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This is outrageous and dangerous. People in China are now required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services.
https://bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50587098
.onion: https://www.bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion/news/world-asia-china-50587098
Hello, have you seen the latest news about Matrix? Time to read This Week in Matrix! https://matrix.org/blog/2019/11/29/this-week-in-matrix-2019-11-29/ iOS clients, job openings, big progress on the IRC bridge and much more #decentralisation #decentralization #twim #matrix
U.S. students hold 'Black Friday strike,' Paris demonstrators target Amazon with 'Block Friday'. Against the backdrop of the Black Friday shopping frenzy, activists around the world are protesting consumerism and its impact on the climate ahead of the United Nations climate summit next week.www.cbc.ca
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Happy Tuesday, Synapse 1.6.0 has arrived. Includes filtering by labels, a new default room version and all the usual bug fixes and perf improvements. https://matrix.org/blog/2019/11/26/synapse-1-6-0-released/
After a lot of combined effort by the F-Droid community and the jitsi team the #Jitsi Meet app is now finally available on F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.jitsi.meet/
🎉 🎉 🎉
I'm in "This Week in Matrix" today!
We are talking about my Prototype fund project building a replacement for google cloud messaging on android. https://matrix.org/blog/2019/11/22/this-week-in-matrix-2019-11-22/
Hello Decentralisation-fans! Get the latest news about Matrix from This Week in Matrix! https://matrix.org/blog/2019/11/22/this-week-in-matrix-2019-11-22/ SDK updates, news about the next Synapse release, an interview with the creator of OpenPush, a project designed to replace Android FCM and more!
Well here we go, a Synapse release candidate fresh from the press. 1.6.0rc1 contains federation support for cross signing, version 5 rooms by default and prep for database sharding. Check it out if you would like to help us test https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.6.0rc1
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Synapse 1.6.0rc1 (2019-11-20)
Features
Add federation support for cross-signing. (#5727)
Get the latest news from the Matrix project and ecosystem - also the return of Matrix Live, with a chat (ha!) with the author of Ditto Chat, a new React Native client https://matrix.org/blog/2019/11/15/this-week-in-matrix-2019-11-15/
The ACLU and EFF's victory over causeless searches of phones and laptops at the US border is a great step in the fight for digital freedom.Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
BOSTON—In a major victory for privacy rights at the border, a federal court in Boston ruled today that suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices by federal agents at airports and other U.S. ports of entry are unconstitutional. The ruling came in a lawsuit, Alasaad v. McAleenan, filed...www.eff.org
A good opportunity to highlight the decentralization of the protocol :)
There are so many easy ways to setup a synapse server nowadays, from your managed setup: https://modular.im
Over the official Ansible playbook:
https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
To my very personal (undocumented) playbook:
https://git.shivering-isles.com/shivering-isles/infrastructure/tree/master/roles/matrix
Definitely worth looking into that.
#matrix #federation #selfhosting
http://matrix.org homeserver is still suffering badly from IO problems. we’re trying to accelerate the migration to the new datacentre. sorry for the outage :(
