Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

We ordered a cake

Hell yes!

NYT: Russian drones are monitoring US and NATO weapon supply routes in eastern Germany. In response, Berlin is preparing legal changes to authorize the military to shoot down drones near bases.

Legal changes to shoot down hostile drones 🤷‍♂️

Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him.

https://electrek.co/2025/08/25/scientist-exposes-anti-wind-groups-as-oil-funded-now-they-want-to-silence-him/

<- just as tobacco companies sponsored anti-anti-smoking legislation, now fossil-fuel companies are sponsoring global warming denial. The denialists are mostly not smart enough to know this.

Must-read:

So-called "age verification" laws are spreading.

They will not protect kids.

They are grossly insecure.

They will be tools of censorship, surveillance, and oppression.

They amount to requiring a license to speak -- and to read.

We have to stop this.

https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

Bloomberg reports that Xi Jinping has, for the first time, publicly congratulated Ukraine on its Independence Day. The move comes just days before Putin’s planned visit to China. For decades, Beijing has never extended such greetings to former Soviet republics—except Russia.

issues i'd never thought i have to deal with: we used some dip switches that have two markings: 1 and ON. that's already confusing for computer people because in their mind, "1" also means "on" (binary on/active/high). now we have a new batch of keyboards where these got mounted upside down. people read the ON as NO. so they think it's 1 (on) and NO (off). everything goes wrong. i'm so tired and need to sleep. sirens in the distance

"mRNA is one of the most promising technologies for preventing and treating any kind of disease that you can imagine.

Stopping development of mRNA vaccines could put cures of the world’s most common and debilitating chronic diseases, such as cancer and HIV, out of reach.

We need to stay engaged and push back."

My comments on the defunding of mRNA research in
@maskblocabq https://prismreports.org/2025/08/21/mrna-vaccine-rfk-jr-cancer-hiv/

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The Druzhba oil pipeline is down — pumping halted indefinitely. Ukraine’s 14th UAV Regiment struck the Nikolskoe pumping station in Russia’s Tambov region, leaving it burning. As commander Magyar put it: the most effective sanctions delivered by Ukrainian drones.

phosh 0.49.0 is out 🚀📱:

We have some new features, quality of life improvements, under the hood work and 🐛 fixes, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.49.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

Mission accomplished - the Sentinel-5A satellite is now safely in orbit!

It will now undergo calibration before starting its work for us: scanning and analysing the composition of the air we breathe.

Thanks to Sentinel-5A and other European Copernicus satellites, we will have more accurate pollution alerts to protect the most vulnerable, and improved aerosol forecasts for solar energy providers.

Check out the pictures from Sentinel-5A's launch from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou 👇

📷©ESA

NO FAKES is a major government overreach. A person’s name and likeness are facts, and the Constitution forbids Congress from granting a property right in those facts. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-throw-out-the-no-fakes-act-and-start-over

GNOME Shell 49 Beta Finally Brings Media Controls To The Lock Screen

In preparing for the GNOME 49 beta release, GNOME Shell this weekend released 49.beta.1 with a few changes worth highlighting...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Meda-Lock-Screen

@nielsdg Just tried your GTK4 branch of #Gnome Geary mail app and it already looks very promising 🤩

#LinuxMobile #postmarketOS #nixos