marc0s @marc0s@librem.one

Work on Gajim 1.4 is making big steps forward! 🚀 After nine months of developing Gajim’s new main window, the code was finally ready to be merged into the master branch. This enables automatic builds of nightlies for Linux and Windows.

#xmpp #chat #foss

https://gajim.org/post/2022-01-22-development-news-december-january/

#TIL a little trick to keep Windows machines away from your wifi network: just use a non-ASCII character (áÿûò, etc) in the WPA key!

Turns out that even though the standard states keys must contain only ASCII characters, Linux, Android and even Apple devices will happily accept keys with such characters. Windows, correctly following the standard, doesn't.

So, you can finally show your Windows-toting friends that *their* machines don't work instead of your beautiful Linux ones on your network😂

Great news everyone!

It's time for an #ONLYOFFICE Docs 7.0 giveaway.

Three people will get a free #ONLYOFFICE Docs Home Server with the new version. Just boost this message to participate.

We will announce randomly chosen winners on Friday, January 21.

Version 7.0 in our blog: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2022/01/onlyoffice-docs-7-0/

TIL about https://lichess.org/ , one of the world's most popular chess servers, run entirely on free software by a nonprofit, ad-free, supported by donations with a budget of ~$420K/year according to https://lichess.org/costs

They've been around since 2010.

As awesome as this is to see, imagine how many free/open nonprofit alternatives to Big Tech platforms would exist if, down to the municipal level, we decided to support them with funding & infrastructure.

Portfolio - an upcoming Pixelfed feature that allows users to create their own portfolio website that best represents them and their work.

No likes, comments or other social aspects. Just your content.

Hand pick a selection of public posts or use the most recent. Select a fixed width or full width layout. Choose a grid or masonry feed. Hide or show post captions, license, location, timestamp and the original post link.

Make it your own by customizing your settings! Shipping soon. #pixelfed

Wordle with prime numbers, why not
https://github.andrewt.net/primal/

If you self-host a Snikket server, we released a security update today that you should be aware of... for more details check our blog post: https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-jan-2021-security-release/

If we want everyday people to seize the means of communication, we should ensure that those means are easy to hold.

#design #SmallWeb #web0

For me a fixed IP address and symmetric upload/download speeds for domestic internet connections are the forgotten part of #NetNeutrality , killed by brutal „IP“ lobbyism since the 1990s. 2/2

One of the main reasons we don’t have a truly decentralised internet is actually really simple: it’s the fact that providers globally don’t give us symmetric upload/download speeds and fixed IP addresses at home. Kills decentralisation at the root. 1/2

You want people to run their own servers? Design and build servers for individuals, not communities and let communities arise from the interconnections between those servers.

Why?

Because that’s the only way we can compete on ease of use with centralised systems. Not by mimicking their complexity but by side-stepping it. There is orders of magnitude difference in complexity between a system designed to serve just one and one designed to serve one, two, or a hundred thousand.

#SmallWeb #web0

Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)

Bernaxerka web jolasa:
https://berbaxerka.gitlab.io/

Informazio gehiago: https://sustatu.eus/1641464629 #euskara #jolasa

RT @jonathanmartinz@twitter.com

Un abrazo a la familia de Rosa Zarra, que murió en 1995 "por causas naturales" después de recibir el impacto de una pelota de goma de la Ertzaintza.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jonathanmartinz/status/1476661714661822465

Eguna ukatzen zaigunoi: urte berri on, lagunok! 🌜

Etxebizitza. Lurra. Lana. Ogia. Osasuna. Hezkuntza. Independentzia. Demokrazia. Askatasuna. Justizia. Bakea.

2022 berri honi gutxiago eskatzea, atzera egitea litzateke.

Guretzat ezer. Dena denontzat. 🖤❤️

December #Prosody trunk update:
No 0.12 release yet!

A new setting to easily configure TLS security and compatibly level: `tls_preset = "modern" | "intermediate" | "old"` based on #mozilla recommendations

New module and API for recurring tasks (e.g. cleanup jobs): mod_cron

New module to prevent registration of deleted accounts, as they might retain group memberships on remote instances: mod_tombstones

Many other minor tweaks and polish.
69 files changed, 2707 insertions(+), 579 deletions(-)

Goals for 2022:

- Stay alive

Thank you.

📈 A total of €611k has been donated through Liberapay this year. That's twice as much as in 2020. 🙂

The amount of things I have done either wrong or even wronger this year is astonishing.

If you can take only one lesson from Log4j, make it this:

In-band signaling will screw you, every time.