Can The FSF Really Make The Librephone? #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/mWMpfN9C-lI

I dream of a flip phone that can run postmarketOS and make calls over Wi-Fi and Jabber.

Why? Because flip phones aren't expected to be a place where you run "apps." If you say "I have a flip phone," your bank won't hassle you to get the app anymore.

postmarketOS does have some support for feature phones. It can run on the devices that come with KaiOS.

#XMPP #postmarketOS #dumbphone #FreeSoftware #KaiOS

You may recall a document on the creation of a new shared event between GNOME and KDE and today we have the people who proposed the event on the show #Linux #Podcast #OpenSource @pietrodc0@mastodon.social @ilvipero@mastodon.social

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5iMWsRSUc4

Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/Bridging-The-Gap-Between-KDE--GNOME--Pietro--Mauro-e39jsm8

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🚨⏳ Act now! You have until November 3rd, 2025 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.

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#LinkedInAI #MicrosoftAI #BigTech

I said this yesterday and now #signal is down due to #AWS problems, maybe now people should read again

RE: https://mastodon.social/@adbenitez/115401243276022331

IRC is working just fine. As always.

Now is another great moment to ponder if making your business rely on Amazon is a great idea.

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

Link: https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45641143

#aws

È in corso un blackout che colpisce vari servizi online tra cui Signal.

Anche altre app tra cui #Snapchat e #Canva non funzionano per questo motivo.

👉🏻 https://aboutsignal.com/it/notizie/interruzione-di-signal-e-molti-altri-servizi-online/

#signal #signalapp #interruzione #blackout #AWS

@jae@darkdork.dev @kaia@brotka.st @N33R@fops.cloud

Nah, my cloud (which is a 20 y.o. Mac Mini sitting on top of a bookcase) is fine.

It's just a pun on Signal being a secure messenger, but relying on third-party infrastructure.

Nothing wrong with relying on others' infrastructure per-se, I'm not one of those full-on paranoid types — but the founders of Signal probably are. I mean, now that they have added a third "post-quantum" ratchet, the data is resistant to being brute forced by quantum computers: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/19/0546205/why-signals-post-quantum-makeover-is-an-amazing-engineering-achievement

But this improvement itself assumes that earlier data IS vulnerable to store now, decrypt later attacks — from this POV using AWS is an awful practice, so relying on others' infra is bad according to them, not me 🙃

Xubuntu website compromised to deliver crypto malware to Windows 10 refugees Users looking to switch to Linux may have been affected by malware being distributed from the Xubuntu site after hackers...


Origin | Interest | Match

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to repost this old strip

Sooo I guess at this point it's just literally the old background blur with extra steps?

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/ios-26-1-liquid-glass-toggle

"Dobbiamo andare oltre Signal": l'interruzione di AWS di oggi mostra i punti deboli delle app centralizzate

"Signal è un'ottima app di messaggistica con una privacy e una crittografia straordinarie, ma è basata su un sistema centralizzato con sede negli Stati Uniti. Un servizio che esiste solo in un posto diventa molto più facile da bloccare o attaccare."

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps

@informatica

Today's AWS debacle is the perfect example of the reason why in the last few years I started to be less enthusiastic about Signal, and more oriented to federated or even P2P solutions like XMPP and Jami. I wrote about it already:

https://gagliardoni.net/#im_battle_2025

Signal was down for few hours today, after an outage that affected AWS:

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115405436746725236

Let's ignore for a second the blind reliance on AWS or any other cloud provider. In a decentralized system, this would not have happened, or at least it would have not impacted so many users.

Yes, I am a cryptographer myself, I know that Signal's encryption is the best. But encryption is not everything. Availability issues, geopolitical troubles, risk of enshittification, limitations on users' freedom to use and control the software lead to a lack of trust, even in a supersecure solution. And I say that with honest admiration for the folks at Signal, who are doing a great job.

May they prove me wrong over and over again.