James Valleroy @jvalleroy@fosstodon.org

‪Riot 1.0 has been released, and it looks awesome, https://medium.com/@RiotChat/the-big-1-0-68fa7c6050be

‪Can’t wait for the revamp of the mobile clients!‬

‪#riot #matrix #messaging‬

#RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way to follow your favourite news sites and blogs.

When you subscribe to an RSS feed using an RSS app, every new story gets sent to you in chronological order. There are no algorithms or trackers.

You can find out more about RSS (including recommended apps) on switching.social's "Alternatives to Google News" page:

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-google-news/

You can also follow Mastodon accounts by just adding ".rss":

http://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial.rss

#AlternativesAtoZ #NewsFeeds

Today #Debian Buster goes into Soft freeze:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster

Sadly that means Debian Buster will be stuck on #GNOME 3.30 and #KDE Plasma 5.14.

Hello World! Unfortunately mastodon.rocks went down so we moved to Framapiaf. Take note of this new official #UBports account and follow us now to get the latest news about #UbuntuTouch and #Unity8!

I am finally convinced to try out the Racket programming language after watching @cwebber 's #FOSDEM 2019 talk.

https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/guileracket/

I have been looking for a Lispy replacement to #Python for a year now. #Racket is batteries-included like Python. You can also create executable binaries.
I'm not looking for efficiency here, since it's just for scripts I run on my desktop.

Though I prefer to use Emacs over DrRacket, I can see how it can bring down the barrier to entry significantly.

#Lisp

My 2 FOSDEM talks are already online if you have missed them.

XMPP beyond instant messaging: https://video.fosdem.org/2019/H.1309/xmpp_beyond_im.mp4
or https://video.fosdem.org/2019/H.1309/xmpp_beyond_im.webm

Salut à Toi: A Python Based Social Network And More:
https://video.fosdem.org/2019/UD2.120/python_salut_a_toi_network.mp4
or https://video.fosdem.org/2019/UD2.120/python_salut_a_toi_network.webm

feedbacks are welcome!

#FOSDEM #XMPP #python #salutatoi #talks #social #network #instant #messaging

mastodon is not just a server (and why that's not necessarily a good thing) https://ktn.fyi/blog/posts/20190208-mastodon-is-not-just-a-server by @kity

The post is about the current trend of having "specialized" AP servers rather than the dream of general, extensible ones where you can swap out frontends using the client-to-server API. Happy to hear more people talking and thinking about this!

Creating a Computing Revolution: from Personal Computers to Personal Servers - Danny Haidar, FOSDEM 2019 https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/35c61cd2-9fdf-43d6-b524-7b95a7dca9f4

sr.ht is henceforth sourcehut.

https://sourcehut.org

We're still going to use the old domain cause it's nice and short, but the marketing material lives here and now you know how to prounounce it 🎉

#Debian Buster enters soft freeze on February 12. It is the next major step for Buster moving from Testing to Stable. What does it mean?

https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html

Any #rustlang devs interested in porting the Mastodon streaming API from Node.js to Rust?

We would likely not be able to abandon the Node.js version completely for portability's sake, but there is no reason not to have a more performant drop-in for those who can install it.

The Node.js version consumes about 1GB of RAM for 21k connections.

GNU Hurd Can Build Around 75% Of The Debian Packages, But No 64-bit Or SMP Yet at https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Hurd-2019-State - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/w7m7437f9m #freepost

Looking for a FLOSS alternative for #Hangouts reignited my interest in #Movim. If only I can convince my friends to use Movim or any other #XMPP client. Anyway here is a short blog post of mine about Movim.

http://homehack.nl/movim-floss-alternative-for-hangouts/

@c1t7 @remotenemesis @ella_kane we seriously need to defederate from the feds tbh

You couldn't attend #FOSDEM ?

via @bortzmeyer
https://video.fosdem.org/

Akira, The Linux Design Tool

Akira is about giving the freedom to designers who want to use Open Source.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alecaddd/akira-the-linux-design-tool

cc @design_libre

Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox.

Sudhamsh Kandukuri and I presented yesterday at XConf India 2018.

An inspiring story of a grassroots movement where people rejected Facebook's Free Basics and installed low-cost community Wi-Fi networks instead.
A FreedomBox on the network provides most of the essential digital services required, offline.

Slides:
https://njoseph.me/~joseph/Digital%20Empowerment%20in%20Rural%20India.pdf

Video recording: coming soon!

#FreedomBox #Swecha #FSMI #XConfIndia #ThoughtWorks