Paul Tötterman @ptman@librem.one

Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦‍♂️

PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE

And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)

Boost if I'm right.

Got some GNU info manual you want to read but you don't like the info reader? Just pipe it to less:

info grub | less

That spits out the whole manual into the less pager so you can move around like manpages.

Try our app, it's exactly like our website down to the pixel except for how it accesses your contacts, location, microphone, pictures and camera and it's not always nagging you to try our app.

RT @element_hq@twitter.com

👊🇪🇺The Privacy Shield ruling makes decentralised communications all the more relevant; for governments and all organisations with EU operations. Check out analysis by our DPO @denisersalmeida@twitter.com and how @matrixdotorg@twitter.com and Element fit the picture! 🇪🇺 👊

https://element.io/blog/privacy-shield-judgement-points-to-a-decentralised-future/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1292808920042475522

Sharing web pages via screenshots, just as TBL intended.

Did you know that #GDPR allows sites not to announce the use of "essential" cookies? Meaning those your site uses for itself, to keep the user logged in for example.

So when Internet commerce started to slap those stupid "we use cookies" banners on every site they used the more generic word "cookies" to avoid saying outright that their sites use *ad trackers*.

Long story short, if you don't sell your user data, you don't have to present stupid disclaimers.

RT @element_hq@twitter.com

Welcome to Element! We’ve renamed @RiotChat@twitter.com, @NewVectorHQ@twitter.com and @ModularIM@twitter.com as Element and we’re ready to bring decentralised communication to the masses with @matrixdotorg@twitter.com!! Read all about it at https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element 🔥🌊💨🌎️💃🚀🍾

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1283291599846481921

RT @Siftedeu@twitter.com

Exclusive: Slack-rival Element wins largest ever collaborative software deal

The win points to the growing concern about privacy in communications around the world.

https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Siftedeu/status/1283274135913795584

Can we resist the trend of every programming language gradually turning into the same meta-programming language as they all add from the global kitchen sink of language features please

Really excited to share the details of the academic Matrix research that Florian Jacob and team have been up to at KIT DSN - come learn all about how Matrix decomposes over at: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/16/matrix-decomposition-an-independent-academic-analysis-of-matrix-state-resolution 👀🤓👩🏾‍💻

Brilliant project that tidies up public domain ebooks.

Gutenberg and Internet Archive are wonderful resources, but the texts are poorly formatted for actual use, especially on ereaders.

This is a volunteer driven initiative to bring these texts up to date with modern standards and make them look as good as possible on the page.

https://standardebooks.org/

"Imagine if every WP site came with its own Matrix community? Imagine an excellent Matrix client available as a WordPress plugin for embedding realtime chat into your site?"

Love this partnership!

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/welcoming-automattic-to-matrix

Calling your friends and reading them a string of emoji names has to be the silliest form of cryptographic verification I've ever done. Gotta say, I kind of like it.

Well done @matrix !

#matrix

RT @RiotChat@twitter.com

Riot Web/Desktop 1.6 + RiotX Android 0.19 + Riot iOS 0.11 IS HERE!!! E2E Encryption by default, Cross-signing & QR-codes for Device Verification, All New E2EE UI/UX + SO MUCH MORE making this our biggest release EVER! E2E will never be the same again 🎉🚀🍾https://blog.riot.im/e2e-encryption-by-default-cross-signing-is-here/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RiotChat/status/1258048257852354560

RIGHT!!! Riot has turned on End-to-End Encryption by default for all private conversations, and Cross-Signing device verification has landed and is live (and 🤞 performant!) 🎉🎉🎉 Huge amounts of work went into this: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/06/cross-signing-and-end-to-end-encryption-by-default-is-here has the overview.

@kline @sir

1) I'd say something's seriously wrong with your society if you're relying on inheritance to get you out of that situation. Not everyone would be so lucky.

2) A decade after publishing, say, should be plenty of time for you to establish your authorship over a creative work and get a decent income. Though ideally you'd get paid before hand so there's less need for those capitalists to lend you money.

3) O.K., I'll lay off that. Had to get it off my chest again.

The UI/UX department of the future will have only two employees, a hipster and a dog. The hipster will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to bite the hipster if they change the UI/UX.

Overheard on HN

Life is too short to format source code manually.

RT @mmillions@twitter.com

Please don't require the use of proprietary software for your remote #freesoftware and #opensource conferences.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mmillions/status/1247590793969389571