Beat @beat@librem.one

TMobile is kicking old Android phones off their network in January because vendors have abandoned the hardware and they no longer get security updates. Android's model of forcing you to buy new hardware every few years to get security updates is broken. https://www.tmonews.com/2020/12/t-mobile-will-no-longer-support-devices-january/

So this HP laptop that I'm fixing for a client requires you to physically break the chassis of the laptop to get the hard drive out. This is literally why we can't have nice things.

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/