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From CTV Kitchener: The Beaver Creek Housing Co-Op celebrated paying off their 35-year mortgage with Waterloo politicians and residents.kitchener.ctvnews.ca
NEWS: The "FreedomBox for Communities" e-book has been published to Wikibooks!
This e-book teaches readers how to build a community-wide implementation of #FreedomBox. It was written by the same people who installed FreedomBoxes in rural India.
Details: https://freedomboxfoundation.org/news/freedombox_wikibook/
RT @[email protected]
We're gearing up to implement all new UX for E2E encryption, including cross-signing (yay!!!), trust-on-first-use, E2E search, and then at last E2E-by-default! We're also making the leap to @[email protected] for our UI/UX work, which is proving incredibly fun :D Here's a sneak peek...
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RiotChat/status/1174973541579550726
Happy Friday? It definitely is! Check out This Week in Matrix, it's got all the latest news about #matrix and #decentralisation, and features a great video chat about progress and plans for bridging with Slack, IRC and more https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/20/this-week-in-matrix-2019-09-20 PLUS new server ranking table!
How was your week? This Week in Matrix we're celebrating being included in Mozilla's shortlist of IM systems, looking forward to improved Slack bridging (1.0 incoming!) and MORE! Go read: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/13/this-week-in-matrix-2019-09-13
Don’t get trapped by your office suite! Some software vendors are pushing users towards online subscription models – but LibreOffice is different. It's free, it doesn't require registration or yearly payments, and it gives you control over your documents: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/08/27/dont-get-trapped-by-your-office-suite/
26 years strong! Happy Anniversary! Happy #DebianDay!
Debian celebrates 26 years! https://bits.debian.org/2019/08/debian-turns-26.html
Synapse 1.3.0 released
#matrix
posted by pod_feeder_v2Synapse 1.3.0 released | Matrix.org
Well now, Synapse 1.3.0 is here. The main thing to know about 1.3.0 is that is contains performance improvements to reduce disk I/O and…matrix.org
stretch-backports is based on buster, so it won’t contain anything newer than what’s in buster.Really? I didn't know this, are you sure there are rules like that? This would kind of make oldstable-backports kind of an obsolete project?
Official Matrix Merch Now Available
https://matrix.org/blog/2019/08/09/official-matrix-merch-now-available
That hoodie is awesome btw, love it
#matrix #swagOfficial Matrix Merch Now Available | Matrix.org
Here at Matrix we’re frequently asked for official merch. While those who choose to sponsor Matrix development on Patreon have always been…matrix.org
An official report for the Dutch government concluded:
“(Microsoft Office) systematically collects data on a large scale ... covertly, without informing people. … Microsoft does not offer any choice with regard to the amount of data, or possibility to switch off the collection.”
Don't use Microsoft Office, use LibreOffice instead 👍
It's free, open and you can get it here:
https://libreoffice.org
You can follow them on here:
@libreoffice
#MicrosoftOffice #Alternatives #LibreOffice
Revealed: Microsoft contractors are listening to some Skype calls. Yet another daily violation of your privacy!Revealed: Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls
Documents, screenshots, and audio obtained by Motherboard show that humans listen to Skype calls made using the app's translation function.www.vice.com
If you use Firefox or Chrome, we developed an easy way you can help people bypass censorship.
Our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects Tor users in censored regions to the Tor network. https://snowflake.torproject.org/
Today is National Whistleblower Day in the US.
We're proud the Tor network is the backbone of other tools like SecureDrop, GlobaLeaks, & Méxicoleaks that allow whistleblowers to communicate with less risk. https://blog.torproject.org/italian-anti-corruption-authority-anac-adopts-onion-services #OnionizeTheWeb
matrix-js-bot-sdk Room Admin Features | Matrix
https://matrix.org/docs/guides/matrix-js-bot-sdk-room-admin-features
#matrix #javascript #sdkmatrix-js-bot-sdk Room Admin Features | Matrix.org
Intro matrix-js-bot-sdk has features which enable bots to perform administration of Matrix roooms - tasks like kicking, banning and…matrix.org
Why do we care about encryption? Why was it a big deal, at least in theory, when Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this year that Facebook would move to end-to-end encryption on all three of its messaging platforms? We don’t just support encryption for its own sake. We fight for it because...www.eff.org
Plasma reaches amazing places! Take the Large Hadron Collider's smaller sibling: the ALBA synchrotron.
Sergi Blanch-Torné, Controls Software Engineer, explains how ALBA provides insight into biology, nanotechnology, and more using KDE's software:
https://dot.kde.org/2019/07/19/powered-plasma-alba-synchrotron-barcelona-spain
