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Emad Elawwad is co-owner of Big Bite Pita, a year-old Middle Eastern restaurant in St. John's that offers free food to the hungry one hour daily. Elawwad says the offer started after a man walked into the shop with $3 and asked him what he could buy for that amount. 'I told him to keep the money and get what you want.' ...www.cbc.ca
Happy 9th Birthday Friendica!
Festive Flaxy O’Hare by @lightone
9 years ago, on July 1st 2010, Mike MacGirvin committed his initial work on what would become Friendica.
Since it has gone through many changes, PHP version, maintainers, name even, but it is still alive and kicking and ready for its tenth years running.
Thanks to everyone who has donated or still donate their time to make Friendica and especially to make Friendica available by running public nodes.
Here’s to another great year for Friendica!
https://friendi.ca/2019/07/01/happy-9th-birthday-friendica/
FSF's John Sullivan in @WIRED on the Microsoft ebook apocalypse: “This is why we call #DRM media and devices defective by design, or broken from the beginning. There’s self-destruction built into the whole concept.” https://u.fsf.org/2v4 https://u.fsf.org/dbdA Costly Reminder That You Don't Own Those Ebooks
Microsoft has closed its ebook store—and will soon make its customers' libraries disappear along with it.www.wired.com
SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.gist.github.com
Matrix Live 🎙 Matthew & Amandine talk to Ross Schulman; new Matrix.org Foundation Guardian! Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡 Hottest GovTech…matrix.org
Yay! Congrats for #NewVector for winning The Europas hottest #GovTech award 🎉
https://twitter.com/NewVectorHQ/status/1144383786303524869
#publicsector #europe #tech #startups
This is an update on the state of Matrix-related software in Debian. Synapse Unfortunately, the recently published Synapse 1.0 didn’t make it into Debian Buster, which is due to be released next week, so if you install 0.99.2 from Buster, you need to update to a …matrix-team.pages.debian.net
Save the date! We plan to release Debian 10 Buster on 2019-07-06 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/06/msg00003.html
Matrix version 1.0 has been released! We think Matrix is already so good that you could host it on a home server and use it to replace Whatsapp.
We even made a video tutorial!
📺 VIDEO: "FreedomBox Tutorial: Setting Up a Chat Server with Matrix and Riot"
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/18d46a5f-ec0b-4e70-809b-24c5c34e8d65
Matrix 1.0, Synapse 1.0 and the Matrix Foundation
We are very excited to announce the first fully stable release of the #Matrix protocol and specification across all APIs - as well as the Synapse 1.0 reference implementation which implements the full Matrix 1.0 API surface.
This means that after just over 5 years since the initial work on Matrix began, we are proud to have finally exited beta!! This is the conclusion of the work which we announced at FOSDEM 2019 when we cut the first stable release of the Server-Server API and began the Synapse 0.99 release series in anticipation of releasing a 1.0.
https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/11/introducing-matrix-1-0-and-the-matrix-org-foundation
https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/11/synapse-1-0-0-released
#opensource #protocol #teamtools #awesomeIntroducing Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation | Matrix.org blog
Matrix 1.0 Hi all, We are very excited to announce the first fully stable release of the Matrix protocol and specification across all APIs…matrix.org
The German Ministry of the Interior wants to force WhatsApp, Threema and Apple to decrypt encrypted messages. But a backdoor for the "good guys" only is impossible.tutanota.com
Diabetics are lining up to buy old insulin pumps that enable them to better manage their blood sugar via #OpenAPS. The software in personal medical devices must be free, so that modification like this does not depend on use of bugs:People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps
How an obsolete medical device with a security flaw became a must-have for some patients with type 1 diabeteswww.theatlantic.com
For more than 50 years, our sale has brought volunteer supporters and businesses together with buyers who care about poverty, peace and global needs. With over 40 venues supported by 2,000 volunteers, the relief sale is a remarkable community event and a beautiful expression of community compassion. Since 1967, over $14,000,000 have been raised, wi...nhmrs.com
Hi all, After lots of refinements, polishing and a few distractions we’re finally at the point of announcing the final timeline for both…matrix.org
I'm *really* not happy about the #Github #Sponsors project (https://github.com/sponsors).
It'll bind a lot of open source project much more strongly to github's closed, proprietary ecosystem if that's where they have any chance of getting some money.
It's so hypocritical that soo many #FOSS projects are hosted on a non-free platform. With #Gitlab there's even a superior just as easy to use alternative there.
And most people are celebrating this move by github 😢.
In February, Riot 1.0 was released, which featured a brand new verification system for device keys. The Android and iOS versions of Riot also recently included the new verification system. Key verification is an important part of ensuring that encrypted messages are only read by the people whom you want to be able to read. With emoji verification, ...www.uhoreg.ca
Delays have dogged the light rail project, which is now almost two years behind the original schedule for service to start.www.therecord.com
