PLUG Meeting topic for Thursday July 12th (TONIGHT! sorry for the late notice)

[PLUG Announcements]

  PLUG Meeting for July 12^th

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**We'll have 2 presentations at this month's meeting, both from 
der.hans. ****Federated Microblogging with Mastodon & uMatrix for 
webbrowser protection **
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*For more info, Meeting time and location see:*
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*http://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html**
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***de**r.hans: **uMatrix for webbrowser protection*

*Description*:
uMatrix is a webextension security and privacy add on for Firefox.
Via a simple interface uMatrix allows personal rules for website 
cookies, JavaScript, CSS, pictures and video.
uMatrix uses and maintains per site allowlists and blocklists. For 
example, you can allow cookies, JavaScript, CSS and images for 
www.example.com and only CSS and images from cdb.example.com while 
blocking everything from spies.exampleduplicate.com.
Attendees will know what the web components are that uMatrix controls, 
how to use the uMatrix GUI interface and save rules.

*der.hans: Federated Microblogging with Mastodon**
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*Description:*
Mastodon is a decentralized, open source social network. It implements 
ActivityPub for compatibility with other federated services such as 
Plume blog engine, PixelFed picture sharing service and PeerTube video 
sharing service.
Mastodon has per message privacy controls. Each message can be fully 
public, unlisted, private of direct.
Mastodon also gives you multiple options to block content, accounts or 
even complete domains.
Since Mastodon is federated there are many servers. Choose the 
independently-operated service that meets your needs. Like email, you 
aren't limited to just members of that particular service. You can even 
install your own instance.
Mastodon posts are limited to 500 characters and intentionally do not 
have rich text. It's for microblogging :).

*Biography:*
der.hans is a Free Software community veteran, presenter and author. He 
is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, BoF organizer for the 
Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and chairman of the Phoenix Linux 
User Group (PLUG).
As a technology and entrepreneurial veteran, roles have included 
director of engineering, engineering manager, IS manager, system 
administrator, community college instructor, developer and DBA.
He presents regularly at large community-led conferences (SCaLE, SeaGL, 
LibrePlanet, LFNW) and many local groups.
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The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze Substation.  People 
start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would like to help setup 
and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early.
*Meeting Location*:
Desert Breeze Substation
251 North Desert Breeze Blvd West
Chandler, AZ 85226

The Desert Breeze Substation is on Chandler Blvd and Desert Breeze Blvd, 
which is half way between McClintock and Rural.  It is very close to 
both the south 202 and 101 freeways.  Public transportation is
available into the late hours.

For more information see the meeting information on our web site 
<http://phxlinux.org/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html>

Contact PLUG:
Email: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/email-lists.html
IRC: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/chat.html
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+PhxlinuxOrg
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Linux-Users-Group/
	<https://www.google.com/maps/place/251+Desert+Breeze+Blvd+W,+Chandler,+AZ+85226/@33.3076899,-111.9220921,17z/data=%214m5%213m4%211s0x872b06cdd50c43c7:0x7d3e9c66bdb7f8a2%218m2%213d33.3070191%214d-111.9193025?hl=en>

We will go for food to BJs at the Chandler Fashion Center Mall after the 
meeting so we can chat with each other comfortably. Please feel free to 
join us. Please come even if you aren't hungry, the food is not mandatory.

See you there,
Brian Cluff

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