Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Chromium now has initial, experimental support for the xdg-session-management wayland protocol, which will start shipping in canary channel in the coming days. I've implemented and tested it against Mutter 48, the only compositor supporting it atm - also experimentally - since version 47.

Quick demo at https://youtu.be/OG9ZLXzlwkQ

@cadey
Well, I can say I used Anubis in front of my Funkwhale instance (to protect my music from AI bots) before it was so cool that everybody and their uncle used it. 😅

Also thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was about to quit releasing music because it would have been stolen by greedy AI techbros anyway.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an open source project called Rayhunter. It is designed to run on an inexpensive (~$20) mobile hotspot and look for signs of mobile spying devices called cell-site simulators. Also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, they masquerade as legitimate cellphone towers, tricking phones w/in a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

@fsfe are you in touch with the EU regarding the digital wallet (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240223IPR18095/meps-back-plans-for-an-eu-wide-digital-wallet) already? This will/can e.g. be used for the driver license in the future?

I skimmed through the documents and didn't read anything on OpenSource/#FreeSoftware there. Would be great if we could ensure first class support for #LinuxMobile. Is that on your list? Otherwise I could at least write the contact address there.

Got the focus lens actuator (bu64748) of Poco F1 rear main camera (imx363) working in mainline linux! 🙂 Yet to be released. Thanks to @NekoCWD's camerctrl (https://gitlab.com/NekoCWD/cameractrl), we got a nice overlay to manually adjust the focus! I m using a custom gnome snapshot build that supports 1440p resolution from here: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/79523

Microsoft sent me an email telling me to throw my computer in the trash. 🤷

Gnome 48 also brings so many improvements to Gnome Mobile.
Scrolling is just as smooth as it's on Android.
OSK and Touch text selection are better now.
And the cameras have started working on #Oneplus6
Overall, it's getting to where it is starting to feel like a real alternative 🤩️.

#gnome #gnome48 #postmarketos #mobilelinux

The European Union is ordering Apple to open up some of its core technologies to make it easier for competitors to develop phones, headsets, and other accessories that are more interoperable with iPhones and iPads. #EuropeanUnion #Antitrust #DMA #Apple https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_816

welp thats two for two.

hopefully we can have #sailfishos with VoLTE on release too very soon

ah yes i should add, if anyone is interested in bringing their distro feel free to contact us through our contact form (https://furilabs.com/contact/), and we will be happy to consider all requests if they help grow the ecosystem with more *mobile linux* options

#ubports #ubuntutouch #flx1 #furilabs #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile #furiphoneflx1

Debian Linux announce they will no longer post on X

“X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe.”

https://micronews.debian.org/2025/1738154246.html

It feels quite uncomfortable that cloudflare is somewhat openly admitting to analysing login credentials that are going through the reverse proxy, and providing aggregated stats on it (without explicit consent of the user it appears?)

Based on Cloudflare's observed traffic between September - November 2024, 41% of successful logins across websites protected by Cloudflare involve compromised passwords.

Don't get me wrong the results are actually pretty interesting, but I just cannot think of a ethical way of doing this, and it feels kind of jarring that they just "did that"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/password-reuse-rampant-half-user-logins-compromised/

“When there is legitimate concern about the vast amounts of information that people freely hand over to social media companies, app stores, devices & other services,” laws that require collecting MORE data don't make sense, EFF’s @aaronmackey told @CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/tech/app-store-age-verification-meta-tension/index.html

Anxiety

Made some progress in investigating the likely cause of slowness for some #GNOMECalendar users who have a metric shitton of events in their month view: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1381#note_2375819

#Sysprof #performance #GNOME

We’re teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/

> Currently, we rely on a mix of both Google and Bing libraries to provide you with answers to your searches. Starting in 2025, our new index will be added into the database pool to serve results in both the French and German language. We are starting small and in the home countries of both Qwant and Ecosia respectively.

Good to hear.

I love Dash to Panel. I don't even customize it, I just clone the default GNOME panel so I can pretend to check the time on another display.

It's sad to hear that Charles Gagnon (charlesg99) isn't going to be working on it anymore after people whined and complained about a donation button. I have never once experienced a bug in Dash to Panel and it's a testament that Charles and the other contributors have kept up this quality for years.

The only way open source projects will get better is if they beg for money and make the effort worth the contributors' time. So put that donation button back in. This isn't a charity.

#gnome