Steady progress on MAS, a terraform deployment for Matrix on AWS, and a retreat in Thailand.
That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2025/02/07/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (m.org) (matrix.org)
Missed FOSDEM, and you want to know how Matrix got where it is right now, where it succeeded, where it fell short, and what's remaining on the Road to Mainstream Matrix?
We have your back!
Matthew's Main Track Talk in Janson at FOSDEM 2025: The Road To Mainstream Matrix.(This Week in) Matrix🐘 https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix🤝 https://www.l...YouTube
Trudeau tells business leaders at economic summit Trump's 51st state threat 'is a real thing'
Six times so far ... is how often important parts of #deltachat were independently #security audited and analyzed. Thanks to IncludeSecurity, Cure53, Applied Crypto Team at ETH Zuerich and Radical Open Security.
Last audit is from December 2024 covering @rpgp , the minimal #OpenPGP Rust library that is gaining traction with others projects as well.
Shout-out to dignifiedquire and @hko for their excellent maintenance! For more info on Delta Chat related security audits: delta.chat/en/help#security-au…
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and...delta.chat
I tried to find when #Signal has published the most recent #security audit, and it turns out they either never published an audit or their code was never audited at all.
The closest thing I found is the list
community.signalusers.org/t/ov…
which only cites research papers and some evidence that in 2018 Signal paid Doyensec, but nothing got published as the result. Even then, it looks like the apps were not audited for more than 5 years since then.
Let’s collect past security audits here: Formal audits Year Auditor(s) Sponsor App/Component Published Link Last update / extended 2013 iSEC Partners (NCC Group) Open Technology Fund RedPhone and TextSecure ❌ Blog post 2014 Frosch et al.Signal Community
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.Janus Rose (404 Media)
WTF Mozilla? I'm hoping they just forgot to delete this verbiage from their terms of service, which suggests they are still working with the personal data removal service OneRep.
mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/…
Last year, Mozilla said it was dropping its partnership with OneRep after a story I published showed its founder had created dozens of people-search services and was even running one of the larger ones whilst selling services to help people remove their information from these sites.
krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mo…
The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search si…krebsonsecurity.com
Dear Elon, we’re out.
The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.
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The Tyee is no longer posting on X. Here’s why.Jeanette Ageson (The Tyee)
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hey yall! surprise here is the sekond single off the deluxe version of my new album "all the things that skare me" the extra spookie version :) I wrote this ...YouTube
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.Charlie Warzel (The Atlantic)
🔍 Digital-Thesen-Check These 2: Wie stehen die Parteien zu #OpenSource in der Verwaltung?
Nur Grüne, Volt, Linke & BSW befürworten aktiv Open-Source-Förderung. SPD, CDU/CSU & FDP schweigen dazu in ihren Wahlprogrammen.
Details in unserem Digital-Thesen-Check zur Bundestagswahl: 👉 d-64.org/digital-thesen-check-…
#Digitalpolitik#BTW25 #PublicMoneyPulicCode
D64 analysiert Parteien zur Bundestagswahl 2025: Digitalpolitik, Überwachung, Sicherheit & Teilhabe im Digital-Thesen-Check.Johann Lensing (D64 - Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt e.V.)
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Daniel weekly February 7, 2025
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old security, ssh security, BBC, URLs from file, you can help, curl up CVE-2024-7264, EOSAwards, Workshop, FOSDEM, 1337, release, regressions, release candidates, codeql, no goods
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A leaked order shows the UK demands that Apple provide a backdoor into *all encrypted user data* (including outside the UK) washingtonpost.com/technology/…
Proprietary software makes such a demand possible. Reject proprietary software, embrace FOSS and open hardware, while we still can.
Ever wanted to see the insides of a Google Streetview Car?
google.com/maps/@53.4801729,-2…
Prozkoumávejte místa v Mapách Google poutavějším způsobem.Street View · Mapy Google
If you want to see the outside:
google.com/maps/@51.3132311,3.…
Prozkoumávejte místa v Mapách Google poutavějším způsobem.Street View · Mapy Google
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Welcome to the Nexus Manor, a place that exists outside of time — and in between your ears. RYFT A Timely Manor is an audio-based adventure game playedAccessible Android
Komentář Edwarda Lucase: Americká vrtkavost je pouze jeden z problémů. Pak je tu evropská hamižnost.Edward Lucas (Deník N)
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The UK government has issued an order to Apple telling it to allow officials full access to any iCloud content belonging to any user across the globe.William Gallagher (AppleInsider)
The HyperX QuadCast 2 S is an excellent USB microphone with beautiful recording quality.Windows Central
This is what a #curl patch release smells like
This is not good: Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying. The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.
It’s being reported that the British government secretly ordered Apple to create a security backdoor into all content uploaded by...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
According to a new report, Samsung's tri-fold device may be called the "Galaxy G Fold" and offer a 10-inch display.Ben Schoon (9to5Google)
One of the most popular memes when it comes to talking about the tech sector is Alex Blechman’s tweet about the Torment Nexus: One can interpret the tweet in a bunch of ways.tante (Smashing Frames)
Found a perfect use for Nothing as a return type today: a suspending function that must be called from a coroutine, but runs an infinite loop so it'll never return.
(Just don't ask me why I need this code)
#Slidstvo is an investigative journalism organization from #Ukraine, founded by absolutely fearless folks, one of whom I have the honor of calling a friend.
They just got 80% of their budget slashed due to US oligarchs – the kind they tend to investigate – shuttering #USAID:
slidstvo.info/english-stories/…
Investigative journalism is hard and dangerous enough by itself. They are doing it in a war-torn country, under falling bombs and rockets. And now their limited budget just got even more limited.
The suspension of U.S. funding has significantly impacted Slidstvo.Info, as nearly 80% of our operations in recent years relied on U.S. government grants,” said Anna Babinets, founder and director of Slidstvo.Info.Кулакевич Наталі (Слідство.Інфо)
Star link killing the ozone layer.
First generation (Gen1) Starlink satellites are being retired to make way for newer models. "More than 500 of the 4700 Gen1 Starlinks have now reentered,"
When Starlinks reenter, they disintegrate before hitting the ground, adding metallic vapors to the atmosphere.
In February 2023, NASA flew a WB-57 aircraft 60,000 feet over Alaska to collect aerosols. 10% of the particles contained aluminum and other metals from the "burn-up" of satellites.
What we're observing is a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry. The demise of just one Gen1 Starlink satellite produces about 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of aluminum oxide, a compound that eats away at the ozone layer. A new study finds these oxides have increased 8-fold between 2016 and 2022, and the recent surge is increasing the pollution even more.
Hmmm. Mixed on this one.
On the one hand, SNCF giving out fines to passengers aggressively.
On the other hand, talking on speaker in public is absolute antisocial bellendery.
bbc.com/news/articles/c4g949m4…
The outraged passenger hires a lawyer to dispute the fine over a public phone call in Nantes.Seher Asaf (BBC News)
AI is taking over. From scraping your social media data, to lurking in your mailbox. 🫣 But why is AI taking over social media? We take a look in our latest article.
👉 tuta.com/blog/ai-take-over-soc….
#Ai #AiTakeover #DataProtection
From AI-generated posts to large language models collecting your profile’s data - artificial intelligence is in every facet of social media. But why is this happening, and can you opt-out?Tuta
#XMPP Events
Report from XMPP Summit and #FOSDEM
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:00 CET
#xHain hack+makespace, Grünberger Str. 16, 10243 #Berlin
mov.im/community/pubsub.movim.…
#jabber #chat #interoperability
#opensource #decentralization #standard
What's on in Jabber? Report from XMPP Summit and FOSDEM Conversations, Dino and Ejabberd…mov.im
was just going to post about how the new p*xelfed app makes the login experience considerably worse for people on not-the-main-instance
the onboarding flow in apps meant for decentralised services is going to be hard but this isn't the fix, especially when the main server is falling over and failing to generate image previews.
instead of (gratuitously) comparing himself against mastodon yet again, how about we look at email apps instead which have probably solved the multi-provider problem?
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