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So what is the most Discord- or Slack-like thing that one can self-host for a Hacker Club?

edit: an idea of requirements...

I guess I need it to have an easy web page front end so rank beginners will know how to use it; I'll give up as much fancy functionality as I need to for that.

Also needs to be self-hosted with no surveillance or shitty commercial license or capitalist issues. Again, I will give up as much fancy functionality as I have to.

From there, I'd like to have as much Nice Stuff as possible, groups, spaces for admin, different topics, etc.

Thinking Matrix via a web frontend? Not sure about the licensing/beholdenness of Matrix.

Chaos Computer Club, Europe‘s largest community of #hackers, has issued a statement:

"Those who aim to destroy coexistence in society and work toward an alternative society with principles based on chauvinism and nationalism are working against the moral principles that unite us as a club.

The CCC declares representing racism and fascism, as well as trivialising historical and current violence, to be incompatible with a membership in our ranks."

ccc.de/en/club/unvereinbarkeit
#Ccc #Chaos

ccc.deCCC | Incompatibility of membershipDer Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.

The Chaos Computer Club, Europe‘s largest community of #hackers, has released a declaration on what is incompatible with the club’s values: “Those who aim to destroy coexistence in society and work toward an alternative society with principles based on chauvinism and nationalism are working against the moral principles that unite us as a club.

The CCC declares representing racism and fascism (…) to be incompatible with a membership in our ranks.”

ccc.de/en/club/unvereinbarkeit

ccc.deCCC | Incompatibility of membershipDer Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.
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The #Guix leaders are indeed the reason I don't even give it a try despite some great people like you working on it.

I will reconsider when I'll read a public apology for this personal attack to a neurodivergent #hacker such as #RMS.

It worth to remember how that "joint stab in the back" was published while RMS was under attack because he dared defend Minsky's memory from the same sort of mob justice that was then redirected (and amplified on #BigTech social media) against RMS himself.

Some of those "leaders" who signed that "joint statement" a couple years later signed an even worse attack built on top of lies.

These sort of personal attacks have clear political goals, "incidentally" aligned with BigTech interests.

Now @zimoun@sciences.re could try to sort me among #Stallman fanboys to reinforce his beliefs, but in fact I'm pretty critical of RMS work: ultimately I think he based free software on a cold-war biased ideology, without a proper balance between communion (aka sharing strongly protected commons) and freedom. This huge error left space to #opensource and to the current use of #FreeSoftware by all sort of large corporations to abuse and subdue people.
Another (related) issue has been the total lack of a cohesive architectural design for #GNU system: RMS was too (inconsciously) fond of free market ideology to lead the movement's technically, and this lack of cohordination was turned by #ESR to the "bazaar" (not so subtle) sublimation of free market, to ease corporate exploitation of the high skilled labour of #hackers.

But in fact, with all of his political errors, he's still the most coherent and commited free software activist out there.

So I will consider Guix again when they will publish a joint apology with the same visibility the back-stab had in 2019.
guix.gnu.orgJoint statement on the GNU Project — 2019 — Blog — GNU GuixBlog posts about GNU Guix.

This clip of actor Leslie Nielson talking about the dangers of #hacking and unscrupulous #hackers at the "Cybermania '94" Ultimate Gamer Awards, the first televised video game awards show. It was held at the Universal Amphitheatre at Universal Studios Hollywood and broadcast live on TBS. You can see some l0pht, cDc and 2600 characters discussing the cybers.

200 Million X User Records Released — 2.8 Billion Twitter IDs Leaked

It is understood that the data, which has been verified in part at least to be genuine by the Safety Detectives researchers, included: X screen name and user IDs, full names, locations, email addresses, follower counts, profile data, time zones, profile images and more.

#socialmedia #twitter #x #databreach #security #cybersecurity #infosec #hackers #hacking #hacked

forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2

ForbesHacker Claims To Have Leaked 200 Million X User Data Records—For FreeA hacker has claimed to have given away 200 million leaked and stolen data records relating to X users. What you need to know.