I'm back! Here's my linux phone history so far:
2017-10-08: Backed the #Librem5 - delivery date Jan 2019
2020-8-14: I receive a #dogwood edition librem5, use it for a few weeks until it has difficulty charging
2020-11-4ish: I receive a replacement dogwood edition librem5, use it for about a week until it refuses to charge
2020-11-1ish: I receive a #pinehpone #manjaro with the convergence package
2020-12-22: I receive an #evergreen edition librem5
So I've got 2 of 'em to fool with 😎 toys😎
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/
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Be excellent to each other
Free Software, privacy
Linux • KDE • Purism / Librem 5 fan