DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

Deprecating a.out Binaries
"The thing that fascinates me about this is the insistence on continuing to support ancient features if even a single user is found who still relies on it. If even one person came forward with a valid use case for a.out, Linus would leave it in the kernel. At the same time, if no users step forward, Linus won't assume they may be lurking secretly out in the wild somewhere—he'll kill the feature." https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/deprecating-aout-binaries

Governments shouldn't be hosting in the public cloud:
⛔️ No control over access to your data
💽 Don’t know where your data is
💥 A single points of failure
🔕 You won’t know if you got hacked
🔪 No control over changes and features

https://nextcloud.com/blog/the-issue-with-public-cloud/

What is Scrabble trying to tell me?

Runs on Librem 5, Day 6 - Evince Document Reader, Opening a PDF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8YMc06RMrc

Hi @aral !

We've almost completed the crowdfunding of #Mobilizon (our not-so-secret project to get our events off Facebook!)

I think Mobilizon fits perfectly with the #smalltech concept.

However, as you know, we are struggling to make our actions known outside France, so - now that we don't need more money (we won't do "more" with "more money") - we need help to make the project known to non-French-speaking activists.
Can you help us?

⋅ https://framablog.org/2019/05/14/mobilizon-lets-finance-a-software-to-free-our-events-from-facebook/

⋅ https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

This year's #Inkscape Cover Art Contest generated 24 entries from 22 Inkscapers around the world. Sanda Krstulović's was voted the winner by fellow members of the project's Facebook group. Read the Q&A with Sanda here: https://inkscape.org/news/2019/06/23/q-2019-inkscape-cover-art-winner-sanda-krstulovic/

We must put an end to warrantless digital device searches at the border.

“Regardless of whether you have embarrassing information on your device...it’s about personal autonomy and living in a free society and not a police state," says EFF's Sophia Cope. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-journalists/

"The #platforms are fine if you want to talk about sports, relate your kids’ latest escapades or shop. But if you want to write about how platforms and govt legislation can’t tell the difference between #sextrafficking/ #sex, #nudity/ #pornography, #terrorism investigations/ terrorism itself or #copyright infringement/ #parody, you’re out of luck.
Any one of those keywords will give the filters an incurable case of machine anxiety—but all of them together? Forget it."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/future-free-speech-social-media-platforms.html

The problem isn’t bias; it’s censorship. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/sen-hawleys-bias-bill-would-let-government-decide-who-speaks

I'm definitely keeping this list handy. #foss #floss #gaming #opensource #fossgameclones #flossgameclones

https://osgameclones.com/

i.MX8M DDR PHY update: NXP tells me that "Since the
firmware only executes on a custom controller embedded in the PHY and only has access to certain IP controls and hence it can not be used to mount an attack on the rest of the SoC or obtain any other information on other modules or memory regions of the SoC. [...]"

i.MX8MQ's MIPI DPY driver entered linux next (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=f4c8116e294b12c360b724173f4b79f232573fb1) - one more thing of the display stack going mainline (number of driver wise we're halway there now but the large chunks are still ahead)

@danielst https://packages.debian.org/buster/quake2

and

https://packages.debian.org/buster/game-data-packager

should get you going.

« Amtsgeheimnis bekämpfen! Deutsche Akten & co befreien! @fragdenstaat @TransparenzBER #Informationsfreiheit https://t.co/ATM4PXhkND »

— Retweet https://twitter.com/fil_ter/status/1143085432143527937

For any concerned webdevs my advice is:

1. Most importantly: Test in multiple browsers
2. Avoid JavaScript, there's too much bloat there for new browser engines to afford. If you must use JS discuss how new web standards can help you move away from it
3. Use progressive enhancement/graceful degradation, this will help new browsers get started quickly
4. Don't worry about your pages looking the same everywhere, only care that they look good everywhere
5. Related to (2), try out Intercooler.js

Runs on Librem 5, Day 5:

GNOME Dictionary & Orientation Switching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsLp_5iNswc

What you can do:
* as a website admin/newspaper publisher: Do not use AMP!
* as a user: Use another browser (uhm @firefox) and use an "no AMP" add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/amp2html/

#noamp #nogoogle [3/3]

Today's piece in the Mercury News:

Headline: New generation of tech firms urges stronger privacy laws

Reject Big Tech efforts to weaken California law and regulate us. Seriously.

By Purism CEO, @todd and Brave CEO, @BrendanEich

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/23/6139396/