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Ejabberd 25.08 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP/Matrix Server – Communication

Release Highlights: This release includes the support for Hydra rooms in our Matrix gateway, which fixes high severity protocol vulnerabilities. If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no changes in SQL schemas, configuration, API commands or hooks. Other contents: Below is a detailed breakdown of the improvements and enhancements: Improvements in Matrix gateway The ejabberd Matrix gateway now supports Hydra rooms (Matrix room version 12). This fix some high severity protoc

Dict Unpacking in Python

mom can we have dict unpacking in python? we have dict-unpacking-at-home please don't use this no seriously. I do not need another joke package of mine to be deemed "critical" to pypi 1 ok how do I use it pip install dict-unpacking-at-home add # -*- coding: dict-unpacking-at-home -*- to the top of your file (second line if you have a shebang) enjoy! # -*- coding: dict-unpacking-at-home -*- dct = { 'greeting' : 'hello' , 'thing' : 'world' } { greeting , thing } = dct print ( greeting , gree

Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. For roughly three decades, the JPEG has been the World Wide Web’s primary image format. But it wasn’t the one the Web started with. In fact, the first mainstream graphical browser, NCSA Mosaic, didn’t initially support inline JPEG files—just inline GIFs, along with a couple of other formats forgotten to history. However, the JPEG had many advantages over the format it quickl

Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. For roughly three decades, the JPEG has been the World Wide Web’s primary image format. But it wasn’t the one the Web started with. In fact, the first mainstream graphical browser, NCSA Mosaic, didn’t initially support inline JPEG files—just inline GIFs, along with a couple of other formats forgotten to history. However, the JPEG had many advantages over the format it quickl