My article on #DeleteWhatsApp campaign and rise of Signal, is published in NewsMeter.

https://newsmeter.in/interviews/whatsapp-new-policy-why-are-users-shifting-to-signal-telegram-672724

“With the growing privacy awareness among people, we are witnessing popular trends like #WhatsAppExodus & #DeleteWhatsApp. People are exploring privacy alternatives, resulting in a huge spike in people switching to Signal.

Signal is a free software where its source code is publicly available. It is offered by a non-profit organisation named Signal Technology Foundation whose mission is to develop “Free and open source privacy technology that protects free expression and enable secure global communication”.

Telegram, meanwhile, is a proprietary closed-sourced software (only clients are free and open source) with attractive features, especially for large communities. It is offered by a UK-registered private company that operates from the United Arab Emirates. Telegram is failing to counter cryptocurrency pump-and-dump activities by spambots on its platform, which has been a major disadvantage in the recent past for groups on their platform.

We need to realize that “privacy can’t be assured without the source code being public”, i.e. we can’t verify the claims of any app about its privacy offerings unless all the source code is publicly available for scrutiny.”

#PublicCode #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #FreeSoftware #Signal #WhatsApp #Telegram

Taller de reparación del Colectivo En Las Flores en la biblioteca Lola Mora de Santa Fe.
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Está compuesto por estudiantes avanzados y docentes de la Tecnicatura en Software Libre.
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Nació de una dinámica gestada en el interior de unidades penitenciarias de la ciudad, y que busca promover y facilitar el ejercicio del derecho a la educación, la cultura y el trabajo.
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Es una experiencia donde la libertad funciona como eje articulador: de los deseos, los saberes, de las tecnologías y en los cuerpos.
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El Colectivo En Las Flores es una continuidad más allá de los muros del taller de tecnologías que funcionó en 2019 en la cárcel de Las Flores, en Santa Fe.
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Durante 2020 la pandemia imposibilitó sostener lazos con quienes aún están cumpliendo condena al interior de las unidades penitenciarias. Afuera, la biblioteca Lola Mora ofició de espacio de encuentro, de lugar de trabajo y punto de referencia para quienes necesitan reparar sus dispositivos.
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Aquella visión de la cultura libre y comunitaria propio del espacio de investigación-experimentación, ahora se vuelca sobre un colectivo de trabajo que ofrece soluciones tecnológicas libres.
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El Colectivo En Las Flores es una búsqueda por generar "posibles salidas laborales desde una perspectiva que permita cuestionar aquellos roles asignados antes de ingresar a la prisión, como así también los que la misma prisión impone".
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#darktable #fotoperiodismo #photography #photojournalism #canon #softwarelibre #culturalibre #freesoftware #freeculture #argentina

I have been listening #TheLinuxSpotlight for almost 50 episodes and so far, as a matter of fact, the only one who addressed the topic of free software clearly and properly has been Mark Shuttelworth of #Canonical.

I was really amazed, I am not a fan of Ubuntu, I am not a fan of #BDFL meanings, but that man has mentioned the #opensource terminology just a couple of time and it focused all his interview speaking about the importance of the free software, he put the free software at the center of any of his arguments, he demonstrated a deep knowledge of the importance of the free software in our society. I was really impressed, because the free software philosophy is under attack as never been like before and cannot be spoken and nevertheless associated with Linux and the opensource; and despite all the desperate effort by Rocco of #BigDaddyLinux to move the conversation from free software to opensource Mr Shuttelworth continued to elaborate the importance of the free software, he was absolutely brilliant.

It is a shame that actually Canonical and Ubuntu don't pursue the exact same vision he shared in that interview, but he was genuinely amazing! At this point I have to remove Canonical from the list of the bad guys. Someone ordered to omit the terminology "free software" in anything that is related with Linux, it can't be a coincidence that you can watch/listen 100 episodes of any Linux podcast without listening that terminology mentioned not even one single time.

Thus I would say that there are very few names left in that list and if I watch at this other list: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/board-members/ ; there is very few room left to the imagination...

By the way so far I remember the terminology free software has been cited one time by Chris Titus in ep. 13 but he rapidly correct himself as if he was saying an heresy, and has been mentioned a couple of times by Carl Richell of S76 in ep. 34 to reiterate how it was important for Computer Science; I don't know personally Rocco, but I think he is a great guy, however he won't pronounce the terminology "free software" even under torture...

To conclude, even though I am still in disagree with many choices made by Canonical, and Ubuntu is not my favorite distro, that interview was amazing and it is a slap on the face of all those youtebers/podcasters that show constantly an hostile attitude toward the free software philosophy! Opensource and free software as in freedom aren't the same thing, and speaking about free software doesn't mean endorsing the Free Software Foundation, it means endorsing the four freedoms that any people must have regarding the use and redistribution of the software, being hostile against the freedom is unbelievable! 😱

#freesoftware #freesoftwaremovement #opensource #linux