@Fairphone
Great! Now float a few hundred phones and a yellow one down to Australia...

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This rocks. Backblaze donates $15,600 back to its libcurl open source library dependency, with this message.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/01/14

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Ever wanted to develop apps for you phone using your favorite desktop tools and frameworks? This is how easy it is puri.sm/posts/easy-librem-5-ap

@wolfcoder @anna @sir @DissidentKitty@radical.town @MegXgeM@hispagatos.space

Please don't lump all FLOSS advocates into the same group as them. By and large, free software proponents are aligned with freedom to choose in all parts of one's life. To prevent someone from controlling and feeling at home in their own body is an act that upsets me far more than preventing someone from controlling their software, but definitely for a similar reason.

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@DissidentKitty also if you need textbooks you definitely shouldn't pirate them from librarygenesis.net/ because it would be bad for capitalism

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Everyone please, please sign the save .ORG petition.

SaveDotOrg.org

.ORG seems to be the worst tld to sell. The people who want to use it are orgs that probably need it. ICANN has not given good reasons for why they are selling except for "we trust them" and pretty much just "we want the money."

m.slashdot.org/story/364024

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Black Friday is a good opportunity to shop but only if you're strategic:

1⃣ No impulse purchases
2⃣ Make a "Black Friday" list throughout the year of things you need and their actual prices
3⃣ Only buy things from the list and only if they're actually discounted

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Concentration camps in China 

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I love this post:

"When we first approached hardware manufacturers almost two years ago with this project most of them instantly said “No, sorry, impossible, we can not help you.”. Others warned us, that it could never work, that it was too complicated, “the industry does not do that” and so forth.

And yet here we are, later than we wanted, but we are actually shipping first hardware! It is possible but it comes at a price."

puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

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The software team were busy in October: improved power consumption and thermals, refactored integration between various apps, added new features to keyboard, Settings, Shell and Compositor, squashed bugs and more puri.sm/posts/librem-5-october

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We did it! We came together as a community and met our fundraising goal to defend software freedom from patent litigation.
💙
Next up comes the hard part - winning this lawsuit and setting precedent. Stay tuned for updates as we progress forward

secure.givelively.org/donate/g

@Marmiln@mastodon.social @gnupropaganda it's not like the post said those attributes applied to free software exclusively. They all do apply to free software, and are decent reasons to participate. None of the points are shit just because they also work for programming in general.

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My father taught me to program.

He had Opinions, which is why I first learned a bit of Logo and then later, Pascal.

Basic was forbidden in our house, my impressionable young mind was not to be corrupted with line numbers, GOTOs and similar heresy.

Sadly, he lost control of the unruly teenager.

First I abused the C preprocessor in unspeakable ways. Then I put inline assembly in my Pascal programs. And then... the Internet, ircII and for years, Perl. 😱

If not for Python, I'd still be Lost.

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Today we answer the age old question...

What boots faster:
- a Librem 5 smartphone running PureOS (GNU/Linux)
- or a run of the mill Android phone

Blog & MP4: puri.sm/posts/librem-5-vs-andr

YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=q9loBFTZLF

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We have some exciting news! The team at Purism are thrilled to announce the launch of Librem One librem.one Private and secure email, chat, social and VPN. No ads! No tracking! No data sharing! Just the best end-to-end encrypted communication and social. Join the revolution today and take back control of your data and life

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Mastodon.social is blocked in China chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl, but many other instances are not, cuz it's hard to block 'em all. XD
#Fediverse #anticensorship

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