Suguru Hirahara @ctonysem@mastodon.technology

The #free (#AGPLv3) software & research project https://diva.exchange demonstrates how storage, trade and payment using digital values can be carried out without any central service providers – respecting #privacy (it's using #i2p/@i2p).

The dev team works on API & #UX - it's getting closer to beta during these months. Also thanks to lots of contributions over the past months 🙏 🌈 .

Join this AGPLv3 project via @codeberg git: https://codeberg.org/diva.exchange/

#Docker: https://hub.docker.com/u/divax

My @purism #Librem5 is in the delivery 🎉 but additional -100€ taxes/customs are a real bummer! 😵 My order was sent directly from the USA. Why are the eu orders aren't sent out from germay like it was said in the crowd funding!?

Better than WhatsApp: Try these Free Software Apps and Services — Free Software Foundation India

https://fsf.org.in/article/better-than-whatsapp/

#WhatsApp #Telegram #Signal #matrix #xmpp #p2p #element #quicksy #FreeSoftware

Thanks to Riya for making the info graphics.

Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-model-x-hack-bluetooth/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25878210

Show HN: Userbase – Auth and E2E encrypted storage in a few lines of code

Link: https://userbase.com/?home
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25869472

Think EXTREME MAKEOVER but for FLOSS 😎 @cryptpad 4.0 is out!

How it started. How it's going

@rd @jgoerzen When it comes to online privacy the Asian countries are basically one of the least developed regions. Here those who advocate tools to avoid centralized services are often regarded as just geeks. That is what I would like to change at first.

@jgoerzen @ctonysem This is exactly why I recommend #Signal to anyone wanting to wean themselves off of Facebook. “Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good” sums this up perfectly.

11/ So #Signal gives people: dead-simple setup, store-and-forward delivery, encrypted everything, encrypted voice/video calls, ability to send photos/video encrypted. If you are going to tell someone "it's so EASY to get your texts away from Facebook and AT&T", THIS IS THE THING you've got to point them to. It may not be in 2 years, but for now, it is. Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It advances the status quo without harming usability, which nothing else does yet.

I'm thinking about trying out #element / #matrix. Does anyone have server recommendations?

Hello Mastodon !

I'm a web developer with 5 years of experience and I'm looking to monetize my skills outside my day job! I'm already trying on Code mentor but there is a lot of competition, if you are looking for someone or you know somebody that is looking for some help on a programming project, tell me ! There is a great chance I can help you 🙂

I have a favor to ask.

My 10-year-old daughter is obsessed with #Pokemon and talks about them day and night. No one else in my family can really talk shop much, so I'm looking for a group of kids she can talk to about this stuff.

I checked and our library doesn't have a club, real or virtual, and I couldn't find any meetups.

Is there less local group that people like that's good for kids? A forum or Discord channel would also work.

P. S. I live in a western Chicago Suburb. Thank you advance!

With all the talk of #Signal and #distributed #IM lately, I thought I'd go a step further: here's a roundup of secure off-the-grid messengers: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10205-roundup-of-secure-messengers-with-off-the-grid-capabilities-distributed-mesh-messengers These all use strong #encryption, provide #privacy, and can be used without any Internet connection at all.

#briar is an interesting hybrid; while it uses #Bluetooth instead of longer-range #LoRa, it doesn't need any extra hardware and can route IMs over #Tor, #Bluetooth, or local #Wifi (even w/o Internet). @briar

Activity on the http://matrix.org homeserver has been up 5x over the last few days, and we started to get dangerously close to the ceiling on the Synapse master process again... so we just fixed it with more workers (as per https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-scalability)!

Thus is also thought invoking.
#wechat has been found to ask users to allow the “read all photos” privilege as a premise to access to photos from within the app. #evil #Tencent

https://10beasts.net/ios-wechat-photos-privacy/