Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression.

Here’s the real history.
https://www.propublica.org/article/history-income-tax-history-16th-amendment-trump-tariffs-great-depression?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Tax #History #Tariffs #Trump #USPolitics

It arrived.

🔍 First Look at the Bare Liberux Nexx PCBs 🔍

Our redesigned prototypes have arrived—completely bare! These are the raw PCBs, fresh from manufacturing, before any components are assembled.

It’s been a long wait, but they’re finally in the hands of our assembler! Now, we eagerly await the next step: having them fully assembled in our hands. 🛠️✨

Stay tuned for more updates as we bring Liberux Nexx to life! 🚀

#LiberuxNEXX #OpenHardware #PCB #TechUpdate

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

Några till bra skyltar från #HandsOff

Meanwhile. JD Vance and his wife spent only three hours in Greenland during a visit—entirely on a U.S. military base. Protests and a full business boycott forced them to leave, as locals refused to serve or admit them anywhere.

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. 🤷