Paul Tötterman @ptman@librem.one

Huge improvements on http://matrix.org's federation performance since we switched over to pyston on May 20th :D

I would **REALLY** like to know how Keybase uploads 60 GB of data when I downloaded 2 GB.

Seriously.

https://harihareswara.net/posts/2021/if-you-give-a-speech-you-care-about-post-a-transcript/ If you give speeches that you're proud of, that you want people to think about & pass along so they can keep influencing people, you should get transcripts up ASAP.

Re-publicizing this post because friends are giving talks soon that I want to read!

Or in general the mindset of almost all political and economical leaders, and most people seem to buy into this based on the lack of demand for action.

#climatechange #politics #economics

I like how every HN thread about a smart contract gone wrong includes the comment "you can write a smart contract that doesn't have this bug." I wonder why more people aren't writing the smart contracts without bugs.

RT @shalzzj@twitter.com

Lately I found myself using and switching between 6+ chatting apps 🥴

This lead to quite a bit of mental context switching overhead and with no single place to manage every app's notifications.

I thought there has to be a better way...

1/7

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/shalzzj/status/1499689706367643649

Austrian DSB: Use of Google Analytics violates "Schrems II" decision by CJEU. - https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-analytics-illegal "This is a very detailed and sound decision. The bottom line is: Companies can't use US cloud services in Europe anymore." huge #gdpr

RT @Sami_Lehtinen@twitter.com

A new open #Matrix #server for all #Finnish users. Instant #messenger with global open #federation. https://pikaviestin.fi @matrixdotorg@twitter.com @pikaviestin@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Sami_Lehtinen/status/1471510924070572043

Ihan hyvä että tähänkin kiinnitetään huomiota. Asiakkaana tuollasta on vaikea paljstaa, oisko joku työntekijä paljastanut väärinkäytöksen. https://tietosuoja.fi/-/yritykselle-huomautus-asiakkaiden-henkilotietojen-valittamisesta-tyontekijoiden-henkilokohtaisiin-puhelimiin-whatsappilla #whatsapp

Swedish government agencies say energy-intensive crypto mining should be banned
https://www.fi.se/en/published/presentations/2021/crypto-assets-are-a-threat-to-the-climate-transition--energy-intensive-mining-should-be-banned/

Please, don't panic: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been published on October 12, 1979.

Exactly 42 years ago 🙊

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was published 42 years ago today.

Incredibly exciting to get official confirmation that Germany's health service (@gematik1@twitter.com) has standardised on Matrix for secure decentralised communications, targeting all 150,000 healthcare organisations in Germany(!!!) 🤯 Read all about it at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthcare-system-adopts-matrix 💉🇩🇪🚀

#Suomi be like.

#ilmastokriisi #ilmastonmuutos #politiikka #autoennentulevaisuutta

We know it’s been a while, but Dendrite 0.4.0 has finally been released! 💪 New state storage, improved appservice/bridging support, better CPU/memory utilisation and a whole list of fixes made and bugs squashed. Read the blog post for more details: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/12/dendrite-0-4-0-released

I use Ansible, but I do not cherish it.

A "Sponsored-by" header for git commit messages.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2021/05/26/sponsored-by/

andrew lee just seized over 700 channels on freenode because they mentioned libera.chat in their topic.

This includes projects like openbsd, wikimedia, FOSDEM, etc.

https://archive.is/uHw1g shows 720 channels that match what is being checked.

here's an example log: https://gist.github.com/pushcx/ab2a1d5b1d18e964c581ef18ccb3a79f

boost this if you care about foss in any way.

RT @Pinboard
For Bitcoin, the maximum transaction rate is something like four transactions a second, *globally*. And each transaction burns as much electricity as an American home does in four weeks.