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      Universities (finally) band together, fight “unprecedented government overreach”

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica • 3 days ago - 22:51 • 1 minute

    Last Friday, in an op-ed piece on the Trump administration's war on American universities , we called for academia to 1) band together and 2) resist coercive control over hiring and teaching, though we noted that the 3) "temperamental caution of university administrators" means that they might "have trouble finding a clear voice to speak with when they come under thundering public attacks from a government they are more used to thinking of as a funding source."

    It only took billions of dollars in vindictive cuts to make it happen, but higher education has finally 1) banded together to 2) resist coercive control over its core functions. More than 230 leaders, mostly college and university presidents, have so far signed an American Association of Colleges and Universities statement that makes a thundering call gentle bleat for total resistance "constructive engagement" with the people currently trying to cripple, shutter, and/or dominate them. Clearly, 3) temperamental caution remains the watchword. Still, progress! (Even Columbia University, which has already capitulated to Trump administration pressure, signed on.)

    The statement largely consists of painful pablum about how universities "provide human resources to meet the fast-changing demands of our dynamic workforce," etc, etc. As a public service, I will save you some time (and nausea) by excerpting the bits that matter:

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      Movim 0.26 Borrelly

      Timothée Jaussoin • pubsub.movim.eu / Movim • 29 July, 2024 edit • 2 minutes

    Another month, another release! We are happy to introduce Movim 0.26, codename Borrelly.

    What's new?

    Custom Emojis (yay 🎉)!

    Movim implemented the Stickers feature a while ago already but always lacked the ability for users to send some custom #emojis to their friends.

    This is now implemented thanks to the complete integration of the #XMPP extension XEP-0231: Bits of Binary which was already used partially by the Stickers.

    The available emojis packs are imported by the administrator using a new console command that is compatible with the Mastodon or Plemora emojis pack

    For example you can import the neofox pack by Volpeon using the following command:

    web-user$ php daemon.php importEmojisPack https://volpeon.ink/emojis/neofox/manifest.json

    You'll need to run this command using your webserver user, the script will take care of downloading the ZIP file, copy the pictures and seed the database to make them available to all the #Movim instance users.

    Each user will then be able to pick their favorites in the Configuration panel and insert them while chating.

    Picking your favority emojis

    When adding a new favorite emoji the user will be able to add a custom :trigger-word: to insert the emoji in its message.

    This feature is compatible with a few other XMPP clients sur as Pidgin (!) and Cheogram.

    Codeblock support in messages

    By using the codeblock syntax it is now possible to insert sourcecode extracts in your messages.

    A codeblock example

    Better handling of spam messages

    Some users were experiencing unsolicited and #spam messages issues. This new release doesn't send desktop and push notifications if the messages is not from a contact.

    The 1-to-1 discussions can also be filtered to only display the ones you had with your contacts.

    Filtering 1-to-1 discussions

    Updated message moderation and retraction

    Movim now supports the latest version of Message Retraction and Message Moderation and therefore better integrate with the newest clients and servers implementations.

    ... but also some fixes

    As always some issues were also fixed in this release.

    The internal code was refactored to comply with the PSR-4 PHP standard. This should remove a lot of warnings when installing and upgrading.

    Some shared image URLs were not handled properly in the chat and the preview was broken, this was fixed in the ticket #1314. The sharing of URLs and some embedding features were also greatly improved when writing a new article.

    What's next?

    We are happy to announce that Movim was selected by NLNet to fund a large set of exciting features around video-conferencing on the platform 🥳, including one-to-many audio and video calls. This will be the biggest project done until now and should keep us busy until next year.

    The NLNet logo

    Some more specifics and technical blogs posts will be published soon to explain more in details what all those changes will be about and which exciting features you will see in the upcoming releases.

    Thanks a lot to them and don't forget to follow us to get all the latest details about this.

    That's all folks!

    #nlnet #funding #videoconferencing