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.

ASynK – Awesome SynK

https://asynk.io/

Well, that’s interesting:

ASynK CmdLine is a powerful open source Contacts synchronization program that works with a variety of Contacts software such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server, Google Contacts, Any standards compiant CardDAV server, and Emacs BBDB.

Some of the key features of ASynK are:

ASynK allows two-way sync of Contacts across any two supported sources. For e.g. you can use this to copy contacts from one Google account to another, or from your Google account and your official MS Exchange account etc.

And the author says it’s “open source”. Well writing than an AGPL3 program is “open source” is a gross underestimate of the freedom its author is giving to the users! Kudos