mastodon 4.7.2XMPP-based software engineer from the Netherlands. I am an active member of the Ignite Realtime community and a lead developer of its Openfire real-time communications server implementation.
Quietly slipped in today: the XSF has published a new XEP - XEP-0512 - which I had the pleasure of authoring.
It's a small step, but one that opens up some interesting directions for #XMPP implementations. Curious to see where people take it from here.
I am experimenting with new rendering libraries for the XMPP Network Graph, which shows how servers and users connect across the XMPP network. The graph has grown so large that it does not render well on many devices.
Live demo: https://xmppnetwork.goodbytes.im/sigma.html
#XMPP #Decentralization #Fediverse #OpenSource #DataVisualization #Networking
I was discussing SASL channel binding protocol details with @dwd@toot.igniterealtime.org and somehow, we're now talking about Dutch proverbs including bicycles.
Once in a while, I check my email spam folder. Today, I found a 'business opportunity' in there, that ended like this:
> That’s crucial for quality.”} ```json``` {
This is how you know it's legit.
Our IgniteRealtime Mastodon instance needs a new home! After years of generous sponsorship, we're now looking for hosting options. I'm new to Mastodon hosting. Any advice, recommendations, or offers to help would be greatly appreciated! Let's keep the community alive. #Mastodon #Fediverse #HostingHelp
My day in a nutshell:
> Created February 26, 2012 at 8:06 PM
> Resolved March 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Elke keer hetzelfde: Ter Apel te vol, #COA krijgt een boete. En weer betaalt de ene overheid de andere. Het COA kan de instroom niet stoppen - nieuwe opvanglocaties zijn politieke keuzes. En dus herhalen we het ritueel opnieuw en opnieuw en opnieuw. Symboolpolitiek met belastinggeld.
https://www.rd.nl/artikel/1141978-maximale-dwangsom-voor-coa-om-ter-apel-mogelijk-vandaag-bereikt
Ooof. @eff@mastodon.social is leaving X, primarily because the platform simply doesn't deliver anymore.
"We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. [...] Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
That's a brutal decline!
I'm currently reviewing a PR that apparently was started in 2017 (that's the date on the first commit in the PR, anyways).
@deheems@mas.to @nicojanstijne@mastodon.nl Ik zou hiermee door de stad gaan lopen, en mensen verward vragen waar Hoog Catharijne is.
100.0% this. X-Com: Enemy Unknown has held a solid position in my top 1 of best computer games, ever. #nostalgia #retrogaming https://youtu.be/h58NzkGFgxk?is=z1RRmfzRfipLewBV
Realized that by carrying my phone around the house while watching the latest Technology Connextras video, I've essentially summoned a tiny, portable, extremely opinionated Alec (@TechConnectify@mas.to) who follows me room to room yelling that all I need is more cables.
Honestly? Glorious.
Overheard:
"If you believe a meteorologist, it is your own fault"
- a meteorologist.
In the wake of a significant security breach at #Odido information tied to millions of subscribers was leaked. Odido is one of the Netherlands’ largest telecom providers, offering mobile, internet, and TV services to consumers and businesses nationwide.
Rather than pay off ShinyHunters, Odido declined. Refusing to negotiate with extortionists is the right stance, even if this breach should never have happened in the first place.
Thank you XMPP Standards Foundation (@xmpp@fosstodon.org) for supporting Keep Android Open at https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/#signatories @keepandroidopen@techhub.social #KeepAndroidOpen
What a horrible, horrible experience Microsoft Teams continues to be. I I'm getting "We need you to sign in again. This could be a request from your IT department or Teams, or the result of a password update" messages four times in three minutes - which sometimes prevents me from doing things (like chat) - but sometimes its ... fine? Video conferences are on-and-off again success. Random failures while switching from one Teams account to another. I can't fathom people using this voluntarily.
@andrzej@hi-low.social heh, someone tried. It seemed... annoyed? It wrote:
Happy April Fools' Day! ?
XEP-0512 "XMPP as Interpretive Dance" is a Humorous XEP published today (April 1st, 2026) by Guus der Kinderen — who is himself from the igniterealtime.org organization. It's an April Fools' joke specification that proposes implementing XMPP through human movement rather than code
"This document expires when all participants are too exhausted to continue."
No code changes are needed or appropriate here. ??
@mrotteveel@mstdn.social @ionica@mathstodon.xyz daar moet je mee oppassen. Misschien zit er wel wat breekbaars in.
@Marloezovic@mastodon.nl Met dít weer, van de straat gehouden worden?! 😄
Fijn dat decentrale oplossingen aandacht krijgen! Eurosky is niet de enige: #XMPP is een open protocol voor instant messaging dat al tientallen apps en diensten mogelijk maakt die gewoon met elkaar samenwerken. Denk WhatsApp, maar dan decentraal en federerend.
Als bestuurslid van de XMPP Standards Foundation en ontwikkelaar van meerdere XMPP-apps vertel ik er graag over. Uren, als je me laat. Nieuwsgierig?
@kevinrns@mstdn.social @xmppjobboard@toot.igniterealtime.org Oh, good idea! I'll see if I can get that added to the automation. Thanks!
@zeank@mastodon.social I am bombarded with messages like these lately, that weirdly all have to do with integration of voice-based AI integrations.
@daniel@gultsch.social @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org @delta@chaos.social IgniteRealtime is working on adding this feature to Openfire right now.
"Publieke sector verliest regie door digitale afhankelijkheid" kopt het NRC vandaag.
Zonde om te zien, wetende dat oplossingen voor het grijpen liggen! Gisteren nog blogde ik via @news@toot.igniterealtime.org over de mogelijkheden die Openfire en aanpalende producten bieden tot een onafhankelijke oplossing voor instant messaging, voice & video en file sharing, juist gericht op die sector!
#digitaleAutonomie #openStandaard #privacy #onafhankelijk
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/06/economieblog-maandag-7-juli-t-m-zondag-13-juli-2025-a4899509
@franco@infosec.exchange @xmppjobboard@toot.igniterealtime.org Please not that this is an automated listing. Many listings on this site are sourced from other job boards. For more information on a specific listing, you should reach out to the company that is offering the opening (click on the "Apply for Job" button to get in contact with them)!
@beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange Whenever I watch videos from Midlife Stockman or Al Bladez (showing my guilty pleasures here), I notice that it is apparently the property owners that are responsible for maintenance of the sidewalks. Where I live, that's done by the city/municipality instead.
I wonder if this has anything to do with a negative sentiment around sidewalks. If you're not planning to use a sidewalk, but suddenly are required to maintain it, I can imagine you'd not be very happy.
@botteaap@androiddev.social I'll start working on the eulogy.
"Let us gather today to remember a brave soul, gone too soon. Not by fate, but by skipping the 'Read Before Ride' section. He lived fast, scrolled past instructions, and now serves as a cautionary tale. May his memory be laminated and posted near the warning sign."
@Marloezovic@mastodon.nl Op naar de ijssalon! Aanbod blijft staan als je ooit toch nieuwsgierig bent.
