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--- technology [2020/03/12 12:00] – Added the open source software section on technology with links and descriptions from the official links maro
+++ technology [2020/03/19 18:56] – [Social Networks] maro
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   * // Contribute some manuals or "how-tos" regarding decentralisation. //
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-===== Hardware =====
-  * [[Technology:Hardware]]
-   * A book on basic electronics
-   * [[https://www.lantern.works|Lantern Works]] - a portable wireless device for stronger, safer recovery
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   * [[https://riot.im/|Riot]] - A secure collaboration app for group chat, file transfer and voice/video conferencing built on the decentralized Matrix ecosystem, providing bridges and integrations to centralized services such as IRC, Slack, Gitter, etc
   * [[https://xmpp.org/|XMPP]] - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is a communication protocol for message-oriented middleware such as Psi+ (Desktop), Conversations (Android) and ChatSecure (iOS). It enables the near-real-time exchange of structured yet extensible data between any two or more network entities.
+  * [[https://signal.org/|Signal]] For mobile devices running Android or iOS, the open source Signal app offers end-to-end encrypted voice, video, text, and photos, and it's been endorsed by security and cryptography experts including Edward Snowden and Bruce Schneier and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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   * [[https://datproject.org|dat]] - Dat is a way to share data with a group of people in something that's like an editable bit-torrent. Peers host your data when they view it. Some people host sketchbooks there, other folks store interesting civic data sets. You can view dat files with, among other things, [[https://beakerbrowser.com/|the Beaker Browser]]
   * [[https://freeyourstuff.cc|Free your stuff]] - makes it easy to share your content on supported sites
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-===== Radio =====
-  * https://commonradio.org/
-==== How-Tos ====
-  * {{ :frequency_guide.pdf |Riding the Airwaves}} - A very quick and messy guide to how radio licensing in the US works and what you should purchase and work toward based on your communication needs. A pretty barebones work in progress right now.
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   * [[https://diasporafoundation.org/|Diaspora]] - A user-owned, distributed social network.
   * [[https://friendi.ca/|Friendica]] - A FLOSS, distributed social network.
+  * [[https://www.okuna.io/en/home|Okuna]] An ethical social network for a brighter tomorrow.
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+  * [[https://mahara.org/|Mahara]] Fully-featured open source web application to build your electronic portfolio. Learner-centered personal learning environment.
-===== Web Browsers =====
-A web browser is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web. Each individual web page, image, and video is identified by a distinct URL, enabling browsers to retrieve and display them on the user's device.
-  * [[https://mozilla.org/firefox|Firefox]] - A FLOSS web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. You can safeguard your browsing habits and stop advertising companies from tracking you by installing addons including: Cookie AutoDelete, Decentraleyes, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin.
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   * [[https://www.7-zip.org/|7-zip]] -7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip is free software with open source. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization.
   * [[https://www.qbittorrent.org/|qBittorrent]] -The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows).
+  * [[https://jitsi.org/|Jirsi]] Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.
+  * [[https://wire.com/en/|Wire]] Wire offers the most comprehensive collaboration suite featuring messenger, voice, video, conference calls, file-sharing, and external collaboration – all protected by the most secure end-to-end-encryption.
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+===== Web Browsers =====
+A web browser is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web. Each individual web page, image, and video is identified by a distinct URL, enabling browsers to retrieve and display them on the user's device.
+  * [[https://mozilla.org/firefox|Firefox]] - A FLOSS web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. You can safeguard your browsing habits and stop advertising companies from tracking you by installing addons including: Cookie AutoDelete, Decentraleyes, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin.
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+===== Radio =====
+  * https://commonradio.org/
+==== How-Tos ====
+  * {{ :frequency_guide.pdf |Riding the Airwaves}} - A very quick and messy guide to how radio licensing in the US works and what you should purchase and work toward based on your communication needs. A pretty barebones work in progress right now.
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+===== Hardware =====
+  * [[Technology:Hardware]]
+   * A book on basic electronics
+   * [[https://www.lantern.works|Lantern Works]] - a portable wireless device for stronger, safer recovery