Elias @eliasr@librem.one

“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

@vardagsteknik Om du behöver mer underlag kan vi också svara på dina frågor.

What I hate the most about the leftist side of the fedi, especially the EU types is the extreme anti-American sentiment, and I'm not talking about hatred for America as a country or the American government. I'm talking about hatred for American people in general.

They just assume that just because we live here that we support all American policy. They think that we automatically support the Israeli invasion of Gaza (despite the fact that even most US republicans are less supportive of Israel) or whatever human-rights violation the US government is participating. Or if you are not indigenous, then they shit on you just for being born on stolen land.

>Oh but you voted these people in that means you are all for it

It should be obvious that voting doesn't work here anymore (or maybe it never did). And even if it did, that doesn't mean that we support everything the government does.

You can hate on America all you want, but please don't hate on the people.

@agx @justsoup @Sturmflut @MuhammadFreeSoftware @eliasr @Tutanota
the difference is that people find all kinds of excuses if it's android or whatever made by the big players. if an os is made by someone different it suddenly has to be perfect or is "not ready".

example: the youtube app on android frequently gets into a state where one just can't use the search button anymore. it's there but nothing happens. one has to restart the app.

it's digital stockholm syndrome.

if not t least half of the major services were shit data silos using something like sailfish os (i know, it's not perfectly free) would be no problem. everything native works and has better UI/UX than android. it's the web of shit and hardware manufacturers that make things hard.

@justsoup @Sturmflut @MuhammadFreeSoftware @eliasr @Tutanota

There are devices having these issues but there are others that don't so I'd rather not throw everything into one bucket.

I find it more straight forward to talk about limitations than telling people that something isn't "for them yet" as that leaves people in jeopardy for longer and might just underestimate their abilities.

If people don't know something exists they can't even try it.

@MuhammadFreeSoftware @eliasr @Tutanota

True DeGoogling means removing Android period.

To me Android is also everything that derives from AOSP, that originates from Google ...

You can't say you're free while you are in the middle of the bridge (because if bridge falls you're dead)

@justsoup @Sturmflut @MuhammadFreeSoftware @eliasr @Tutanota There's also #UbuntuTouch and #SailfishOS as additional alternatives.

@MuhammadFreeSoftware @eliasr @Tutanota Please speak for yourself. Lots of us are daily driving #linuxmobile on our devices.

phosh 0.47.0 is out 🚀📱:

This release is a bit smaller than the previous two as we spent more time on other parts of the #LinuxMobile stack but there's still some 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release
notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile

Trixie is just around the corner! The hard freeze began on 2025-05-17 (key packages and packages without autopkgtests are in full freeze). Check https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/05/msg00004.html for more info #debian #trixie

Min första presentation på #sevenska https://kushaldas.se/min-forsta-presentation-pa-svenska #sverige #sweden #sunet #ltu

yeah, I concur.

If you aren’t using AI, you run a very real risk of falling behind in the race to produce voluminous mediocrity while slowly forgetting how to do your own job.

Is Everyone Using AI to Cheat Their Way Through College?

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/10/2112201/is-everyone-using-ai-to-cheat-their-way-through-college

It's not just the students: Multiple AI platforms now offer tools to leave AI-generated feedback on students' essays. Which raises the possibility that AIs are now evaluating AI-generated papers, reducing the entire academic exercise to a conversation between two robots — or maybe even just one.