XMPP Service Operators - 2022-11-21


  1. huxxer

    Is here some admin of jabber.calyxinstitute.org? Their server is outdated. Prosody 0.10.0. Some ppl of my server cant send messages to them. With a test account i too cant write messages.

  2. huxxer

    https://compliance.conversations.im/server/jabber.calyxinstitute.org/

  3. moparisthebest

    Yea they kind of abandoned it

  4. Lightning Bjornsson

    a

  5. MattJ

    huxxer, they basically said they have no intent to maintain it, and it was never meant to be used seriously

  6. MattJ

    I'd avoid it and use a different server

  7. Lightning Bjornsson

    e

  8. Sapotaceae

    Why is it even up still?

  9. huxxer

    Lol ok. Why they dont shut it down or disable registering

  10. MattJ

    Sapotaceae, maybe it's more effort to take it down than leave it up? :P

  11. huxxer

    Ok i will it my User. Thanks

  12. moparisthebest

    Well anyone who wants to could take it down with https://www.moparisthebest.com/eatxmempp-cve-2021-32918/ so maybe they are just waiting for someone else to do it for them? (Don't actually do this lol)

  13. huxxer

    I will add their server to my server blacklist 🙂

  14. Lightning Bjornsson

    Are they hiring?

  15. huxxer

    https://calyxinstitute.org/projects/digital-services/xmpp

  16. huxxer

    The site tells the user that their server is highly secure

  17. moparisthebest

    unable to send/recieve messages is indeed peak security

  18. Lightning Bjornsson

    lol

  19. huxxer

    😅

  20. Sapotaceae

    huh they even still advertise a v2 onion on that page

  21. Martin

    > The server allows in-band registration so you can create an account from within a standard client such as Pidgin or Adium or ChatSecure on Android or Apple iOS.

  22. MattJ

    huxxer, today you learned: not everything people write on web pages is true :)

  23. Martin

    Chatsecure is also dead for a pretty long time, especially the Android version. :D

  24. Martin

    > huxxer, today you learned: not everything people write on web pages is true :) And if there is no time stamp you better assume it's outdated. :D

  25. huxxer

    > huxxer, today you learned: not everything people write on web pages is true :) 😋

  26. moparisthebest

    wait, what

  27. Trung

    Their about page has a section called ‘What we do’: > The Calyx Institute is a technology non-profit with the mission of developing, testing and distributing free privacy software, as well as working to bridge the digital divide. and at the bottom of the same page: » https://facebook.com/calyxinstitute » https://instagram.com/calyxinsta …make sense

  28. Sapotaceae

    they're pretty big, take in like $4 million a year too

  29. huxxer

    Really?

  30. Trung

    Income Annual Report 2020-2021: $3,325,078 from Memberships; $14,860 from Donations; $151,021 from Workplace Giving & In-kind Support

  31. Sapotaceae

    the memberships are in exchange for twice marked up phones or sprint subsidized lte hotspots

  32. Trung

    page 7 of the same document they mention their ‘conferenceing server that provides chat service using XMPP’. hm……

  33. b43

    > huxxer: > 2022-11-21 11:17 (CST) > Is here some admin of jabber.calyxinstitute.org? Their server is outdated. Prosody 0.10.0. Some ppl of my server cant send messages to them. With a test account i too cant write messages. Anyone try emailing them? (The Calyx Institute)

  34. Menel

    Weren't they also the one without modern features, in exchange for more privacy?

  35. b43

    Possibly

  36. b43

    I think they even associate with riseup.net

  37. Menel

    If yes.. switching to matrix isn't an option at least.. I suppose they will just disable it then and say use signal.

  38. Sapotaceae

    All of their chatrooms are already on matrix

  39. msavoritias

    Yep the main server too. Its funny how they went from xmpp with otr to matrix.org with all the metadata issues. I wonder how they rationalized it.

  40. Licaon_Kter

    Their irc bridge is awful, you never know to whom you talk, puppeteering and such. Let alone no history,,.

  41. 404.city

    The Calix Institute is government sponsored. For the American budget, 4 million is a small amount

  42. nuegia.net

    *X-files theme starts playing*

  43. Licaon_Kter

    Their Merrill fellow fought some nasty gov stuff in the past, so...

  44. emus

    Please remind: We are inviting for a XMPP End of the Year Talk 2022! Listen in, Meet & Greet, talk & discuss - but mainly have a good time with the XMPP Community folks! Feel free to announce your topics or software to present, discuss about so we can announce when it comes closer! Just reply to this mail or catch me in the chat (--> emus). - Goffi will have a short talk. When: 6th Dec 2022, 19:00 CET Join via Jitsi instance: https://teamjoin.de/XMPP_EndOfTheYearTalk2022 Talk to you soon, Ed