Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
For many years now, I’ve talked about why so many of the problems that face the current internet could be understood by looking at how we moved from an internet dominated by open protocols to…
PeerTube v4, more power to help you present your videos
Customization, content discovery, empowering through more control... Here is an overview of the new version of our software solution to create alternative platforms to YouTube and federate them together. « Frama is not just... » Each week of Fall 2021, we want to present you the diversity of what Framasoft does. As these actions are...
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I flatter myself that I am pretty secure online. I've written a series of global bestsellers about information security, I've worked for EFF for nearly 20 years, I've given keynotes at some of the world's largest infosec conferences. And yet, I have been hacked. It wasn't even very sophisticated!
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Trump's new social media platform found using Mastodon code
From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so-called Truth Social, is using Mastodon’s source code with various visual adjustments. The platform has not formally launched yet, but it was made accessible ahead of time. Users were quick to note that the terms of service included a worrying passage, claiming that the site is proprietary property and all source code and software are owned or controlled by them or licensed to them:
Podcast: Creating A New Social Media Ecosystem With Middleware [Ep.302]
It's another crossposted episode this week! Mike recently joined the Tech Policy Press podcast alongside Block Party founder Tracy Chou for a conversation about using middleware and interoperability to craft a new, less centralized online...
FOSS wins again: Free and Open Source Communities comes through on 19th Century Newspapers (and Books and Periodicals...) - Internet Archive Blogs
I have never been more encouraged and thankful to Free and Open Source communities. Three months ago I posted a request for help with OCR’ing and processing 19th Century Newspapers and we got soooo many offers to help. Thank you, that was heart warming and concretely helpful– already based on these suggestions we are changing […]
The History of Open Source Software - BrandonGaille.com
Open Source Evolutions: Software for the Masses Even from its beginnings, open source software has been all about free accessibility, ease of use, constant improvement, and evolution over time. Want to know more about how
Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is an hour long, it offers much more insight into the topic, and I hope you’ll give it a look.