Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

The Call for Papers for the "FOSS on Mobile Devices" devroom at @fosdem runs until the end of this week! Now is definitely the time to submit your talk proposals at https://fosdem.org/submit 😉️

Don't be shy, all free/open-source projects related to smartphones and tablets are welcome!

#FOSS #FLOSS #FOSDEM #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

hey folks, if you're interested in giving a talk about something #LinuxMobile related at #FOSDEM in February then please do send us a submission!

Speaking from experience with last year it's a whole lot of really chill people, so whether you're a seasoned public speaker or haven't given a talk before ever (I'm the latter) it should be a really great time, and a good way to let people know what you've been working on.

Instructions on how to submit a talk can be found here: https://gitlab.com/fosdem_mobile/devroom

#ESP32: Creating an open-source WiFi MAC

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/23-24/open-source-esp32-wifi-mac/

I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parti
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We are happy to announce the next firmware update 'sn00w' v1.3!
The team has been hard at work since #cccamp23 and it comes with a huge amount of improvements to your #flow3r!

You can install the firmware with our web firmware flasher. No installs required: https://flow3r.garden/flasher/

You can read the full changelog at: https://git.flow3r.garden/flow3r/flow3r-firmware/-/blob/release/1.3.0/CHANGELOG.md

Checkout the video below to see some of the many highlights of this release:

Itch are doing a Creator Day event again. I'm very happy for people to buy my works before/after this so that Itch receive their cut, but I think that this event's framing of supporting creators as worthwhile is very, very important.

https://itch.io/blog/275359/the-second-itchio-creator-day-is-friday-723

A key lesson in 2023 has been that corporate governance models don't matter. The investors always win.

This isn't just from the lesson of OpenAI and it's board versus Microsoft. It's also the lesson of all of the public tech companies whose founders have super voting shares but did layoffs anyway because they had to move the stock price.

Capitalism always finds a way.

There's a whole thread I need to write about reckoning with whether, as a progressive, advocating for more secure software is consistent with my political ideals. Far too often, users must act under a threat model where both malicious third parties and the producers of their software are hostile threats. Secure software helps against one of those but makes the other worse.

Interestingly, a significant chunk of https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/so-you-want-make-raspberry-pi-killer applies to the #LinuxMobile "market", especially the section about software support.
Actually, you could replace #RaspberryPi with #Librem5 in this section and it would still make a lot of sense! Kudos to @purism engineers for that 😉️