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Internet Software: Arti, Mastodon, and Mattermost

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 05, 2023

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Arti 1.1.4 is released: Development on Onion Services and RPC

↺ Arti 1.1.4 is released: Development on Onion Services and RPC

> Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. Now we're announcing the latest release, Arti 1.1.4.

> For this month and the next, our efforts are divided between onion services and work on a new RPC API (a successor to C Tor's "control port") that will give applications a safe and powerful way to work with Arti without having to write their code in Rust or link Arti as a library (unless they want to).

Ready to try Mastodon? Here’s how to get started

↺ Ready to try Mastodon? Here’s how to get started

> Mastodon has been around since 2016, but not until recently has it emerged as a popular alternative to Twitter. Like Firefox, Mastodon is open-sourced, so it’s built on a foundation of transparency and accessibility to all. It’s also decentralized, which means it’s powered by different communities and doesn’t answer to one entity or a bunch of stakeholders.

Mattermost brings generative AI power to open-source collaboration

↺ Mattermost brings generative AI power to open-source collaboration

> Mattermost expands its open-source technology to enable security conscious organizations to better integrate generative AI.

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