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I'm looking for Free Software success stories in 2020, especially in the education area. Do you know schools which started to organize their home schooling efforts with Free Software during the pandemic? Please share it here: https://community.fsfe.org/t/free-software-in-eductaion-success-stories-2020/573 #Education #fsfe #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
You can use Mastodon to add comments to your static blog engine.
https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/ #webdev #fediverse
Automattic has a pretty cool job going for work on integrating WordPress with matrix. They're looking for someone capable of working on multiple programming languages, especially PHP and JavaScript.
https://automattic.com/work-with-us/matrix-integrations-engineer/
#jobs #SituationsVacant #NowHiring
#Automattic #WordPress #matrix
The 2020 Matrix Holiday Special is here!! Looking back on 2020, looking forward to 2021 with some mad ranting about how amazing Spaces are going to be :D Thanks to all for using and supporting Matrix throughout this nightmare year - happy holidays!! π ππhttps://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-special-2020
More Xmas presents from KDE: Say hello to NeoChat, the new instant messaging app for the Matrix network. Find out how it works on mobile and desktops, learn about its cool features and how you can contribute to its success in the launch announcement.
https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/23/announcing-neochat-1.0-the-kde-matrix-client/
This Week in Matrix 2020-12-18 | Matrix.org
Amazing demo of Spaces in this episode! This is going to be huge for #productivity and managing a #community ... space. Also, first #encrypted messages over #MLS!
Big news in cryptography! Sequoia PGP v1.0 has been released. This is an alternative implementation of OpenPGP (Pretty Good Privacy) standard, as compared to GnuPG. Besides being written in #rustlang, it takes a library-first approach. https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2020/12/16/202012-1.0/
EMS brings more interoperability to messaging
Bridge all the things!
#element #telegramEMS brings more interoperability to messaging
EMS is now providing hosting for a fully managed bridge for Telegram that supports both direct and group messaging.element.io
Today we celebrate #HumanRightsDay
Passed exactly 72 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights memorializes the basic notion that fundamental freedoms, including privacy, expression, and access to information, are essential for people all over the world.
FluffyChat 0.23.0 is out now with password recovery options and a lot of minor fixes and UX improvements. Now also available on Flathub!! π Learn more at: https://fluffychat.im
Any #nodejs developers interested in taking up this challenge?
Build #yarn 1.x with #babel 7.x
Yarn 2.x already moved to babel 7.x but there is no stable release for yarn 2.x and it is completely different from yarn 1.x.
This will help us ship yarn in #debian (we already moved everything else to babel 7.x but could not port this yet) for next stable release bullseye.
It would be useful to nodejs developers to make initial installation of yarn easy.
According to the FTC, Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years. This is one of the obvious perils of nonfree software: you can't verify that the software isn't abusing you, you just have to take their word. https://u.fsf.org/371Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
Democrats blast FTC/Zoom settlement because users won't get compensation.arstechnica.com
Let's give a shoutout to the ftp-master team for crushing it on the NEW queue https://ftp-master.debian.org/stat.html
Open Tech Will Save Us is a virtual meetup, taking the form of a monthly live video stream broadcasting on the second Wednesday of every month at 5pm UTCmatrix.org
Did we mention backdoors are a terrible idea?
RT @TheRegister@twitter.com
NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors β but we can't say how exactly https://reg.cx/3nnW
π¦π: https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1321599451870486528
The EU Council is pushing for encryption backdoors to messenger apps such as WhatsApp and Signal to fight terrorism (German article): https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/
Despite the fact that errors of investigation in Austrian authorities had made the attack possible in the first place and not a lack of digital surveillance powers. Politicians must start to understand that more surveillance will not lead to more security. That's why we fight any attempt for an encryption backdoor: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk/
Open Tech Will Save Us #8 will take place on Wednesday! Hear from @Info_Activism@twitter.com on misinformation, CHATONS (initiated by Framasoft), and our own uhoreg on the state of #encryption in Matrix (it's pretty good!) https://matrix.org/open-tech-will-save-us/
Open Tech Will Save Us is a virtual meetup, taking the form of a monthly live video stream broadcasting on the second Wednesday of every month at 5pm UTCmatrix.org
YES! KDE gonna have its own Matrix client.
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-11-apps-update/
RT @lawik@twitter.com
This is very interesting to me. Very curious about Matrix and would love to see this move into making a server. #elixirlang #matrix #element https://simplabs.com/blog/2020/11/02/bringing-matrix-to-elixir/
π¦π: https://twitter.com/lawik/status/1324223396427816960
Thanks to @debian 's β¬10,000 donation (and not ,000 as announced a few hours ago), we've just reached the 4th step of our PeerTube fundraising. Many thanks to all those who donated. And it's not too late to contribute : https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap
Thanks to @debian for their ,000 contribution to the #roadmap to #PeerTube v3!
https://bits.debian.org/2020/10/debian-donation-peertube.html
With this great recognition from the Debian Project, the β¬60,000 to fund live in PeerTube are almost reached. To contribute: https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap/
Penny Arcade nailed it with their take on the Google omnipresence: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/10/21 #antitrust #GAFAM #chatons
Debian donation for Peertube development https://bits.debian.org/2020/10/debian-donation-peertube.html
Last Sunday the UK/US/CA/AU/NZ/IN/JP govts issued a statement asking tech companies to add backdoors into E2E encryption. This is a big deal: unfortunately *backdoors do not work*. Read about our alternative: combating abuse via decentralised reputation.π https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors
After a rather twisty journey we are overexcited to declare that Dendrite (the next-gen Golang homeserver from the core Matrix team) has officially entered beta!! π Don't trust it with your data yet, but please spin up an instance & help us hunt the bugs! https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/08/dendrite-is-entering-beta
Participants found housing faster, boosted food security and reduced spending on substances, study foundwww.cbc.ca
BIG NEWS: Huge welcome to @gitchat@twitter.com, who are entering Matrix!! Gitter is moving from @gitlab@twitter.com to @element_hq@twitter.com & building the ultimate Matrix bridge, showcasing how a large chat app can natively talk Matrix, while bringing Gitter goodness to Element! πππ https://matrix.org/blog/2020/09/30/welcoming-gitter-to-matrix
Element secure messenger review | TechRadar
Element is a genuinely interesting and appealing secure messaging platform that will appeal to individual users and businesses alike. It's reliable, it comes with just about all the features that you're likely to need, it's simple to set up, and it has some of the best security and privacy features in the business β if you want to escape the clutches of the big tech giants, this is well worth a look.https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/element-secure-messenger-review
#opensource #teamtools #collaboration #element #security #privacy #encryption
