Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

"Despite countless past warnings, the Secret Service failed to heed the real threat posed to the former president by the hundreds of millions of firearms in the hands of everyday Americans." https://www.theonion.com/investigation-finds-secret-service-failed-to-account-fo-1851592934

I’m now seven days into a ground-up rewrite of Movement, the community firmware for Sensor Watch, and this 2.0 update is going to be off the chain. Case in point: tonight I got FAT12 emulation working, which means the little file system on the watch can now mount as a USB mass storage device, for easily getting files off the watch. Read-only for now, but again: just seven days in.

Raspberry Pi "PiSP" Driver Landing Upstream For Raspberry Pi 5 Camera System

All of the media subsystem feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel were sent out overnight. Arguably most notable with the media driver changes for the new kernel is introducing the Raspberry Pi "PiSP" driver for the image signal processor (ISP) found with the Raspberry Pi 5 for powering its camera system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Media-Raspberry-PiSP

Linux 6.11 EFI Will Fake That It's Booting Apple macOS To Fix Some Dual-GPU Macs

The EFI changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel. Notable this cycle on the EFI side is removing support for EFI fake memory maps and then a workaround to get dual GPU support working for some of the older x86-based Apple MacBook Pros by pretending that Apple macOS is booting rather than Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-EFI

Alright, I’ve finally done a new #GNOME Shell Mobile release! Time for a little thread about the updates.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/verdre/gnome-shell-mobile/-/tree/46-mobile-0?ref_type=tags

#LinuxMobile

Victory! Supreme Court correctly rules that social media platforms have First Amendment rights to curate and edit the speech of others they deliver to their users.

The Supreme Court’'s ruling is a big win for users and the First Amendment. It recognizes that the government has a very limited role in dictating what social media platforms must and must not publish. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/platforms-have-first-amendment-right-curate-speech-weve-long-argued-supreme-1

Chat control is back on the agenda of the #EU.

What exactly is this #ChatControl?

Watch this video (3:47 long):

https://digitalcourage.video/w/xziZATY2WtahJumeHCaavu

#StopScanningMe

GTK4 port of Disks for GNOME 47 is looking fantastic

Kudos @pothos @maximiliano Automeris naranja , Inam Ul Haq and Mohammed Sadiq

Also, this is the systemd sysupdate disk layout https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/GNOME-OS-systemd-sysupdate/

#GNOME

One from the blog archive! Repairing a 2nd hand desk vice with some new soft jaws designed in @FreeCAD and #3Dprinted with #DIY filament made from pop/soda bottles. #tools https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2023/10/desk-vice-restoration-3d-printed-jaws.html?m=1

#phosh 0.40.1 is out 🚀📱:

Basically the only (but important) change is a crash fix in #phoc introduced in 0.40.0.

https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.40.1/

somehow it's a suprising amount of work to make a totally new laptop?!?!

The whole "Biden should step down" thing stinks like Republican ratfuckery to me.

As far as I can see, the only safe way to do that at this point would be for Harris to take over RIGHT NOW (via 25th amendment), announce her candidacy, and pick a VP.

Then she needs to go to the mattresses to keep the Supreme Court majority from ganging up to disqualify her on some spurious grounds. (But at least they handed her a loaded gun in the shape of presidential immunity!)

They Were Choked, Beaten and Tased by #NYPD Officers. The Commissioner Buried Their Cases.
==

New York City’s #Police Commissioner Edward Caban has repeatedly used a little-known authority called “retention” to prevent officers accused of misconduct from facing public disciplinary trials.

Victims are never told their cases have been buried.

#NYC #LawEnforcement #CivilRights #Crime #News #Government #Courts

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-commissioner-edward-caban-police-discipline-retention-eric-adams

slowly losing my will to live as i dive deeper into apk-tools + Alpine + /usr merge + pmbootstrap

i mean, it's solvable, the constraints are just so tight. Like... dynamically fixing Alpine packages so they work on a /usr merge system at runtime requires handling every possible case, like all of these symlinks needs to be detected and skipped (since with /usr merge they become recursive):

/bin/foo -> /usr/bin/foo
/bin/foo -> ../usr/bin/foo
/usr/bin/foo -> /bin/food
/usr/bin/foo -> ../../bin/foo

then the same for /lib -> /usr/lib and /usr/sbin

Plus, simply making them absolute symlinks is extremely bad behaviour since it breaks operating on a foreign rootfs (apk --root ...), we just ignore this for now...

And then you get caught out by crap like /bin/go being a symlink to /usr/lib/go/bin/go

i think im getting close, but hitting some weird issues with pmb and apk3...

it would probably not be so bad if I didn't also have to write all this in C

https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/apk-tools/-/commit/954af7ba48c492cca87b333b0be578a9877cce7a

MNT Reform Next status: keyboard and display work, and we can go on the internet

Tiling Shell is a new, super-charged window snapping extension for GNOME Shell - https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/tiling-shell-gnome-extension-in-ubuntu #gnome #ubuntu

On July 1st, The European Commission (EC) informed Meta that its "pay or consent" model failed to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_3582

Meta's "pay or consent" lets European users of Facebook and Instagram choose between paying a €9.99 monthly subscription for an ad-free version, or a free-of-charge version with personalised ads. A whooping €255.99 per year. 💸

But why are they even doing this?

Consent is invalid, they said, where there is "any element of compulsion, pressure or inability to exercise free will" and large online platforms should consider providing an "equivalent alternative that does not entail the payment of a fee".

Meta is not the only target of the DMA. We continue to work, individually and collectively with civil society, to monitor its enforcement, including regarding compliance measures introduced by Big Tech companies such as Apple: https://edri.org/our-work/apple-must-comply-with-the-dma-urges-civil-society-call-to-european-commission/

Starship 31 at Massey's test this morning preparing for cryogenic testing.

7/2/24

Here is another update on how's my #PineTime doing. As I mentioned before, the glass cover for the heart rate sensor fell off. And, well, I got caught in the rain today and it died. Beautifully, tho