Thomas Pfeiffer @colomar@fosstodon.org

The Berlin #XMPP Team is thinking about hosting an XMPP #sprint. If you're an XMPP developer or you want to start contributing, please join our MUC where we'll organize everything:
https://i.kaidan.im/#berlin-meetup@conference.conversations.im?join

The #Kaidan #QXmpp rewrite is nearly finished: HTTP File Upload is working again and I'm working on a proper UI.

@ubports I can't get a topic through at the forum since it keeps getting flagged as spam for some reason, but here goes:

I heard some discussion recently on a more current Q&A regarding Project #Treble and #UBPorts. But I am curious if there is any more information on this. Does it take an entire re-architecture or??

Would Treble take care of *all* or mostly all of the hardware / kernel level things so that if the phone supports Treble then it should work with #UbuntuTouch?

Okular is a fantastic KDE app that lets you view and annotate various document formats, including PDFs.

Did we mention it is fantastic? Well, you can help us make it even better!

Join us tomorrow, November 17, for an all-day bug-hunting session in #kde-bugs IRC channel on freenode.

More details about the Okular Bug Day here:
https://andrewcrouthamel.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/kde-bugsquad-okular-bug-day-on-november-17th-2018/

Yesterday, I needed a bunch of placeholder images.

It ended up being a bit harder than I thought it should be, so I wrote up a blog post/tutorial on how to generate placeholder images with Pixabay, jq, and curl
https://www.codesections.com/blog/guide-to-placeholder-images/

Thanks to @colomar for pointing me in the right direction.

#codesections blog post

@colomar I would agree, which is also why I think Local Feeds are so important. People can join instances that reflect their interests and get instant access to a community of people with similar interests. People who join more general instances don't get that benefit as much as people who join more specific ones. They're just getting a smaller version of the Fed.

Corrections of some mistaken ideas about Mastodon.

https://medium.com/@poshaughnessy/why-mastodon-is-defying-the-critical-mass-de3454109099

We still have a tech position open at the Freedom of the Press Foundation (a nonprofit): a Sr. Software Engineer position to work on SecureDrop, the open source whistleblower platform used by 65+ media organizations, originally developed by the late Aaron Swartz.

You get paid to work
✅ from anywhere in the world
✅ on a world-changing project
✅ that's open source,
✅ stewarded by a small team
✅ that's led by a woman.

Help spreading the word is much appreciated:

https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-senior-software-engineer-securedrop/

If you're on #Telegram and interested in #AudioProduction on #Linux, I just made a group for it!

https://t.me/LinuxAudio

Non-profits get Tutanota for free! Find out here if you qualify for this software donation: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/secure-email-for-non-profit
And join our webinar hosted on November 27th (in German):
https://www.hausdesstiftens.org/webinare/sicher-mailen-mit-tutanota

@fitheach @colomar this should be taught in school. This is how a URL is structured, if it’s like this that that’s not legit and you don’t trust it, for example. Considering these people open emails and click links while working in large companies, I’d say that’s valuable information that would save a ton of security guys a headache or ten years down the track because the users actually have a vague idea what they’re looking at.
Maybe.

I could argue that the EU Copyright Directive and it's infamous #Article13 has the potential to become the "great Chinese firewall" light edition. I'm convinced that the distributed internet offers a much better protection against this than the centralized internet that most people are so fond of these days.

1. Essentially you're substituting "facts" for "what I know," and unless you're an infallible and infinite being what you know is not always going to be factual. Using this to dismiss what someone is telling you is the very height of arrogance.

2. You're a human in a human society, it is expected that you should care about the feelings of others.

2/2

I said this in response to someone in an OpenBSD group wanting a gui tool to configure WiFi. Thoughts?

The new European #CopyrightDirective is a threat for all internet creators in the #EU and a warning for all outside the EU. #Article13 of the directive will inevitably lead to uploadfilters. With this directive the EU parliament has demonstrated that the interests of the big IP holders are more important to them than representing the EU citizens. Having said that I wonder if the Fediverse could be the answer to this threat?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/xnet/civilised-societies-don-t-call-it-censorship-but-copyright#comments

Ubuntu Touch seems pretty great. Definitely the best option *currently* for Linux on a smartphone it seems. The interface has a great feel to it overall and there are apps in the app store. I like what @Ubports is doing and I'm pretty impressed so far. Now I need to see if I can actually make it daily-driver usable, but trying to figure out where to really start.