In May and June 2020 we found and removed a group of Tor exit relays that were messing with exit traffic. They left almost all exit traffic alone, and we don't know whether any users were successfully attacked.
https://blog.torproject.org/bad-exit-relays-may-june-2020
@gnome resolves the patent suit brought against it by Rothschild Patent Imaging and scores a win for all Free Software communities. Congratulations @gnome !
https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/05/patent-case-against-gnome-resolved/
ActivityPub can be confusing and/or hard to test or develop against.
I started a new side project called FediDB to help Pixelfed and other implementations debug federation issues.
It will be launching soon, need to test DMs and Federated Stories in Pixelfed 😅
I'm eager to work with other projects on this!
#activitypub #federation #pixeldev #fediverse #mastodon #pleroma #anfora #peertube #pixelfed #funkwhale #honk #gnusocial
The excellent talk by Simon Painter about #functionalprogramming using #javascript is available on YouTube now: https://youtu.be/mLSNxtFPVlg .
In our special episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we talk about some of the advantages of @gnuhealth and how as a Free health and hospital information system it can and already does help with the current Covid-19 pandemic.
In an open letter to the Parliament, the #Dutch #minister for internal affairs Raymond Knops commits to a "#FreeSoftware by default" #policy and underlines its benefits for society. Current market regulations shall be reworded to allow publishing Free Software by the government.:
March #librem5 software progress: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-march-2020-software-update/
Announcing airbreak, a toolkit to jailbreak inexpensive CPAP machines to turn them into emergency #COVID19 ventilators by unlocking all operational modes and allowing custom software extensions. https://airbreak.dev/
Working from home - here's what we use:
Email - @Tutanota
Chat - @signalapp
Office - @libreoffice
Browser - Firefox
Browser Plugins - Privacy Badger
Password Manager - KeePass
Open source ventilator projects ranked: https://github.com/PubInv/covid19-vent-list
We are thrilled to announce we've been awarded a grant by NLnet!
FOSDEM 2020 - Accepted developer rooms
https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-10-01-accepted-developer-rooms/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution - Six Colors
https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/09/the-u1-chip-in-the-iphone-11-is-the-beginning-of-an-ultra-wideband-revolution/
Excited to announce that PureOS is going to now have a stable and a rolling release.
Hmm, weird, but cool, but weird.
Introducing nushell
http://www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/introducing-nushell.html
Carbon based life form. :emacs: