JC @jc@librem.one

RT @ZackBornstein
I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened

Up next in #GNOMEAsia2022 Track 2 is Getting Started as a GNOME Contributor and Leveraging the In-Community Opportunities to Build a Career Around FOSS with Mantoh Kuma.
https://events.gnome.org/event/100/timetable/#20221203

Reminder that Tomorrow is bandcamp Friday, and Bandcamp will be giving 100% of proceeds to artists.

Also, Music makes an excellent gift, and it's the holidays.

#shopsmall #BandcampFriday

Photographic proof! Thank you @smallsco for writing Macstodon and making this possible! This is an amazing project.

"After a month on Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
by @malwaretech

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

Just in case you're wondering, the fight against authorizing the use of deadly force via robots by the SFPD isn't over yet. There is one vote left before the policy becomes effective. If you live in SF, you can use this Action Alert to tell your Supervisor to vote "no."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/let-them-know-san-francisco-shouldnt-arm-robots

The Latest VLC Media Player Update Adds RISC-V Support

https://www.omglinux.com/vlc-now-supports-risc-v/

#opensource #vlc #riscv

If you're reading this, and you're struggling in any way...

If you're depressed, anxious, angry, bitter, heartbroken, confused...

Just close your eyes for a while and focus on anything that makes you smile. Listen to your favorite song. Think about someone who makes you laugh. Shut everything else out.

It gets better. Just believe that.

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

not all disabilities are visible

#Fedora 38 is looking at providing #phosh image For mobile devices.

The Phosh (Phone Shell) has been started by Purism.

We're happy to see broader adoption of the #freesoftware on #mobilelinux 🚀

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-38-Phosh-Proposal

Pushed a WIP branch for the #MNTReform on #Guix

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-mnt-reform

Basic functionality (screen, keyboard, ethernet, NVMe) seems to work fine, at least having booted debian with it.

Just needs a system image now...

Quick little tip: You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon.

All links on Mastodon count for 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters they really are.

However, you need to include https:// at the beginning of links to make them clickable.

Do you know that Mastodon can be themed?

For example, here's a Macstodon -- a Mastodon theme that resembles Classic Mac OS.

It looks beautiful 😍

Discovery of the day. The Mastodon advanced web interface (activated by a checkbox in settings on the web page). You can create feed columns with hashtags, including multiple hashtag columns. Really nice feature. #feditips

Working on building a #LinuxLibre kernel for #MNTReform using #Guix ... and so far it boots!

Have not yet managed to build a kernel without the HDMI patches, which require a binary blob, so not in line with the #FSDG for inclusion into guix.

That said, it was not too difficult, using a few patches and .dts from https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-debian-packages/-/tree/main/linux

Getting closer...

Ever wonder if your USB C cable is USB2 or USB3? Do you have some charge-only cables hiding in a box just waiting for the right moment to spoil your project plans?!
Fear no more!

I’ve made a simple board to test most of the things!

As a blind individual, I have to say that #Caturday on #Mastodon is far far more enjoyable then at #Twitter, where the vast majority of cat photos are not described.

It is also been fascinating for me to hear descriptions written by those who sent the image, immediately followed by Apple image recognition’s attempts to describe the same image. Only rarely does that add anything to the ALT, & often directly contradicts it.

There is no auto magical solution to image description. It is something best done by a human, for only that human can explain the “why” of the image: the reason that image was chosen to speak so eloquently without words for those who can see it. ALT allows you to provide those words.