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Re:Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:56AM (#49435281)
Hey. I'm currently working on this: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0516.html
Re:Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:46AM (#49430364)
I'm also working on experimental XMPP based remote desktop control for what it worth.
Re:Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:43AM (#49430342)
Libervia (on which I'm working) does support OMEMO:2 (it was actually the first client to implement it) + legacy one + OX (OpenPGP) + OX for Pubsub (so you can encrypt everything pubsub related: blog, forums, tickets, etc). ()

Anyway, there is a discovery mechanism, and clients do adapt the version used by peers, so there is no incompatibility. Kaidan choose for a while to have only OMEMO:2, because resources are limited and they were going for the latest version first, but resource are limited for everybody, and it took times for others to implement OMEMO:2 too.

NLnet/NGI did (and still does) gave financial support on several XMPP projects (including mine, huge thanks to them), and, curiously, when there is money to help, implementations happen. That's problem nb 1 with XMPP: lack of financial resource.

() GUI (notably web UI) is being reworked, not stable yet, but the CLI is pretty solid.

Re:Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @04:10PM (#45520071)
Yes, I'm having a DDoS attack these days, no idea why somebody would do that to my small server. I've deployed counter measures so the site is more or less usable, but the attack is still going on.
Re:Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:46AM (#45500058)
Indeed, Jingle is for establishing connections, P2P when possible, but there are lot of extensions around it.

I've proposed a specification for SFU hosting (check https://bloggeek.me/webrtcglossary/sfu/ if you don't know what's a SFU), and wrote a component based on the excellent Galène SFU, as well as client implementation (in Libervia) as part of a NLNet/NGI grant (https://nlnet.nl/project/Libervia-AV/).

XMPP council (disclaimer: I'm a council member for the current term) asked me to some modifications and to re-propose, which I'm about to do. I couldn't find the time so far (cause I'm working on ton on stuffs), but will go back to it very soon.

To sum-up: this is very much worked on.

Re:Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:38AM (#45500007)
And Libervia (disclaimer: I'm the lead dev). It also implements SFU including components (based on Galène), but I'm reworking design on this part.

Also note that Libervia is using a backend/frontends architecture with a D-Bus API, you can use it to make your own frontend with any language you like.

Re:Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework on Saturday July 06, 2024 @03:28PM (#40892609)
There is a galaxy of projects around Kivy, such as https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android to compile python project for Android (with Kivy or not) or https://plyer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for cross plateform API (notifications, hardware, filechooser, etc).

For UI there is https://github.com/kivymd/KivyMD for Material design on top of Kivy.

And the team is nice (I've met some of them at PyCon or FOSDEM).

The framework is pleasant to use, and there is a descriptive language, kv, which is really great.

Cross compiling may be painful though (I did it for Android) and the app loading time is a bit long, but it's working.

Some things may be missing in comparison to big frameworks such as Qt, there is no WebView for instance, and accessibility is unfortunately not as good.

It's overall a very good project and it's a pity that it's not more known and used.

Re:WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics on Thursday May 23, 2024 @07:56AM (#40453578)
I really like the fsview plugin that comes with Konqueror. It can be run independently: `fsview /some/dir`.
XMPP dev and XSF member here.

I'm using XMPP for chatting of course, but also for blogging (my blog is XMPP based), A/V calls, events organization, file sharing, photo albums sharing, as a remote (with ad-hoc command, I've even built an specific UI to control MPRIS supporting player). I'm building an agenda, a forum, a generic list tool (TODO, shopping list), and other stuff.

I'm using Snikket to host a small server for family and friends, with accompanying mobile clients.

I've also built an XMPP <=> ActivityPub gateway (soon to be released, but dev version is already available), so my blog is accessible from any AP supporting client, and I can access the AP ecosystem (including events as seen in Mobilizon).

There is Slidge IM if you wanna talk to legacy network such as Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, Mattermost, Steam, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Matrix, VoIP.ms.

There is Biboumi if you wanna talk to IRC.

There are old and new email gateways on the work (I'll be working on one myself).

XMPP is used in many fields (from healthcare to games), you can have an idea at https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/ but I have the feeling that this list is not up-to-date and is incomplete. I think that it's used in Fornite for instance.

So yeah, we may not be the best for marketing, and we not have as much resources as we should, but XMPP is still well alive and kicking!

edit: Fornite is actually mentioned at https://xmpp.org/uses/gaming/ .

Re:A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @12:48PM (#38180169)
That's if you want the whole stdlib, you can make your own dist with only what you need: https://www.brython.info/static_doc/en/import.html
Re:The Atom Feed Format Was Born 20 Years Ago on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:30AM (#36533715)
XMPP does use Atom as its (micro)blogging format (XEP-0277), and making followers/following lists (subscribers/subscribed in XMPP terms) public is opt-in with XEP-0465.

Note: I'm very involved in XMPP, and the author of the latter XEP.

Edit: forgot to mention that it's also available to ActivityPub thanks to the XMPP <=> AP gateway (that I've authored too)

There is a demo page which is not obvious to find right away: https://aigc-audio.github.io/AudioGPT.github.io/

But no data on license, weight, or whatever, it looks like the repos are in the process of being uploaded.If what we can see on the demo is not faked, it's quite impressive.

I see "This repository and the models are released under the CC-BY-NC as found in the LICENSE file." at https://dinov2.metademolab.com/, have I missed something or this is definitely not FOSS?
Re:Godot 4.0 Stable on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:01AM (#34983768)
Congrats to all the people involved, it's really great to see such a FOSS tool!

How is it for app development? I've seen that they have started to showreels for apps (https://godotengine.org/article/announcing-godot-2022-showre...) and it's quite impressive. I'm wondering if it can be a good alternative to stuff like Qt/Qt Quick for rapid prototyping, or even production app.

The easy export to multiple platforms is a really an interesting point. I'm mostly wondering if it can handle correctly stuff like accessibility, desktop integration, and if it's good at handling texts (Unicode, RTL, etc).

Re:Creating Technical Presentations with Vim on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:18AM (#34966938)
pandoc has the killer feature to use beamer to convert markdown to a good looking presentation. It's the simplest and quickest way of doing a presentation I'm aware of, you can just focus on the content: `pandoc -t beamer some_presentation.md -o some_presentation.pdf`

For diagrams, I'm using draw.io (it seems that it's called diagrams.net nowadays), it's FOSS, easy to use and feature-full. It's then easy to add it in the presentation by using the markdown syntax for images.

Re:Show HN: Clamshell- an experimental Python based shell on Saturday January 28, 2023 @04:10PM (#34561916)
`sh` is great for that: https://amoffat.github.io/sh/
thanks for the quick answer and cool for REPL. Yeah sure I can just launch Gwenview on the output directory.

> probably but GIMP plugins are not something I've looked into

I was just thinking about a black and white or grey level output image with the desired area , no need to integrate it in GIMP of whatever. I've tried a prompt like "keep only the face", but no luck so far.

Wow that's really impressive (I've seen similar things in research papers for a while now, but having it usable so easily and generic is great).

A few questions:

- would it be possible to use this tool to make automatic mask for editing in something like GIMP (for instance, if I want to automatically mask the hair)?

- would it be possible to have a REPL or something else to make several prompt on the same image? Loading the model takes time, and it would be great to be able to just do it once.

- how about a small GUI or webui to have the preview immediately? Maybe it's not the goal of this project and using `instruct-pix2pix` directly with its webui is more appropriate?

Thanks for the work (including upstream people for the research paper and pix2pix), and for sharing.

Re:A Year of Building for the Terminal on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:19AM (#34094151)
Textual looks nice. I've been a happy Urwid user for years, can someone with experience with both can do a quick comparison? Urwid development seems stalled (no commit for 6 months). Is it now possible to embed a terminal as a widget with Textual (with Urwid it's possible)?

I'm wondering also how Rich compares to something like Python Prompt Toolkit.

Re:Neovim 0.8 Released on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:02PM (#33040754)
- I have used vim for many years (15 maybe?), and once you have passed the initial learning curve (not so terrible, after you keep learning cool stuff even after years of use), it's useful for everything with the same shortcuts. I would actually spend more time learning something else like an new IDE. At the end, I have probably saved a lot of time by sticking to (neo)vim instead of following the latest trend.

- I like terminals because there is nearly nothing disturbing you, and it's usually quick to have something

- there are many little features that looks like nothing but are really really useful when you use them. I'm a big fan of C-a / C-x to increment / decrement a number, coupled with https://github.com/nishigori/increment-activator it's super useful (to change a boolean, a date, a number, etc). The "." to repeat last command, the "*" to search what is under the cursor are other great features. An occasional macro made with "q" may save a lot of time when you need to do a repetitive task, for refactoring for instance, and you can even repeat them according to some patterns with ":g". I'm not sure if those features have handy equivalents on other IDEs.

- I didn't spent that much time doing my config, just adding little changes here and there when necessary, over the years I've got a environment really adapted to my taste.

- I'm currently doing mostly Python, and vanilla (neo)vim is normally good enough, but I'm using Coc (https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim) for a little while, and it add a lot of helping stuff easily. Pyright + snippets are useful.

- when something cool happens somewhere else, you often have somebody adapting it to vim. I can use snippets and emmet which are occasionally very useful.

At the end, I don't feel the need to change, it works well, and over the time I could add some neat features to improve it (snippets, emmet, CoC, tagbar, etc). I'm not sure if changing to something like VScodium would worth the time to learn something new (and I like working with terminals).

Re:Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:51PM (#32929649)
> goffi

for 2), it's actually written in the description: "phrase-level timestamps", so it should be possible (phrase level is neat for skipping to a special location on a video, but maybe not for audio editing).

Re:Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:47PM (#32929564)
Really interesting, I can see ton of potential uses.

2 questions:

1) how does it compare to state of the art FOSS solutions? I'm seeking about DeepSpeech or Vosk

2) would it be somehow possible to associate timestamp to the words recognized? That would be amazing for things such as audio editing or skipping to a particular location on a video

Re:LineageOS 19 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:29PM (#31171237)
> Nexus

I have a second-hand Nexus 7 (repartitioned flo), probably the same as you, and I'm super happy with it thanks to Lineage OS. LineasOS 19 doesn't seem to be available for it though (yet?).

> Hard to figure a new tablet to buy that will get that same 10 year life, some custom rom development just vanishes over time. Popularity doesn't seem to be a guarantee.

If I would be buying a new tablet today, beside second hand (better for Earth, more guaranties to have a FOSS ROM running on it, and cheaper), I guess that I would go for open hardware like what Pine64 is doing: the community is dynamic, and I would not be surprised to see the device still updated in 10 years.

For phones, I guess that Fairphone is a very good option too: FOSS friendly, easily fixable, and minding about resources.

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