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There's no upside to mass surveillance.
"A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans’ domestic phone calls and text messages cost 0 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigation..."
https://nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/politics/nsa-phone-program.html
.onion: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2020/02/25/us/politics/nsa-phone-program.html
It's happening! Matrix London Meetup is about to start, join the livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_Dahxkuh8
Why Public Transit Should Be Free For All - The Bullet
https://socialistproject.ca/2020/02/why-public-transit-should-be-free-for-all/
#climatebreakdown #climatechange #politics #society
Katherine Johnson passed away Feb. 24, 2020, after living a life filled with trail-blazing achievements.www.nasa.gov
This Week In Matrix is here! Featuring #gsoc news, Matrix Live with KB1RD on matrix-notepad, Synapse 1.11 and upcoming major perf fixes, free Radicals, Dad Bots and SO MUCH MORE! https://matrix.org/blog/2020/02/21/this-week-in-matrix-2020-02-21
It's official - @[email protected] is fully live on Matrix! http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/02/20/synchronous-messaging-were-live/ Helping get Mozilla going has been a lot of fun, and we'll see a lot of improvements to Riot's UX in the coming months based on their feedback (turns out they know quite a lot about FOSS usability :D)
Yay! We've been accepted into Google Summer of Code as an organisation again this year - calling all students: if you have a free summer and want to help build Matrix get thinking of proposals! https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6060943798173696/ #gsoc #gsoc2020
Happy #freesoftware day 2020!
Even though they technically don't make software, I'd like to thank the XMPP Standards Foundation ( @xmpp ) and their members for their work on open standards and decentralized communication.
I'd also like to thank @matrix which shares the same goals.
A special thanks goes to halfshot for building the matrix-bifrost bridge which connects both protocols.
Let's liberate communication together!
#ilfs #fsfe
I just managed to join a private @matrix room Form #Conversations using the #bifrost bridge!
I think what hindered me before was that my matrix account which was already joined in that room before was using the same nick as my @xmpp account tried to use when joining. Renaming the xmpp nick did the trick ;)
OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android
https://f-droid.org/en/2020/02/03/openpush-talk.html
(The embedded video doesn't play because of a strict CSP policy, if you want to watch it, you'll need to click through to the #FOSDEM talk page)
#FOSDEM happened! We just published a quick wrap-up of the conference and videos of all the talks :D Thanks once again to everyone who came to our talks and spoke to us :) https://matrix.org/blog/2020/02/03/matrix-at-fosdem-2020
Frantic final preparations for #FOSDEM demos are under way... if you want to see the grand reveal for cross-signing, QR verification and enabling E2EE by default, head to K-building auditorium at 4pm on Sunday!
Starting Friday, Jan. 31, Sobeys Inc. will remove all plastic grocery bags from its 255 Sobeys stores across Canada.www.therecord.com
"...there is no such thing as a backdoor just for the good guys." 👏
https://www.businessinsider.com/privacy-advocates-say-fbi-not-apple-undermining-public-safety-2020-1
