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

A chat with author Morgan Richard Olivier
A best-selling author with an eye for wellness and an ear for motivational speaking recently published a new book called “The Strength That Stays.” For Morgan Olivier, the newest literature has served as therapy for both herself and her audiences. ⌘ Read more

Florence Pugh Talks Working With Timothée Chalamet Again & Filming Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts’ | THR Video
Florence Pugh chats with THR on the carpet for ‘Dune: Part Two’ and dishes on working with her friend, Timothée Chalamet once again in this new setting. Plus, she shares her excitement to start filming Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts.’ ⌘ 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: 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: JMP is 7 years old — thanks to our awesome community!
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 … ⌘ Read more

GoTo10 & AbortRetryFail
Untitled Nerdy Chat Show - Jan 24, 2023 ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: HTTP File Upload plugin 1.4.0 released
The HTTP File Upload plugin is a plugin for Openfire that allow users to easily share files (such as pictures) in a chat

A new release is now available for this plugin: version 1.4.0.

This release introduces a couple of interesting security improvements:

• an additional guard has been added that should prevent scripts embedded in data to be executed without the recipient’s approval
  
• It is now possible to configure a viru … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I have read the white papers for MLS before. I have put a lot of thought on how to do it with salty/ratchet. Its a very good tech for ensuring multiple devices can be joined to an encrypted chat. But it is bloody complicated to implement.

DistroTube & Brodie Robertson
Untitled Nerdy Chat Show - Jan 10, 2024 ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: JMP Data 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 in Freedom; Share one … ⌘ Read more

How to Use Voice with ChatGPT on iPhone
The official ChatGPT app for iPhone includes a voice feature, letting you speak with the chat bot and hear answers back from high quality voice options. Voice chat with ChatGPT lets you have hands-free interactions with ChatGPT, and can be very useful for a wide variety of purposes. If you haven’t used voice chat with … Read More ⌘ Read more

Chris Fisher, Wendell Wilson, & Rob Braxman
Untitled Nerdy Chat Show - Jan 03, 2024 ⌘ 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: 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

GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals
All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost.

The post GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Holidays
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; Share one num … ⌘ Read more

The Untitled Nerdy Chat Show kicks off next week! Be a part of it!
Buckle up, Buttercup. The Lunduke Journal has one heck of an announcement for you: Starting one week from today (Wednesday, December 13th at 12pm Central Time) a new, weekly, live chat show will kick off — the aptly named “Untitled Nerdy Chat Show”. ⌘ Read more

How to Disable FaceTime Reaction Gestures on Mac, iPhone, & iPad
Don’t want to have certain gestures trigger FaceTime Reactions? Don’t want an on-screen emoji to appear when you give a thumbs up to the camera, or maybe you don’t want a peace sign made with your hands to trigger a bunch of balloons appearing on your video chat? Then you can turn the FaceTime Reactions … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/11/20/how-to-disable-facetime-reaction-gestures-on-mac-iphone- … ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Software is Political

I recently attended the inaugural Free and Open Source Software Yearly ( FOSSY)
conference where I gave a talk in the XMPP track.
Though my talk was just a brief technical overview of the XMPP protocol, I also
gave some quick ending remarks about why I think it’s the correct choice to use
as a universal standardized chat protocol.
The closing remarks were written … ⌘ Read more

Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform
GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.

The post [Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform](https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered- … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.8.2
Two months after the last release, Gajim 1.8.2 comes with better support for gateways, improved group chats, an easy way to change the font size, and many small fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

Gateways can (if offered by your server) bridge your XMPP chat to other chat networks. This could be WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS or others, depending on the gateway service. This release improves support for data forms (service configuration), brings better avatars for gatewa … ⌘ Read more

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

Prompting GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility
GitHub Copilot Chat can help you learn about accessibility and improve the accessibility of your code. In this blog, we share a sample foundational prompt that instructs GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility.

The post [Prompting GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility](https://github.blog/2023-10- … ⌘ Read more

How I used GitHub Copilot Chat to build a ReactJS gallery prototype
GitHub Copilot Chat can help developers create prototypes, understand code, make UI changes, troubleshoot errors, make code more accessible, and generate unit tests.

The post How I used GitHub Copilot Chat to build a ReactJS gallery prototype appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals
All GitHub Copilot for Individuals users now have access to GitHub Copilot Chat beta, bringing natural language-powered coding to every developer in all languages.

The post GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Summer in Review
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; Sh … ⌘ Read more

@jmjl@tilde.green I’m sorry that I’m not super knowledgeable about alternatives to jmp.chat but I’ll tell you what I know.

You’re probably right about jmp.chat not working for you, at least as it is now. You can only get US and Canadian phone numbers through it last time I checked, so if you’re not in either of those countries you’d be making international calls all the time and people who wanted to call you would be making international calls too.

I’ve seen people talk about using SIP as an intermediary: you can bridge SIP-to-XMPP, and bridge SIP-to-PSTN (PSTN = “packet switched telephone network”, meaning normal telephone). You can skip the SIP-to-XMPP side if you’re comfortable using a SIP client. I don’t know very much about SIP or PSTN so I am not sure what to recommend, but perhaps this helps your search queries.

There are a fair number of services like TextNow that let you sign up for a real telephone number that you can then use via their app (I wouldn’t use TextNow–they had tons of spyware in their app). I don’t know if that kind of service works for you but if it does perhaps you’d be able to find one of them that isn’t horrible. This page (https://alternativeto.net/software/jmp-chat/) has a bunch of alternatives; I can’t vouch for any of them but maybe it’s a starting point if you want to go this route.

Good luck!

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yes, I’m still with jmp.chat, and still very happy with them overall. Their beta period ended and their pricing increased a bit, so that’s worth a bit of consideration. I also managed to get one of their eSIMs. I’m slightly less happy with that aspect of their service, though they seem to be actively working on improving it and I knew in advance this was an early beta kind of thing and likely to have issues.

The only unreliability with calls that I’ve noticed was traceable to the unreliability of my own internet connection. I’ve confused incoming calls by simultaneously making and taking calls from the computer and the phone, but I think it’s understandable that problems might arise and that’s not a real use case for me. Once or twice I did not receive a text transcription of a voice mail, but the support is usually quick to address things like that.

I host my own XMPP server and have for a good decade now, and that’s what I use with jmp.chat. I can’t speak to the quality of their hosting options.

Group texting works fine for me if one of the other parties initiates the group text. I haven’t tried to initiate my own group text in well over a year; last time I did, it didn’t work. That may or may not be a problem for you, and it may or may not have been fixed by now. Worth investigating more if it’s important. I should also say I’ve only ever used group texts with 3 participants, and can’t speak to what happens if there are more nor whether there are upper limits.

Group texts don’t use MUC. Rather, they use a special syntax in the JID, something like “+1XXX,+1YYY,…,+1ZZZ@cheogram.com”, where the + and , are required, the XXX, YYY, through ZZZ are the phone numbers (no dashes or other special chars just digits), and the @cheogram.com at the end is required.

I recommend the cheogram app if you’re on android. It has a lot of nice features on top of the Conversations base. I use gajim on my (linux) computer and it works well with jmp.chat.

I’m happy to answer other questions if you have them!

tenpo lili kama la mi en @jantoma li pana e toki lili pi toki pona li toki e lipu lawa Chat Control

ma #BornHack li musi ⌘ Read more

Build and Deploy a LangChain-Powered Chat App with Docker and Streamlit
We are happy to have another great AI/ML story to share from our community. In this blog post, MA Raza, Ph.D., provides a guide to building and deploying a LangChain-powered chat app with Docker and Streamlit. This article reinforces the value that Docker brings to AI/ML projects — the speed and consistency of deployment, the […] ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net It was super useful if you needed to do the sorts of things it did. I’m pretty sad.

At its core was Sage, a computational mathematics system, and their own version of Jupyter notebooks. So, you could do all kinds of different math stuff in a notebook environment and share that with people. But on top of that, there was a chat system, a collaborative editing system, a course management system (so if you were teaching a class using it you could keep track of students, assignments, grades, that sort of thing), and a bunch of other stuff I never used. It all ran in a linux container with python/conda as a base, so you could also drop to a terminal, install stuff in the container, and run X11 applications in the same environment. I never taught a class with it but I used to use it semi-regularly to experiment with ideas.

Ignite Realtime Blog: Candy plugin for Openfire 2.2.0 Release 4 now available!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Openfire plugin for Candy.

Candy is a third-party chat client. The Openfire plugin makes deploying it a one-click affair!

This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations and updates dependencies on third-party libraries. More details are available in the [changelog](ht … ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for every organization
All GitHub Copilot for Business users now have access to a limited GitHub Copilot Chat beta, bringing the power of conversational coding right to the IDE. ⌘ Read more

what.

Cactus Comments has now seen over 1.2 million unique users - only counting guest users on our free public instance.

Guest users on instances not hosted by us and signed in users on any server don’t even count in this statistic.

cactus.chat has to be the Matrix server with most guest users at this point…

I keep spotting implementations in the wild as well. Last week I saw someone using it for the comment section of a livestream! So cool.

🌵 #cactuscomments [#m … ⌘ Read more

#Roskilde onsdag / dag 5 (RFIT dag 13):

Her mangler lidt jeg ikke fik billeder af.. B.la. Chat Pile på Gloria og Minyo Crusaders på Avalon.

Men her er Debbie Sings på Apollo.

Dansk hyperpop der går hårdt for sig.

Der blæste op til mega dansefest - SÅ fedt.

Der var nok også et ret godt interessefilter på publikummet, siden hun gik på samtidigt med Kendrick. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire inVerse plugin v10.1.4-1 release!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate release of version “10.1.4 release 1” of the inVerse plugin for Openfire!

The inVerse plugin adds a Converse-based web client to Openfire ( Converse is a third party implementation). With this plugin, you’ll be able to set up a fully functional Converse-based chat clients with just a few mouse-clicks!

This update includes an … ⌘ Read more

https://netsplit.de/channels/?net=libera.chat

JMP: JMP is Launched and Out of Beta
JMP has been in beta for over six years, and today we are finally launching! With feedback and testing from thousands of users, our team has made improvements to billing, phone network compatibility, and also helped develop the Cheogram Android app which provides a smooth onboarding process, good Android integration, and phone-like UX for users of that platform. There is still a long road ahead of us, but with so much behind us we’re comfortable saying JMP is ready for la … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.8.0
Gajim 1.8.0 comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience. We also rearranged the chat menu and added some quick buttons for convenience. Both Gajim’s message search and conversation view received some important changes and fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

In the past, we moved the most popular plugins into Gajim’s core: image preview, plugin installer, HTTP file upload, syntax highligh … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: > More and more legal experts doubt that the so-called chat control is compatible with EU law. The legal service of the EU Council of Ministers now agrees with the criticism. But the criticism has so far rolled off the Commission.

(via GTranslate)

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/neues-rechtsgutachten-chatkontrolle-kommt-zunehmend-unter-druck/**
> More and more legal experts doubt that the so-called chat control is compatible with EU law. The legal service of the EU Council of Ministers now … ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Jabber ID Discovery, New Referral Codes
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 … ⌘ Read more

And to add close integration with salty/ratchet for realtime private chat

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

Google Bard is a bit too creative. In another chat, where I asked who “Jan-Lukas Else” is, it also said that I developed the “Quarkus programming language”. But this clearly shows the limitations of language models and the current state of AI. Just because the answers sound clever, they are not always right. ⌘ Read more

Bing Chat Behaving Badly - Computerphile ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions on docs, and adopt OpenAI’s GPT-4 for a more personalized developer experience. ⌘ Read more

Google Bard is a bit too creative. In another chat, where I asked who “Jan-Lukas Else” is, it also said that I developed the “Quarkus programming language”. But this clearly shows the limitations of language models and the current state of AI. Just because the answers sound clever, they are not always right. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Release v1.1.0 of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federate … ⌘ Read more

https://simplex.chat/ First messenger without user IDs with end to end encryption