Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Package Release: 09/27 thunderbird 91.1.2 Mozilla Thunderbird: a full-featured e-mail and newsgroup client http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Why TV Antennas Are Making a Comeback in the Streaming Age - To access local stations—for free—without paying for a cable subscription, try these upda... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-tv-antennas-are-making-a-comeback-in-the-streaming-age-11631819804?mod=rss_Technology #paid

Write Freely is a writing platform on the Fediverse, sort of like a Fedi version of Medium.

It lets you write long form texts on the Fediverse, and people can follow your Write Freely account, so they see your latest posts.

The official site is at https://writefreely.org, you can also follow them at @writefreely

You can find instances to sign up on at https://writefreely.org/instances

There are apps available at https://writefreely.org/apps

If you are techy, there's instructions for self-hosting an instance at https://writefreely.org/start

If you aren't techy, you can still make your own Write Freely instance by using https://writefreely.host

#WriteFreely #Fediverse #FediTips #Medium #Alternatives

Major social media platforms should adopt a human rights framework to be more accountable for censoring users’ speech. But laws that violate the First Amendment are not the way to get there. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/texas-social-media-law-not-solution-censorship

How to Watch the SpaceX Inspiration4 Launch

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-watch-the-spacex-inspiration4-launch/
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Package Release: 09/15 eclipse 4.21 Eclipse: a universal tool platform and IDE http://eclipse.org/

Added @NyxPublishing@twitter.com to Libreture's list of DRM-free bookshops.

Nyx Publishing are a small independent publisher based in Sheffield. They specialise in genre fiction, particularly fantasy, science-fiction, and horror (and it’s pretty much all queer).

https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/#nyx-publishing

Today I tackle the question about whether Vivaldi is a good choice for the default browser.
https://youtu.be/SsGWfDMdLxg

Walmart to begin driverless deliveries with Ford and Argo AI - Enlarge / A human collects their Walmart delivery from an autonomous delivery veh... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1795485 #uncategorized #cars

Bitcoin consumes 2nd highest electricity per capita
https://twitter.com/chinmayshah899/status/1436077836155056134

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5 real AI threats that make The Terminator look like Kindergarten Cop - It. Never. Fails. Every time an AI article finds its way to social media there’s h... - https://thenextweb.com/news/5-ai-threats-make-terminator-look-like-kindergartern-cop #artificialintelligence #nextfeatured #microsoft #facebook #neural #google #amazon #apple #tech

All four Inspiration4 crew members have taken their seats inside the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft.

Launch of the first all-private, non-government human space mission to orbit is set for 8:02:56pm EDT (0002:56 GMT).

Watch live: https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/15/falcon-9-inspiration-4-mission-status-center/ https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1438253343986655237/video/1
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The sixty-third edition of my weekly collection of news about #LinuxPhones (@PINE64 #PinePhone, @purism #Librem5 and such), #LinBits, is out!

https://linmob.net/linbits-62-weekly-linux-phone-news-week36-37/

#Megapixels with more contrast, easy installable #Waydroid on #DanctNIX and #postmarketOS, #Librem5 pricing increases and more!

Isaacman, Proctor, Arceneaux, and Sembroski — call signs “Rook,” “Leo,” “Nova,” and “Hanks” — have completed voice checks with SpaceX ground teams in California and Florida.

Launch is on schedule for 8:02:56pm EDT (0002:56 GMT) from Kennedy Space Center.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/15/falcon-9-inspiration-4-mission-status-center/ https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1438256735668604934/video/1
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Why not Signal?

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html
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The Magic Behind the Scenes of Docker Desktop
https://www.docker.com/blog/the-magic-behind-the-scenes-of-docker-desktop/

(submitted by GordonS)

A first impression of the upcoming Briar desktop client

We found a phone with pre-installed malware via the Lifeline Assistance program
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/android/2020/07/we-found-yet-another-phone-with-pre-installed-malware-via-the-lifeline-assistance-program/

(submitted by EMM_386)

Software News: The Wine project has released version 6.17 https://freshfoss.com/projects/wine/