Dean @dean@librem.one

’There will be no climate justice while we celebrate January 26’

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/there-will-be-no-climate-justice-while-we-celebrate-january-26 #climatecrisis #pollution #environment #ecology #FirstNation

Ocean & Climate Emergency
•Ocean conservation charity petitions for the ocean to be at the centre of UN climate talks
•Almost 100% of the public agree that not enough is being done to tackle the ocean & climate crisis
•96% of the public believe that the UK government needs to take urgent action to tackle the ocean & climate crisis
•79% of respondents want to learn what they can do to help tackle the ocean & climate crisis
https://www.carvemag.com/2021/01/ocean-and-climate-emergency/ #climatecrisis #pollution #environment #ecology

It seems the FSFE is not a good organization to support, as they abuse, harass, and discriminate against their female employees.

https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court

The General Purpose Computer In Your Pocket

"What makes the Librem 5 special is that it reclaims the full potential of what phones should have been all along: a general-purpose computer in your pocket under your control."

Learn more: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#librem5 #privacy #convergence

GNOME Asia 2020 registration is now open! This year's summit will be held on November 24-26 all online.

You can sign up for this free event here: https://events.gnome.org/event/24/registrations/21/

#GNOMEAsia #Conference #opensource

It turns out that the reason free, open source messengers suck on iOS is that #Apple force-closes background applications unless you pay them for the privilege - which is why proprietary applications like WhatsApp, Discord and Facebook Messenger work just fine.

This means small and free actors are banned from participating.

GNOME Asia 2020 Call for Proposals is now open!

This year's summit will be held remotely, Nov 24-26, and we're looking for speakers. All submissions are due by Sept 25, see our news feature for topic ideas and details on where to submit!

https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/09/gnome-asia-2020-call-for-papers-now-open/

#gnomeasia #opensource #GNOME

Handibox is an accessibility tool that will allow Human-Computer interaction with people who have some degree of motor disability. Through #Handibox, users can carry out elementary activities such as using the Internet, writing emails, and more!

The team, Alejandro, Fabio, and Matias, seeks to integrate with other #accessibility applications in GNOME and are looking for guidance from the accessibility team. They also need community help precompiling libraries like dlib. #GNOMEChallenge

Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦‍♂️

PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE

And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)

Boost if I'm right.

#PureOS for Creatives Part 1: Music Production with the #librem15

"In 2020, there is a free software equivalent for every mainstream commercial program on the market today."

https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-for-creatives-part-1-music-production-with-the-librem-15/

The first in a three-part series on PureOS for Creatives by our guest blogger, Tre Scranton

The #GUADEC fun doesn't end with the sessions, we have social events and activities too! Take a look at what we've got planned: https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2020/07/16/social-events-at-guadec-2020/
#GUADEC #OpenSource #FOSS

Surveillance capitalism is the same as climate change, but for data:

- Some people have been warning about its consequences for years
- Most people don't care because they don't feel concerned, they can't see it affecting them
- A few companies are making a lot of damage with the help of governments
- When we will face the consequences it will be too late
- We can still do something about it, and the sooner the better

An analysis of the Zoom #privacy policy and all that's wrong with it:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whereby-vs-zoom-transparency-opacity-respect-privacy-manuela/
In short: better don't use this for anything sensitive and don't make other people install the Zoom app - ever.

Sign against Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States
English: https://t.co/uw8hYIsNGI
Francais: https://t.co/UB5kzhJQbA
Español https://t.co/OQMVwggHsu https://t.co/LuKxn4HXk6

Mozilla's move to @matrix has officially been opened for the general public last night. Blog post here: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/02/20/synchronous-messaging-were-live/

You can find the Mozilla #a11y team here: https://matrix.to/#/#Accessibility:mozilla.org.

And if you missed my introduction to the #Riot web interface for screen reader users in December, here it is: https://marcozehe.de/2019/12/20/how-to-get-around-matrix-and-riot-with-a-screen-reader/