The Newswire – WordPress theme | WordPress.org

I still can’t decide which theme to use for my tentative site for pastoraledesio.it….

The Newswire theme is design for local news sites and blogs. Taking a lead from popular news sites like the HuffPo it has a huge home page slider showing the latest posts (or sticky posts if you prefer). The customize options also let you upload your own logo, change fonts, colors and background without any custom coding. The theme has two customizable menus and you can even add banner code to the header and sidebar from the customize menu. Of course it is fully responsive so works great on mobiles, tablets and desktops.

Source: The Newswire – WordPress theme | WordPress.org

Use Briar instead of Bridgefy!!!

Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block: Usage Up 3685% – Slashdot:

An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet.

That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Francisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using no persistent managed network…

Too bad that Bridgefy is proprietary software. Luckyly there are free-as-in-freedom alternatives: the first entry is Briar:

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging tools such as email, Twitter or Telegram, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the users’ devices. If the Internet’s down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the Internet’s up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance

It has a nice website, it’s available on both Google Play “walled garden” and in the free-as-in-freedome F-Droid repository: Get it on Google Play