember the 4th, [10th](https://www.process-one.net/blog/close … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
TLDR;

**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
TLDR;

**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
TLDR;

**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
TLDR;

**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha … ⌘ Read more

Using Authenticated Logins for Docker Hub in Google Cloud
Learn four best practices that your teams can implement to maintain a secure and reliable software delivery process with Docker Hub in Google Cloud. With these guidelines, you can leverage the benefits of open source software while safeguarding your development workflow. ⌘ Read more

How to Add a Mouse to macOS Sonoma & Ventura
Many users like to use an external mouse with their Mac, but not everyone knows how to sync and add a mouse to their Mac. The process of pairing a mouse with a Mac is fairly straight forward, but like many things with modern MacOS versions and the System Settings experience, it may be less … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to Mac Without iCloud
If you’re accustomed to using iCloud to keep your photos synced between your iPhone, Mac, or even Windows PC, you may not be familiar with the process of transferring pictures off of the iPhone without using iCloud. This tutorial will walk through the steps required to get pictures from your iPhone to your computer, without … Read More ⌘ Read more

Hurray for password recovery processes.

Started the process of migrating from Github to Codeberg with my projects.