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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 @[email protected]: 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 @[email protected]
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 @[email protected]
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 @[email protected], @[email protected] 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
It seems a lot of people are finding out about http://CryptPad.fr now that their team has transitioned to remote work. Coincidentally, we've been working on a major upgrade to our encrypted kanban app featuring a markdown editor and tagging system for all your tasks. #WFH
Members of Congress have mounted a major threat to your freedom of speech and security online. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently introduced a bill that would undermine key protections for Internet speech in U.S.act.eff.org
Hey all, we've got a small budget for @moodlenet security/privacy consulting. Would appreciate pointers to anyone with the chops (including #ActivityPub experience) who might be able to help audit our repos in the next few weeks/months 🙂
Security scandal around #WhatsApp shows the need for decentralised #FreeSoftware messengers, #OpenStandards in communication, and digital sovereignty
https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200228-01.html #publiccode #FreeYourAndroid
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
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
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
