keverets @keverets@librem.one

If you run a synapse matrix homserver, you should plan some time to update it next Tuesday: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/11/18/pre-disclosure-upcoming-security-release-of-synapse-1-47-1

While I'm sending out reminders for my various co-op pipe dreams: anyone want to start an #XMPP server run as a platform co-op? We've got a mailing list and chat room, but we need a wider skill set represented before we can reasonably get started! DM me for details! #coops

We released version 1.4 of Briar ✨ 🎉 🥳 🎈
• Share the app with people nearby without internet access
• Exchange encrypted messages via SD cards and USB sticks

https://briarproject.org/news/2021-briar-1.4-released/

Today's irritation is an electric toothbrush that needs a new battery, and there's no way to open it non-destructively.

@snikket_im

if your looking for a simple to setup complete messaging product , then I cannot recommend Snikket enough .

*Simple setup for video calls and instant messaging
*Brilliant docs
*Great advice/support from the team on the chat group

If your thinking of self hosting an XMPP server this should be your first stop .

A Linux distribution with the /e/ ecosystem and Android applications. Nice review at @TechRepublic

"This is truly something no other Linux "cloudified" desktop has ever achieved and it's pretty amazing."

#mydataismydata

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-finally-has-an-impressive-cloud-like-os-in-ubuntu-web/

Never indicate semantic differences with only color. Always use the trifecta of color, shape, and text. This way, people who can't distinguish colors see shapes and people who can't see shapes can hear text.

Add texture where that's possible.

"If it's free, you are the product" stopped being true once the rest of the companies saw how much money there was in selling customer data. Now you are the product regardless of whether you pay.

Well, there it is: Block view-source, block save page, on track to be accepted in to Chrome.

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3260807

Centralised messenger Signal has just announced that they are making part of their server software closed source. They claim it is to fight spam, but by using closed source they make it impossible for outsiders to verify the truth. This is worrying.

We really, really need a fully open, decentralised alternative to Signal.

There are several alternatives being developed, please support them:

➡️ @snikket_im

➡️ @xmpp

➡️ @matrix

➡️ @delta

➡️ @briar

➡️ @Jami

#Signal #Alternatives #Privacy

Can you imagine how many years of email admin lives would be saved and how simpler their lives would be if people simply did not send emails to #gmail and #hotmail ????

google and microsoft are like two of the biggest offenders when it comes to email, bullying smaller services. And yet every email sysadmin has to work to comply with google and MS rules.

thanks zoom, now please use jitsi everyone

RT @TechCrunch@twitter.com

Zoom is piloting ads for free users https://tcrn.ch/3BFZ4qp by @aiishamalik1@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/1455544671279718412