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New blog post! It's a quick overview over the different keys involved in #matrix 's new cross signing. https://jcg.re/blog/quick-overview-matrix-cross-signing/
Come and read This Week in Matrix! New editions of Dendrite, Mirage, FluffyChat and more... PLUS a great Matrix Live with @photomatt@twitter.com - learn more about the Automattic investment! https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/22/this-week-in-matrix-2020-05-22
We’re incredibly excited to welcome @automattic@twitter.com, creators of @WordPress@twitter.com, to the Matrix ecosystem with a strategic investment of ~M into @NewVectorHQ@twitter.com to support Matrix development and embrace decentralisation! Read all about it at https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/welcoming-automattic-to-matrix 🎉🎊😱🚀
We have resolved our patent case with Rothschild Patent Imaging. We thank our pro-bono counsel - Shearman & Sterling LLP for representing us.
https://gnome.org/news/2020/05/patent-case-against-gnome-resolved/
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource
If you weren't able to join us live for Open Tech Will Save Us #2, remember you can still watch the stream recording - catch up with Mike Hoye, Eugen from Mastodon and a cracking Dendrite demo (it's working well!) #matrix #otwsu https://youtu.be/O3YP1TU-L_8?t=75
Welcome to our SIX #GSOC students for 2020! https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/11/annoucing-gsoc-2020-participants
Very much looking forward to this Wednesday, when we'll host the second Open Tech Will Save Us event! @Gargron - creator of Mastodon! - will join us for a Q&A about scaling Mastodon.social, while @mhoye from Mozilla will present about "Verbs in the fediverse". Plus, more to be announced! https://matrix.org/open-tech-meetup/
RT @RiotChat@twitter.com
Riot Web/Desktop 1.6 + RiotX Android 0.19 + Riot iOS 0.11 IS HERE!!! E2E Encryption by default, Cross-signing & QR-codes for Device Verification, All New E2EE UI/UX + SO MUCH MORE making this our biggest release EVER! E2E will never be the same again 🎉🚀🍾https://blog.riot.im/e2e-encryption-by-default-cross-signing-is-here/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RiotChat/status/1258048257852354560
RT @RiotChat@twitter.com
RIGHT! We have FINAL(?!) release candidates for cross-signing & E2EE-by-default on Riot Web (http://riot.im/staging) Desktop (http://packages.riot.im/nightly) iOS (https://testflight.apple.com/join/lCeTuDKM) & Android (https://buildkite.com/organizations/matrix-dot-org/pipelines/riotx-android/builds/2548/jobs/e13cfc7c-d399-4be8-a6cf-631690e30d41/artifacts/c15e7e4b-47a5-4451-810f-52c6af937ef0) Please test over the weekend and then we should be good to go!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RiotChat/status/1256275701923295233
Huge updates this week in This Week in Matrix! Dendrite supports v5 rooms! Rust homeserver progress! SEVEN clients with news, including e2ee support in gomuks and a big Pattle update! #twim #matrix #decentralized https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/01/this-week-in-matrix-2020-05-01
Last night I released the first version of buildbot-matrix, a plugin for builtbot which adds the ability to send build notifications to a @matrix room.
https://github.com/HayWo/buildbot-matrix
It's great to see people turning to decentralized and self-hosted communication tools at a time when they are more important than ever!
#Prosody installations have doubled since mid-March. We suspect a lot of these are #Jitsi setups, partly fuelled by increasing discomfort with a lack of privacy in centralized commercial services.
Data is from the Debian popcon service, so only represents a small part of the picture (Debian systems that have opted into reporting their package installation and usage data).
RT @RiotChat@twitter.com
Hi all - we've released a fourth release candidate for Riot 1.6 at http://riot.im/staging, incorporating lots of feedback and bug reports from last week's RCs. The more you help test cross-signing & E2EE search (via http://packages.riot.im/nightly) the sooner we'll be able to ship! :D
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RiotChat/status/1253452137113231368
A local grocer is being lauded on social media after giving away groceries to man who was stealing from his store.www.therecord.com
If you're preparing to run an online event, consider using open source tools to run it! Read our guide to running online events now #opensource #decentralization #onlineevents https://matrix.org/docs/guides/running-online-events
This Week in Matrix is now available! All the news on homeservers, cross-signing (OMG SO CLOSE), new terminal client, Doctor Who shenanigans, learn about how state resolution works and MORE! #matrix #twim #stateresolution https://matrix.org/blog/2020/04/17/this-week-in-matrix-2020-04-17
RT @RiotChat@twitter.com
ATTENTION TESTERS! We're in the final phase of E2EE-by-default in Riot 1.6 & just cut our 2nd release candidate! Please help test cross-signing @ https://riot.im/staging + RiotX https://buildkite.com/organizations/matrix-dot-org/pipelines/riotx-android/builds/2395/jobs/46abcbac-5745-4e81-b859-5d9b1faead17/artifacts/c4d7c0d5-8367-442f-9f21-1ea21a438151 and test E2EE search in Desktop Nightly https://packages.riot.im/nightly/install/. Thanks!⏲💣🎉
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RiotChat/status/1250881462066446336
Lots of new homeserver development happening atm - between Dendrite having implemented V2 state res, Conduit rising from Ruma's ashes, and Maelstrom forming too! So no better time to publish a new guide for understanding V2 state res from @neilalexander@twitter.com: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/implementing-stateres
Excellent news - we’ll be hooking this into Matrix’s E2EE as soon as it’s ready, giving full E2EE video conferences at last!!
RT @jitsinews@twitter.com
Straight from the Jitsi kitchen, end-to-end encrypted meetings coming soon: https://jitsi.org/e2ee
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jitsinews/status/1249682190209896448
If you use #jitsimeet installed via #docker, make sure you are not using an insecure standard password:
https://www.golem.de/news/sicherheitsluecke-unsichere-standardpasswoerter-in-jitsi-meet-2004-147840.html
We’re Fixing the Internet. Join Us. - The Mozilla Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/03/30/were-fixing-the-internet-join-us/
#mozilla #internet
Brand new virtual meetup event next week!
Open Tech Will Save Us is a livestreamed event with speakers from Jitsi, IPFS and Matrix.
We'll cover the importance of preserving privacy and ways to keep your communications under control. Read more at https://matrix.org/open-tech-meetup/
@gnome and KDE deepen their commitment to work together and unveil KNOME, a new desktop that brings users the best of both worlds:
https://knome.org
Many proprietary software companies are currently using the extended homeoffice situation of many employees to offer lock-in solutions gratis or even labelling them as "free". But take care to build on Free Software. Else your solution today might turn into a burden tomorrow:
https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200330-01.html
Get the latest news from This Week in Matrix! Lots of new demos in Matrix Live, and a newly annouced client which already supports end-to-end encryption (also news about servers, bots, bridges, clients and more!) https://matrix.org/blog/2020/03/27/this-week-in-matrix-2020-03-27 #twim #decentralization #matrix
RT @wilkieii@twitter.com
Successfully using entirely self-hosted+federated Riot/Matrix/Jitsi/Etherpad/PeerTube to host lectures, teleconference with students, answer questions in chat, and collaboratively edit their code. Write-up is incoming. Once I take a nap.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wilkieii/status/1242186244165193728
I am currently writing a list of good #FreeSoftware solutions for #remote #working in the @fsfe wiki:
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/FreeSoftware4RemoteWorking
I still need to polish the wording but if you already have input for me about what is missing, more sources or any other feedback is very welcome.
Just focus please on software that in particular facilitates remote working not any other usual work-procedures.
Via @EFF: Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software, no encryption allowed. This is the horrifying goal of the "EARN IT" bill:The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software.www.eff.org
Take action against #EarnIt: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-it-barr-encryption/ #Fight4Privacy #Fight4Encryption
Feels like a good time to work for a company that has a fully #remote policy available and that produces team #collaboration tools that enable for example more efficient remote #work.
Lack good tooling? Check out https://modular.im (powered by #Matrix) which comes with #Jitsi powered video #conferencing. And it's all #federated, so you can collaborate with any team using the #Matrix protocol, and beyond with the help of bridges to #Slack and such!
Ps. 20% off for educational institutions for remote schooling, contact for info.Awesome hosting for Matrix | Modular
Modular Hosted Homeservers for Matrix. Harness the power of secure, decentralised chat.modular.im
The http://matrix.org server is seeing its highest traffic levels ever today. We’re battling to keep it performant (via incr optimisations to state res and the multimaster support), but meanwhile you may want to run your own server or get one from @ModularIM@twitter.com, @ungleich@twitter.com etc.
Remote schooling: Health safety measures shouldn’t put our kids’ privacy at risk.
https://blog.vector.im/remote-schooling-health-safety-measures-shouldnt-put-our-kids-privacy-at-risk/
#covid19 #coronavirus #education #remoteschool #opensource #privacyRemote schooling: Health safety measures shouldn’t put our kids’ privacy at risk.
As everyone is taking drastic measures to halt the spread of Covid19, online collaboration is even more of a critical backbone for the world.blog.vector.im
