Notices by MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se), page 20
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Zash (zash@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 05:27:52 EDT Zash
@brainblasted Meanwhile, the !xmpp community just keeps on going, as it has since 1999. -
Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-May-2018 13:33:38 EDT Rysiekúr Memesson
With all my gripes with# Signal (centralized, non-federated, server-based, Electron-based desktop app), the fact that in my circle of contacts it's not longer the "pretty good solution we should be using" but the "pretty good solution we are using but looking for something better" is such a win.
I just wanted to stop for a second and appreciate that.
If we're talking about the need to move to something better than Signal, we are in a pretty decent place.
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MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Wednesday, 23-May-2018 02:18:47 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠
One of the giant shoulders in that aspect, the federated Instagram style, is https://quit.im (!gnusocial based) by #EnKompisKompis - which is primarily @hannes (also @hannes2peer@quitter.se ) and @3mp0@quitter.se -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Tuesday, 22-May-2018 19:44:43 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠
You mean how !OStatus is kind of exactly that, because it just extends ordinary blogs with some social metadata but in the end it's technically the same thing as a blog's feed beefed up with a push-callback-service instead of reinventing the wheel entirely with ActivityPub? .P
!gnusocial -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Tuesday, 22-May-2018 19:37:18 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠
Silly hoomans. -
askan (askan@quit.im)'s status on Tuesday, 22-May-2018 14:43:28 EDT askan
Ålidhem is anarchist. Eat the rich. https://quit.im/attachment/57275 -
Oneesan succubus (lain@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-May-2018 05:38:14 EDT Oneesan succubus
it's pretty easy to be gdpr compliant if people just privately host instances for themselves and friends -
Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-May-2018 08:56:59 EDT Rysiekúr Memesson
Oh boy. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1635
tl;dr Signal Desktop is based on Electron, which in turn is based on Chromium 58-59, and it seems to be affected by bugs that have been fixed in Chrome/Chromium 60-62.
Gotta love #Electron. As somebody said "now everyone is running 5 different instances of old insecure versions of the most scrutinized and attacked application on Earth."
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MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 04:34:46 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠
@moonman Here I am. If you're not happy with @rw -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 15-May-2018 23:59:29 EDT Christmas Personified as a Catgirl
@mono most people are not exceptional and for them this is bad advice. -
Zash (zash@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Tuesday, 15-May-2018 22:07:50 EDT Zash
Version 0.10.1 of !xmpp server #Prosody released! -
It's a me (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 08:30:55 EDT It's a me
@LottieVixen @phessler surprise, it's an email client attack via HTML.
If you use HTML email you were asking for it. Always disable it in every client, full stop. -
pettter ✅ (pettter@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 07:25:51 EDT pettter ✅
OK, so
Is "EFF considered harmful" a step too far? -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Saturday, 12-May-2018 22:29:26 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠
Brlrbrlbrlrlrl https://social.umeahackerspace.se/attachment/340125 -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Thursday, 10-May-2018 20:54:29 EDT Mike Gerwitz
https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/37790
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/bb20.jpg
This is very disappointing to see. The screenshot shows "You're ready to go!", followed by "You can use 'Software' to install apps like these:". The apps they list, in left-right top-down order, are: VLC (free), Skype (non-free), Spotify (non-free), Slack (non-free), Discord (non-free), Corebird (free), Mailspring (free), GIMP (free), Minecraft (non-free), Android Studio (non-free), Ora (non-free), Notepad-Plus-Plus (free), Tusk (free), Brave (free), and IDEA Community (free).
That is 8 free and _7 non-free_. Also in the screenshot on the left is an Amazon icon.
We've known #Ubuntu to do these things for a while now, but I grow increasingly disappointed with each release. Ubuntu also encourages the use of proprietary software through "snaps", and advertises non-free software by default through their package repositories unless you explicitly check a box (at least in previous version) during installation to use only free repositories.