Beat @beat@librem.one

Now that GTK 4.0 is out it's time to celebrate! Join us for a remote release party this Fri, Dec 18, at 18:00-19:30 UTC. https://events.gnome.org/event/59/
#releaseparty #GTK

If you always wanted to watch a video about the @purism #Librem5 where the word Linux is mispronounced, here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSudn0qB6u0

Still, it's a nice video by @Mrwhosetheboss, which is going to draw a lot of attention to Linux phones 🎉 🎊

Great new features are coming to LibreOffice 7.1, due early next year, thanks to student developers in the Google Summer of Code @gsoc! For instance, you'll be able to get templates and add-ons directly inside LibreOffice itself: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/15/libreoffice-and-google-summer-of-code-2020-the-results/

Call for Debian 11 (bullseye) artwork proposals https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/08/msg00002.html

Here’s the video of my talk “Beyond surveillance capitalism: alternatives, stopgaps, Small Web, and Site.js.” from Creative Mornings Istanbul on Friday.

Edited to fix the audio sync issue, add captions, chapters, and links to all the mentioned tools, etc.

Enjoy + please share! :)

https://small-tech.org/videos/creative-mornings-istanbul/

ARD and ZDF use Nextcloud. And we have a nice new case study about it: https://nextcloud.com/blog/customer-success-story-germanys-public-radio-and-television-deploys-nextcloud/

Librem 5 Dogwood Update:

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-dogwood-update/

More info on the Librem 5: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#freedom #privacy #security #linux #librem5

In the meantime Germany changed course. A very good decision https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-app-107.html

Your Librem 5 is Calling

Default and pixel perfect. A snapshot of the preinstalled applications on the Librem 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhrnMVJDpfs

#librem5 #privacy #security #linux

Nextcloud: The Swiss Army Knife of Remote Working Tools https://itsfoss.com/nextcloud?fbclid=IwAR3aJ3dVTnLyhO10pPHBm8pxOjIfAWhTWPyLTxxjnKpp6bQJSghVhSDdrig

We're thrilled to announce the official release of GNOME 3.36 "Gresik". This version contains 6 months of work by the GNOME community and includes many improvements, performance enhancements, and new features. Please see the link below for more info:
https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/03/gnome-3-36-released/

Announcing the Purism Librem Mini https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini/ Small form-factor mini-PC that puts freedom, privacy and security first.

8th gen quad-core i7 processor, up to 64 GB of DDR4 memory.

With #PureOS, #PureBoot (coreboot +Heads) and #Librem Key support.

#LibremMini #privacy #security

lucky charm
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#ladybird #springtime #spontaneousshot #luckycharm #gardenpic #poppingcolor #red #blackandwhite

Something I didn't know I was missing but now use all the time on my #Librem5 is writing a shell script to perform a task along with a local .desktop file to run it from the home screen. Adding notify-send commands gives me feedback as the script runs in the background.

Amnesty International calls Google and Facebook a threat to human rights. We believe that centralization of power in hands of #GAFAM is indeed extremely dangerous. #privacy #decentralization matter for a free society!
https://gizmodo.com/amnesty-international-google-and-facebook-are-a-threat-1839982963

Announcement from the Thunderbird project: for the future Thunderbird 78 release in summer 2020, they will add built-in functionality for email encryption and digital signatures using the OpenPGP standard, replacing the Enigmail add-on: https://u.fsf.org/2yv

Learn about the rich history of LibreOffice, and the projects on which it's built! https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/

Nice article from http://Netzpolitik.org about TikTok. Cheerfulness and censorship https://netzpolitik.org/2019/cheerfulness-and-censorship/