DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

Why Collabora really added Digital Restrictions Management to Weston

https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/07/HDCP-in-Weston.html

RT @sotiridi@twitter.com

Wow serious team effort! Protestors in #HongKong dismantled a roadblock in less then 30 seconds to let firetrucks passing by. #China

If you are an #OpenStreetMaps user, I built a simple app that allows to display different maps ordered in categories.

You can use your location and switch easily from a map to another one.

It's really simple currently and we are testing it. The idea is from @Bristow_69

Source: https://framagit.org/tom79/openmaps

Download: https://framadrive.org/s/xak7f4rjMkYdWRd

#OSM

This new article by Alessandro Ebersol about Richard Stallman is worth reading (also mind the part about #billgates and pedophilia links) https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201910/page02.html

When do we get "LF Core" (for "open core" with the "Linux" trademark added for marketing value)?
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● NEWS ● #cloudflare #firefox #mozilla ☞ Centralised #DoH is bad for #privacy , in 2019 and beyond https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/09/25/centralised-doh-is-bad-for-privacy-in-2019-and-beyond/

RT @MartinSonneborn
Die kroatische Regierungspartei HDZ ist korrupt - 2 Minister mussten kürzlich zurücktreten, 4 weitere ausgetauscht werden, der ehemalige Regierungschef sitzt in Haft. Dubravka S. dagegen ist auf freiem Fuß und soll EU-Kommissarin werden. Smiley!
Mehr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgugmls8cC4&feature=youtu.be 

@purism aaah, what a relief to see a phone that's is not thin like a leaf. This looks like a professional tool! Can't wait to get mine!

#Purism #Librem5 #Librem5Aspen

Aspen batch phones going out next will get an anodized chassis - look at those kill switches. Thank you for your patience as we incrementally ship through tens of thousands of Librem 5 phones over the coming months. Yes, we know you're excited, we are too and you will be impressed! #Purism #Librem5 #Linux

Yes, we know you're excited; Yes, you can see the anodized chassis we got into this Aspen batch; Yes, we are asking you to be patient as we incrementally ship through tens of thousands of Librem 5 phones over the next handful of months; Yes, you will get yours. Yes, you will be impressed. @purism #librem5

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact, ActivityPub/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, ActivityPub plus Mastodon. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning ActivityPub system made useful by the ActivityPub namespaces, vocabulary and non-normative sections comprising a full social network as defined by W3C Recommendation 23 January 2018.

Many computer users use a modified version of the ActivityPub social network every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of ActivityPub which is widely used today is often called "Mastodon", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the ActivityPub social network, developed by the W3C.

There really is a Mastodon, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the social network they use. Mastodon is the frontend: the program in the system that lets you interacts with the posts of all the people you follow. The frontend is an essential part of a social network, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete social network. Mastodon is normally used in combination with the ActivityPub social network: the whole system is basically ActivityPub with Mastodon added, or ActivityPub/Mastodon. All the so-called "Mastodon" distributions are really distributions of ActivityPub/Mastodon.

GNOME Foundation facing patent lawsuit over Shotwell https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-foundation-facing-lawsuit-from-rothschild-patent-imaging/ - The Debian project stands with the @GNOME Foundation against this attack on free software and its communities.

»Warum Vermummungsverbote problematisch sind. Nicht nur in Hongkong. – netzpolitik.org «

https://netzpolitik.org/2019/warum-vermummungsverbote-problematisch-sind-nicht-nur-in-hongkong/

»In Hongkong wurde heute ein Vermummungsverbot eingeführt, in Deutschland gibt es ein solches Gesetz seit den 80er Jahren.

In Zeiten von Gesichtserkennung müssen wir über die Abschaffung des Vermummungsverbotes nachdenken, um das Versammlungsrecht und damit die Demokratie zu stärken.

Ein Kommentar.«

Yesterday I blogged about how I’m starting to post the links I previously posted on @indie / the Ind.ie site to my own site (and on here.)

Also I wrote a couple of reasons why… including how often my work is attributed to @aral

https://laurakalbag.com/introducing-lauras-lens/

If anyone has been fooled by Microsoft's widely trumpeted "love" for Linux and Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS)... I encourage you to watch this German-made investigative documentary and consider which view you think is more credible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg

@lightweight looks like https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg works if using the web UI to download a webm version

Synapse 1.4.0 released

Wheyhey as I live and breathe 1.4.0 is here! 1.4.0 should be considered ‘The Privacy Release’ and is the cumulation of a huge body of work…

Tutorial: Developing Your First Librem 5 App. Hello World :) https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Apps/Tutorials/First_Application/index.html #Purism #Librem5 #GNOME #Python #Linux #mobiledev #mobileapp #mobileappdevelopment

Good news as EU formally adopts Ecodesign measures:

- As of 2021, all TVs, monitors, fridges, freezers, washing machines, washer-dryers, dishwashers and lighting products on the EU market will have to meet minimum repairability requirements
- Manufacturers will have to ensure easy disassembly with commonly available tools.
- Spare parts and repair information will have to be made available to professional repairers for a minimum number of years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49884827
https://www.coolproducts.eu/news/eu-to-pull-plug-on-wasteful-unrepairable-products