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Thanks to Automattic, the strongly open source company behind WordPress, another great product Pocket Casts goes open source! Awesome!

Automating our lights, security cameras, all the Things? We'll be needing some IoT Gadgets and a home automation system.

“Which brand? Amazon Alexa or Google or Apple HomeKit?”

NO! Big Tech makes technology that best serves Big Tech. We don't have to accept it, once we learn there's an alternative.

Time I Learned: our smart home can respect our freedom.

“What's it to be: Android or iPhone?”

Actually, NO! There is another way.

Time I Learned: there are freedom-respecting phones.

I'll tell you which one you need.

This is my POSSE copy of duetds/date-picker issue #116 .

My display name on WhatsApp is “Julian via Matrix”. This is the dominant messenger in my circles and it grieves me (but doesn't surprise me) that I've yet to persuade most friends & family off it. Perhaps setting a new “about me” message can help get the word out:

This is my POSSE copy of the announcement posted in This Week in Matrix (TWIM) 2022-07-08.

I have created an installation role to add the UnifiedPush-compatible push-notification server “ntfy” to the popular Matrix server installer system “matrix-docker-ansible-deploy”.

This Ansible role named “matrix-ntfy” lets a Matrix server operator offer self-hosted Google-less push notifications for their users.

An English translation of a web page of a German primary school which adapted Matrix software for their school's needs in COVID times. They called their version Hermannpost.

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The safe messenger for children and parents of Hermann School

A school messenger for our inclusive school

video: Hermann School: Our way through Corona (in German)

For years, Hermann School has been working on a sustainable media concept that meets its special features and special needs. For example, our classrooms have long been equipped with interactive whiteboards.

Then came Coronavirus.

An English translation of an interview with a German primary school teacher who adapted Matrix software for their school's needs in COVID times. They called their version Hermannpost.

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Instead of relying on Teams or Google, a primary school in NRW uses a customised Matrix client during homeschooling. The effort is worth it.

An Interview by Moritz Tremmel published on 24 January 2022, 9:15 am

Contents:

1. Matrix: Primary School forked Messenger
2. A matrix server alone does not yet make a primary school messenger
3. How Hermannpost came to the app stores

Bright future for interoperable messaging such as Matrix: the EU has come to its senses and demands the walled gardens like WhatsApp must interoperate. Hooray, at last.

But why should we care? Let's see.

First, the news itself, as The Verge reports: