vascorsd @vascorsd@mastodon.social

Os 5 estágios do luto do solucionismo tecnológico:

1) Negação
2) Raiva. Culpar toda a gente (principalmente ONGs que disseram que não iria resultar)
3) Negociação: Talvez resulte com a funcionalidade X
4) Silêncio
5) Aceitação
https://tek.sapo.pt/mobile/apps/artigos/stayaway-covid-das-vulnerabilidades-ao-abandono-dos-portugueses-governo-admite-que-app-nao-funcionou

camlboot: An OCaml bootstrap experiment https://github.com/Ekdohibs/camlboot | https://lobste.rs/s/vqdx9c #ml

Ada in 2021 Overview https://pyjarrett.github.io/programming-with-ada/000-overview.html | https://lobste.rs/s/fszmi0 #programming

The new @microg release v0.2.19 will make the encounters tab available for people using a system-level microG installation! 🎉

You'll probably need to update manually through the @fdroidorg client as there's a problem with update notifications for microG.

Open this link in F-Droid Client and select the v0.2.19<something> version: https://f-droid.org/app/com.google.android.gms

Yes, the page says UnifiedNLP, they both have the same package_id.

#japan considers to introduce pricing for commute trains based on time of the day, to move people from rush hour into the not so crowded time. Nice side affect: as employers pay the commute fee, they might start to say: "Ah, actually no need for you to come in so early in the morning.. if you come in at 10am, the commute fee is lower."

Firefox and Chrome:
*removes FTP support*

Foobar2000:

#Tusky has been removed from the PlayStore by Google

BookWyrm is a new open federated alternative to Goodreads, and part of the Fediverse:

➡️ @bookwyrm

You can post about books you're reading, and interact with others on BookWyrm, Mastodon etc.

The platform is still a work in progress:

https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com

The flagship instance is at:

https://bookwyrm.social/

Development git is here:

https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm

#BookWyrm #BookWorm #Fediverse #Books #Comics #Authors #ActivityPub #Book #Reading #Readers #Goodreads #Literature #OpenSource

Familiar with Swift, UIKit, and know your way around XCode? Want to help advance the state of #XMPP on #iOS? 📱 We're looking for developers to help bring our iOS app over the finish line! 🏁

This will be a paid short-term project producing FLOSS. DM or email matthew@snikket.org if you're interested.

Not an iOS dev? That's okay, boosts appreciated too! 🙂

Privacidade e Bons Censos

A questão da utilização dos serviços Cloudflare nos Censos 2021
https://direitosdigitais.pt/comunicacao/noticias/125-privacidade-e-bons-censos

Dear Mastodon, we're ~60 followers away from 12K! Can you help us get there?

Help by spreading the word that:

🔵 Privacy is a human right.

🔵 Tracking & surveillance are widespread on the internet.

🔵 Tor is a nonprofit that can help you take back your privacy online.

Presentation Slides for #developers

https://sli.dev/

🚀 CryptPad 4.5.0 is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/releases/tag/4.5.0

OnionShare 2.3.2.dev1 is released! Please try it out, report bugs, and help finish translating it to a bunch of languages ❤️

Download: https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.3.2.dev1

You can read the version 2.3.2 docs here (which also need to be translated): https://docs.onionshare.org/2.3.2/en/

Here's information on how to help translate both the application and the docs: https://docs.onionshare.org/2.3.2/en/develop.html#contributing-translations

The @krita Foundation, creators and maintainers of KDE's full-featured painting program for artists, start the Krita Fund: help keep the project going with your donations and get badges!

https://fund.krita.org/

New progress note (W18) is out.

It talks about name change, flatpak and docker, visual changes, blog editor, files quotas, activitypub gateway

https://www.goffi.org/b/libervia-progress-note-2021-w18-i4HD

#libervia #salutatoi #XMPP #progress_note #pubsub #flatpak #docker #activitypub

Fellow #STUN / #TURN server operators:

TL;DR: STUN/TURN servers are vulnerable to abuse to facilitate reflected amplified #DDoS attacks even with authentication enabled. Roll a few dice and choose a random port number for your STUN server for the better of the internet.

https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2021-April/003130.html

#XMPP ​

Interesting news from the #xmpp world: there is been funding to work on improving / bringing back user portability for xmpp. XMPP Account Portability funded by NGI DAPSI