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@pernia @GNUxeava @Meeper @Moon @Paradox @PussySlayer @caskd @icedquinn @kumicota @lanodan @matrix @moth @r @sjw @tdemin @tn5421 @tuxcrafting @verita84 @wowaname

> i guess the challenge would be getting normies to try unfamliar things then

That's easy, I think. People sitting there and there's an unobtrusive box in Excel. Most people only do things like "=SUM(C3:C4)". They know other people can do cool stuff. A lot of offices keep a stash of "power-user" books around. Maybe 1% of the people using it will branch out into more complicated scripts, 10% will use cheat sheets for easy tasks. That little box in Excel is a great way to unobtrusively give people a programmable interface, and enough people get curious about the little box that everyone benefits. Same thing with game mods, stuff like that. It's not a coincidence that webshit took off, you have a JS environment everywhere you go. You just give people a little place to type commands or expressions and suddenly the whole thing blows up.

Everything should be like this.
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@purism Built a simple virtual mouse for using virtual-pointer protocol so i can navigate the pointer on the external screen attached to the without having a physical mouse attached. Useful for e.g. presentations when you only connect a beamer.

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RT @KiwiEV@twitter.com

Now, if this isn't the coolest thing you've seen today then you need to close the refrigerator. It's an animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the middle-ages.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1316

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To ensure your app appears in the Librem 5 PureOS Store, specify the form factors it supports in its Appstream metainfo and desktop entry: adrienplazas.com/blog/2020/10/

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spacegooose.artstation.com/pro

Just found this artist who makes cool spaceship designs out of random household objects, and I love it.

Sci-fi spaceships really can be shaped like anything, can't they.

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Thanks for the 1,673 app votes so far! Already at 16% of our 10,000 vote goal!

Help fund the apps you desire with "Fund Your App":

puri.sm/fund-your-app/

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@purism And here's the connected to a usb-c hub that has a keyboard/mouse connected via usb and driving the external screen via dp-alt-mode. Needs some hacks still but we're getting there:

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libhandy 1.0.0 released. 🎉

We released it a bit in advance to let application maintainers update their submodules in time for the GNOME 3.38.0 release. 😀 That being said, we expect distros to ship libhandy as any other regular stable library. 😉

download.gnome.org/sources/lib

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RT @GrueneLtRLP@twitter.com

„Wenn der Verbrauch von Tomaten aus dem eigenen Garten versteuert würde, wäre das absurd“. Was das mit #Klimaschutz und unserer Anfrage zum Ausbau der #erneuerbareenergien in #RLP zu tun hat: rhein-zeitung.de/ar.2158952

🐦🔗: twitter.com/GrueneLtRLP/status

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By demanding encryption backdoors, Politicians are not asking us to choose between security and privacy. They are asking us to choose no security. Here's why: tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-
We must fight encryption backdoors around the world. 💪 #privacy #HumanRight

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If you think that Linux can move to GitHub or GitLab and still be productive at scale, I want you to read through the MAINTAINERS file in the root of the Linux source tree.

git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/linux/tree

Every one of those entries has a dedicated maintainer in charge of it, applying to a subset of the source tree. All 3,000 of them. Many of these have dedicated external trees, mailing lists, and policies. Almost all of this development happens away from the LKML. Each of those trees has a path upwards towards Linus's tree, often via other trees and other maintainers, or towards the -lts trees. These trees are not necessarily authoritative either, and the kernel you're running might be its own upstream maintained by your Linux distro, unique from any of the releases on kernel.org.

All of it is based on email. And it *works* to drive the most efficient and largest-scale open-source project in history.

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Given what you know about the current state of phone technology and Internet , which tech company would you trust to control your neural implant? theverge.com/2020/8/26/2140224

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I've never found much interest in emojis personally (you might be able to tell?😋️), but it's useful hype.

Because people did seem to like them even before Apple et al started hyping them (they were always available on 🇯🇵️japanese virtual keyboards), and it encourages western software developers to implement full Unicode support and complex text rendering.

Today I wish to describe how Gtk implements a UI for entering these emojis into your text, available from it's dropdown menu.

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3D Gaming on the Librem 5

puri.sm/posts/3d-gaming-on-the

The Vivante GC7000Lite GPU in the Librem 5 provides a lot of 3D rendering power while still protecting your with free software drivers. Here’s a look at how some 3D games run on the Librem 5 today.

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Naturally the new design still works great in Lynx

And pretty good on Mosaic, if you run it through mitmproxy to unwrap the SSL

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Reflecting on writing a funding pitch for Hephaestus, I got a bit scared thinking through how much work it'll take and arguing that it is in fact a feasable project. It was only very recently I thought it might be! Before that I knew I had to try...

I don't feel a need to ask for funding for Rhapsode or Odysseus, those are nearing done. Though I would appreciate donations to liberapay.com/alcinnz , I just updated that page!

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