Daniel, le développeur de Quicksy l'a annoncé sur mastodon : il n'est plus possible de s'inscrire sur quicksy.im . Ce billet de blog est principalement destiné aux gens à qui j'ai recommandé Quicksy. J'y explique ce que cette fermeture des inscriptions signifie, en restant le moins technique possible (je fais ce que je peux!), et ce que je recommande de faire. Qu'est-ce que Quicksy? Quicksy…
Engligh readers : apologies, this post is somehow France-specific, so I did not bother to translate it to English. A good opportunity to work on your French! Ceci est une lettre envoyée à l'excellente émission la dernière de Radio Nova. -- Salut la dernière, Je suis d'une race un peu rare (mais pas si rare que ça non plus), éco-terroristo-gauchiasse et passionné d'informatique en même temps. Du…
…on nicoco.fr, because Slidge now has its own blog . Moving slidge to codeberg is part of an ongoing effort to untie slidge as much as possible from my personal name. Among the few things still left are the slidge MUC and domain name (administered in my OVH account). Ideally, in the coming months, I will establish a non-profit (probably a French "association loi 1901") to try and work towards…
Thanks the testers and bug reporters, slidge version 0.2.0beta0 is out! Release something, something often We have been way too shy with releases in the past, so we started tagging versions more aggressively. This has several advantages and there are no good reason why we did not do it earlier, really: Detailed but short-enough-for-a-human-to-read changelogs are available in the annotation of the…
Howdy, fellow instant messengers! Just in time to be featured in the 50th XMPP newsletter , Slidge v0.1.0, the Python library used to create gateways to other chat networks, has landed. "Why now" you may ask? Because it has been working reliably enough for a few of us users; also, we needed an excuse to communicate a bit so the world knows that Slidge's world domination plan is still ongoing.…
There are quite a number of online guides about how to hide your real IP and/or access online services your network provider normally does not allow (but it needs to allow WireGuard, which is not always the case ). Most of them focus on 2 use cases: either routing all your traffic through WireGuard or accessing a private network from outside of it. How about using WireGuard for certain softwares…
Fellow bridgers, if you're reading this, it means that I have finally gathered the motivation to write this long due "Slidge progress notes" blog post. Hooray! A lot has happened for Slidge since the latest blog post, so I will not attempt to exhaustively detail all the small fixes and improvements that have made their way to the Slidge source code since latest January. Instead, I'll just list the…
Isn't it nice when computers let us use whatever weird colors, workflows, keyboard bindings, or child sacrifice we like to use, instead of forcing us into a one-size-fits-all "intuitive" UI? Slidge is a collection of XMPP gateway components that lets you use your favorite XMPP client(s) to chat with other, non-XMPP and/or non-federated chat networks. A few adventurous testers have successfully…
It has almost been two months since I announced slidge beta0. A lot has been fixed and improved during these two months, thanks to a few early adopters that I will never thank enough for their patience and time. All in all, it felt right to tag a new beta now. Reactions, reactions... I have never hidden it, I believe that emoji reactions to messages, as stupid as they may look to bearded TUI…
After one year and a half of development, including a very long pause, a few rewrites, and thanks to my summer vacations, I am proud to announce the release of slidge version 0.1.0-beta0 . Slidge? Slidge lets you use your usual XMPP client to communicate with your buddies on other " legacy " instant messaging networks, much like spectrum2 , but without libpurple, and targeted at XMPP exclusively.…
Today is my last day of vacation for this summer. I had more or less important stuff planned, but yesterday I learnt about stable diffusion , "a machine-learning model to generate digital images from natural language descriptions", which happens to be open source, including its trained weights . It's also pretty unfiltered, making it possible to generate so-called "deep fakes", erotica and/or…