Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.5.0-beta5 released
The Ignite Realtime developer community is happy to announce that Smack 4.5 entered its beta phase. Smack is a XMPP client API written in Java that is able to run on Java SE and Android. Smack’s beta phase started already a few weeks ago, but 4.5.0-beta5 is considered to be a good candidate to announce, as many smaller issues have been ironed out.

With Smack 4.5 we bumped the minimum Java version to 11. Furthermore Smack now requires a minimum And … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] Timelocks can slow down full wallet scanning under fcmp++
Links:

• https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/78#issuecomment-2415324570
  
• 241016-mrl.log
  
• /community-consensus-to-remove-monero-timelocks/
  

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How to ace the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA) exam
Community post originally published on Medium by Giorgi Keratishvili Introduction Over the last five years, security has emerged as one of the most demanding skills in IT. When combined with the equally sought-after skill of containers, we get… ⌘ Read more

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 41 2024: 23 PRs, 8 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.

Opened (17)

monero-project/monero:

• #95071 tests: include where using std::setfill (jeffro256)
  
• #95062 wallet2: fix error throw if unable to load cache RELEASE
  
• #95053 crypto: remove unus … ⌘ Read more

Trenz Electronic AXE5 EAGLE ES Agilex5 Devkit for Scalable FPGA Applications
The Trenz Electronic AXE5-EAGLE-ES Agilex5 Devkit, powered by Intel’s Agilex 5 E-series SoC FPGA, supports a range of FPGA applications across industries such as wireless communication, video broadcast, and defense. Its scalable architecture offers engineers a reliable platform for testing designs with advanced FPGA technology and flexible expansion options. This development kit is ideal for … ⌘ Read more

‘People shop differently now’: Stall operators fear the future of markets
Business owners say changing consumer habits, rising costs, and an increase in theft are driving many family-run stalls to the brink. ⌘ Read more

[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund received a new grant application: ‘Monerotopia Buildathon 2024’

Deverick is asking for 4,000 USD to host a hackathon/buildathon to improve Monero integration in the BTCPay self-hosted merchant payment system, especially with BTCPay 2.0 coming up. Community feedback on this idea is appreciated :D

Link: https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/37

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[ANN] If you run the haveno.markets website, please contact me

[..] Do you operate haveno.markets? You are welcome to stay pseudoanonymous but please open source the project and start accepting contributions from the community (like me). Two updates I can think of right away are to include a json api and to source data from bisq too. Please contact me at www.ki9.us/contact if you know anything about haveno.markets or its operator. If I don’t hear back after a week or two, I will have to assume haveno.markets is untrustworthy until pro … ⌘ Read more

Lima completes fuzzing audit
Community post by Adam Korczynski, Adalogics and Jan Dubois, Lima maintainer Lima, a CNCF sandbox project for launching virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding, recently completed a fuzzing audit. As part of the audit, Lima… ⌘ Read more

5 tips and tricks when using GitHub Copilot Workspace
GitHub Next launched the technical preview for GitHub Copilot Workspace in April 2024. Since then, we’ve been listening to the community, learning, and have some tips to share on how to get the most out of it!

The post 5 tips and tricks when using GitHub Copilot Workspace appeared first on [The GitHub Blog](https: … ⌘ Read more

The second half of software supply chain security on GitHub
Learn about a community-developed framework for how to think about this problem holistically and how to use GitHub, particularly, to improve the security in the second half of your software supply chain.

The post The second half of software supply chain security on GitHub appeared fir … ⌘ Read more

Optimizing Kubernetes Networking with Chelsio T6 Unified Wire Adapters
Member post by Chelsio Communications Introduction As Kubernetes continues transforming the cloud-native infrastructure, high-performance networking has become essential for maintaining seamless operations in containerized applications. Chelsio T6 Unified Wire Adapters provide advanced networking capabilities that meet the demands… ⌘ Read more

Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 12 October 2024 1500 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 12th of October 2024 at 15:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 channels.

Discussions should be focused on community highlights, CCS updates and workgroup reports. plowsof4 will moderate the meeting.

Logs and summary for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.

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In nostr/simplex you did not bounded account to server because its just a relay. In matrix, xmpp and salty.im you store account data on broker and when broker is down you will no longer to communicate

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 40 2024: 28 PRs, 11 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.

Opened (13)

monero-project/monero:

• #94981 src: dynamic span, to calculate span limit dynamically RELEASE
  
• #94942 src: dynamic block sync size (0xFFFC0000)
  
• #94973 src: dynamic block … ⌘ Read more

Engineering leaders continue focus on TestOps – operational strategies
Community post by Saqib Jan As technologies become more advanced year on year, the complexity of software testing increases, too. When building a testing strategy, companies typically map their operations into three segments: the people, the process, and… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de i’m sorry if I sound too contrarian. I’m not a fan of using an obscure hash as well. The problem is that of future and backward compatibility. If we change to sha256 or another we don’t just need to support sha256. But need to now support both sha256 AND blake2b. Or we devide the community. Users of some clients will still use the old algorithm and get left behind.

Really we should all think hard about how changes will break things and if those breakages are acceptable.

(Updated) Pine64 Unveils Oz64: An Upcoming SBC Featuring Sophgo SG2000 SoC and Wi-Fi 6
Pine64 Unveils Oz64: An Upcoming SBC Featuring Sophgo SG2000 SoC and Wi-Fi 6
The Pine64 Oz64 is an upcoming single-board computer that integrates 64-bit RISC-V cores and 64-bit ARM cores with the Sophgo SG2000 System-on-Chip. This cost-effective device offers fast wireless communication capabilities with Wi-Fi 6 and optional Power-over-Ethernet support. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: XMPP: The Protocol for Open, Extensible Instant Messaging

XMPP, the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, is an Instant Messaging (IM) standard of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - the same organization that standardized Email (POP/IMAP/SMTP) and the World Wide Web (HTTP) protocols. XMPP evolved out of the early XML streaming technology developed by the XMPP Open Source community and is now the leading pro … ⌘ Read more

HardenedSteel, spirobel CCS proposals ready for funding
Two CCS proposals have been moved to the funding stage and are now looking for community support:

• HardenedSteel’s!502 1: Part-time Work on getmonero.org (2 Month) 2
  
• spirobel’s!501 3: Robust and modular wallet-rpc library 4
  

To support the above proposals you can donate to the XMR addresses listed on the Funding Required 5 page.

_This is an ongoing story and the report will … ⌘ Read more

CNCF and sustainability: how cloud native projects are shaping the green tech movement
Community post originally published on Medium by Maryam Tavakkoli This article will explore CNCF projects that directly contribute to green technology, helping organizations align with their sustainability goals. In recent years, the conversation around sustainability has expanded beyond… ⌘ Read more

The Schedule is Live for Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s First KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024
On 11 and 12 December, the cloud native community will come together for the first time in Delhi this winter to dive deep into the innovative ecosystem of cloud native technology SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 1, 2024… ⌘ Read more

A conversation about the Future of Internal Developer Portals (IDPs)
Community post by Abby Bangser, Christophe Fargette, Piotr Kliczewski, Valentina Rodriguez Sosa Let’s define what is an IDP (Internal Developer Portal)  The term IDP can be confusing, as some of the industry refers to Internal Developer Portals and… ⌘ Read more

Encryption matters
Community post by Ronald Petty and Tom Thorley of the Internet Society US San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (original post) When you hear the word encryption, what comes to mind? Take a moment… Upon asking this question to… ⌘ 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

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

Why Kubernetes is removing in-tree cloud-provider integration support in v1.31, and how it can affect you
Community blog post by Reza Ramezanpour, developer advocate at Tigera Kubernetes is known for its modularity, and its integration with cloud environments. Throughout its history, Kubernetes provided in-tree cloud provider integrations with most providers, allowing us to create… ⌘ Read more

LILYGO T-Embed CC1101: Enabling Sub-GHz and NFC/RFID Communication
LILYGO launched the T-Embed CC1101, built around the ESP32-S3 Dual-core LX7. It supports Wi-Fi, BLE 5, and Sub-GHz wireless communication, targeting remote and low-power IoT projects. The ESP32-S3 microcontroller is paired with 16MB of Flash memory and 8MB of PSRAM. The CC1101 chip operates across frequency bands of 300-348 MHz, 387-464 MHz, and 779-928 MHz, […] ⌘ Read more

Quick Fix for Messages Slowing a Mac
The Messages app for Mac is incredibly useful in that it allows Mac users to seamlessly communicate over iMessage with other Macs, iPhones, and iPads, and it allows Mac users to send text messages to Android users too, but the latest versions of Messages on the Mac are known for randomly using high amounts of … Read More ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I cases of these kind of “abuse” of social trust. Then I think people should just delete their replies, unfollow the troll and leave them to shouting in the void. This is a inter-social issue, not a technical issue. Anything can be spoofed. We are not building a banking app, we are just having conversation and if trust are broken then communication breaks down. These edge-cases are all very hypothetical and not something I think we need to solve with technology.

Por qué las Empresas y Desarrolladores Deberían Adoptar Tecnologías como gVisor para Aumentar la Seguridad de sus Contenedores
Community post by Gerardo Lopez Falcon En el mundo moderno del desarrollo de software, los contenedores han transformado la forma en que las empresas y los desarrolladores despliegan y administran sus aplicaciones. Sin embargo, con esta nueva tecnología,… ⌘ Read more

OpenMetrics is archived, merged into Prometheus
Community post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits OpenMetrics is finally back where it has always belonged — Prometheus format Last month the OpenMetrics project was officially archived and folded into Prometheus. That’s the end of an open source… ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.9.0 release!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to be able to announce the immediate availability of version 4.9.0 of Openfire, its cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol!

As compared to the previous non-patch release, this one is a bit smaller. This mostly is a maintenance release, and includes some preparations (deprecations, mainly) for a f … ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire HTTP File Upload plugin v1.4.1 release!
We have now released version 1.4.1 of the HTTP File Upload plugin!

This plugin adds functionality to Openfire that allows clients to share files, as defined in the XEP-0363 ‘HTTP File Upload’ specification.

This release brings two changes, both provided by community … ⌘ Read more

Join the Cloud Native Ecosystem at KubeDay Colombia on October 9!
Open to technologists of all levels, KubeDay Colombia will convene engaging cloud native speakers and community members to Medellín SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 17, 2024 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for… ⌘ Read more

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 co-located event deep dive: Istio Day
Co-chairs: Iris Ding & Keith MattixNovember 12, 2024Salt Lake City, Utah Istio Day is the biannual community event for the industry’s most widely adopted and feature rich service mesh, where attendees will find lessons learned from running Istio… ⌘ Read more

Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse

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CNCF and the Linux Foundation partner with Unified Patents on a community-driven approach to safeguard open source innovation from patent trolls
Now is the time for the open source ecosystem to band together and find strength in numbers  CNCF and The Linux Foundation are expanding their partnership with Unified Patents to protect open source software from non-practicing entities (NPEs), c … ⌘ Read more

Last week at The Lunduke Journal (Sep 1 - Sep 14, 2024)
Internet Archive loses in court! The Open Source Community Sucks! Mozilla all-in on A.I.! ⌘ Read more

Understanding cloud native maturity: a survey to assess end-user progress
Community post by Danielle Cook, Cartografos Working Group As organizations continue their journey toward digital transformation, cloud native technologies are increasingly critical for achieving agility, scalability, and resilience. However, the path to cloud native maturity is not uniform… ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire plugin maintenance releases!
The Ignite Realtime community is gearing up for a new release of Openfire. In preparation, we have been performing maintenance releases for many Openfire plugins.

These Openfire plugin releases have mostly non-functional changes, intended to make the plugin compatible with the upcoming 4.9.0 release of Openfire:

• Push Server 1.1.0
  
• [Use … ⌘ Read more

The Worst Part of Open Source: The Community
Open Source Software has a lot of strong points… “The Community” is not one of them. ⌘ Read more

How to install plugins in Kubernetes and essential plugins to get started
Community post originally published on Dev.to by Syed Asad Raza Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform, but its capabilities can be significantly extended with plugins. Plugins provide additional functionality that can enhance the operational capabilities of your… ⌘ Read more

So this is a great thread. I have been thinking about this too.. and what if we are coming at it from the wrong direction? Identity being tied to a given URL has always been a pain point. If i get a new URL its almost as if i have a new identity because not only am I serving at a new location but all my previous communications are broken because the hashes are all wrong.

What if instead we used this idea of signatures to thread the URLs together into one identity? We keep the URL to Hash in place. Changing that now is basically a no go. But we can create a signature chain that can link identities together. So if i move to a new URL i update the chain hosted by my primary identity to include the new URL. If i have an archived feed that the old URL is now dead, we can point to where it is now hosted and use the current convention of hashing based on the first url:

The signature chain can also be used to rotate to new keys over time. Just sign in a new key or revoke an old one. The prior signatures remain valid within the scope of time the signatures were made and the keys were active.

The signature file can be hosted anywhere as long as it can be fetched by a reasonable protocol. So say we could use a webfinger that directs to the signature file? you have an identity like frank@beans.co that will discover a feed at some URL and a signature chain at another URL. Maybe even include the most recent signing key?

From there the client can auto discover old feeds to link them together into one complete timeline. And the signatures can validate that its all correct.

I like the idea of maybe putting the chain in the feed preamble and keeping the single self contained file.. but wonder if that would cause lots of clutter? The signature chain would be something like a log with what is changing (new key, revoke, add url) and a signature of the change + the previous signature.

# chain: ADDKEY kex14zwrx68cfkg28kjdstvcw4pslazwtgyeueqlg6z7y3f85h29crjsgfmu0w 
# sig: BEGIN SALTPACK SIGNED MESSAGE. ... 
# chain: ADDURL https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu
# sig: BEGIN SALTPACK SIGNED MESSAGE. ...
# chain: REVKEY kex14zwrx68cfkg28kjdstvcw4pslazwtgyeueqlg6z7y3f85h29crjsgfmu0w
# sig: ...

Join the Keycloak community at KeyConf24 on Sep 19
Community post by Alexander Schwartz, Keycloak maintainer KeyConf24, our 2024 Keycloak Identity Summit, will happen on September 19th, which is just around the corner! This year’s event promises to be even bigger and better, with a program packed… ⌘ Read more

HaloMax Product Line for Long-Range, Low-Power Wireless Solutions
Teledatics’ HaloMax, recently featured on CrowdSupply, is a long-range wireless module designed for applications like smart agriculture, industrial control, and HAM radio. Operating in the sub-1 GHz band, it delivers reliable, power-efficient communication over extended distances with FCC-allowed maximum output power. The HaloMax product lineup offers a range of modules and accessories tailored for long-range […] ⌘ Read more

LILYGO T3 S3 LR1121: Low-Power LoRa Transceiver for IoT Applications
The LILYGO T3 S3 LR1121 is a development board that supports low-power, long-range wireless communication using LoRa technology. It features the ESP32-S3 System-on-Chip, which offers 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity, making it suitable for various IoT projects. At the core of the board is the ESP32S3FH4R2 microcontroller, which includes dual-core Xtensa LX7 […] ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net So far I’ve been following feeds fairly liberally. I’ll check to see if we have anything in common and lean toward following, just because this is new to me and it feels like a small community. But I’m still figuring out what I want. Later I’ll probably either trim my follower list or come up with some way to prioritize the feeds I’m more interested in.

Developing an AI agent for smart contextual Q&A
Member post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Shreyas Mocherla Accelerated by the pandemic, online tech communities have grown rapidly. With new members joining every day, it’s tough to keep track of past conversations. Often, newcomers ask questions… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net How does yarn.social’s API fix the problem of centralization? I still need to know whose API to use.

Say I see a twt beginning (#hash) and I want to look up the start of the thread. Is the idea that if that twt is hosted by a a yarn.social pod, it is likely to know the thread start, so I should query that particular pod for the hash? But what if no yarn.social pods are involved?

The community seems small enough that a registry server should be able to keep up, and I can have a couple of others as backups. Or I could crawl the list of feeds followed by whoever emitted the twt that prompted my query.

I have successfully used registry servers a little bit, e.g. to find a feed that mentioned a tag I was interested in. Was even thinking of making my own, if I get bored of my too many other projects :-)