Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Voyager's computer systems were custom-built using 1960s technology, with clock speeds measured in KHz and RAM in kbytes, running hand-crafted software, crammed into 4K of 18-bit wide plated-wire memory (similar to but better than core mem).

And yes, it uses a digital 8-track tape recorder for storage.

The custom-designed hardware and (upgraded) software (and most instruments) are still functioning after 46 years in space!

https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html
https://hackaday.com/2018/11/29/interstellar-8-track-the-low-tech-data-recorders-of-voyager/
#Voyager
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I've been working on the design of GNOME's location services feature recently, and I'm increasingly baffled by the name. Why is it that every platform calls this feature "Location Services"?

From a user perspective it's really unclear! Why services plural? If they are multiple, what are they? Also, are these remote services for the device? Or a local service for apps?

Can anyone shed any light? Is there a reason not to call this feature "automatically find the location of this device"?

Had to send out the "dear corporate employee hiding behind a gmail.com address" post again today.. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/anonymous-help/

I've long believed that all apps (at least on Android) should start supporting UnifiedPush[1]. Tools like ntfy could serve as a central hub for notification distribution, allowing anyone to have their own notification server to connect apps and mobile devices. This would ensure greater privacy.
This is also why I developed NotiMail: we shouldn't have to rely on the 'big players' for our notifications and data.

[1] https://unifiedpush.org/

#UnifiedPush #AndroidApps #PrivacyMatters #NotiMail #Google #Apple #Android #iOS

"GATEWAY TO MARS" it is.

Using a selection of patches from linux-next, a few ones from the linux-media list, @libcamera 0.0.4 and @rmader patches for libaperture and gnome-camera, I was finally able to get a cat picture out of the @PINE64 #PinePhonePro on @mobian 📷

#MobileLinux #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile #ShotOnPinePhonePro

Pretty cool milestone for cameras on the #PinePhonePro and the #libcamera + #PipeWire stack today: the #Manjaro images (the stock distro) for both #phosh and #PlasmaMobile now come with all required packages by default.

Finally I can simply install cheese and get an image.

Yes, the rotation is still wrong. Yes, there are still features missing that you'd expect from a modern camera stack. Yes, there are still bugs and suboptimal image quality. But we got a working base now.

The SoftISP is making progress, allowing libcamera to operate on platforms where the ISP (Image Signal Processor) is either unusable, or not available.

Here we have Hans comparing the Intel IPU6 running the out-of-kernel stack against the libcamera SoftISP. The colours are off, as the white balance isn't handled yet - and there is no denoise.

But clear progress to functioning cameras!

Revealing who actually is doing all of the work at MNT:

People probably won't find this as funny as I did, but this is one of my favorite videos I've ever done. https://youtu.be/_G5f9pymvtA

December newsletter is out🚀 !

YH4F 2024 kicked off, the German Parliament received the #upcyclingandroid Open Letter, we discovered that the ambitious plan of the #InteroperableEuropeAct turned out to be watered down, we celebrated Belgium’s commitment to Router Freedom, and much more interesting news!

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202312.html

A big old oak tree in its autumn colours.

#thicktrunktuesday #woodland #trees #forest #nature #landscapephotography #treesofmastodon #photography #mastoart #landscape

I could have done so many useful things on a Sunday. But instead I've finished these 100 audio cassette designs using the GNOME color palette.

#pixelart #aseprite #pointless #iguessitsart #gnome

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#123 Infrastructure Work
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/11/twig-123/

#GNOME #TWIG

With all this talk of Chrome messing up adblockers, please don’t use Brave. They do so much shady shit you should stay away.

🌈 TONIGHT! 🌈

Let's build native apps that work offline but can sync when you have a network connection!

The GNOME Berlin crew is teaming up with @p2panda for a workshop to explore the technology together and work on prototypes.

To avoid having to download and install SDKs at the workshop set up your computer in advance: https://hedgedoc.gnome.org/gnome-p2panda-workshop

📍️ Where? Offline, Lichtenraderstr. 49 (Berlin)

🕕️ When? Monday Nov 20th, 18:00

#gnome2panda #gnome #berlin

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

UK policing minister Chris Philp has said he wants to give the police access to the UK’s passport database, which will mean that public facial recognition cameras can identify all of us. It will mean the End of Privacy in Public. Join our campaign to hold your MP to account:

pvcy.org/facialrecognition

“The Super-Heavy-Booster has just experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.” - SpaceX

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