Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Dear Fedi friends,

By now you might have seen the post announcing the release of my promotional video for the Fediverse. But in case you have boosts turned off, here we go: https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

I posted about it this morning from my #GoToSocial account because I have a 5000 character limit there. And I had so many people to thank for their help. It really takes a village.

Thank you for all the wonderful feedback so far ❤️

One thing that bothered me since some time is that for switching between different 🎶 players required to🔓 the 📱 .

So e.g. pausing #gnome podcasts to listen to music via #gapless needed ever so many steps. I've thus added a lockscreen plugin to #phosh that tracks all currently running media players that use #mpris and allows to interact with them.

This is all pretty rough still but I can hopefully brush it up for 0.48 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1729).

#LinuxMobile

We just moved to this new instance (and @linuxphoneapps will follow with moving to @linuxphoneapps later today). Let's hope it will serve us as a solid new home for a long, long time! :-)

@eliasr @matrix

> With things like that happening, are you at the same time still having trouble getting funding?

Yup, unfortunately - worse than ever. Folks are happy to pay for new features, but not for maintaining them, or maintaining/improving what’s already there. And much like getting a puppy, the vast majority of the cost is the upkeep.

> I imagine the EU has a decent budget for cybersecurity stuff

We’re continuing to try to locate it.

För er som inte riktigt förstått vad rabaldret runt UNRWA beror på - läs den här intervjun med Philippe Lazzarini, chef för Unrwa: https://www.dn.se/sverige/unrwa-chefen-sverige-kommer-med-tomma-ursakter/

Project Aurora, the EU adopting Matrix for cybersecurity crisis management, and significant improvements in the rust SDK thanks to DINUM's HackDays.

That and more happened This Week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/06/05/this-week-in-matrix-2025-06-06

Interesting article about @purism in #Fortune:

"Its Liberty Phone,... comes with U.S.-made electronics installed on a metal chassis from China. It retails for $1,999. Another phone, the Librem 5, is mostly the same design, except it’s made in China with Chinese parts, and costs $799."

"The Liberty Phone is its biggest seller."

https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/made-in-america-smartphone-manufacturing-purism-liberty-phone-apple-china-trump-tariffs/

I have been using a #Librem5 as my daily phone for three years now. I like it because the #freedom for the user: #FOSS.

#opensource #privacy

My #FreeSoftware Activities for May 2025:

Mostly #phosh/#LinuxMobile related but also some #Debian bits. See https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_May_2025.html for details.

🙏 to everyone supporting this!

@eliasr @dfri @fps_gbg

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“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

#photography

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.” – The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

Interesting project by Taler: We provide a payment system that makes privacy-friendly online transactions fast and easy.

Thanks to the pod Full circle weekly news for enlighten me about this product and its release.

https://www.taler.net/en/index.html

#payment#taler #FullCircleWeeklyNews #opensource

Amazing talk at #JDLL - a conversation between @benjaminbellamy @nicolasvivant and @projetslibres_podcast about Vivant’s work in the French town of @echirolles making it adopt #FOSS

#DigitalSovereignty