BeardlyDavid @fssofdeath@librem.one

The EU, UK, and various states are pushing "protect the children!" laws that will effectively mandate age verification technologies for most websites.

Turns out the French data protection agency (which doesn't mess around) has said that all existing age verification technologies violate people's privacy...

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/30/as-us-uk-embrace-age-verify-everyone-french-data-protection-agency-says-age-verification-is-unreliable-and-violates-privacy-rights/

Wow it turns out that Elon Musk owning twitter and allowing all the nazis and shitheads back on has... driven a huge rise in hate speech! Couldn't have seen this one coming. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23489808/elon-musk-twitter-hate-speech-increase-content-moderation

If you have some bugs after updating to v2.5.0, try cleaning up the cache on Advanced settings or even resetting heroic (it will keep your login session and games).

On Linux, creating a new wine prefix also does the trick.

Also, Heroic is NOT an official launcher for Epic or GOG. Do not ask them for support if you have issues with it.

We also cannot guarantee that any game will keep working after an update on a non-supported platform.
But you can always seek help ou our community. :)

Hello Mastodon. I post random photos from the NW Highlands of Scotland. Mostly from Torridon.

And immediately after noticing the breakage, @awai uploaded a fixed version of mesa to our staging mobian repository. We will file an issue for the version in @debian as well, of course.

Big shoutout to everyone involved, thanks!

http://repo.mobian.org/pool/main/m/mesa/

Scam Alert!

If you receive an email or response on Mastodon like the following, DO NOT click the link. It is a scam fishing for login details at the very least.

"Mastodon has detected botting malware on your PC that is congesting the Mastodon network. All affected accounts will be suspended within 24 hours unless removed. _https://REDACTEDLINK"

For comparison:

Mastodon is 6 years old and grew out of a university student project. Per GitHub data, it currently has 2 consistently full-time devs, including the project founder, and 1 part-time. It is being funded out of a 31k USD/mo Patreon, and until recently was closer to 20k, which is used to pay for development, hosting of two large instances, and moderation.

Mastodon has had less funding than Block Party and is being compared to Twitter. Give it funding and time and it will catch up.

I posted my last video with Emily here and on Twitter. I have nearly four times as many followers on Twitter... Yet my Mastodon post got three times the engagement.

It would have got ZERO engagement on Twitter if Emily hadn't liked and retweeted it.

I was interviewed about supply chain security (around 15 min mark) in a longer CNBC feature about manufacturing phones in the USA. In short, it's less about trust concerns with any particular country/govt., and more about reducing the links in the supply chain to reduce the opportunities to tamper with hardware.

Our Made-in-USA-electronics Librem 5 USA phone also got a number of shout-outs. Pretty neat!

https://youtu.be/YdbA7Z8Ae4w #security #supplychain #infosec #manufacturing

when an asshole billionaire buys twitter

ProtonUp-Qt version 2.7.5 released for easy GE-Proton installs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/protonup-qt-version-275-released-for-easy-ge-proton-installs/

The Greek government is accused of spying on journalists and politicians using Predator software.

But it's a EU-wide scandal: @irpinvestigates look at the companies involved and the role of Italy's surveillance industry.

Are existing regulations enough? https://nitter.net/irpinvestigates/status/1592839348185010176

@atomicpoet FOSS and adjacent cultures often have a weird blind spot where they are unable to distinguish between people making a modest living and rapacious corporations.

The fediverse needs to allow and encourage individuals and small businesses to discuss and promote, and sell their activities therein.

The alternative is the all too common model of well paid people doing evil all day in a day job and building something lovely at night for free. Which results in a net win for evil.

Salt and Sanctuary gets Cloud Saves and OSK support for Steam Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/salt-and-sanctuary-gets-cloud-saves-and-osk-support-for-steam-deck/ #Linux #Gaming #SteamDeck

There was once a dream of a decentralised web.

As recently as a decade ago we had a still very active blogosphere, connected via blogrolls and RSS. Specialised web forums were still mainstream and messenger apps could largely interoperate.

Centralised social media slowly ate that dream. It had plenty of positives, but it pulled more and more people away from the open web and into corporate walled gardens.

Some people kept the dream of decentralisation alive. And now you are here.

Tom Cruise + a cat = Tomcat.

You've waited too long....

#Rhetorical #Truth

A series of my favourite artworks of mine. These were painted digitally and inspired by shots from:

- the Art of Eliza;
- The gorgeous freely available shots from Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park's Flickr pages.

Credits for each park and photographer in the alt text of each shot.

#Illustration #MastoArt #art #nature