“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
@startmail just buy a dumb TV they still excist, dont buy any that have Netflix, Prime, Roku, or any apps at all
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
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.
No method of age verification is both privacy-protective and entirely accurate. Introducing these laws is dangerous, and expanding them to things like skincare, dating apps, and diet pills has enormous unintended consequences for your personal data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control
@furilabs seems to work so far!, firefox browser renders a little larger than available screen and not mobile optimized until a page fully loads initially, settings display scaling shows 100% even though it is running 250 or 275%, launching an android app the very first time also opens a ghost android settings page that shows blank, selecting view details on android app takes you to gnome software with no details available a few minor quirks
Update 13.0.8 https://furilabs.com/update-13-0-8/
@piggz with you porting to a few other halium based devices to sfos and with @furilabs just releasing multiboot support for the flx1, I was wondering if you would be interested in porting sfos to it. It would be nice to get other halium OS on the flx1 considering the furilab folks have the full source to the phone for better fixes.
For those curious here is the initial showcase and is currently on my device in QA testing.
https://social.likeadragonmaid.dev/@fakeshell/113790457654664808
#sailfishos #FLX1 #furilabs #mobilelinux
@rail_ @jalefkowit Tried Floorp as a drop in replacement and similar to firefox and librewolf as a user you still have to change pretty much ~100-200 settings so it wont ping back to the mothership (google, mozilla). In that sense they are all still very much the same as Firefox. It would be great if these alternatives actually configured it such way to take mozilla and google 100% out of the loop (changing default search to duckduckgo only doesnt count)
Werner Von Braun standing next to the five F-1 engines of a Saturn V on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center
The Saturn V rocket was a type of rocket called a Heavy Lift Vehicle, meaning it was very powerful and could launch heavy payloads into orbit or beyond. It had three stages, each with its own engines and fuel tanks, that would separate from the rocket after burning out. The Saturn V was human-rated, meaning it was designed to carry humans safely. It was also powered by liquid fuel, which gave it more thrust and efficiency than solid fuel rockets.
It was 111 meters (363 feet) tall, about the height of a 36-story building, and 18 meters (60 feet) taller than the Statue of Liberty. It weighed 2.8 million kilograms (6.2 million pounds) when fully fueled for liftoff, the weight of about 400 elephants. It generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust at launch, creating more power than 85 Hoover Dams. It could launch about 118,000 kilograms (130 tons) into Earth orbit, or about 43,500 kilograms (50 tons) to the moon. That’s about as much weight as 10 or four school buses, respectively.
It had five F-1 engines in its first stage, which were the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engines ever developed. Each F-1 engine produced 1.5 million newtons (337,000 pounds) of thrust at sea level. The F-1 engines were so loud that they could be heard up to 64 kilometers (40 miles) away from the launch site.
The person photographed here is Werner von Braun. Werner von Braun was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect who played a prominent role in the development of rocket technology and space exploration. He was also a member of the Nazi Party and the SS, which has raised ethical questions about his legacy.
He helped design and co-develop the V-2 rocket, the first artificial object to travel into space, for Nazi Germany during World War II. The V-2 was used as a weapon against Allied cities, killing thousands of civilians. He was secretly moved to the United States after the war, along with about 1,600 other German scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip. He worked for the US Army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile program, and he developed the rockets that launched the first US satellite Explorer 1 in 1958. He became the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket, the most powerful rocket ever flown successfully. The Saturn V was used to launch astronauts to the moon as part of the Apollo program, and to launch Skylab, the first American space station.
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❗️U.S. aerospace company Maxar Technologies has cut off Ukraine’s access to its satellite imagery services following a U.S. government request – Militarnyi. Another step in restricting intelligence sharing from the U.S. to Ukraine.
https://mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxar-vidklyuchyv-ukrayini-dostup-do-svoyih-suputnykovyh-znimkiv/
#FuriOS update 13.0.8 for #FLX1 has been delayed by about 10 days, but you why was this?
I decided to find the reason for the battery drain here is what we found
firstly, packagekit is a battery hog, so we wrote a #GNOME software plugin for aptkit for system updates, second was related to modems mainloop being blocked (sometimes and inconsistently) and not going to sleep and last (the hardest to find) was with the WiFi driver not going to sleep correctly.
All fixed up and landing this month!
Take It Down would give the rich & powerful an easy way to demand content removal—no questions asked. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor
@backtoanalog I have experienced that launchers are left over when uninstalling from fdroid, and arurora store, the way to avoid these being left over is to go to android settings instead Select Android App > Kill app > Clear app data > remove
that is the only way to avoid that, there is a Linux app "Main Menu" by the way that allows you to clear those out as well after the fact
@danslerush @furilabs It runs surprisingly stable, linux mobile on other devices has been mostly a miss with new updates breaking more than they fix, the Librem 5 worked well then after an update did not, so far the flx1 has worked well pulling from stable, or staging which is incredible in my mind. Android integration is way more robust than with the C2 Jolla Community phone Sailfish OS 5, wake from sleep works very well though occasionally I do have to toggle mobile data
Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries
Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-136-Released
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