XMPP Service Operators - 2021-06-18


  1. qrpnxz

    is 404.city up? i can't connect for days now

  2. qrpnxz

    to their MUC that is

  3. qrpnxz

    i'm not a user

  4. qrpnxz

    i mean i don't have an account there

  5. rozzin

    moparisthebest: OK, I'll bite: what is the value of "set up right" that keeps fail2ban from locking me out of my own server when something else at the same cafe / hotel / whatever happens to have been hitting it?

  6. kousu

    I think mopar meant: disable ssh password login and only use keys. Then bots can't break in.

  7. kousu

    fail2ban is helpful though. It reduces attack surface by a huge factor, and improves the signal to noise ratio of your logs so you can find the targetted attackers. I tune it to unban after 10 minutes and even that drastically cut down how many failed logins I have to sort through.

  8. moparisthebest

    rozzin, kousu: yep I meant "public key auth and good passwords mean you don't need fail2ban"

  9. moparisthebest

    I guess if I wanted it I'd whitelist the wireguard port since it doesn't even respond to invalid packets, then you could always get in...

  10. rozzin

    Oh. Yeah, OK ☺

  11. rozzin

    moparisthebest: I think I had mis-parsed your "you know what fail2ban *doesn't* fail to ban" pun.

  12. rozzin

    Possibly because I _just_ watched `Spaceballs' with my kids and am all punned-out. 😆️

  13. moparisthebest

    I blame the pun generator

  14. moparisthebest

    Ha haven't watched that in ages

  15. Amolith

    Is there a plaintext XMPP roster format I can create and merge with my existing roster? 🤔️

  16. ernst.on.tour

    Amolith: on prosody ?

  17. Amolith

    ernst.on.tour, I'm just thinking something like a VCF file. I recently started using an SMS <-> XMPP gateway and want to move my contacts over to XMPP

  18. Martin

    So, you have two accounts and want to merge their rosters? I don't know of any automatism for this. Afaik MattJ is working on moving one account from one server to another but I'm not sure whether this also includes merging two existing accounts. I've heard you could drag'n'drop roster contacts from one roster to the other in older versions. No idea whether this still works.

  19. MattJ

    It's technically not in scope, but probably something I could add

  20. Martin

    So, you have two accounts and want to merge their rosters? I don't know of any automatism for this. Afaik MattJ is working on moving one account from one server to another but I'm not sure whether this also includes merging two existing accounts. I've heard you could drag'n'drop roster contacts from one roster to the other in older versions of gajim. No idea whether this still works.

  21. Amolith

    Martin, no I mean going from a list of standard phone contacts with name/phone number to name/JID. For example, +18888888888 in my VCF becomes +18888888888@cheogram.com in a file formatted such it can be imported to my XMPP account

  22. jonas’

    I don’t think there’s a standard for this, but it sounds like something either a specialized mobile client could implement, or a thing you could script one-off with a few lines of your favourite programming language and an XMPP client library.

  23. 404.city

    >qrpnxz‎: is 404.city up? i can't connect for days now Contact Support ‎xmpp:support@404.city

  24. Martin

    Doesn't help much with mod_block_strangers 😂

  25. tom

    how do companies even know what your telephone service provider is?

  26. tom

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  27. tom

    and be able to discriminate based on who your telephone company is

  28. tom

    shouldn't all they be able to see is what your phone number is?

  29. MattJ

    Phone companies need to know where to route calls to, so that information exists

  30. MattJ

    and if that data exists, it's guaranteed to be used for other purposes :)

  31. MattJ

    But.... off-topic

  32. xorman

    they may be shielding on some VoIP providers not handling SMS correctly

  33. rozzin

    If you're interested in that sort of stuff, I believe it's on-topic in xmpp:discuss@conference.soprani.ca?join

  34. qrpnxz

    404.city, how will i chat with support@404.city if i can't connect to 404.city

  35. xorman

    c2s is working

  36. qrpnxz

    i'm not a member of 404, trying to connect to their muc

  37. tom

    » [02:47:52] <MattJ> and if that data exists, it's guaranteed to be used for other purposes :) yeah, screw everybody who gets their telephone and internet from a small local ISP instead of a megacorporation

  38. tom

    thankyou rozzin

  39. rob

    > yeah, screw everybody who gets their telephone and internet from a small local ISP instead of a megacorporation Even though the small local ISP is actually just reselling megacorps product, at least around here

  40. tom

    » Even though the small local ISP is actually just reselling megacorps product, at least around here they have their own asterisk PBX and a SS7 uplink

  41. rob

    Afaik there is no ip transit available on the island, so all small players are resellers

  42. rob

    But I've been wrong lots

  43. Харпер

    Big rob here with their own personal island

  44. rob

    Haha not quite

  45. rob

    I remember looking for ipx though because I dream of a community mesh