Announcing the All In CHAOSS DEI Badging pilot initiative
Take part in All in for Maintainers’ new pilot program that helps open source project maintainers highlight ongoing efforts in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities. ⌘ Read more
UFO Evidence
![[Decades in the future]](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ufo_evidence.png)
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Stack Overflow is being inundated with AI-generated garbage. A group of 480+ human moderators is going on strike, because:
Specifically, moderators are no longer allowed to remove AI-generated answers on the basis of being AI-generated, outside of exceedingly narrow circumstances. This results in effectively permitting nearly all AI-generated answers to be freely posted, regardless of established community consensus on such content.
In turn, this allows incorrect information (colloquially referred to as “hallucinations”) and plagiarism to proliferate unchecked on the platform. This destroys trust in the platform, as Stack Overflow, Inc. has previously noted.
It looks like StackOverflow Inc. is saying one thing to the public, and a very different thing to its moderators.
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
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, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more [at the … ⌘ Read more
Kelsey Hightower on leadership in open source and the future of Kubernetes
In this special episode of The ReadME Podcast, dedicated to GitHub’s Maintainer Month, Kelsey Hightower joins hosts Martin Woodward and Neha Batra to discuss his philosophy on fostering thriving open source communities and the importance of empathy to a maintainer’s success. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.5 Release
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.5 release of Openfire!
This release primarily addresses the issue that is subject of security advisory CVE-2023-32315, but also pulls in a number of improvements and bugfixes
You can find download artifacts [available here](https://ignit … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.8 Release
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.6.8 release of Openfire!
We have made available a new release of this older version to addresses the issue that is subject of security advisory CVE-2023-32315.
We are aware that for some, the process of deploying a new major version of Openfire is not a trivial matter, as it may encompass a lot more than only pe … ⌘ Read more
TIL my high school publishes its own research journal. https://www.pingry.org/our-community/students/pingry-community-research-pcr-journal
Building a culture of innovation in your business with GitHub
Consider the typical software development practices in an organization. Projects are commonly closed, and causes friction across engineering teams. But open source communities work asynchronously, openly, remotely and at global-scale. What if our internal teams could reuse those same practices? ⌘ Read more
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an interesting observation in a post twitter reality is how services that are sprouting up to claim some of the refugees are setting themselves up as closed gardens. without the option to federate with other services. like spoutable, counter.social, post, clubhouse and such.
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@prologic@twtxt.net closed as in you have to be an account on their service to interact with others. And can’t communicate cross service. Some require you to be logged in to view content. Others will pop up annoying overlays after scrolling some content to sign up for more.
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an interesting observation in a post twitter reality is how services that are sprouting up to claim some of the refugees are setting themselves up as closed gardens. without the option to federate with other services. like spoutable, counter.social, post, clubhouse and such.
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@xuu@txt.sour.is everyone’s moving to gated communities!
Announcing GitHub Actions Deployment Protection Rules, now in public beta
Create and share your own deployment protection rules, or use the rules from our great partners, like Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic, NodeSource, Sentry, and ServiceNow, to control your deployments with more confidence. And the API is open for the community to build their own rules to make GitHub Enterprise Cloud even better. ⌘ Read more
On LinkedIn I see a lot of posts aimed at software developers along the lines of “If you’re not using these AI tools (X,Y,Z) you’re going to be left behind.”
Two things about that:
- No you’re not. If you have good soft skills (good communication, show up on time, general time management) then you’re already in excellent shape. No AI can do that stuff, and for that alone no AI can replace people
- This rhetoric is coming directly from the billionaires who are laying off tech people by the 100s of thousands as part of the class war they’ve been conducting against all working people since the 1940s. They want you to believe that you have to scramble and claw over one another to learn the “AI” that they’re forcing onto the world, so that you stop honing the skills that matter (see #1) and are easier to obsolete later. Don’t fall for it. It’s far from clear how this will shake out once governments get off their asses and start regulating this stuff, by the way–most of these “AI” tools are blatantly breaking copyright and other IP laws, and some day that’ll catch up with them.
That said, it is helpful to know thy enemy.
@darch@neotxt.dk I think having a way to layer on features so those who can support/desire them can. It would be best for the community to be able to layer on (or off) the features.
The XMPP Standards Foundation: Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023
Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023 - _Source: Wiki Commons, Container terminals in port of Hamburg_
A new sprint is being organised within the XMPP Community: The Elbe-Sprint Hamburg!
We will have several days of good and fruitful exchange … ⌘ Read more
Riverland fruit grower crushing it as he keeps up family tradition
For some in the Greek community, making must is a tradition associated with Orthodox Easter. When Yianni Koutouzis saw he had too many grapes, he knew what he had to do. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Verify Google Play App Purchase on Your Server
We are preparing for the first-ever Google Play Store launch of Cheogram Android as part of JMP coming out of beta later this year. One of the things we wanted to “just work” for Google Play users is to be able to pay for the app and get their first month of JMP “bundled” into that purchase price, to smooth the common onboarding experience. So how do the JMP servers know that the app communicating with them is running a version of the app bought from Google P … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.2 Released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 3.0.2
The release contains bug fixes and updates two plugins Translator and Roar.
Many Spark translations are incomplete. Please help us translate Spark
Full list of changes can be found in the changelog.
We encourage users and developers to get invo … ⌘ Read more
We’re No Longer Sunsetting the Free Team Plan
We’re reversing course. After taking in feedback from the community, we’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan. ⌘ Read more
We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.
We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community. Read our FAQ to learn more. ⌘ Read more
Shifts in weather are causing Italian families to rethink an inter-generational tradition
Italian-Australian communities are facing uncertainty over whether they’ll be able to keep their annual sauce-making tradition this year due to a tomato shortage. ⌘ Read more
Introducing Activating Developers and the new Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager Program
The Social Impact, Tech for Social Good team is launching a new Open Source Community Manager Program to support digital public goods. This is part of their new Activating Developers initiative. ⌘ Read more
Lucy has barely bought fruit in 12 years. As rate hikes hit hard, here’s how she keeps her pantry full
As the cost of living soars, some people are growing their own fruit and vegetables as a community to help keep grocery bills down. ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · February 2023 Edition
Our community—along with ourselves—took a much needed break over the festive season. Now everyone is back into the full swing of work, and the open source community is showing us it’s all hands on deck. We had dozens of submissions for the February Release Radar—a testament to the amount of code being shipped by the […] ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
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, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Rea … ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: 4/8 Joachim Türk of the German Child Protection Association, said that #ChatControl is “a deep intrusion into the fundamental right of freedom of communication” also of children.
🚨No one can be protected by making the internet less secure. Read more at https://stopscanningme.eu/en/**
4/8 Joachim Türk of the German Child Protection Association, said that #ChatControl is “a deep intrusion into the fundamental right of freedom of communication” also of … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Translations everywhere!
Two months ago, we started using Transifex as a platform that can be easily used by anyone to provide projects for our projects, like Openfire and Spark.
It is great to see that new translations are pouring in! In the last few months, more than 20,000 translated words have been provided by our community!
[ protocol for decentralized communication.
We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.
The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.
Reactions and RepliesReactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji.
They … ⌘ Read more
Announcing the launch of the All In for Maintainers DEI Resource Hub
The DEI Resource Hub is a vetted collection of resources, tools, and best practices designed to help open source maintainers create and maintain inclusive and diverse open source communities. ⌘ Read more
Skilling for the future: How GitHub is advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within open source communities
In the coming months, we’re scaling, expanding, and launching new programming to further DEI within open source communities. ⌘ Read more
💻 Issue 347 - Eugene Yokota Joins the Scala Center’s Advisory Board as a new Community Representative ⌘ Read more
GitHub Gives 2022: Creating positive, lasting contributions in our communities
This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: New Mastodon service for the Ignite Realtime community!
Some of you might already have followed along with the discussion on this in the open_chat chatroom, but: the Ignite Realtime community now has its own Mastodon service at toot.igniterealtime.org! This service is graciously sponsored by Free Solutions Sàrl - a big thank you to Claude and his team!
 conferences returning to their pre-COVID frequency, we’ve all been so busy. And our community has been hustling to ship all kinds of open source projects. We wanted […] ⌘ Read more
Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Product Officer
GitHub is in an exciting phase of our journey as the developer community grows significantly every day, and the needs of the community grow and change with it. Today we’re introducing our new Chief Product officer. ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2022. This is the final release for this year and we will have a well-deserved winter break until the 5th of February 2023! Many thanks to all readers and all contributors!
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 … ⌘ Read more
“Bloggers, Dump Your Twitter Card Tags”
It’s crazy to think how much bandwidth is being used by metadata tags. Every company wants to invent it’s own new system. Wouter Groeneveld gives a brief overview and recommends getting rid of them (for the most part). I agree with him completely. The only one of these systems that my blog supports is Microformats, which is quite popular among the IndieWeb community. ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Communicating the climate crisis to non-experts is difficult. Here I tried to illustrate in a simple way where we stand and where we are heading.
Communicating the climate crisis to non-experts is difficult. Here I tried to illustrate in a simple way where we stand and where we are heading.
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
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
Ignite Realtime Blog: Hazelcast plugin version 2.6.1 released!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 2.6.1 of the Hazelcast plugin for Openfire! The Hazelcast plugin is what allows you to deploy Openfire as a clustered solution.
This release includes only one improvement, but that one can bring a significant performance improvement as compared to older versions … ⌘ Read more
The changing nature of governmental policies around open source
In 2022, governments and the policy community spent a lot of time thinking about open source. Here’s what that means and why it matters. ⌘ Read more
Bringing greater financial sustainability to open source communities
We know that companies benefit from open source. That’s why we’re making it easier for companies to financially support projects. ⌘ Read more