My swing at @eliasr ‘s https://social.librem.one/@eliasr/105437794237782817
I only have one SIM card, so I did…
#Librem5 in one room
ssh into L5 from a desktop in another room
send the text to an Android phone in a third room
see the SMS on my #Pebble watch
“stupid” in the best possible way :)
I had some trouble reproducing this. The key (for me) was to include delivery-report-request='yes'. Most tutorials didn’t have that, so I attached mine if you want to play the home game :)
Imagine there existed a cooperative dedicated to bringing GNOME forward, and its members worked full time on polishing the ecosystem.
If the designers and engineers announced their projects, and a communication team kept you posted of progress.
Would you throw money at it? And how would you contribute?
🔄 boosts welcome
The #librem5 wishing the #pinephone a merry Christmas and a happy GNU year, by SMS from the command-line. 😃 PureOS and @postmarketOS both running #phosh. The script on the Librem 5 is using mmcli commands to send SMS messages. #UserFreedom #mobile #gnu #linux #freesoftware @purism #gnomeonmobile
Towards the end of the evening, the human ambassador waved a glass. "There's, there's two kinds of people..."
"I know this!" one of the aliens said. "There's Us and Them!"
"No, issa..."
"Ah!" another alien said. "And you win if Us includes everyone?"
"..issa joke. Um. Also yes."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
LWN: @purism
PureOS: Freedom, Privacy, and Security
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/841105/d99c445b4aca536f/
Hey everybody, I am preparing a talk about mobile Linux in 2020, #PinePhone, #Librem5, GUIs, distributions, mainline support etc. Anything I must not miss? #boostsappreciated
Threema is now Open Source.
New Audit Confirms Threema’s Security Once Again - Threema
https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/audit-2020-en
Schlimmer geht immer.
https://www.heise.de/news/Gaia-X-Big-Data-Firma-Palantir-aus-den-USA-ist-bei-EU-Cloud-vorn-mit-dabei-4995921.html
#EU #GaiaX, neben #Amazon, #Microsoft und #Google auch #Palantir
Looking for something fun to occupy you for an hour or so this weekend?
@nuhn made an adorable fantasy adventure with prophecies, jokes, and a haunted forest.
Free to play. :) Take a look!
See, that only made people write more clickbait. It emphasized being topical instead of writing evergreen content. Words that LAST. It encouraged quantity over quality. To be quite blunt: fuck that.
Nevermind the 72 trackers on the site and the extremely aggressive ads.
The context: banners which say something to the effect of "by continuing to browse this site you agree for us to track you" are illegal. You cannot withhold services because the user declines to consent to your tracking garbage.
Quoting the GDPR:
>Consent is presumed not to be freely given [...] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.
#SolarWinds wrote a blog post a in 2019 about how #FLOSS is dangerous because anyone can push malicious code to FLOSS projects:
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Geek-Speak-Blogs/The-Pros-and-Cons-of-Open-source-Tools/ba-p/478665
The irony could not be sweeter.
#InfoSec #IronySec #SupplyChainAttacks
/via @cguess
December Update: The Longest One Yet - Lukasz Erecinski @ Pine64: https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/15/december-update-the-longest-one-yet/
I was saying for years that OSM is worth supporting and investing in, and it will catch up one day if we continue to support it despite its limitations.
Turns out it WOULD catch up one day, but I was wrong when it comes to the reasoning: it caught up because the cost of producing a new set of up-to-date proprietary maps is too high, and it's more cost-effective for corporations that need that dataset to contribute to OSM as a commons.
I wonder if a similar process will be (or is being) seen in other domains.
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