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Still learning how this mastodon/fediverse thing works.

Now I just found out that there is something called "direct messages" and there was a question about such messages maybe being silently discarded by the instance that I'm on. That would mean, I think, that I would never know about any direct message that someone tried to send me.

If anyone would like to help me test that, please send me such a "direct message" and afterwards also reply to this in the normal way.

Regarding and the letter to remove him from all leadership positions, this makes several important points: arp242.net/rms.html

Bottom line, that I agree with: "being unfair is being unfair, no matter who the target may be".

Anyone here who signed that letter who would consider explaining their thinking? Looking for someone who both read it and signed it, knowing what you were signing and who is still standing by the claims in the letter. Anyone?

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Are you using @postmarketOS on your #librem5?

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Reminder to #LinuxPhone users: Be kind!

We don't want to bum or even burn out the people that do the hard development work, right?
#PinePhone #librem5

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#RMS back at #FSF
streamable.com/nzthxn

For the people angry at this; I've noticed that in general it takes somewhat of an abrasive personality to kickstart important, big things. As in the more 'regular-behaving' people who may join later because they believe in the idea and probably even conceived of it themselves, simply lack the 'no fs given' mental attitude one needs to adopt in the face of extreme animosity from the forces opposed to the idea, who are usually much better resourced.

Thanks to @agx who suggested sending it upstream and also added to the explanation in the commit message.

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Celebrating my first commit making it into the mainline Linux kernel: git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k
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Can I call myself a "contributor" now even though technically I didn't add anything, just removed one line? 😃

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External speaker works flawlessly with on . One can use services like which respect your and don't use against you.

Time to abandon the walled gardens of and and switch to a

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John Rawls' "Veil of Ignorance" is still one of the most intriguing though experiments to me:

"Suppose that you and a group of people had to decide on the principles that would establish a new society.

However, none of you know anything about who you will be in that society. Elements such as your race, income level, sex, gender, religion, and personal preferences are all unknown to you.

After you decide on those principles, you will then be turned out into the society you established."

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The wishing the a merry Christmas and a happy GNU year, by SMS from the command-line. 😃 PureOS and @postmarketOS both running . The script on the Librem 5 is using mmcli commands to send SMS messages. @purism

From the telnet man page: "The source code is not comprehensible." In case you were wondering. 😄

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Meh. Just wanted to login, but no, must first see this list of logos of the things I'm trying to avoid. Well, as long as the email option is still there, I suppose there is still hope. They don't own everyone, not yet. :-)

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