Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Next year, we’re hopeful that the court will uphold the right of individuals to comment on government officials’ social media pages, when those pages are largely used for governmental purposes and even when the officials don’t like what those comments say https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/2023-year-review-us-supreme-courts-busy-year-free-speech-and-tech-cases

A few damaged tiles after Starship 28's static fire today.

12/20/23

EFF has done a lot of work this year defending your rights online. Thanks for standing with us! #EFFWrapped

@verdre published his work about reverse engineering Android app support in Jolla and how he brought it to GNOME Linux mobile.

Great read by

https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023/12/20/a-dive-into-jolla-appsupport/

#Linux #LinuxMobile #mobileLinux #GNOME #Wayland #Android #reverseEngineering

Clarence Thomas’ private complaints about money sparked fears he would resign https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/121823_thomas_finances/clarence-thomas-private-complaints-money-sparked-fears-he-would-resign/
Interviews and documents reveal that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and, offer insight into how Thomas was talking about his finances just as he was developing relationships with a set of wealthy benefactors.
#Tucson #Arizona

Happy to announce that postmarketOS v23.12 is out now!

Highlights:
* @alpinelinux 3.19
* Devices count increased from 31 to 45, with LOTS of Chromebooks and MSM8953 devices added
* GNOME (Mobile) 45
* Phosh 0.33
* KDE Plasma (Mobile) 5.27.10
* Sxmo 1.15.1
* unl0kr replaces osk-sdl
* loupe replaces eog
* more robust release upgrade script
* RNDIS replaces NCM
* zram

Thanks to everybody who contributed & tested! ❤️

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2023/12/18/v23.12-release/

#chromebook #msm8953 #linux #linuxmobile

It used to be that installing a program that a friend had written was a royal pain in the ass if it was not yet packaged by distros.

Now I just do "flatpak install". And. It. Always. Works.

Genius, minimizing public disruption while hitting the leeches where it hurts the most. Maximum impact, minimum inconvenience.

Voyager's computer systems were custom-built using 1960s technology, with clock speeds measured in KHz and RAM in kbytes, running hand-crafted software, crammed into 4K of 18-bit wide plated-wire memory (similar to but better than core mem).

And yes, it uses a digital 8-track tape recorder for storage.

The custom-designed hardware and (upgraded) software (and most instruments) are still functioning after 46 years in space!

https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html
https://hackaday.com/2018/11/29/interstellar-8-track-the-low-tech-data-recorders-of-voyager/
#Voyager
3/n

I've been working on the design of GNOME's location services feature recently, and I'm increasingly baffled by the name. Why is it that every platform calls this feature "Location Services"?

From a user perspective it's really unclear! Why services plural? If they are multiple, what are they? Also, are these remote services for the device? Or a local service for apps?

Can anyone shed any light? Is there a reason not to call this feature "automatically find the location of this device"?

Had to send out the "dear corporate employee hiding behind a gmail.com address" post again today.. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/anonymous-help/

I've long believed that all apps (at least on Android) should start supporting UnifiedPush[1]. Tools like ntfy could serve as a central hub for notification distribution, allowing anyone to have their own notification server to connect apps and mobile devices. This would ensure greater privacy.
This is also why I developed NotiMail: we shouldn't have to rely on the 'big players' for our notifications and data.

[1] https://unifiedpush.org/

#UnifiedPush #AndroidApps #PrivacyMatters #NotiMail #Google #Apple #Android #iOS

"GATEWAY TO MARS" it is.

Using a selection of patches from linux-next, a few ones from the linux-media list, @libcamera 0.0.4 and @rmader patches for libaperture and gnome-camera, I was finally able to get a cat picture out of the @PINE64 #PinePhonePro on @mobian 📷

#MobileLinux #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile #ShotOnPinePhonePro

Pretty cool milestone for cameras on the #PinePhonePro and the #libcamera + #PipeWire stack today: the #Manjaro images (the stock distro) for both #phosh and #PlasmaMobile now come with all required packages by default.

Finally I can simply install cheese and get an image.

Yes, the rotation is still wrong. Yes, there are still features missing that you'd expect from a modern camera stack. Yes, there are still bugs and suboptimal image quality. But we got a working base now.

The SoftISP is making progress, allowing libcamera to operate on platforms where the ISP (Image Signal Processor) is either unusable, or not available.

Here we have Hans comparing the Intel IPU6 running the out-of-kernel stack against the libcamera SoftISP. The colours are off, as the white balance isn't handled yet - and there is no denoise.

But clear progress to functioning cameras!