🚨 Important: starting July 15, 2021, Tor will no longer support v2 onion services. If you are a site administrator, you must upgrade to v3 onion services. Here is the full deprecation timeline:
📣 #FreedomBox 21.5 has been released & uploaded to Debian experimental, available to most users after Debian Bullseye is released. 🛠️⚙️🔧
The News:
-ejabberd: Add STUN/TURN configuration
-Updates for 10 languages 🌐
-20❗ contributed 😎
Details:
https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-21-5-released-to-experimental/1537
Tails 4.18 is out: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.18/
It fixes reliability issues with the Additional Software feature, and more.
Congratulations to Jonathan Carter on his re-election to Debian Project Leader! https://bits.debian.org/2021/04/2021dpl-election.html
Social media's stranglehold comes from lock-in, not network effects (network effects can be reversed with #interoperability. The important thing about a walled garden is the height of the walls, not the number of people locked inside them: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/social-media-competitive-compatibility
Statement of FSF board on election of Richard Stallman (RMS): https://u.fsf.org/3bf
@mobian wrote an interesting recap of the project after one year, and they forgot to toot about it here!
https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/04/08/road-to-mobian-1/
Hat tip to @linmob for mentioning it in their weekly roundup.
https://puri.sm/posts/the-simplicity-of-making-librem-5-apps/
Nice video showing how to get started with GNOME Builder to create a GTK app in Python (all running on a Librem 5 phone).
👉 We recently released an important security fix and advise to promptly upgrade to #YunoHost 4.1.8
The fix is also available in 4.2.x, and was backported to 3.8.x.
https://forum.yunohost.org/t/important-security-fix-please-upgrade-your-system-to-4-1-8/15324
A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres
Vous avez entendu parler de cet ordi réparable qui devrait sortir bientôt ? https://frame.work/
Ca me donne très envie :3
☎️REMINDER: #FreedomBox Conference Call
📅WHEN: Saturday, April 10 at 14:00 UTC
🤠WHO: #FreedomBox core team & YOU
HOW TO JOIN: Using a Mumble voice over IP application, connect to server <http://fbx.freedomboxfoundation.org> using port 64738.
Details:
https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/call-saturday-april-10-at-14-00-utc/1517
@linmob You know that zola can do yaml frontmatter too? https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/page/#front-matter
Facebook is working on a version of Instagram for kids under 13 - OMG this is like marketing proprietary software for free to kids in schools, but worse...
See https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/18/22338911/facebook-instagram-kids-privacy-coppa