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I'm Freddy, an amateur writer covering, privacy, security and open-source development.

Most of my toots will cover these topics, and I'll try to not get too political.

Part 2/?

Hi folks! 9 years ago (to the day), the late Aaron Swartz made the first commit to SecureDrop, which was then called DeadDrop. Today the project is used by >70 media orgs around the world.

It's an open source whistleblower submission platform that uses the Tor network to protect source anonymity. We're also working on a next-generation integrated workstation for journalists based on Qubes OS:
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation

We're happy to be here! #introductions

Ways to share screens in Qube OS Β· freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation Wiki

Qubes-based SecureDrop Journalist Workstation environment for submission handling - Ways to share screens in Qube OS Β· freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation Wiki

GitHub
Over half of your libraries are used by fewer than 0.1% of your executables.

FWIW, we (pre-)released a new piece of TURN server software today:

https://eturnal.net

eturnal STUN/TURN Server

Modern, straightforward STUN and TURN server

@sir β€œMusic is the cup that holds the wine of silence”

While we're on the subject of decolonising music history/teaching: the first piece of music made by manipulating tape recordings is from Africa. Halim El-Dabh wrote "Ta'abir al-Zaar" ["The Expression of Zaar"] in 1944.

You can find out more about him from his website: http://www.halimeldabh.com/

Note that he was spotted by the US government as a talented composer and recruited to a US University, so there's not a good excuse for ignoring his work, and yet he's not often discussed.

THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF HALIM EL-DABH and HALIM EL-DABH MUSIC

Wow the head of the Open Technology Fund just resigned over lobbying efforts to force it to fund closed-source projects https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/935k5p/open-technology-fund-ceo-resigns
CEO of Open Technology Fund Resigns After Closed-Source Lobbying Effort

The Open Technology Fund has previously given money to all sorts of internet freedom projects.

Back in 2016 @[email protected] paid for the public security audit of Matrix's E2E encryption by @[email protected]: an absolutely critical step for Matrix. Today, OTF is under attack. Please help save them for the sake of the Internet. #SaveInternetFreedom #SaveOTF https://saveinternetfreedom.tech
Save Internet Freedom

@[email protected] Agree with this. Get a bunch of yubikeys, turn off password auth, and maybe set AllowUsers in sshd_config
@sir the BeOS legacy of fantastic multimedia performance lives on