Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Too often media about "#green" projects really promote some niche solutions but portray them as important pieces to solve the #Climate crisis. For example: data center waste water for lobster farms. Cool that it works. But Lobster is an expensive luxury food. This seems like the perfect product for those who don't want to feel guilty about owning a #Tesla or flying to distant eco-resorts. We need more about eating lentils and avoiding silly digital services. https://www.politico.eu/article/norway-lobster-water-green-mountain-data-farming/

If a country has labor shortages and record profits at the same time, that means the markets there are quite broken. Profit means companies have spare money to spend on things like paying workers better, so people want to take the jobs. Companies can only get away with this situation because there isn't competition there to step in.

Statements like this make me question if #BleepingComputer is actually a useful info source:

"Since APKs downloaded from outside Google Play cannot be vetted, the best way to protect against these threats is to avoid installing Android apps from third-party sites in the first place." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/thousands-of-android-apks-use-compression-trick-to-thwart-analysis/

#FDroid not only vets the binaries it ships, it also vets the source code. #GooglePlay is not the safest source of apps on #Android.

@th Nice to see you in #Vienna! I'll be at @metalab tomorrow if you want to drop by. Of course, you're welcome to drop by there any time as well.

On the public #Weblate, mystery accounts are creating Old English (ang) and Middle English (enm) in the #FDroid projects. They don't respond to my messages, or do any translation work. This makes me suspect foul play. Anyone have any ideas?

For example:
* https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/-/ang/
* https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/f-droid/-/enm/

@cobratbq changing the BIOS setting was necessary on this laptop.

@guardianproject anyone have more information on what kinds of issues they were having?

A strong example of this comes from navigating with apps in Austria. Apps like #OrganicMaps #OsmAnd and others that use #OpenStreetMap data have much better information on footpaths, bike lanes, and minor roads than #Google does. So often my preferred route is entirely absent in Google Maps. On the other hand, Google Maps sometimes has more information on shops, offices, restaurants, etc. Other apps have much better transit information. Yet many stay in the Google bubble because of this bias 2/

When discussing #Google alternatives for #privacy, I heard: "I tried X a couple times but it didn't give me the results I wanted but Google did, so I stay there". I use multiple search engines and see each one's strengths and weaknesses. This made me realize there is a kind of bias: using one service provides simplicity. When using one, we don't know when that it is providing worse results than alternatives. Then people get the impression "the alternative sucks, I'll stick with the good one" 1/

@cobratbq I was trying to get the holy grail of setups working: secure boot, kernel lockdown mode, encrypted swap and hibernation. Seems not yet possible, but S0ix states seem to work pretty well. Too bad they are hidden away under a strangely labeled BIOS setting: "Block Sleep (S3)". Technically, S0ix is not S3, but there seems to be a lot of mislabeling.

Going to my #BIOS and disabling "Block Sleep (S3)" makes this promising message show up in the #kernel logs: "Low-power S0 idle used by default for system suspend"

So I just worked through trying to make #Debian bookworm do hibernation with encrypted swap and #SecureBoot. Looks like #Linux is fine with using a swap file from an encrypted partition, but now the requirement is apparently that the swap is signed to prevent modification. I stuck what I know here https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation#UEFI_.2F_Secure_Boot