China's social credit system has blocked people from taking 11 million flights and 4 million train trips: http://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-blocked-people-taking-flights-train-trips-2018-5?IR=T
On the 1st and 2nd of June #varia will host the first of a series of events on #opensource #federated social media and how #design can play a role in making that succeed.
For the first edition we invited Daniel Gultsch, the developer of the #conversations #XMPP client to talk about federated instant messaging. He'll do a talk about his work and project and we'll host a one day #worksession we'll do hands on work contributing to it . More infos:
Purism and UBports officially collaborate to offer Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5
https://puri.sm/posts/ubports-ubuntu-touch-on-librem5-collaboration/
Qubes 4.0 is officially released
Wow, this person has made some AMAZING #opensource / #programming art:
https://github.com/jstpcs/lnxpcs
My favorites are attached.
PSA: OTR *does not* encrypt file transfers
