gojira @gojira@librem.one

I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚

«Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.»

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https://standardebooks.org/donate

#standardebook #ebook #publicdomain #book #reading

We took some time and released a transcription of the Weathering Software Winter talk with links for most things that were mentioned and that might have needed additional context.

http://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html

#dadjokes
#dadjokefriday

I have performed an unscientific survey of people who are working in coding and cybersecurity to see what language they use most often.

The result: profanity.

developers having powerful development hardware is actively harmful to usable software existing

there is literally an order of magnitude of power difference between the machines many developers use to create their software and the machines that their users will have - and that's assuming the users have brand new (but average) hardware

today's developers write software pretending that there will always be infinite resources, because the computers we have *let* them do that without consequences

@ky0ko I remember John Romero saying how useful it is to have a more powerful machine to develop on (hence why #Doom and #Quake were developed on NeXT), but he also said that every Dev should have a minimum-spec consumer machine right next to their workstation, to make sure it still works even on the lowest hardware.

But instead, we have the current versions of #Microsoft Office that can't even run properly on a 2 GHz laptop with 8 GB of RAM. >:(

Linux Thursday - Sep 6, 2019 - RMS goes to MS

LBRY: https://open.lbry.com/@Lunduke:e/linux-thursday-sep-6-2019-rms-goes-to-ms:f

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd-Q16IKM5E

Other: http://lunduke.com/

You guys really seem to like this shirt! https://teespring.com/its-my-gnu-given-right-to-fork

Linux Thursday is back, baby!

LBRY: https://open.lbry.com/linux-thursday-aug-29-2019

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IInvAwZo6U

Other: http://lunduke.com/

OK everyone, time to reset your face and fingerprint. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/14/major-breach-found-in-biometrics-system-used-by-banks-uk-police-and-defence-firms

Ever wanted to ditch big tech but had no idea how to? Grab your free Librem One account for social, chat and voice or a premium account with mail and VPN and get end-to-end encryption, no tracking, no ads and no data sharing https://librem.one #purism #libremone #opensource #deletefacebook

When we consider what it's like to be "hacked", we should also consider that the companies we happily allow to access our personal #data are just as nefarious as those we fear.

#gettingreal #privacy #infosec

#facebook #amazon #google etc...

The Register covered my article announcing @linuxjournal closing and included a number of quotes from my first goodbye that add extra context. https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/08/08/linux_journal_closes_again_editor_says_os_buried_under_proprietary_software/

Today Linux Journal shut its doors for good. All staff were laid off and the company is left with no operating funds to continue in any capacity... https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication-awkward-goodbye

Here's to an amazing 25 year run @linuxjournal, cheers!

I'm so sorry to say it, but today @linuxjournal closed down for good. As you can imagine we are all so sad that this is the end. You can read my final goodbye here:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication-awkward-goodbye

#privacymatters

@switchingsocial

Have you seen this list of alternatives to Amazon's offerings? Not all entirely free/open, but definitely some options to say "not Amazon"

https://threshold.us/c/cancelprime/amazon-alternatives

The reason I've long called them #listeningdevices and people who buy these (for selves or a 'gift' to someone) deserve public shaming and isolation from civilised society (until they throw these bugs away) https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-alexa-keeps-your-data-with-no-expiration-date-and-shares-it-too/