Notices by Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca), page 12

♲ @kde@mastodon.technology: @gnome and KDE deepen their commitment to work together and unveil KNOME, a new desktop that brings users the best of both worlds:

knome.org

♲ @micahflee@mastodon.social: Zoom meetings aren’t actually end-to-end encrypted, despite misleading marketing on their website, in their security white paper, and in the user interface in their app theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zo… by @yaelwrites and myself

♲ @fsfe@mastodon.social: Many proprietary software companies are currently using the extended homeoffice situation of many employees to offer lock-in solutions gratis or even labelling them as "free". But take care to build on Free Software. Else your solution today might turn into a burden tomorrow:

fsfe.org/news/2020/news-202003…

♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: Get the latest news from This Week in Matrix! Lots of new demos in Matrix Live, and a newly annouced client which already supports end-to-end encryption (also news about servers, bots, bridges, clients and more!) matrix.org/blog/2020/03/27/thi… #twim #decentralization #matrix

♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: RT @wilkieii@twitter.com

Successfully using entirely self-hosted+federated Riot/Matrix/Jitsi/Etherpad/PeerTube to host lectures, teleconference with students, answer questions in chat, and collaboratively edit their code. Write-up is incoming. Once I take a nap.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/wilkieii/status/12…

♲ @3rik@mastodon.social: I am currently writing a list of good #FreeSoftware solutions for #remote #working in the @fsfe wiki:
wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/FreeS…

I still need to polish the wording but if you already have input for me about what is missing, more sources or any other feedback is very welcome.

Just focus please on software that in particular facilitates remote working not any other usual work-procedures.

♲ @Tutanota@mastodon.social: Take action against #EarnIt: tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-i… #Fight4Privacy #Fight4Encryption

♲ @cryptpad@social.weho.st: Our servers are under considerable load as more people are working remotely. Everything is holding up and we plan to spend our next few days ensuring that we can continue to scale. In the meantime we appreciate your patience if we're slow to answer support tickets or issues.

♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: The matrix.org server is seeing its highest traffic levels ever today. We’re battling to keep it performant (via incr optimisations to state res and the multimaster support), but meanwhile you may want to run your own server or get one from @ModularIM@twitter.com, @ungleich@twitter.com etc.

♲ @cryptpad@social.weho.st: It seems a lot of people are finding out about CryptPad.fr now that their team has transitioned to remote work. Coincidentally, we've been working on a major upgrade to our encrypted kanban app featuring a markdown editor and tagging system for all your tasks. #WFH

♲ @dajbelshaw@mastodon.social: Hey all, we've got a small budget for @moodlenet security/privacy consulting. Would appreciate pointers to anyone with the chops (including #ActivityPub experience) who might be able to help audit our repos in the next few weeks/months 🙂

♲ @fsfe@mastodon.social: Security scandal around #WhatsApp shows the need for decentralised #FreeSoftware messengers, #OpenStandards in communication, and digital sovereignty

fsfe.org/news/2020/news-202002… #publiccode #FreeYourAndroid

♲ @torproject@mastodon.social: There's no upside to mass surveillance.

"A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans’ domestic phone calls and text messages cost 0 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigation..."

nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/poli…

.onion: www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/202…

♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: It's happening! Matrix London Meetup is about to start, join the livestream at www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_Dah…