Notices by Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca), page 13

♲ @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…

♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: This Week In Matrix is here! Featuring #gsoc news, Matrix Live with KB1RD on matrix-notepad, Synapse 1.11 and upcoming major perf fixes, free Radicals, Dad Bots and SO MUCH MORE! matrix.org/blog/2020/02/21/thi…

♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: It's official - @mozilla@twitter.com is fully live on Matrix! exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/02/2… Helping get Mozilla going has been a lot of fun, and we'll see a lot of improvements to Riot's UX in the coming months based on their feedback (turns out they know quite a lot about FOSS usability :D)

♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: Yay! We've been accepted into Google Summer of Code as an organisation again this year - calling all students: if you have a free summer and want to help build Matrix get thinking of proposals! summerofcode.withgoogle.com/or… #gsoc #gsoc2020

♲ @vanitasvitae@fosstodon.org: Happy #freesoftware day 2020!

Even though they technically don't make software, I'd like to thank the XMPP Standards Foundation ( @xmpp ) and their members for their work on open standards and decentralized communication.

I'd also like to thank @matrix which shares the same goals.

A special thanks goes to halfshot for building the matrix-bifrost bridge which connects both protocols.

Let's liberate communication together!

#ilfs #fsfe

♲ @vanitasvitae@fosstodon.org: I just managed to join a private @matrix room Form #Conversations using the #bifrost bridge!

I think what hindered me before was that my matrix account which was already joined in that room before was using the same nick as my @xmpp account tried to use when joining. Renaming the xmpp nick did the trick ;)

♲ @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology: OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android

f-droid.org/en/2020/02/03/open…

(The embedded video doesn't play because of a strict CSP policy, if you want to watch it, you'll need to click through to the #FOSDEM talk page)

♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: #FOSDEM happened! We just published a quick wrap-up of the conference and videos of all the talks :D Thanks once again to everyone who came to our talks and spoke to us :) matrix.org/blog/2020/02/03/mat…

♲ @vanitasvitae@fosstodon.org: Its interesting that the new "master key cross signing" feature of @matrix is exactly what the @xmpp summit came up with just two days before :D

Guess we both are on the right track.

♲ @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org: Frantic final preparations for #FOSDEM demos are under way... if you want to see the grand reveal for cross-signing, QR verification and enabling E2EE by default, head to K-building auditorium at 4pm on Sunday!