Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Windows: Literally gets backdoors injected in by the FBI and distributed to every single copy being executed in production in every system on the planet, and they're not only not removed, but INTENTIONALLY ALLOWED FOR YEARS nothing happens, everyone just continues to use Windows.
Linux: little cheeky mf commits a backdoor, gets removed before it even makes it to production it's the fucking end of the world, open source software is doomed etc etc...

#GillianAnderson is up for a #XFiles reboot !!!

Source:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/gillian-anderson-says-she-returning-142724672.html

@foone from the depths of my meme stash…

@stu We're getting there. I tend to forget how far along #linuxonmobile already came. #phosh is doing a great job (Thank you, #Purism!) and many #Gnome apps already work well on the mobile screen. Kudos to all who made #linuxonmobile what it is today! Amazing!

My saturday #FreeCAD project: A completely parametric 2-piece frame assembly to hold Wiremesh in order to close holes in the walls where rodents are entering, while keeping airflow possible (as it's the basment room that has our central heater).

The frame will be glued into the hole using silicone or similar

A list of links I use more frequently than I'd like to admit when responding to complaints:

Is Linux About Choice?
http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/

Choosing our Preferences
https://ometer.com/preferences.html

Choices
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/12/choices/

Updates and Breakage
https://gjs.guide/extensions/overview/updates-and-breakage.html

Restyling apps at scale
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-at-scale/

Please don't theme our apps
https://stopthemingmy.app/

These are all enlightening stand-alone reads as well, why not check out some of them if you haven't read them all yet? 🤓

Allowing private businesses’ Terms of Service to dictate our Fourth Amendment rights is absurd and impracticable. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-asks-oregon-supreme-court-not-limit-fourth-amendemtn-rights-based-terms

Happy Trans* Day of Visibility!

Trans people are mappers, and hackers, and cartographers, and have always been a part of the OpenStreetMap community.

The OpenStreetMap project is creating a freely licenced map of the world, based on how things actually are, based on how they act, and appear, not based on what some government says. OSM is trans positive.

#OpenStreetMap #OSM
#TDoV #TransDayOfVisibility #Trans

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/thumb/2/2f/2019_v1_OSM_Logo_trans.svg/480px-2019_v1_OSM_Logo_trans.svg.png

Before folks start railing on open source - let’s not forget there are plenty of examples of undocumented backdoors in proprietary commercial products too, the Boeing 737 Max 9 for example

For those of you curious this is what the #pinephonepro camera looks like with my autofocus #libcamera and that new driver. This was late at night with only my room light on so it is still pretty noisy but it looks decent enough.

upstreaming imx258 driver work continues! Its my first attempt at upstreaming anything to the #linux kernel and even submitting patches via a mail list so its been a learning experience for me and a rough one at that but soon the #pinephonepro will be able to use a mainline camera driver and get something useful out of it and will greatly improve #libcamera support since even downstream was missing lots for it.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/cover/20240327231710.53188-1-git@luigi311.com/

I am ecstatic to announce that I'm starting work with MNT Research in #Berlin! I just got confirmation that my visa was approved and can start work April 1st (not a joke)! Thanks to @mntmn, @theawesomerandomness, @holo_memory, @plom and the whole community for giving me this incredible opportunity, I couldn't be more excited!

Alyssa Rosenzweig, who spearheaded the reverse-engineering of Apples GPU will keynote this years LibrePlanet conference! https://libreplanet.org/2024

Here is my new @purism #Librem5

#Purism #Linux #PureOS #Privacy #Librem5

Nothing really substantial, but two of my new repositories are GPL now and I like it as my new default instead of MIT.

I laughed at FOSS before, but somehow, OSS not being enough for companies anymore pushes me towards OSS also not being enough for me.

While they migrate away to source-available proprietary software, I feel like I want to achieve the exact opposite with my work - to ensure that it helps to build the commons.

First known symbolic gesture observed in birds; scientists recorded the Japanese tit using repetitive wing movements to signal "after you" to others.

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00339.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Do you have an old #PinePhone lying in the cupboard?

Dev versions of #ModemManager now support #GPS without a SIM card. Consumers of the MM API need some changes for this, so I submitted pull requests to #Geoclue (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/173), gnss-share (https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/gnss-share/-/merge_requests/15), and my own simple #GNSS app Satellite (https://codeberg.org/tpikonen/satellite/releases) (all 3 in different languages).

Soon it will be possible to use SIMless mobile phones for things like navigation and fitness tracking.

#MobileLinux