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F-Droid 2 days ago • mastodon (AP)

#Matrix users: updates for Element and SchildiChat just hit our repo, containing important security fixes. Please refresh the index in your clients and update ASAP.

#security #updates

#security #matrix #updates

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chava 2 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Not a Martix user but that's an amazing turn around time from team @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology ! 👏

@F-Droid

Buntbart 2 days ago • mastodon (AP)

Faster than expected! Thank you!! 👍

Matrix.org 3 days ago • mastodon (AP)

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Users of Element Desktop/Web/Android, FluffyChat & Nheko should upgrade immediately to address a critical encryption vulnerability.

We are not aware of this being exploited in the wild yet, but as the bug is now disclosed please upgrade now. https://matrix.org/blog/2021/09/13/vulnerability-disclosure-key-sharing

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spyjosh-GX 3 days ago • mastodon (AP)

not seeing an update to fluffy chat on the open store. Will this be coming to Ubuntu Touch?

yano 2 days ago • mastodon (AP)

make sure you update your stuff everyone!

#element #matrix

#element #matrix

Aral Balkan 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

The battles we’re fighting for our privacy aren’t just to make our phones and computers private places today. They’re to keep our homes, cars, and minds private places in the future. They’re to protect our personhood and stave off autocracy.

#privacy #humanRights

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Hubert Chathi 2 weeks ago friendica

I don't know why we need an expert to tell us that if we want housing to be more affordable, we need to decrease the price of housing.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/how-affordable-is-your-housing-situation-right-now-1.6155647/measures-to-make-housing-more-affordable-wouldn-t-be-popular-with-voters-economist-1.6155683

Hubert Chathi 4 weeks ago • friendica

I made a new release of Polyjuice Client, my @Matrix.org client library for #Elixir. You can see the changelog at https://gitlab.com/uhoreg/polyjuice_client/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

#elixir @Matrix.org

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Debian 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

Debian 11 bullseye has been released! https://bits.debian.org/2021/08/bullseye-released.html

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Romain de Laage 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

I enjoy this kind of news ! Congratulations to all the team !

:fdroid: mondstern 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

Since ends of august 2020 I also apply #debian in my first FOSS exhibition in #berlin / germany

#acrylpainting

It is 1 of 104 acrylic painting pictures

#debian #Berlin #acrylpainting

Jason Robinson 🐍🍻 1 month ago • socialhome (AP)

Germany's healthcare system is using this open source standard for encrypted instant messaging | ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/germanys-healthcare-system-is-using-this-open-source-standard-for-encrypted-instant-messaging/

Congrats #Germany 😁

#matrix #healthcare #opensource #openstandards

#matrix #opensource #Germany #OpenStandards #healthcare

Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

Facebook is doing research in AI & #endtoend encrypted messages, to analyze & target ads on them.

How an AI can determine you are trying to buy designer shoes, but your private discussion about health or politics won't leak?

We have no clue either.

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-analyze-encrypted-messages-ad-targeting-175739715.html

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easrng 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

If I had to guess, they'll have some kind of zkp that does text processing on device to prove to the Facebook servers that a given ciphertext includes a message about a given topic without revealing the keys or plaintext.

Matrix.org 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Attention all IRC bridge users (cc @liberachat@twitter.com & friends) - we have *finally* improved the format for bridging replies; Matrix should now be a much better citizen on IRC. (disclaimer: this reply format shamelessly stolen without permission from @jessnode@twitter.com :P)

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Alexandre Franke 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

WOW

Dashtop 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@liberachat

@Libera Chat

Snikket 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Here's a little thing that may not be obvious to many people....

When you install an open-source app from Google Play or the Apple app store, there is no guarantee that what you install actually matches the public code.

@fdroidorg are doing a great service. They independently build the public source code for apps from scratch, review for common issues, and publish their builds. Thanks to "reproducible builds" it's possible to verify they do not tamper with the code.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/

@F-Droid

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XxAlexXx 2 months ago (Received 1 month ago) • mastodon (AP)

What about security?

Snikket 2 months ago (Received 1 month ago) • mastodon (AP)

Hi! Could you clarify your question?

This link provided in the post is a great overview of all the security-related aspects of the pipeline that F-Droid considers: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/ (it's quite comprehensive!)

XxAlexXx 2 months ago (Received 1 month ago) • mastodon (AP)

Except it doesn't explain a malicious app which was intended to be malicious by the user

Strypey 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

F-Droid does flag any known anti-features in the apps it includes in its repo. If anyone wants to offer a repo that tries to offer only trustworthy apps, a user could choose to use that with the F-Droid app, instead of the default repos. But then the question becomes can we trust the people running that repo? 🤔

@snikket_im

@Snikket

Jasper (Free Julian Assange!) 1 week ago • mastodon (AP)

it's turtles all the way down.

I think this is a tough questions all repos deal with? Currently just hoping there are enough eyes on code and not be too greedy installing things?

Although automated approaches might be good. Like saw malicious python libraries using `eval` and base64 encoding? Presumably some people were already scanning for dubious stuff and `eval` wasn't on the list. (don't use `eval` when you don't have to!)

Charlag 2 months ago (Received 1 week ago) • mastodon (AP)

uhm doesn't reproducible build not guarantee anything since checksum will change after signing the app anyway?

Frost, glowball wolf 2 months ago (Received 1 week ago) • mastodon (AP)

...can't you just checksum the before-signing stuff?

Charlag 2 months ago (Received 1 week ago) • mastodon (AP)

yeah but when you download the app you download the signed app

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 1 week ago • friendica (via ActivityPub)

That means the checksum and checking is built in! That's what @𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓺𝓾𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓽𝔂 is describing above. There really is no problem here.

@𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓺𝓾𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓽𝔂

Hubert Chathi 2 months ago friendica

Vaccine 2 of 2 downloaded.
Installation in progress.
Estimated time remaining: 2 weeks.

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Hubert Chathi 2 months ago friendica

Installation complete. 🎉

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Co-op Cloud 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Hi all! We're the folks behind Co-op Cloud (https://coopcloud.tech), a project which aims to build out a digital configuration commons for tech co-ops and democratic tech collectives. Our approach aims to maximise sharing, co-operation and reuse for setting up and maintaining libre software infrastructure. We have a public matrix room at `#coopcloud:autonomic.zone`, feel welcome! The project is currently in public alpha and super young ☁️ 🎩 💻
#introductions #tech #coops #coopcloud #commons

#Introductions #coops #tech #commons #coopcloud

Grandasse 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

🖼️

Image 1: 3 maisons dont une en feu, deux personnes tentent d'étendre le feu, une troisième personne les regarde perplexe (voire outrée).<br>Image 2 : la personne outrée arrose les deux maisons qui ne sont pas en feu en disans "all houses matter !!!"<br><br>#blacklivesmatter

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Tutanota ✅ 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

While the crypto wars continue, we would like to remind everyone of two very convincing facts for the pro encryption side:

✅ 1. Encryption can't be outlawed

✅ 2. Backdoors for the good guys only are impossible

Here is our stance on the ongoing crypto wars:
https://tutanota.com/crypto-wars/

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Hubert Chathi 3 months ago friendica

We seem to have been here before. The province begins opening up just as a new variant threatens to take hold. Our overall R value is about 0.8, but the R value for the Delta variant is over 1.2, and we're less than a week into re-opening. We'll see how we fare this time, but it didn't turn out that well last time.

Debian 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The Debian Project hosts all its development IRC channels on irc.oftc.net and also has a thriving community on irc.libera.chat. The Debian Project no longer has control of #debian on the freenode IRC network. We thank the former freenode staff for their tireless work over many years. Please read https://wiki.debian.org/IRC for more information about Debian IRC channels.

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Matrix.org 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Excellent write-up of our recent fuzzing expedition to proactively seek out and squash any bugs in Matrix’s libolm end-to-end-encryption library: read all the gory details at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/14/adventures-in-fuzzing-libolm. 🐛🪲🪳🕷🐞

Matrix.org 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

RT @WiredUK@twitter.com

How governments and spies text each other https://trib.al/KCgNFeu

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WiredUK/status/1404332908354191367

Esther Payne 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Well that is an endorsement and a half. 😏

linear cannon 3 months ago • misskey (AP)

conduit is running and federating on my 486!!!

i have a 486 as a matrix homeserver!!!

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NeoChat 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

We are adding options to NeoChat! Look at this fancy blur.

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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Today, 5 years ago 12 people founded Nextcloud to create a complete Free and Open Source alternative to centralized proprietary cloud services and open core competitors.

Together we achieved a lot more than what we dreamed of. Thank you to everyone who is contributing! 💙

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Thomas Kujawa 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Happy Birthday!

Dufthummel born at 322 ppbV 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

happy birthday and thanks for your great cloud-system!

NeoChat 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The new version of KDE's @matrix chat app, Neochat is out! NeoChat 1.2 comes with bubbles, a better text input component, fancy effects, an easier way to switch between accounts and much more. Go check it out! https://carlschwan.eu/2021/06/01/neochat-1.2-bubbles-better-text-editing-and-more/

@Matrix.org

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NeoChat 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Also checkout our release video by @veggero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lcH4tm6uTk

@Veggero

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NeoChat 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Everything is ready for tomorrow's NeoChat 1.2 release :) Here a sneak peek!

Marcus 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

How to join a #libera.chat #IRC channel via #matrix:

1. Type /join #channel:libera.chat into your client.

Done! 🤯

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Marcus 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The usual IRC disclaimers apply:

* Some/most channels will require some form of NickServ registration. So you might want to talk to @NickServ:libera.chat first to register your desired nick.
* You can change your nick via the @appservice:libera.chat bot that will open a chat with you in your first interaction with the network.
* Being joined as a non-registered user into #curl I wasn't allowed to change my nick. Leave channel -> change nick -> register nick -> join #curl.

Isn't #IRC great?

#irc #cURL

ᚦᛟᚱᚱ 4 months ago • pleroma (AP)

on paper, IRC has authentication, but no one uses it.

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 4 months ago • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Thor 🇳🇴 As @Marcus correctly states, many rooms previously on freenode, e.g. #NixOS and #oggcastplanet, only accepted signed-in users in order to counter spam. Those that moved to libera probably still do or soon will.

@Marcus @ᚦᛟᚱᚱ

Marcus 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Also the #libera.chat homeserver has a matrix room directory listing 😍.

(You can add that to your client in the dropdown menu where it says "Matrix Rooms (libera.chat)")

#libera

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Abbie Normal 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

thank you !!

grin 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

also you get kicked every 30 days?

cos 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

More non-chat applications for #matrix https://evolved.systems/hosting-a-blog-on-matrix/

#matrix

muesli 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

WAT?! You're telling me there has been a team at Facebook designing and implementing this feature, and not one person has stood up and asked:

"Uhm, isn't that super creepy, even for us?"

Pirate Praveen 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

If your salary depends on not standing up...

Hubert Chathi 4 months ago friendica

This looks amazing. I'm going to have so much fun playing with it. Uhm, I mean, my kids. Yeah, my kids are going to have so much fun playing with it. I'm definitely getting it for my kids, and not because I want it. Right...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/upperstory/spintronics-build-mechanical-circuits/

Matrix.org 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Last week the UK Govt published a new draft of their #OnlineSafetyBill, making UK corps liable for jail time unless they censor "harmful" content (without defining harmful). Targeted at Big Tech it instead directly threatens Matrix. Read https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/19/how-the-u-ks-online-safety-bill-threatens-matrix & raise the alarm.

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kravietz 🦇 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Note they actually do take your arguments into account in the Impact Analysis (pages 106+). I fully support your position, and it should be reinforced by other projects, but their assurances don't look bad at this stage.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/985283/Draft_Online_Safety_Bill_-_Impact_Assessment_Web_Accessible.pdf

greenpete 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I worry that people who are still using V.H.S. and still can't program them to record are making laws about tech.
Add to that, some have ulterior motives, we're definitely in for loosing more freedoms unless we make ourselves heard.

Matrix.org 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

RT @element_hq@twitter.com

We have lift off! 🚀 We’re launching Spaces— the next frontier for how to group rooms and people in Element and @matrixdotorg@twitter.com, a giant leap towards discoverability.

Check the blog and join the public beta: welcome to the new dimension of Matrix! 🌌 🔭

https://element.io/blog/spaces-the-next-frontier/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1394300265382268935

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Hans van Zijst 4 months ago • hubzilla (AP)

Should work with Synapse 1.34, which was just released.

Hans van Zijst 4 months ago • hubzilla (AP)

Yay!! Works like a charm! Thanks guys, keep up the good work!

Matrix.org 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Have you seen this? This Week in Matrix is out now! Synapse perf, MLS, Spaces, bridges and more! https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/14/this-week-in-matrix-2021-05-14 #twim #matrix #decentralisation

#matrix #twim #decentralisation

Thibault 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The @matrix Live of this week was a tad technical but very interesting for whoever wants to have a better understanding of the limitations of Synapse and what Element is doing to overcome it.

Excellent job from callahad and Erik, both on finding issues, fixing them, and explaining them. I'd love to see more issues with that format!

@Matrix.org

Hans van Zijst 4 months ago • hubzilla (AP)

Quite technical indeed, but even though I didn't understand all of it, at least it prompted me to dive into the subject of workers.

Jason Robinson 🐍🍻 4 months ago • socialhome (AP)

Matrix Live S6E21 Demystifying MSCs - https://youtu.be/SFkZz60RRfc

Great intro into what the #Matrix specification is and more importantly, how does one hack on things and finally get them merged.

#matrix

Julian Sparber 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Do you want to know more about the internals of fractal-next? Checkout my new blogpost about the internals of fractal-next
https://blogs.gnome.org/jsparber/2021/05/07/the-internals-of-fractal-next/

Kudos to @NGIZero for the funding of my work 😋

@NGI Zero open source funding

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air 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

great work, thanks for sharing!

milkor73 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@NGIZero

@NGI Zero open source funding

Julian Sparber 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

one step closer to a working Matrix client: Fractal-next now sends text messages 😎

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optimal 1 day ago • mastodon (AP)

How will Spaces UI be implemented?

Julian Sparber 1 day ago • mastodon (AP)

There aren't any plans for spaces.

Hubert Chathi 5 months ago • friendica

May the 4th be with you. I got my first dose of the AZ vaccine yesterday, which means that my body is now building a Death Star and trying to figure out how to blow it up.

xkcd: mRNA Vaccine

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Bhushan Shah 🤷‍♂️🤖👀📱 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

isn't AZ more like pre-built replica of Death Star? :) (Not an mRNA vaccine)

Hubert Chathi 4 months ago friendica

My understanding (based on https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/oxford-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine.html ) is that AZ is DNA-based rather than mRNA based, but it's still the same underlying principle in that it contains the blueprints for your body to create the spike protein.

HedgeDoc 🦔 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Happen to have a gold feel for User Experience? Might even studied something as fancy as UX design? We are looking for you or at least your kind then! If you don't mind to spend a little bit of your free time with our frontend team and help HedgeDoc to become as easy to use as possible, let us know! /sh

https://community.hedgedoc.org/t/help-wanted-ui-ux-designers/380?u=sheogorath

And if you don't think you fit, you can still help us to find someone by boosting this toot ❤🦔

#HedgeDoc #UX #UI #community

vurpo 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

owo what's this

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Krille Fear 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#fluffychat 0.30.0 has been released today 🎉🎉🎉 with a big refactoring under the hood, a lot of bug fixes, better room alias management, minor design improvements, Linux desktop notifications aaaaaaaand Linux arm64 support. 🐧

In theory it should run on #pinephone or #librem5 but I have no device to test it. Anyone here who wants to try and send me screenshots? 🙂

https://fluffychat.im/de/changelog.html

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stereo 5 months ago • pleroma (AP)

last time flutter wasnt usable on arm64. besides that i own the pinephone to not have dependencies to google for example.

Krille Fear 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

fluffychat for Linux shouldnt have any google dependencies. The (opensource) programming language and the framework is built by google developers.

So I assume that you also wouldnt use software written in Go? 😇 It is your choice. I try to avoid google too but I think there are no evil programming languages

Cedara 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'll boost, there's probably someone somewhere on my follow list who might want to try it out.

scops 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

i have some problems with it; "** (fluffychat:2): WARNING **: 22:31:40.615: Failed to start Flutter renderer: GL-Kontext kann nicht erstellt werden" window remains white :( flutter on aarch64 is a little bit beta?

It's Pingu 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Flutter related issues here as well, libsqlite3.so can't be loaded. I'll link to log here: https://pb.envs.net/?a61c5e5e49671c6b#2BNMfVHPfZRBT138s48rSL7o4e8khedCZE3xcqcxYjCN

sibear 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

$\o/$ l'll try it, but tomorrow.

McSinyx 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'm curious, @krille, is on GNU/Linux does Flutter get translated to native UI framework (e.g. GTK+ or Qt) or is it Electron?

@Krille Fear

Krille Fear 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

flutter renders inside of a gtk window with glfw or something native. So it is a little bit like a gaming engine

jeroen 🇧🇪 5 months ago • pleroma (via ActivityPub)

Installed fine on #manjaro thanks to the AUR. Thanks for your work!

#Manjaro

cdo 5 months ago • pleroma (AP)

just installed on my pinephone, looks and works great 😁

cdo 5 months ago • pleroma (AP)

Screenshots didn't appear to attach to first post for some reason so here they are 😅 (I'm using Phosh on postmarketOS btw)

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Krille Fear 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

awwww so cool

Baldur Regenaxer 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

However, connecting to my server "7fach.de" still does not work 😞 — gives "Hoppla, etwas ist schiefgelaufen"

I suspect it chokes on the leading "7" in the domain name

Leonardo G. Trombetta 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It's working for me on the PP with Manjaro phosh, installed via flathub. I can connect to my own homeserver without problems and send/read encrypted messages!

Awesome work!

Baggypants 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Flatpak works fab on my pinephone running Fedora. Really well done!

Matrix.org 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

RT @jan_beutel@twitter.com

@element_hq@twitter.com @uniinnsbruck@twitter.com @matrixdotorg@twitter.com And the best thing: The federation across different institutions really works. I can still participate in project related chats with my former team @ETH_en@twitter.com while seamlessly supporting lectures at @uniinnsbruck@twitter.com. All out of one tool, one login.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jan_beutel/status/1388105012375588865

Matrix.org 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

RT @element_hq@twitter.com

On the open @matrixdotorg@twitter.com network, the possibilities for academia are endless; read our blog how education can become more accessible, inclusive and open for everyone! 📚

https://element.io/blog/universal-universities/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1387389903974158337

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Hubert Chathi 5 months ago friendica

Trying to get a vaccine here is frustrating, with at least three different streams that you can go through to get vaccinated, one of which I only found out about from Reddit. But I managed to book a vaccination for next Monday. I'll consider it an early birthday present.

Hubert Chathi 5 months ago friendica

First vaccination done, and second vaccination appointment booked.

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