Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Matrix v1.9, our end-of-year maintenance release, is hot off the presses with clarifications and bug fixes 🗞️
More excitement to come as work continues on major projects and long anticipated features in v1.10 and beyond.
Learn all about that and more on our blog: https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/29/matrix-v1.9-release/
Matrix v1.9 release
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsTravis Ralston (matrix.org)
reshared this
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Thanks to Ada Lovelace's example, writing a program and never testing it is a time-honoured tradition among computer programmers.
Ada Lovelace's notes were labelled alphabetically from A to G. In Note G, she describes an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. It is considered to be the first published algorithm ever specifically tailored for implementation on a computer, and Ada Lovelace has often been cited as the first computer programmer for this reason. The engine was never completed and so her program was never tested. via @wikipedia#mathematics #computerprogramming
Project Gutenberg likes this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
After two and a half years of rewrite, #Fractal 5 is finally out! Get the #GTK 4 #Rust #Matrix client from https://flathub.org/fr/apps/org.gnome.Fractal and enjoy new features such as #EndToEndEncryption, location sharing, or multi-account with Single-Sign On 🚀
reshared this
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴 reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
reshared this
Coffee ⏚ reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Forget "offline Wikipedia" smartphone apps. Give me "offline Wikivoyage".
I need to know where the weird museums, upside-down houses, and metro-stations-in-Latin are near me, not when some random monarch started their monarching.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
#Fractal 5.rc1 is out! Get it hot from Flathub beta https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/fractal#beta-version
Woohoo. 🎉
5.0 in two weeks if all goes well 🤞
reshared this
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
The Matrix.org Foundation is proud to join with over 400 security experts, researchers, and NGOs in sounding the alarm about the EU's proposed eIDAS reform.
As written, the proposal radically expands the ability of governments to surveil their citizens and residents across the EU.
Learn more about what you can do at https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/
Last Chance to fix eIDAS
EU law agreed behind closed doors threatens Internet securitylast-chance-for-eidas.org
reshared this
wtf
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
This year a lot of work has gone into improving SpiderMonkey and Firefox performance, and we're happy to see this result in significant speed improvements for Firefox users! 🎉 Read all about it in this article:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/10/down-and-to-the-right-firefox-got-faster-for-real-users-in-2023/
#Firefox #SpiderMonkey #performance
Down and to the Right: Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.Bas Schouten (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
roland reshared this.
~/.mozilla/firefox/{profileDirectory} to ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/firefox, and edit ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini to add the new profile. Then run flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox --ProfileManager and select the profile that was copied.like this
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
#XSF Announcement
Recently there was an incident via a so called #man_in_the_middle attack happened to an #XMPP #server.
To reduce the risk of such attacks in the future an early stage service called CertWatch has been published by our Community: https://certwatch.xmpp.net/
Many thanks to Stephen P. Weber (@singpolyma)!
Read two related blog posts:
http://blog.jmp.chat/b/certwatch/certwatch
https://snikket.org/blog/on-the-jabber-ru-mitm/
#Jabber #mitm #security #vulnerability #machine_in_the_middle #chat
On the jabber.ru MITM attack
Reports of a possible recent interception of the public XMPP service jabber.ru have raised a lot of questions for people about how the attack happened, and whether it could affect them too. We have some answers.snikket.org
reshared this
An alternative form of MitM is Manipulator-in-the-middle.
I prefer it as it is (1) more accurate and (2) less focused on a gender („man“ being ambiguous in English here).
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hello, world! You, me, and The Matrix.org Foundation: a letter from the Managing Director, @josh, and reactions from leaders at other open source foundations.
https://matrix.org/blog/2023/10/26/hello-world/
Hello, world! You, me, and The Matrix.org Foundation
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsJosh Simmons (matrix.org)
reshared this
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
#matrix based instant messenger for healthcare organizations is real and is already rolled out in Germany. #Famedly is a matrix client based on the Matrix Dart SDK written in #flutter and the company behind it is also my full-time job.
They also made a fancy 60 seconds introduction video recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDgfNP0CdWY
Famedly TI-Messenger in 60 Sekunden erklärt!
Das Gesundheitspersonal steht im Mittelpunkt unserer Lösung. Der TI-Messenger von Famedly wurde speziell für das Gesundheitswesen entwickelt, um eine sichere...YouTube
reshared this
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
There’s another layer of soil on the garden.
The plot thickens.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Do you know of any Universities or other Educational Institutions that are hosting their own #Mastodon or other #Fediverse instances? Please leave a reply with the example if you do. I'm building the case for my University to do so.
Thanks!
#Fediverse #Education #PostSecondary #Independent
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kx75q/a-universal-basic-income-is-being-considered-by-canadas-government?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Technews #basicincome #Canada #poverty #Economy
A Universal Basic Income Is Being Considered by Canada's Government
The Senate is studying a bill that would introduce a framework for a policy that would guarantee access to a livable income to everyone over 17.Roshan Abraham (VICE)
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Coffee ⏚ reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Mainstream social media and messaging apps (#Facebook, #WhatsApp, #Instagram etc) are a nightmare for our personal data and freedoms.
We have #FreeSoftware replacements for most of these services but maintaining these services has recurring cost and effort.
diasp.in is a community project supported by volunteers. We offer #diaspora, #matrix and #xmpp services.
If we don't find enough volunteers by October 31st, we will be forced to shut it down.
Please volunteer at https://diasp.in/volunteer
diasp.in - a diaspora* pod
diasp.in - an Indian pod of the community run, multi-installment social network; homeserver of Matrix and XMPP protocolsdiasp.in - a diaspora* pod
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
I have had bad experiences with #hosting for people. People here compare these services to the #free services offered by the big players and start complaining about small things. They don't understand that these services are run by volunteers, not their employees.
I now try to #motivate them to learn how to host for themselves, rather than trying to manage things for them.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
*Edit:*
I want to express my thanks and appreciation for all the boosts and comments! I had no idea this would get spread so widely, and I'm humbled by the support.
I'll reply to this post with the plan that I have for the next session.
Original post below...
I'm volunteering at my daughter's elementary school by teaching a "coding club" for 5th graders during their lunch and afternoon recess.
It mostly went great, except I left nearly in tears...
One of the kiddos that joined is blind, and I discovered that the coding programs for kids don't appear to be accessible *at all*.
First we tried Swift Playgrounds, but that didn't seem to work with VoiceOver. Then, he said that he's liked ScratchJr. in the past, and he got frustrated with that because he couldn't get his cat to move.
I'm kinda at a loss for how to help him. He left crying because he thinks that he can't get it, but I'm sure he can. Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks!!
reshared this
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
“Electric cars are still cars. The focus on electric cars stands in the way of truly transformative change: better public transit and better laid-out cities that encourage active modes of getting around, such as cycling.”
Fewer cars, less driving, etc.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-electric-cars-emissions-climate-change/
No, electric cars are not the magic pill to save us from climate change
The Liberals are under pressure to match the U.S. in pledging billions in subsidies for electric cars, but such vehicles are not the panaceaWillem Klumpenhouwer (The Globe and Mail)
reshared this
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Announcing the "How do you use Co-op Cloud?" survey!
I'm trying to gather stories about how people use Co-op Cloud. With your consent, I will share these at the "Engineering for Digital Sovereignty" presentation during https://disco.si/speakers-and-programme/#conversation (@DISCOSlovenia) on the 24th of October. Images are very much appreciated, the more visuals the better (for the slides).
https://pad.riseup.net/p/UsjOrfdbxPoVjE-4pwiM-keep
Thank you! Signal boosts are very welcome!
-- @decentral1se
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
The fediverse hasn't got a king. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
(It's funny because it's true, kind of...)
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Some exciting news: Over the past few months I have been working on founding a new organization: Blodeuwedd Labs (@blodeuweddlabs)
We are now in a position to offer subsidized security assessments (and other services) for open source projects.
(In addition to a whole array of analysis, development, and custom research offerings for everyone else)
Announcement (and more info): https://blodeuweddlabs.com/news/open-source-review-announce/
#infosec #security #appsec #canada #opensource
Launching our Open Source Review Scheme | Blodeuwedd Labs
To celebrate the founding of Blodeuwedd Labs we are excited to announce Subsidized Assessments for open source projects as part of our commitment to continually give back to the open source Community.blodeuweddlabs.com
reshared this
For those wondering about the name, it derives from an old Welsh myth in which a prince is placed under a protective tynged (blessing/curse) such that he can only be harmed in a very specific way.
Blodeuwedd manages, through a series of contrived requests, to trick the prince into these very circumstances (great security engineering)
Blodeuwedd is turned into an owl as punishment which given her origin, gives her name a poetic double-meaning too complicated to fit in a single post.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
To quiet the machines, Philips packed their CPAP devices with foam. The foam broke down over time sending potentially “toxic & carcinogenic” material into the throats and lungs of users. “Reports detailed nearly 2,000 cases of cancer, 600 liver & kidney illnesses & 17,000 respiratory ailments.”
Philips withheld > 3,700 complaints over 11 years from the FDA, while waging aggressive marketing campaigns to sell more machines. “There were people who knew and knew for a long said time,” said a. 1/2
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
caleb likes this.
like this
?Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Apparently it's TLAPD* again, so here, enjoy this recycled** meme.
---
* Not to be confused with tlapd, the Tlapka daemon.
** No source, no attribution. It's basically pirated, innit?
![Pirate Meme, 4 panels
Pirate 1: The cannons be ready, captain.
Captain: Are*
Pirate 1: What be our orders now?
Captain: Are*
Pirate 1: Why is he always so grumpy?
Pirate 2: I'm sure he has his reasons but he never says what they be!
[Final shot of the captain, alone, with his arms spread out in a wide gesture]
Captain: ARRRRRRE*
(Note: an asterisk (*) is a customary indicator in real-time chat to signify that it is a correction to the previous message. (Whether from oneself or somebody else.))](https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/111/093/115/896/524/855/original/60bd994fcbe90181.jpg "Pirate Meme, 4 panels
Pirate 1: The cannons be ready, captain.
Captain: Are*
Pirate 1: What be our orders now?
Captain: Are*
Pirate 1: Why is he always so grumpy?
Pirate 2: I'm sure he has his reasons but he never says what they be!
[Final shot of the captain, alone, with his arms spread out in a wide gesture]
Captain: ARRRRRRE*
(Note: an asterisk (*) is a customary indicator in real-time chat to signify that it is a correction to the previous message. (Whether from oneself or somebody else.))")
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Our latest blog post dives into the funding of the Snikket project. Funding open-source is rarely easy. Grants, donations, sponsorships - we've tried them all 🙂
https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-2023-funding/
#xmpp #snikket #opensource #funding
State of Snikket 2023: Funding
A look at the various ways work on Snikket is funded - past, present and future.snikket.org
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Never in my life would I expected a cybersecurity issue (at least not a non-food safety issue) to result in a food recall
Add this to your risk assessments
reshared this
Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥 reshared this.
RECALL.
Paw Patrol snacks from Lidl.
All Butter Mini Biscotti Biscuits, Choc Chip Mini Biscotti Biscuits, Yummy Bake Bars Raspberry Flavour, Yummy Bake Bars Apple Flavour.
Website URL published on packaging has been compromised and contains explicit content unsuitable for children.
Refrain from viewing the website and return product to the nearest Lidl store for a full refund.
Photo of biscuit packages with dogs.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Heads-up the @matrix website Atom feed now only returns the last 15 entries.
It previously returned all the articles since 2014, weighing a whopping 13MB that caused issues with some RSS readers.
I'm aware Inoreader doesn't reflect new entries since July, I'm reaching out to fix the problem on either side
reshared this
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people.
Guess what?
"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."
Congrats to my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao on this study.
#Unhoused #CashTransfers #UBC #IRES
A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on.
A new B.C.-based study undercuts the persistent stereotype that homeless people can't be trusted with cash, according to the lead researcher who says it also highlights a different way to respond to the crisis.Lisa Steacy (CTV News)
Daniel Wurzbacher likes this.
reshared this
Bob Jonkman reshared this.
Helping people is just so much smarter than criminalizing them in every single way.
I am pleased for the fifty folks who are, despite their disguises, still our neighbours, neighbours who were stripped through wage theft, grocery price theft, billionaires buying up homes, and the liberal government now in year thirty of their forgeting to build housing or even help coops.
The un-Housed are just neighbours stripped of their homes by the infernal machinery eating our paychecks, food budgets and rent.
Its systematic. Arranged.
Daniel Wurzbacher likes this.
Hubert Chathi reshared this.
Several years in the making, GitLab is now very actively implementing #ActivityPub! 🙌
https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247
The end-goal is to support AP for merge requests (aka pull requests), meaning git.alice.dev can send a merge request to gitlab.com/Bob/project.git
First bite-sized todo on the implementation path there is ‘subscribe to project releases’.
Smart move by #GitLab; through ActivityPub they’re getting a distributed version of GitHub’s social layer.
@fediversenews #fediverse #GitHub #git
Support ActivityPub for merge requests (&11247) · Epics · GitLab.org · GitLab
Gitlab/ActivityPub Design Documents by @oelmekki The goal of those documents is...GitLab
like this
reshared this
Santiago
•Boud
•@santiagofn
Are there any plans to package fractal [1] for Mobian/Debian [2] or other GNU/Linux OSes? In other words, contribute to upstream fixes for the dependencies, getting them individually to FOSS packaging standards, and integrating into GNU/Linux.
Flatpak is a problem in terms of security, privacy, licensing, long-term maintenance and its impact on the wider #FOSS ecosystem [3].
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/fractal
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29316024
GNOME / fractal · GitLab
GitLabAlexandre Franke
•Boud
•@santiagofn
Bypassing the theoretical for/against Flatpak discussion, as someone pointed out privately (thanks!), it looks like there *is* an ongoing Debian packaging effort [5], active as of October 2023. It seems like the number of rust "crates" with done or todo packaging is in the 100s. So Debian-level bug reports for these 100s of dependencies will be postable and pushed upstream where appropriate (in principle).
#GordianKnot
[5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900928
#900928 - RFP: fractal -- Matrix.org messaging app for GNOME written in Rust - Debian Bug report logs
bugs.debian.orgAlexandre Franke
•Boud
•Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth
•🍒🌳 Hartmut Goebel
•@afranke @boud @santiagofn
Myles124
•Alexandre Franke
•Boud
•@Myles124
See [3].
A .deb format package in itself does not help with privacy/security. However, the full package of files that are accepted through the multiple auto+human checks and packaging standards of the Debian community would help in terms of modularity, transparency and system robustness in checking the privacy and security of all the dependencies (see e.g. [4]). This contributes to the wider FOSS ecosystem, way beyond Debian.
@santiagofn @afranke
[4] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nheko
nheko - Debian Package Tracker
tracker.debian.orgMyles124
•Alexandre Franke
•Not quite right. The team would really rather not have downstreams. Technically free to, but pretty please don’t.
Nah :tg_rose:
•Saying that Flatpak is a problem in terms of security and maintenance, and then linking the 2021 ludocode article that was already disproven and explained several times... you really make it hard to be taken seriously.
I link you one of the responses to the article you shared: https://tesk.page/2022/05/16/response-to-flatpak-is-not-the-future.html
Response to “Flatpak Is Not the Future”
TheEvilSkeletonAlexandre Franke
•Mattias Bengtsson
•nezo++*
•Alexandre Franke
•Myles124
•Jaiden
•Powersource
•Shakil Akhtar
•And thanks a lot.
Raichu :blobfoxcomputer:
•Štěpán Škorpil :skorpil_cz:
•👍
Samuele
•Lorenz
•Paarth :verified:
•bhyoram
•Sorunome
•Alexandre Franke
•immaculate taste
•Alexandre Franke
•Flathub is still showing the previous one, CDN just needs some time to catch up.
app icon: minor style and polish updates, add source svg (!1240) · Merge requests · GNOME / fractal · GitLab
GitLabThe Trans Bus 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚌
•