Exciting news! The Matrix Foundation homeserver will migrate to the all new matrix-authentication-service on April 7th, with an expected downtime of 1h between 7am and 8am UTC.
More details about the impact for your on our blog.
matrix.org/blog/2025/04/matrix…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsQuentin (matrix.org)
More users than ever are flocking to the open source suite since its latest update. The end of Windows 10 support is far from the only factor.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
What happens when you get fooled by an online scam that lands in your email or text messages? I'll show you. Caution: Don't try this at home.Ed Bott (ZDNET)
Remember the #curl distro meeting 2025 next week! github.com/curl/curl/wiki/curl…
To make #curl better in distros. To make distros ship better #curl. To make everyone happier and the world a little nicer.
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...GitHub
#Akademy2025 is happening in Berlin, Germany, and online from Saturday the 6th to Thursday the 11th of September.
Mark your calendars!
More details: akademy.kde.org/2025/
#KDE #FOSS #techevent #fossevent #linux
The UK has introduced a requirement to have an electronic travel authorization on order to visit the country. I just thought I'd have a look at it and see what I'll have to do if I'm ever to visit my mother again, and I'm in a queue. A queue on a website. Never seen that before (but it does seem very British).
It doesn't accept any method of payment which I use. Well that's just great.
What's more, the only way to make payment to the British government is to sign up to a choice of American payment services which will send some slice of the payment to the US. Why on earth have they done that?
Oh, and if your use the app, which they really want you to do, then you're phone has to meet their requirements. So it may also cost you a new phone to visit the UK in future. And if my phone stops meeting their requirements after I pay for an autorisation which should last two years? Who knows.
Thanks Brexit, the curse which keeps on cursing.
#brexit #eta #unitedkingdom
If someone needs to belittle, berate, or break others to feel powerful, they’re not a genius—they’re a tyrant in a hoodie, a bully with a pitch deck, a tantrum in search of a title.
And we should stop fucking clapping.
joanwestenberg.com/stop-confla…
Somewhere between Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, we started believing that in order to be brilliant, you had to be unbearable. That cruelty itself was a kind of clarity.Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
It's a strange ship that leaks from the top.
Noticed #MetaAI is now in #WhatsApp? 🫣 If this concerns you, you're not alone 💛
In our latest guide, we look at how you can get rid of Meta AI 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…
Noticed an AI assistant is now in your WhatsApp? Meta’s AI feature is now being rolled out in the EU and you can’t turn it off – but you can stop the AI invasion by opting for privacy-focused alternatives.Tuta
On March 26, we celebrated Document Freedom Day. Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, gave an online talk about the importance of open standards and free software: Please confirm that you want to play a YouTu…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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The changes and some bugfixes in curl 8.13.0 explained and described by Daniel StenbergYouTube
The #curl 8.13.0 release presentation live-streams on twitch, starting now:
We're excited to announce that we've expanded support for Brave Translate---our tool to translate websites privately and securely---to all desktop, Android, and iOS devices, and that we've added 93 languages, going from 15 supported languages to 108.Brave Software
In our series of free weekly webinars March 26th saw a session focused on Accessible Math and Science in Digital Publications, highlighting the latest developments […]Dave Gunn (Inclusive Publishing)
Manchmal hat man nette Kollegen. Bringen die einem doch ungefragt solche hübschen Sachen von ihren Konferenzen mit.
Dass es die GI selbst nicht so ernst meint, ist traurig.
If you are interested to help shaping #FDroid 's future on a governance side: please consider to apply for a board seat.
As current board member I highly welcome nominations of anyone committed to furthering the #softwarefreedom of computer users, particularly with regard to mobile devices.
f-droid.org/en/2025/03/30/boar…
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Boardof Directors! Up to four new directors will be selected to serve for twoyears.You m...f-droid.org
LightHouse CEO Sharon Giovinazzo, shares a message with the community.LightHouse Staff (Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired San Francisco)
#curl 8.13.0
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/02…
Welcome to another curl release. Download it here. Release presentation I will do a live-streamed curl 8.13.daniel.haxx.se
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Conservative candidate Lourence Singh for the New Westminster-Burnaby-Maillardville riding is no longer running in the federal election race, marking the third candidate exit in a single day.Mina Kerr-Lazenby (CTVNews)
Thunderbird Pro/Thundermail codebases
Don't trust me, don't trust anyone. Look at the code and decide.
Appointment: github.com/thunderbird/appoint…
Send: github.com/thunderbird/send-su…
Our mail stack is built on: github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-s…
On Mail, we'll publish any additional bits that we develop around it.
Secure & Modern All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, POP3, SMTP) - stalwartlabs/mail-serverGitHub
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.
#XiaofengWang Xiaofeng Wang
arstechnica.com/security/2025/…
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
The American Association of University
Professors is reminding Indiana University's provost that as a tenured professor, XiaoFeng Wang is entitled to due process. The university, meanwhile, is maintaining radio silence, which isn't a good look to prospective students considering attending.
Here's the latest on XiaoFeng Wang, the distinguished computer scientist who was summarily fired on Friday from his tenured position at Indiana University, where he had spent 20 years racking up accolades for his research in cryptography, privacy and cybersecurity. It comes from Alexander Tanford, president of the Bloomington chapter of the AAUP, the organization representing IU professors, and colleagues of Wang's.
In February, an anonymous person filed a complaint alleging research misconduct against Wang. "The charge seemed trivial -- that he had failed to properly disclose who was principal investigator on a grant application and had not fully listed all his co-authors on an article," Tanford told me.
On March 13 or 14, IU temporarily suspended Wang, banned him from his office and denied access to his computer, research and data while the investigation continued. This is permitted under IU's research misconduct policy. The reasons, though, aren't publicly known.
On March 28, Provost Rahul Shrivastav informed Wang he was being terminated immediately. Shrivastav provided no reason (he mentioned Wang taking a job at a university in Singapore, but this is permitted and not grounds for dismissal). What's more, policy ACA-52, approved by the IU Board of Trustees, prohibits summarily firing a tenured professor.
Also on March 28, homes that Wang owns in Bloomington and Carmel, Indiana, were raided by the FBI. The FBI says the raids were court approved, but so far no one has seen a warrant. The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana will neither confirm nor deny an investigation.
Indiana University has steadfastly refused to provide any reason for the termination or its failure to follow its own policy. Students and fellow faculty remain in the dark. His PhD students are frantically scrambling to find new advisors. One such student learned of Wang's firing only a few weeks before his PhD defense.
I reached out to Wang's attorneys 24 hours ago, and still haven't heard back.
We really need answers here. IU is tarnishing its reputation for academic independence. The lack of transparency here, both by IU and the FBI, truly sucks.
arstechnica.com/security/2025/…
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
#RationalWiki is facing imminent legal peril from 5 separate defamation lawsuits from 5 #eugenics supporters. At least 2 of the lawsuits appear to be frivolous on their face. The 5 litigants are known to have acted in concert to take advantage of the weak #SLAPP protections within our state of incorporation and to bankrupt us. We need both monetary donations and legal representation (we are already aware of both the ACLU and the #EFF).
Today brings 84 new features in Safari 18.4!
• Declarative Web Push
• Screen Wake Lock API for Home Screen Web Apps
• Viewport presets in Responsive Design Mode
• Ogg Opus & Vorbis
• Image Capture API
• WebM support in MediaRecorder
• `view-transition-name: match-element`
• `::details-content`
• `sideways-rl` & `sideways-lr`
• `shape()`dialog.requestClose()
• JavaScript Iterators
• CHIPS
• new Web Extension APIs
• alpha & transparency in color picker
and a LOT more!
serial2midi v1.1.1
Turn your serial port into a virtual midi device
🚀 Finding tty device should now be faster
🌱 Overhauled the sysex request
🥸 Better parsing of midi bytes to not read invalid midi messages from tty
⏰ Added --timeout flag to cli
🧹 Moved crates into own subfolder (./crates)
🧹 Updated dependencies
codeberg.org/obsoleszenz/seria…
#foss #midi #linux #audio #musicproduction #arduino
# Changelog 🚀 Finding tty device should now be faster 🌱 Overhauled the sysex request 🥸 Better parsing of midi bytes to not read invalid midi messages from tty ⏰ Added --timeout flag to cli 🧹 Moved crates into own subfolder (.Codeberg.org
In other news, I made an #NVDA add-on to generate and copy a UUID to the clipboard when you press NVDA+Alt+U, because that's apparently something I find myself doing quite often:
Chilling.
NEW: CTV has cancelled an election fact-checking segment on their morning show in response to political pressure from the Conservative Party.
Sebastian Skamski, a senior campaign official for Mr #Poilievre denounced CTV News, saying their guest was lying directly to viewers & suggested that CTV News is working to help elect Liberals.
Despite Mr Skamski offering no evidence to support his claims, the network folded & cancelled the segment.
pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelled…
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservativesPressProgress
Sure, it's just some cool images. But it shows the tide is with the customized and the automated — and away from originality.Steven Zeitchik (The Hollywood Reporter)
A popular Albuquerque Instagram account recently claimed the city’s first In-N-Out would break ground before July.Albuquerque Journal
🚀 Cinny just got even better!
In our last few releases, we’ve:
✅ Fixed unknown rooms in space lobby & improved search
✅ Added image previews & spoiler during image uploads
✅ Redesigned space/room settings
✅ NEW **custom power levels** (with colors & emojis!)
✅ Added bulk emoji import & room upgrades options
✅ Option to stop sending typing and read receipt
🔗 [Get Cinny](app.cinny.in/) | [GitHub](github.com/ajbura/cinny/releas…)
#Matrix #Cinny #OpenSource #cinnyapp
Yet another matrix client. Contribute to cinnyapp/cinny development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
chris
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •I administer my own home server. I've set up an upstream OIDC server (Authentik) in anticipation of the new MAS standard. What else do I need to do in order to have a smooth migration?
I've seen a lot of promotional material about the new MAS implementation, but not much about how it will break my instance or how my configuration will need to change.