Kunal Mehta @legoktm@mastodon.technology

Debian Project Leader election 2022, Jonathan Carter re-elected https://bits.debian.org/2022/04/dpl-elections-2022.html

Nonprofit/open source job alert:

We're looking for a full-time Newsroom Support Engineer. This role works with news orgs using SecureDrop, helping with new SecureDrop installs and regular maintenance. During lower support activity, the person will contribute to code & docs.

This position is open to folks early in their career. It is a remote role, but candidates are ideally based in North America due to time zone overlap and requirement for occasional travel. More:

https://grnh.se/72ebf5575us

New release: K-9 Mail 6.000

https://k9mail.app/2022/04/18/K-9-Mail-6.000

If you set up an ActivityPub server today that was primarily used to post to followers (e.g., a single-org instance for a nonprofit), would you use Mastodon or another implementation? Why?

SecureDrop 2.3.1 has been released. This is a bugfix release that addresses a performance issue on servers with many sources:

https://securedrop.org/news/securedrop-2_3_1-released/

I will very much miss our (wonderful in all the ways) former General Counsel at CC, but I'm excited to take on the role:

https://creativecommons.org/2022/04/01/congratulations-and-farewell/

ResPublicae.eu has launched! We want to make it easier to join the #EU policy discourse on the #fediverse.

For now we just mirror on #Mastodon about 1500 #Twitter accounts of EU officials and MEPs as listed by Wikidata and https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/social-media-channels_en.

Example topics:
https://respublicae.eu/tags/IPCC
https://respublicae.eu/tags/EPlenary

Special thanks to @mastohost for the excellent service and @robertoszek for being so helpful with #Stork / #pleromabot.
https://pleromabot.robertoszek.xyz

I know the fediverse is probably a bad place to recruit for a centralized messaging service, but if anyone wants to join me at #Signal, we're hiring! Check out https://signal.org/workworkwork/ or contact me for more.

#GetFediHired #jobs #encryption

This is probably my favorite ransom note: https://werewolf.chat/ransom

Screen-reader accessible!

SecureDrop 2.3.0 has been released. This release includes usability improvements, bugfixes, and new anti-spam functionality:

https://securedrop.org/news/securedrop-2_3_0-released/

Kiwix is a free open app that lets you store and search Wikipedia and other sources of info entirely offline.

This is especially important in areas where internet access is restricted/censored, or in emergencies if vital infrastructure is broken.

You can follow the project at:

➡️ @kiwix

The website is at https://www.kiwix.org and the app is available for Android, iPhone, Linux, Mac, Windows

#Kiwix #Wikipedia #Wiki #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #OffTheGrid #Academic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_Muldoon / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Indigo_Muldoon

No sources, entirely written by two single-purpose accounts (one of which is an IP), and no search results on the internet. Also just from the content it's clearly someone's OC.

SecureDrop 2.3.0 is scheduled to be released on March 28. This release will include usability improvements, bugfixes, and new anti-spam functionality:

https://securedrop.org/news/securedrop-2_3_0-pre-release-announcement/

lmao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_with_red-linked_categories_on_their_user_talk_page

TorrentFreak, on a public court filing mentioning TorrentFreak:

> [..] the term “pro-piracy” is sometimes attached to our reporting. [..] when these words are part of a court filing intended to keep information from the public, we have to respond.

Simply delightful. #TorrentFreak

https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-company-asks-court-to-keep-filings-secret-as-torrentfreak-might-report-on-them-220318/