Paul Tötterman @ptman@librem.one

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.

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