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:

1. 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
   
2. 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

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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

🌠 Improved Community Updates & Task Searching
New folder plugins, LLM powered plugins, plugin APIs, improved audio notes support, and some neat new public vaults. ⌘ 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!

[![image](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/uploads/default/origina … ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: New: Openfire MUC Real-Time Block List plugin!
A new plugin has been made available for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol. We have named this new plugin the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin.

This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federated XMPP domains. From experience, the XMPP community has learned that bad actors tend to spam a wid … ⌘ Read more

** Moon maker **
I recently re-read Peter Naur’s“Programming as theory building”. Afterwards I set out to write my own text editor. The paper posits that it’s really hard, if not impossible, to fully communicate about a program and sort of gestures at the futility of documentation…what spun around inside my head as I read was that our primary programming medium — text files — is silly. Like, some folks would totally 100% s … ⌘ Read more

Dino: Dino 0.4 Release
Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application.
It uses the XMPP (Jabber) 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.

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Reactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji.
They … ⌘ Read more

Cinéma français : le syndrome Pourrix et Obésix s’étend
Après un battage médiatique particulièrement omniprésent sur tous les canaux de communication possibles en France, “Astérix et l’Empire du Milieu”, le dernier film de Guillaume Canet, est sorti et le moins qu’on puisse dire est qu’il fait parler de lui. Pas forcément en bien… Avec la multiplication des publicités dans tous les médias, l’entretien des […] ⌘ 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

H3: Instead of C3
[Updated with correct Gemlog link.]

A version of this was posted on on 2023-01-06 but I thought it might
also fit here. Go to my gemlog for somewhat more personal takes and
see what I publish first. IPv6 only!

gemini://gem.hack.org/mc/log/

As long-time readers know I have participated in the Chaos
Communication Congress (C3) in Germany every year since 2008.

Since C3 was cancelled this year I thought I’d arrange a very small
conference of my own. I would at least try to gather some friends and
acquaintances … ⌘ Read more

H3: Instead of C3
A version of this was posted on on 2023-01-06 but I thought it might
also fit here. Go to my gemlog for somewhat more personal takes and
see what I publish first. IPv6 only!

gemini://gem.hack.org/log/

As long-time readers know I have participated in the Chaos
Communication Congress (C3) in Germany every year since 2008.

Since C3 was cancelled this year I thought I’d arrange a very small
conference of my own. I would at least try to gather some friends and
acquaintances in chat and video conference and watch t … ⌘ Read more

L’Éducation nationale empile les réformes comme les mauvaises grippes
La réforme des lycées donne déjà ses fruits et pas de doute, ils sont mûrs, ils sont juteux et plein de vitamines ! Mise progressivement en place depuis 2018, cette réforme a ainsi aboutit depuis l’année dernière à se passer complètement de mathématiques dans son tronc commun à partir des classes de première, ne laissant cette […] ⌘ Read more

💻 Issue 347 - Eugene Yokota Joins the Scala Center’s Advisory Board as a new Community Representative ⌘ Read more

https://aek.one/chapitre-13-proteger-ses-communications-instantanees/

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!

![Mastodon logo](https:/ … ⌘ Read more

** Thoughts on accessibility in smol computing **
What follows is my attempt to spark a conversation in a few converging, but separate communities I lurk in.

I’ve already had a bunch of amazing conversations around this topic with a lot of people. Those conversations helped to shape what follows. Thanks to everyone who was willing to think this stuff through with me.

Before I get into it I want to say at the top this isn’t meant as an accusation against anyone in these communities, nor the goals of t … ⌘ Read more

“sorry dude, you have vingean uncertainty over the EA community”

Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.1 Released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Spark 3.0.1 version.

This release contains mostly fixes. macOS now uses the default FlatLaf LaF. The user can also choose the type of tabs “scroll” as in Spark 3.0.0 or “wrap” as in Spark 2.X. See screenshot below. And also for some users, Spark not saved history.

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Snikket: F-Droid security update
Last week, Snikket Android users who installed the Snikket app via F-Droid
started receiving a warning that it contained a
security vulnerability. This wasn’t entirely accurate, as the problem wasn’t
with the Snikket app itself but specifically F-Droid’s own build of the app
that was using an outdated version of the WebRTC library.

Like many communication apps, Snikket uses WebRTC for audio and video calls.
We’ve been working on finding a … ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · October 2022 Edition
Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) 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.

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🌠 Doom! & Scrollable Daily Notes
A request for python devs to help out with the community hub vault, a new comprehensive tutorial for beginners, & discussion of YAML APIs. ⌘ 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

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

community, code, a skunk, a dog, a rabbit, and an owl

2022-11-06 13:42

i recently rewrote my project, nicethings, in
chicken scheme. it was originally in racket, but it was old, messy, redundant,
and i just like translating programs from one programming language to another
haha. originally, it was in python, back when i first got into programming,
before i rewrote it in racket.

i ended up sim … ⌘ Read more

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

@tkanos@twtxt.net user in question had posted information about someones employment in what appeared to be a threat to contact their boss. Maybe it was in jest.. but we felt it was a form of doxing that we do not wish to see within our community. Yarn.Social is first and foremost a town square of ideas and should be viewed as a safe place for all.

Release Radar · September 2022 Edition
Hackatoberfest, hackathons, and open source contributions. It’s been a hectic month with so many community pull requests to all kinds of projects. So many in fact that we had to spend hours going through all the submissions for this blog post. We almost didn’t get it out before the end of October. Nevertheless, we are […] ⌘ Read more

What we learned from the Security Lab’s Community Office Hours
TheGitHub Security Lab provided office hours for open source projects looking to improve their security posture and reduce the risk of breach. Here’s what we learned and how you can also participate. ⌘ Read more