JMP: Mitigating MITMs in XMPP
In October 2023, Jabber.ru, “the largest Russian XMPP messaging service”, discovered that both Hetzner and Linode had been targeting them with Machine-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks for up to 6 months. MITM attacks are when an unauthorised third party intercepts traffic intended for someone else. At the point of interception, the attacker can inspect and even modify that traffic. TLS was created to mitigate this; all communication between the two parties is encrypted, so the third party sees … ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 2.2.0
This release brings three new features: message retraction, blocking participants in group chats, and updated support for modern group chat avatars. Thank you for all your contributions!
Gajim 2.2 comes with support for retracting messages via XEP-0424: Message Retraction. This allow you to retract your messages, if you’ve mistakenly sent it to the wrong recipient or group chat. Please note that your counterpart needs to support … ⌘ Read more
GitHub for Beginners: Building a React App with GitHub Copilot
Follow along and build a frontend client using React and Copilot Chat.
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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Thanks for consolidating a lot of good ideas. Especially how you have deiced to just extend the mention syntax for location-based treads. This might even be backward compatible with older (pre-yarn) clients.
What about using Z for UTC +00:00- is that allowed in your specs?
Regarding url = I would suggest to only allow one and the maybe add url_old = or url_alt = !?
I’m still not a fan of a DM feature, even thou it helps that i have now been split out into a separate feed file. Instead if would suggest a contact = field for where people can put an email or other id/link for an established chat protocol like signal or matrix.
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Bloody WhatsApp, bloody chat apps on smartphones, I’m going nuts. If you want to TYPE, use a device WITH A KEYBOARD. Don’t send me useless undecipherable gibberish. FFS!
Godot Game Engine Discord Adds Mandatory “Consent to Being Recorded” for Audio Chats
Remember when the Godot Game Engine mass banned Conservatives from their project? ⌘ Read more
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Mandated use of AI at work
Although I also use AI for some features on this blog and sometimes chat with some AI agent (whether it’s ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot), I have mixed feelings about its mandated use at work (Shopify is just one company doing it). ⌘ Read more
Nintendo Switch 2 announced for a June 5 launch
The system supports 4K graphics, has an integrated voice chat platform and will cost $700. ⌘ Read more
Kaidan: Kaidan 0.12.1: Voice Message and Password Change Fixes
Kaidan 0.12.1 fixes some bugs.
Have a look at the changelog for more details.
Bugfixes:
- Do not highlight unpinned chats when pinned chat is moved (melvo)
- Fix deleting/sending voice messages (melvo)
- Fix crash during login (melvo)
- Fix opening chat again after going back to chat list on narrow window (melvo)
- Increase tool bar height to fix avatar not being recognizable (melvo)
- Fix width of sear … ⌘ Read more
Mathieu Pasquet: Poezio 0.15 / 0.15.1
About three years since the last version, poezio 0.15 (and 0.15.1 to address
a small packaging mishap, version numbers are cheap) was released yesterday!
Poezio is a terminal-based XMPP client which aims to replicate the
feeling of terminal-based IRC clients such as irssi or weechat; to
this end, poezio originally only supported multi-user chats.
Not a lot this time around… Maybe next time?
- A new
moderateplugin (for [XEP-0425](http://xmpp.org/ex … ⌘ Read more
GitHub for Beginners: Essential features of GitHub Copilot
Get the most out of Copilot with code completion, inline chat, slash commands, Copilot code review, and more.
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Gajim: Gajim 2.0.3
This release fixes some group chat issues and allows to store individual window sizes. Thank you for all your contributions!
With Gajim 2.0, we migrated Gajim’s user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow.
Gajim 2.0.3 will store dimensions for each window, so it always remembers your preferred window size. Furthermore, this release fixes is … ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 2.0.2
This release updates message moderation in group chats, improves handling of URIs, and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!
With Gajim 2.0, we migrated Gajim’s user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow.
Gajim 2.0.2 updates Gajim’s support for [XEP-0425: Moderated Message Retraction](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0425.h … ⌘ Read more
Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
Article URL: https://revolt.chat
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43277918
Points: 502
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GitHub for Beginners: How to get started with GitHub Copilot
Get started with GitHub Copilot and navigate features like Copilot Chat in this installment of the GitHub for Beginners series.
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
Article URL: https://danieldelaney.net/chat/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934190
Points: 512
# Comments: 270 ⌘ Read more
Pinellas County - Long run: 11.04 miles, 00:09:47 average pace, 01:47:57 duration
my legs were dead tired. i meant to stop and take a picture of this skeleton sitting in a dead tree but missed it. was chatting up a fellow running named vincent and lost track of time. also saw some friends and their daughter out riding bikes. the last overpass i walked over since my HR was getting high. decent run for having little to no energy after yesterdays session.
#running
Trump & Elon Force Government Programmers to Disable DEI Language Chat Bot
Plus: US Government Devs are quickly deleting DEl material off GitHub, let’s see what they’re removing. (Spoiler: It’s super racist and ridiculous!) ⌘ Read more
Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history
Article URL: https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepseek-database-leak
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871371
Points: 503
# Comments: 326 ⌘ Read more
@doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt Are you also using https://cabal.chat or just someone else with the same random username?
(#6rsm6pq) @kat Haha, that’s why we came up with the name “yarn” and “yarn social”. A yarn is an Australian and Canadian (_and a few other place …
@kat @yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Haha, that’s why we came up with the name “yarn” and “yarn social”. A yarn is an Australian and Canadian ( and a few other places) term that means “to have a friendly conversation”, “to have a chat”. Usually around a campfire 🔥 ⌘ Read more
OpenAI’s latest o1 model now available in GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models
The December 17 release of OpenAI’s o1 model is now available in GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models, bringing advanced coding capabilities to your workflows.
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JMP: Newsletter: JMP at SeaGL, Cheogram now on Amazon
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free a … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Year in Review, Google Play Update
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as … ⌘ Read more
(#rbniy5q) > PhD level science questions? (+1)
niftydude an hour ago
A PhD level science question is a question that can only be answered by sci …
PhD level science questions? (+1)
niftydude an hour ago
A PhD level science question is a question that can only be answered by scientific research and experimentation.
And no, by “research”, I do not mean googling.
Literally the whole point of a scientific PhD is to perform experiments and study to answer a specific research question that no one has looked into yet.
Whilst Chat … ⌘ Read more
(#pw5moua) @sorenpeter@sorenpeter What was the nature of the chats? 🤔
@sorenpeter @darch.dk@darch.dk What was the nature of the chats? 🤔 ⌘ Read more
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"A minimalist social network powered by plain text files" - my talk about #twtxt from #Piksel24 Festival is now on YouTube and slides can be found at http://darch.dk/twtxtalk-piksel
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@johanbove@johanbove.info Thanks, I’m glad you like it.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de There was no time for discussion just after the presentation, but I had a chat with some folks later.
JMP: Newsletter: JMP at SeaGL, Cheogram now on Amazon
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as … ⌘ Read more
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Btw what about third-party chats support in WhatsApp? Iirc this feature only available in Europe
JMP: CertWatch
As you may have already seen, on October 21st, it was reported that a long-running, successful MITM (Machine-In-The-Middle) attack against jabber.ru had been detected. The nature of this attack was not specific to the XMPP protocol in any way, but it was of special interest to us as members of the XMPP community. This kind of attack relies on being able to present a TLS certificate which anyone trying to connect will accept as valid. In this case, it was done b … ⌘ Read more
JMP: SMS Censorship
Since almost the very beginning of JMP there have been occasional SMS and MMS delivery failures with an error message like “Rejected for SPAM”. By itself this is not too surprising, since every communications system has a SPAM problem and every SPAM blocking technique has some false positives. Over the past few years, however, the incidence of this error has gone up and up. But whenever we investigate, we find no SPAM being sent, just regular humans having regular conversations. So what is happening here? Are … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Mobile-friendly Gateway to any SIP Provider
We have for a long time supported the public Cheogram SIP instance, which allows easy interaction between the federated Jabber network and the federated SIP network. When it comes to connecting to the phone network via a SIP provider, however, very few of these providers choose to interact with the federated SIP network at all. It has always been possible to work around this with a self-hosted PBX, b … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: SMS Routes, RCS, and more!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun)
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as i … ⌘ Read more
Try out OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot and Models
OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini are now available in GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and in the GitHub Models playground.
The post Try out OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot and Models appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter Launch!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter Launch!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more
Local LLM Messenger: Chat with GenAI on Your iPhone
Learn about the LoLLM Messenger project — a winner of the AI/ML Hackathon — which allows you to send iMessages to GenAI models running directly on your computer. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Calls from SIP; Potential New SIM Plan
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as … ⌘ Read more
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I admit I’ve always compromised on this way too much myself, always to this day having Facebook Messenger just to communicate in my families group chats. Sure I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time, I can completely cut it off from network access any time as well, I can have a lot of rudimentary control over it, I use it as sparingly as possible, but it doesn’t change the fact everytime I use it we’re funneling private convos through bloody Meta’s servers and trackers etc.
The New Stack: “A Chat With CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2024 Co-chairs”
Conference leaders share their thoughts on the latest trends and challenges in cloud native security, and the sessions they are most looking forward to. ⌘ Read more
Even though I wonder how they finance it (reading their post suggests, there will be a paid option later), DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat is probably a good privacy-friendly way to try out the different LLM models for chats. You don’t have to register, you don’t have to pay, you don’t have to change settings that your chats aren’t saved or used for training. ⌘ Read more
How to Change the Voice of ChatGPT on iPhone, Mac, iPad
ChatGPT for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, all include a very impressive Voice Chat feature, that lets you have voice chats and full on conversations with the advanced AI Large Language Model. One of the fun ways to customize Voice Chat with ChatGPT is to change the voice to something you prefer, and there are multiple … Read More ⌘ Read more