Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

🚀 Mesa 24.03 + etnaviv = Multiple Render Targets (MRTs)!
The latest release of Mesa 24.03 brings exciting news for the etnaviv GPU driver: support for Multiple Render Targets (MRTs)!

Learn how it was made happen: https://christian-gmeiner.info/2025-01-16-mrt/

#etnaviv #mesa

Mastodon becomes nonprofit to make sure it’s never ruined by billionaire CEO
Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

According to cloudflare I am a bot.

Their "are you human" check refuses to work in my Firefox setup.

Nevermind is uBlock enabled or not, Privacy Badger has been disabled as well.

I fucking hate modern web.

Many people reported having their accounts banned and content removed after commenting on the assassination of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson, showing just how much control over our online expression social media and financial platforms have. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/platforms-systematically-removed-user-because-he-made-most-wanted-ceo-playing

I went looking for a picture and was not disappointed. https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social/post/3lfg4vvfojc2y #VLC #CES

Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL

On the Fritz: German router maker AVM declines to appeal in device rights case after coughing up source code Sebastian Steck, a software developer based in Germany, has obtained the source code and library installation scripts for his AVM FRITZ!Box 4020 router, thanks to a lawsuit funded by the Software Freedom Conse…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/german_router_maker_avm_lgpl/

Less than eight months ago @beacondb started their repository.

#beaconDB is a public domain wireless #geolocation database. It was started because Mozilla stopped their location services.

In the months since the beginning the community collected more than:

18,944,124 networks
610,632 beacons
992,115 towers
in 151 countries

This shows the power of a collaborative #community and #opensource.

Are you already contributing? See the website how you can do this:

https://beacondb.net

#FOSS

I try to not use my title too much but in response to Zuck's recent speech:

As Queen of the Fediverse I officially declare Threads EXILED from our land

You are not welcome here, get the fuck out

phosh-osk-stub provides input purpose layouts for pin, digit and phone numbers:

7/7

A while ago I did a short thread on "expats", "economic migrants" and immigration:
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/109931921984437190

I said:

> [Anti-immigration rhetoric is] not about making refugees not come. It's about making sure they never get the protections the local labor force already has.

> Because then they become super cheap labor. And a way to dismantle labor protections for everyone!

The problem for Musk with hiring Americans isn't that they're under-qualified, it's that they cannot be easily exploited.

Full disk encryption is an important feature for me. Many mobile Linux options lack it outright and those that have it can make it difficult to setup. FuriOS on my FLX1 not only has it but it is very easy to setup. You literally only have to go into Settings>Encryption, toggle Encryption on, choose your FDE password and the reboot. After that eevry time you boot the phone you will have to put that password in. Why every mobile Linux distro can't implement it like this I do not know.

❄️ Stay warm this winter with an EFF hoodie! ❄️
Our Stay Golden Hooded Sweatshirt is available when you donate to EFF at the Titanium level or above! https://eff.org/YEC

I finally did the remaining to part to import paired bluetooth keyboards/mouse/trackpads (at least the Apple ones) automatically for #asahilinux
This means they are useable on the first boot after installation without pairing. For dual boot systems they will connect automatically in macOS and linux without constant repairing manually exporting and importing link keys.
https://github.com/WhatAmISupposedToPutHere/asahi-nvram/pull/32