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#XMPP Summit
The next topic is #Onion #Routing ๐ง
The XMPP Summit:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2โฆ
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc #e2ee
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all โฆxmpp.org
Me and a friend were talking last night, and she had some good ideas for AccessiWeather, including ISS tracking and the like. I thought, that's a bit out of scope for a weather app, so...
Hey everyone,
Just published AccessiSky, a companion app to AccessiWeather on GitHub.
"Stay connected to what's above."
While AccessiWeather handles weather forecasts and alerts, AccessiSky tracks what's happening in the sky:
- ISS (international space station) pass predictions for your location
- Moon phases and rise/set times
- Sunrise, sunset, and twilight times
- Meteor shower calendar
- Planet visibility โ which planets are up tonight
- Eclipse calendar through 2030
- Aurora forecasts and space weather
- Tonight's Summary โ a quick overview of everything happening tonight
Same accessibility focus as AccessiWeather, full screen reader support. Uses free APIs, no accounts needed.
Stay connected to what's above โ accessible sky tracking for everyone - Orinks/AccessiSkyGitHub
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Born this day in 1919, Fred Korematsu, one of the bravest and most honorable of American patriots.
In 1942 president Roosevelt ordered that persons he deemed threats to national security be relocated from the west coast to detention camps inland. 125,000 people, two-third of them American citizens, had to give up their homes, their jobs, and their businesses.
Korematsu resisted every step of the way. When he was rejected from military service (probably on account of his ancestry) he took work as a Navy shipyard welder.
Later that year Roosevelt's order came down. Korematsu went into hiding, but was found, arrested, and convicted. He was sentenced to five years' probation and he and his family were relocated to a prison camp in Utah.
Korematsu appealed his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the Supreme Court's decision was to uphold the president's judgments about national security matters, however panicked or racist they might be. In the U.S., the case law was (and is) that if the president wants to strip 80,000 citizens of their rights, the courts can do nothing to stop it if the claimed purpose is national security.
Some say the decision was overturned in 2018. It was not. And, although current Chief Justice John Roberts has written "The forcible relocation of U.S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority", the Supreme Court seems determined to repeat the errors of the Korematsu case, to accept at face value and take as unreviewable, the president's representations, no matter how obviously bad faith, and no matter the cost.
Winter hits the hardest in crisis zones.
This week, another EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flight to Gaza delivered 48 tonnes of supplies.
Since October 2023, over โฌ550 million in aid, including health supplies, shelter, and educational items, has been delivered to Palestinians on behalf of EU and humanitarian partners.
The EU remains the largest international donor of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians.
Learn how โก๏ธ link.europa.eu/bKMF48
The EU has been providing humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in need since 2000, supporting vulnerable families affected by emergencies and shocks.European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
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We're starting to see the first results of the hackathon! Florian here is building a Rust bot that talks to Christian's receipt printer, and makes it print what they send to a room.
Prototypes are taking form, keep up the good work everyone!
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Hey, pals, this study is headed by J Michael Bailey, Kenneth Zucker, and Lisa Littman, noted transphobes and pseudoscientist. Littman in particular ison the advisory board for the genocidal anti-trans group GENSPECT.
Do not, under any circumstance, participate in this junk study.
RE: social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/1โฆ
the question is not "is Signal big tech?" but "am I using and supporting big tech if I use and donate to signal?" and the answer is YES
Ist der Messenger Signal ยปBig Techยซ โ oder nicht? https://www.kuketz-blog.de/ist-der-messenger-signal-big-tech-oder-nicht/Kuketz-Blog ๐ก (Mastodon)
Fact of the day: the Ford Edsel ("a 1950s flop so notorious that itโs taught in business schools to this day") outsold the Cybertruck 2:1, "in a country with half the population."
ebsco.com/research-starters/hiโฆ
(h/t Luke Savage in the American Prospect, prospect.org/2026/01/30/teslasโฆ)
But how long can Elon Musk keep running on air? Potentially quite a long time.Ryan Cooper (The American Prospect)
In theory, itโs people who care a lot about audio quality. They often claim to have better than average frequency range in their ears (many do, but a lot claim to hear things only bats can actually hear).
For a long time, a lot of consumer audio equipment was pretty terrible, so there were real reasons for wanting something better, I remember listening to a CD that Iโd heard many times on my CD player and ripped to my iPad and discovering that CD player from the โ80s had completely lost a load of low-volume bits and there was material that would probably have been audible on an expensive player in the โ80s and was easily audible on a cheap player in the early 2000s.
At the same time, the Loudness War happened. Music execs found that people were more likely to like music if it was loud the first time they heard it. So they started making CDs louder. But CDs have a fixed dynamic range, so making it loader lost detail. They couldnโt do this with records because the needle would jump out of the track, so we had a weird period where LPs had better audio fidelity than CDs. Unfortunately, LPs are really finicky and itโs very easy to scratch them if you donโt perfectly balance the stylus to avoid more than minuscule pressure on the surface.
So, to listen to the highest-quality music, you needed a moderately expensive record deck, a decent amplifier (and pre-amp: again, LPs are annoying to play), and speakers. And it was fairly noticeable if you got any of these wrong.
But then DACs got a lot better. Cheap USB audio adaptors for computers had much better precision than anything available in the โ80s, and could be placed outside of the case and away from RF interference from the computer. AAC audio supports a variable dynamic range (so bumping the loudness is just a scaling factor, not a loss of precision). Baseline speaker and amplifier quality improved a lot. By the mid 2000s, fairly cheap equipment gave better sound quality than anything you could buy in the โ90s.
By then, an entire industry had grown up to cater to people who wanted the best sound quality possible and an even larger group of people who wanted to be seen as having the best sound quality. It moved from music appreciation to conspicuous consumption as a primary market driver. And that made it a ripe target for scams.
For analogue things, there were obvious things you could sell, like cables with gold-plated connectors. Gold is a good conductor and, unlike copper, doesnโt corrode, so this would make a difference (whether the difference is audible is another matter). But the move to mostly digital paths made this harder. You got very silly things like โaudiophile gradeโ Ethernet cables and optical connectors, which ignored the fact that the digital protocols had built-in error correction and that audio is staggeringly low bandwidth in comparison to other things carried over these connections so thereโs space for a lot of error correction. A load of these things can be run over a wire coathanger with no loss in quality.
The entire ecosystem became dominated by very silly things. But theyโre all quite interesting because they have some plausible-looking science behind them, which then goes off in a nonsense direction. For example, Ethernet is an electrical protocol, so signal quality matters. Gold is a good conductor. Gold connectors on Ethernet cables will reduce signal degradation. Pay no attention to the fact that the Ethernet standard is specified based on specifically rated cables and wonโt be any better on ones with marginally better connectors.
My guess from the picture is that someone has noticed that electrical noise from a power supply can be a problem and has built something that looks very plausibly like it would solve that.
#XMPP Summit
After the break, @Goffi presented about #Data Policy: xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/dataโฆ
The XMPP Summit:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2โฆ
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all โฆxmpp.org
Several of our teams will be at #fosdem26 ... we'll introduce our PQC and Reliable Deletion ("forward secrecy") efforts, and give an overview over multi-relay #chatmail architectures. Or catch us on the booth or some sunny place outside :)
invite link for public fosdem26 group
attention: consider joining with a dedicated conference chat profile because large public groups can attract trolls. Your private profiles are safe/unaffected then.
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Finishing off #DataPrivacyWeek with our community's recommended password managers! ๐
Which one's are missing and which would you recommend?
A password manager is an easy tool to increase the security of your digital identity. In this guide, we take a look at the best three password managers and why you should start using one.Tuta
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs - dani-garcia/vaultwardenGitHub
GregKH (@gregkh) awarded the Prize for Excellence in Open Source 2026
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/30โฆ
I had the honor and pleasure to hand over this prize to its first real laureate during the award gala on Thursday evening in Brussels, Belgium.daniel.haxx.se
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The Prize for Excellence in Open Source โฆ goes toโฆ
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow at the The #Linux Foundation!
We could think of no one more deserving of this Award than Greg - who has ensured through maintaining of different kernel subsystems and the Linux kernel stable releases that thousands of devices function seamlessly and securely.
The Prize for Excellence was presented by the European Open Source Academy, @bagder
awards.europeanopensource.acadโฆ
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"Open source is not free, we need to invest. If we want to build a strong leader in Europe, we need to inject money!"
Marc Palazon of Smile Group spotlights the need for investment in his closing statement.
Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it.Dries Buytaert
#XMPP Summit
Listen in to the #encryption topics around #MLS, #MIMI & #OMEMO.
The XMPP Summit:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2โฆ
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc #e2ee
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all โฆxmpp.org
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in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •@QuadRadical awesome work!!!
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