Articles by zaik
77

Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (prosody.im)

7

Trump's Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them (wired.com)

11

Use Bayes rule to mechanically solve probability riddles (disroot.org)

26

Hardening Systemd Services (jlcarveth.dev)

3

The Role of XML in Interoperability (documentfoundation.org)

1

The Stockchain (citationneeded.news)

1

Gajim 2.3.0 (gajim.org)

2

The Low-Altitude Economy Is About War (entropicthoughts.com)

286

Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole (port.ac.uk)

2

Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators (citationneeded.news)

1

Prosody 13.0.0 Released (prosody.im)

3

Transcript of leaked call with Meteora's Ben Chow (citationneeded.news)

1

It's all neural nets to me [pdf] (columbia.edu)

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Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse (matrix.org)

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Studying the promotion of health misinformation by the Bolsonaro government (skeptic.org.uk)

2

Wikidata Beacon (toolforge.org)

1

Engineering Memory (gregorygundersen.com)

3

Left-wing conspiracy theories and 'missing' votes in wake of Trump election win (skeptic.org.uk)

1

The Great Grocery Squeeze (theatlantic.com)

8

The "child identifies as wolf" story was only ever about bullying (skeptic.org.uk)

19

Honeybee: Calling via XMPP (momi.ca)

2

XMPP: The Protocol for Open, Extensible Instant Messaging (igniterealtime.org)

1

Matrix and XMPP: Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols – Part 1 (process-one.net)

3

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants (cio.com)

2

The Quick and Easy Guide to Jabber/XMPP (codeberg.page)

1

Snikket Server September 2024 release (snikket.org)

1

Med Beds: the health devices promising to cure you with undefined energy (skeptic.org.uk)

3

The Misery Bomb (asteriskmag.com)

1

Slidge: First Beta of the 0.2 Series (nicoco.fr)

6

Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? Or both? Or neither? (columbia.edu)

3

Racism is real, but that doesn't mean that the idea of "biological race" is real (skeptic.org.uk)

6

The UK riots showed why we have to dismantle far-right misinformation machines (skeptic.org.uk)

1

Vibrations from "Interstellar Meteor" from Local Truck (defector.com)

3

NYT wins the gold medal for medal visualization (mathwithbaddrawings.com)

3

A Threat from Fungi (skeptic.org.uk)

1

Against Silos+Signal (moparisthebest.com)

1

The Ockham Awards 2024 (skeptic.org.uk)

1

Examples of Left and Right Inverses (plover.com)

3

Is Sleep Training Harmful? (pudding.cool)

1

How to Present Anything as Significant (2011) (sagepub.com)

1

What does the recent UK election mean for skepticism and pseudoscience? (skeptic.org.uk)

4

The Satanic Panic and the McMartin pre-school trial (skeptic.org.uk)

122

Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation (skeptic.org.uk)

2

There's no good IM – Open IM is failing (hellbeast.eu.org)

6

How many young people deny the Holocaust? (skeptic.org.uk)

2

Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons (ploum.net)

1

We should doubt Ellen Langer's mind-over-matter miracles (skeptic.org.uk)

4

Toby Young's Free Speech Union is no ally of critical thinkers (skeptic.org.uk)

1

California vs. Big Soda (asteriskmag.com)

4

Climate zones: How will your city feel in the future? (pudding.cool)

4

The Keys to the White House (wikipedia.org)

2

Blinded By The Light: countering extremist disinformation in Glastonbury (skeptic.org.uk)

2

EU Clings to the Pervasive Surveillance Dream (feistyduck.com)

11

Saying Goodbye to ICQ (process-one.net)

2

Forecasting ADIZ Violations (two-wrongs.com)

1

New Openfire Plugin: XMPP Web (igniterealtime.org)

1

Getting and visualizing Overture Maps buildings data in R (walker-data.com)

1

JMP Newsletter: SMS Routes, RCS, and More (jmp.chat)

134

Enlightenmentware (mmapped.blog)

15

I Don't Trust Matrix Developers to Produce a Secure Protocol (gist.github.com)

4

The many different ways I've backdoored your dependencies (joshua.hu)

2

After Texts.com, Automattic Acquires Beeper (process-one.net)

11

Snikket Android app temporarily unavailable in Google Play store (snikket.org)

1

Slidge v0.1.0 (nicoco.fr)

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Snikket Hosting is now available (snikket.org)

2

Moving Past Environmental Proceduralism (asteriskmag.com)

1

Matrix Gateway Setup with Ejabberd (process-one.net)

2

Two Small Examples by Fields Medallists (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

1

Ejabberd 24.02 (process-one.net)

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All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train (asteriskmag.com)

3

How to set up a mobile-friendly gateway to any SIP provider (jmp.chat)

1

The Fediverse, but for Instant Messaging (berganza.dev)

2

Ignite Realtime Community Forums Creating the XMPP Network Graph (igniterealtime.org)

1

Converse.js webchat for prosody-hosted chatrooms (op-co.de)

2

Open Real Time Messaging System (slashdot.org)

1

Happy New Year: Celebrating 21 Years of Innovation with Ejabberd (process-one.net)

1

Resource usage by messaging apps on Android (grafana.net)

1

New Cheogram Android Release, Chatwoot Instance (jmp.chat)

3

Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network (ctrl.blog)

1

How to Spot a Bad Kickstarter (nytimes.com)

1

A gateway from IRC to other IM networks (bitlbee.org)

66

More Instant Messaging Interoperability (ietf.org)

1

Gajim 1.5.3 has been released (gajim.org)

1

Slidge Beta2 and Some News (nicoco.fr)

2

Ejabberd 22.10 (process-one.net)

3

Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse (fedi.directory)

8

A simple web hook that forwards prometheus alerts over XMPP (github.com/jelmer)

2

TP-Link network equipment hijacks some DNS requests (ctrl.blog)

1

Mutation Testing in Prosody (prosody.im)

3

IETF 95: Declaring IPv6 an ‘Internet Standard’ (2016) (apnic.net)

1

SMS Account Verification (jmp.chat)

1

Newsletter: Voicemail Changes, Opt-In Jabber ID Discoverability (jmp.chat)

1

RDF/CBOR: A CBOR-Based Serialization of RDF

1

Gajim 1.5.0 has been released

1

Privacy and Threat Modelling

1

Open Healthcare Access Map

1

New Openfire Plugin: Push Server

1

Using Pushdown Automata to Verify Packet Sequences

4

OpenStreetMap Node 10B

4

The XMPP Newsletter August 2022