Dean @dean@librem.one

Ada Lovelace is known for being the first computer programmer, which is cool, except 1) she never actually ran her programs, 2) the programs were for a machine that was never built, and 3) neither her program or the machine had any influence on modern CS.
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Why not instead use Barbara Liskov? The "Liskov Substitution Principle", the 'L' in SOLID, is named after her. Her work on CLU has influenced almost all modern languages. She invented abstract data types. She invented ITERATORS!
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Or Frances Allen? First woman to win the Turing Award. Major, *major* innovations in optimizing compilers that compiled high level languages into FAST bytecode. Without her we might still be stuck writing assembly for anything that needs performance.
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GNOME 40 is almost here meaning updates are on the way! Learn a little bit more about what's changing in Epiphany in this blog from Alexander Mikhaylenko: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/03/13/reinventing-tabs/

#GNOME40 #Epiphany #opensource

"Ulysses claims it can currently access more than 15 billion vehicle locations around the world every month, and it estimates that, by 2025, 100 percent of new cars will be connected and transmitting gigabytes of collectible data per hour." #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/one-company-wants-to-sell-the-feds-location-data-from-every-car-on-earth/

Today I learned freezing soap bubbles are beautiful.

Hiring more devs: https://puri.sm/jobs/

* https://puri.sm/job/on-site-computing-device-technician/

* https://puri.sm/job/pureos-gtk-application-development/

* https://puri.sm/job/coreboot-pureboot-heads-me-fsp-firmware-developer/

Its democracy or widespread death and despair...in the digital era you can't run democracy without the #4opens so this has to be at the root of our garden of ideas.

How would you edit the #4opens to make it more understandable for outreach http://hamishcampbell.com/index.php/projects/4opens/

Hey! I'm trying to get a better app icon for Replay (the open source YouTube client for GNOME that I'm developing). I've made some progress on it, but I ended with 4 color variants... Can you please tell me which one should I use? And why?

(Boosts are welcome)

Tiny pleasures. https://blog.jimmac.eu/2021/animated-tour/

’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.