JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
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; Sha … ⌘ Read more
[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: GraphQL interfaces in MongooseIM 6.0
MongooseIM is a robust, scalable and highly extensible instant messaging server. Recent releases have improved its configurability and opened new use cases, and the latest version 6.0 continues that trend. By introducing the brand new GraphQL API, we made MongooseIM much easier to integrate with external web services. The entry barrier is also lower than ever because of the automatically generated API documentation, interactive web UI, an … ⌘ Read more
Data Point
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**Have you decided how will you be celebrating this year’s Winter Solstice yet?
@tidalclub is organizing a 24 hours long online festival, and I’ll be playing there! More info:
https://merankorii.blogspot.com/2022/12/live-at-club-tidals-night-stream.html**
Have you decided how will you be celebrating this year’s Winter Solstice yet?
@tidalclub is organizing a 24 hours long online festival, and I’ll be playing there! More info:
[merankorii.blogspot.com/2022…](https … ⌘ Read more
I have a question: Is there something similar to Telegram channels in Matrix? What should I do when I want to enable people to be notified about new blog posts using Matrix? ⌘ Read more
“AirTags Expose Dodgy Postal Industry”
Last year, YouTuber MegaLag tried to send several AirTag-ged packages from Germany to North Korea with DHL. But instead of arriving there, they were either misrouted to South Korea or ended up in China. In a new video, he further researches the reasons and also takes a look at DHL’s sorting center in Frankfurt at their invitation. Very interesting! ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Ten Years Later, The EU Orphan Works Directive Is Officially A Failure – Just As The Copyright Industry Intended https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-years-later-the-eu-orphan-works-directive-is-officially-a-failure-just-as-the-copyright-industry-intended/
Ten Years Later, The EU Orphan Works Directive Is Officially A Failure – Just As The Copyright Industry Intended [techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-…](https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-years-later-the-eu-orphan-works-directive-is-offici … ⌘ Read more
The Linux Foundation launches map foundation to compete with Google
And, you know what? It’s actually pretty well licensed! ⌘ Read more
Commercial Dev Tool vendor adds ARM64 and “Dark Mode” for Linux
The multi-platform Xojo IDE (Mac, Windows, iOS) keeps beefing up their Linux support. Which pleases Lunduke. ⌘ Read more
“The Sidecar” – Adding advanced networking, and a Linux shell, to a Psion palmtop
One of the coolest designs I’ve seen for extending older computers via the serial port. ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · November 2022 Edition
We promised we’d be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I can’t believe we are all saying that now. “When the year wraps up!” or “See you next year!” What happened to 2022? Well, we know […] ⌘ Read more
BREAKING: EU orders Apple to add RS-232 port to iPhone
“We’re… super… excited to add a serial port to the iPhone,” stated Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a not at all forced tone of voice. ⌘ Read more
Retiring My Fiat Donation Portal
I’ve decided to retire my fiat donation portal at donate.lukesmith.xyz, where people could donate to me via debit and credit cards.
This will happen by the end of this calendar year.
It’s more in keeping with my principles of free software, self-ownership and everything else to only allow cryptocurrency donations.
This also is a subtle nudge to people who want to donate in streams to get into Bitcoin and Monero, as opposed to using fiat o … ⌘ Read more
Configure, Manage, and Simplify Your Observability Data Pipelines with the Calyptia Core Docker Extension
Find out how to use the Calyptia Core Docker Extension to build and manage observability pipelines in Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: #DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @enddrm
#DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campa … ⌘ Read more
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AltaVista Search Engine turns 27 years old
Before Google was even an idea… there was AltaVista. ⌘ Read more
Gravity
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Bunny AI
Bunny.net joined the AI hype and created “Bunny AI” (docs), AI images created on the edge. I tried it out, because it’s currently free during the preview, but somehow I don’t find the generated images aesthetic or I’m just to stupid to write better prompts. I guess the Bunny developers also need some distraction from time to time, because they are working hard on S3 support for Bunny Storage for years already. 🐰 ⌘ Read more
💻 Issue 343 - Scala Developer Survey 2022 Results ⌘ Read more
My website is powered by GoBlog, a simple and dynamic blogging system that’s open source, actively developed and implements most IndieWeb functionalities. It packages everything in a single binary and I’ve been so over the moon using it and seeing it improve week after week that I’m surprised it isn’t more popular. So I put on my evangelist boots to share how I use this “stupidly-simple” blogging system to power my online presence. ⌘ Read more
Forgejo
A few weeks ago, it came to light that Gitea has been owned by a for-profit Gitea Ltd. for several months. The lack of transparency has disturbed the trust of many contributors and users. That’s why Codeberg (a German based non-profit association - disclaimer: I am a member of the association) has now started a soft fork: Forgejo. ⌘ Read more
Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for free
GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Advanced Security customers can now push protect their custom patterns
With just one click, admins in GitHub Advanced Security organizations can protect their custom patterns on push. ⌘ Read more
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PDA Week Wrap-up!
Spending a week reminiscing and marveling at the glory of the PDA. ⌘ 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
I should write better tests or at least create some automatic tests. 😬 (But ActivityPub is so complicated to test!) ⌘ Read more
Development RSS feed location has moved
Please point your feed reader to https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/releases.atom to continue receiving hnrss development updates. Thanks! ⌘ Read more
Should I sell my PC?
I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do with my desktop computer (ASRock Deskmini A300), which I don’t really use anymore since I got my new laptop. ⌘ Read more
Reading The Precipice & struck by the fact that it was released before GPT-3, just as COVID-19 was ramping up. Pretty insane
A beautiful present for the #BookLover in your life
https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/a-beautiful-present-for-the-booklover-in-your-life/ ⌘ Read more
I think it was a very wise decision to buy some long merino underwear, a new and warmer jacket and new winter shoes. It’s so cold! The whole week already under 0°C. ⌘ Read more
Raising the bar for software security: next steps for GitHub.com 2FA
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Learn more about our approach, when we’ll begin our rollout, and what you can expect as we begin requiring 2FA. ⌘ Read more
Horrible, Helpful, http3 Hack - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
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Optimal Bowling
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**RT by @mind_booster: 1.
‘equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C with a likely range of 3.5-5.5°C.
global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates.’
James Hansen and colleagues release new work for discussion.
This should be front page news.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474**
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‘equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C with a likely range of 3.5-5.5°C.
global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates.’
James Hansen and colleagues release new work for discus … ⌘ Read more
I’m honestly thinking about switching browsers, because this “new feature” where Firefox always downloads PDFs first to display them is annoying me so much. I don’t want my Downloads folder to be cluttered with all those random PDFs. If I open a restaurant’s menu PDF, I just want to take a quick look, but don’t want to have the PDF in my Downloads folder until I manually delete it and then delete it from the Recycle Bin again. There are some work-arounds, but no real solution. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.2 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a regularly delayed release containing a number of fixes for
issues that we have come across since the last release of the 0.12
series.
A summary of changes in this release:
Fixes and improvementsCreating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Change data capture with Postgres & Elixir
CDC is the process of identifying and capturing data changes from the database.
With CDC, changes to data can be tracked in near real-time, and that information can be used to support a variety of use cases, including auditing, replication, and synchronisation.
A good example of a use case for CDC is to consider an application which inserts a record into the database and pushes an event to a message queue after the record has … ⌘ Read more
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