james h jackson jr @jameshjacksonjr@librem.one

A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/01/a-texas-city-had-a-bold-new-climate-plan-until-a-gas-company-got-involved

@make

I had someone recognize me in a regular mask and pipo (no red hat or other branding) 😅

can't wait for it to be sunnier so I can put on sunglasses as well! 😎

The GUADEC 2021 call for participation is now open! More details on this year's #GUADEC, topic ideas, and where to submit your proposal can be found here: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/guadec-2021-call-for-participation-is-now-open/5640

All submissions are due on March 22.

@xerz Encryption only works if both parties are using a client that supports it.

Unless Gmail, Apple Mail, Outlook, etc. add this feature and make it the default there's no reason to use encrypted email over something like Signal or Matrix, because there is no network effect from being based on email.

You have to deal with all the cruft and baggage of a 50 year old system, but get none of the benefits.

What the F*** is #Microsoft doing in my Pi's apt sources list. This is some bitter irony - I use this almost exclusively for #Pihole. I was wondering what all the hype was about recently and now it's clear. Where can I find out more about why this has happened and what, if anything, is being done about it?

#bigtech #raspberrypi #debian #linux #surveillancecapitalism

Receiving MMS on the #librem5 is working now, using #ModemManager and mmsd and #chatty, after some recent fixes including an addition to libqmi to allow sending ack for "transfer route MT" messages, see https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/30 and https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager/-/issues/257 #phosh #UserFreedom #mobile #gnu #linux #freesoftware @purism #gnomeonmobile