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#1 Re: Programs, Apps » Promoting Jabber / XMPP use » Yesterday 13:47:29
I'd recommend using the Conversations app on mobile or on a desktop system Pidgin with OTR or Lurch or Gajim with the OTR or OMEMO plugin.
https://conversations.im
https://github.com/gkdr/lurch
You can also proxy those through Tor (Orbot on mobile) and that will provide some level of protection for the metadata. You can even set up XMPP servers to run from an onion address.
#2 Re: The Social Room » Naming a UK GNU social instance » Yesterday 11:44:44
GNU/K
GNU Social is a pretty good system and it can also be installed using Freedombone (https://freedombone.net). It's also possible to just host yourself and then federate with the rest and that minimises the administration and legal issues with hosting data. Remember to periodically backup the database and config file and that's about all.
#3 Re: Retailers » Freed Computer Limited » 2016-10-18 22:24:09
That sounds like a good idea and I had been thinking about doing something like that myself.
#4 Re: Politics & culture » How will leaving the EU affect Free Software in the UK? » 2016-10-18 22:21:27
In the short term I don't see it making any difference. Longer term an independent UK might develop laws different from the EU which either support or oppose Free Software. Which way it goes is just down to us to try to influence and so it may be that a specifically UK Free Software group has more relevance than it would have previously.
#5 Hello » Sans beard » 2016-10-18 22:15:01
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My name is Bob Mottram. I'm a long time GNU/Linux user and software engineer. I got interested in Free Software after reading a biography of Stallman (Free as in Freedom) and it took me a long while before I ended up running fully free systems, but I eventually got there. These days I'm interested in self-hosted and mesh network systems. I see the establishment of commons-based networks and services as the last part of the puzzle.
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