Conversations: the very last word in instant messaging

An open source instant messaging client. Easy to use, reliable, battery friendly. With built-in support for e2e encryption, group chats and media transfer.

Source: Conversations: the very last word in instant messaging

It’s worth noting that it can be obtained in binary form for 0€ on FDroid and that it is free-as-in-freedom software, as you can check out the source code using
git clone https://github.com/siacs/Conversations.git

I’d rather use other DB

Dear Packt publishing, yesterday you wanted to make me a gift giving me a free copy of a book of yours.

I shall thank you. One must always thanks for a gift.

Yet I am somehow mithered to discover that the book deals with proprietary software. Namely Azure Cosmos DB.

I strive to avoid proprietary software as much as possible as I prefer Freedom. Nevertheless I downloaded it: I may learn something new. As Automattic’s creed says: “I will never stop learning.“.

As Forrest Gump’s mother once said:

“Life is like a box of chocolates: one You never know what you’re gonna get.”

Given my current workload I wonder when I will be able to read it.

A damning internal Facebook document

British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court

Source: British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court / Boing Boing

Expecially:

…they show Facebookers at the highest level — up to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg — conspiring to trick Android users about how much data was being gathered by an update to the Facebook app

So I was doing good sticking to theire mobile website and refusing to install their apps, even the “lite” one.