Ravi Dwivedi @ravi@masto.sahilister.in

We now have a public pricing page for hosted instances! 🧑🏻‍💻

If you need to run CryptPad in your enterprise, at your school, or for a nonprofit, select the appropriate pricing, fill out the form and get a dedicated quote for your organization. 🤝🏻 🧾

https://cryptpad.org/pricing/

Maintenance window 39🔩

Today (22.01.2023) starting from 21:00 CET we are going to upgrade Nextcloud instance (https://cloud.disroot.org). As result, you can expect some downtime of the service.

WhatsApp Decision: "by refusing to investigate data sharing within Meta, the DPC has unduly limited the scope of the case against WhatsApp." https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-privacy/news/whatsapp-latest-meta-platform-sanctioned-in-eu-data-protection-row/

In a world ruled Big Entertainment and #BigTech, giving artists more #copyright is like giving bullied kids more lunch money - no matter how much lunch money you hand out, the kids are still going hungry. We have to neutralize the bully:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/have-you-tried-turning-it-and-again-rethinking-tech-regulation-and-creative-labor

Join us at the #UniventionSummit today, in Bremen, northern Germany! We have a stand – come and say hello: https://www.univention-summit.com/sponsor/the-document-foundation-libreoffice/

I think things as borders and countries are a thing of the past, isn't it kinda weird that on the one side of an imaginary line a certain set of rules(laws) are set and a few meters further something completly else. Not everywhere ofc but in many cases yes

Another thing I find weird is that other hoomans can tell me where I can and cannot go on this planet.. People forbid other people from moving where they want while we are all the same spieces with the same rights

By the way, if you think the artificial lens bit is hyperbole, think again. Quite a few years ago now I was sitting at dinner with some CEO of some startup that had developed a free tool they said helped people with dyslexia read more easily.

So, as I do, I asked him my favourite question: “how will you make money with this?”

He looked at me like I was rather daft before answering, matter of factly, “well, we know what you’re reading.”

Say no more, my friend. Say no more.

#PeopleFarming

Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

#privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism

Many new features are coming to #LibreOffice 7.5 in early February, thanks to our worldwide community and ecosystem developers! Have a look: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5

Sandra sharing her experience of #outreachy internship. I am mentoring her along with dkg to package #OpenPGP #javascript implementation in #debian. Thanks to yadd and izzygala also for helping.

https://sandrauwah.hashnode.dev/everybody-struggles

We frequently see encryption issues in #xmpp groups where not everyone is in each others contacts. So we are trying to test different app combinations to reproduce the issue reliably.

We will join an audio call and try different apps with test accounts.

Join via https://8x8.vc/xmpp_apps_encryption_testing or Dial-in: +91 22 6241 0151 PIN: 9824 5762 39#

You can RSVP by following @7EX44A_7QrQv9Z4NxNzOg

Idea evolved in @prav community discussions

#Medium, the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter now has a fediverse server.

Now might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the people who bequeathed you Twitter.

@Graycot First of all, thanks for asking. We highly appreciate it.

#Prav App is convenient without vendor lock-in (unlike #WhatsApp, #Telegram, #Signal etc). Except #quicksy, most apps are only convenient and come with vendor lock-in. We are complementing Quicksy with a more sustainable revenue and democratic governance model through a cooperative ownership and control. We are interoperable with Quicksy and happy to see if more people learn about Quicksy from us and join it instead of Prav too. You can learn more here prav.app/faq/#we-already-have-…

New update! #LibreOffice 7.4.4 is now available, with compatibility improvements and fixes. Get it here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/01/12/libreoffice-7-4-4-community/

We frequently see encryption issues in groups where not everyone is in each others contacts. So we are trying to test different app combinations to reproduce the issue reliably.

We will join an audio call and try different apps with test accounts. If you are interested in helping out, be ready with a test xmpp account and as many xmpp apps with OMEMO support.

Join via 8x8.vc/xmpp_apps_encryption_te… or Dial-in: +91 22 6241 0151 PIN: 9824 5762 39#

Mark your calendars gath.io/7EX44A_7QrQv9Z4NxNzOg

#prav #opensource #freesoftware #federation #decentralization

Wow. Google is listning, always

I wanted to show my gf a video about Snowden, a particular one and we talked about it for a bit. So I opened YouTube and guess what the freaking first video was?!

I did not lookup this in the past days nor anything related..

Really guys, Google is scary.