JC @jc@librem.one

Oh, hai tiny floppy disk organizer but for micro SD cards.

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Hello World!

The Rust project now has an official presence on Mastodon! ✨

We'll be posting the same on our Twitter and Mastodon accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.

Today is a huge day for Apple II software preservation. With the help of Antoine Vignau and @txgx42, we have managed to recover, make playable, and archive renowned game designer Dani Bunten's first game, Wheeler Dealers. Released in 1978/79 and published by Speakeasy Software, a small Canadian developer, Wheeler Dealers is a multi-player stock market simulation that only sold ~50 copies. It is the first (known) computer game to have been sold in a box. The game was considered lost until now.

hey check this out https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

Looks like Adafruit is the first organization to reach 600 certified open-source hardware designs at @oshwassociation @OSHWA_OSHW , previously Adafruit was the first to reach 500 certified OSHW designs https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html?q=adafruit we have a bunch more submitted and will do a post, at this time Adafruit is 24.9% of all certified open-source hardware. Special thanks to the Adafruit team submitting these, the API, and @ladyada for a ton of new open-source designs!

Playing with Renoise and monomes on the #MNTReform laptop (A311d CPU). The latency seems to be enough for a live setup, but I wish there were more plugins for ARM #Linux systems.

I gave a talk at Open Source Firmware Conference this year, Reproducible Builds All The Way Down:

https://www.osfc.io/2023/talks/reproducible-builds-all-the-way-down/

Slides available:

https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-presentations/-/tree/master/2023-10-11-Reproducible-Builds-All-The-Way-Down

It was well received, highlighting many historic #ReproducibleBuilds issues in firmware projects that I maintain in #Debian and touching on the hows and whys of Reproducible Builds.

Open Source Firmware can be a great example of 100% reproducibility, with a narrow scope of code, and is often a key part in early system boot!

Why are they even allowed to drive?

Bizarreness of the day

Adobe uses Linux / GNOME in a new product demonstration.

https://youtu.be/barsu1NWE4s?t=366

(at 6:06)

#Linux #GNOME #Adobe

Is your laptop upgradeable? Mine is! I got this upgrade in the mail last week.
This A311D module adds WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, and bumps the CPU performance a lot, going from 4x ARM Cortex-A53 cores on the old module, to 2x A53 and 4x A73! Roughly doubled the performance of my computer, and now I also get to use bluetooth headphones 😎🎶

A meteor burning up in Earth's atmosphere, filmed from the International Space Station.

Some of our users work only with audio material like podcast episodes, so it makes sense that they should be able to negotiate percentages rather than semitones when they use vari-speed :) Here is a quick fix from @PaulDavisTheFirst coming in the next release

We've just released Ardour v8 with some long-anticipated new features like improved velocity editing (the lollipops), freehand automation drawing, new Grid tool for tempo mapping live performances, Novation Launchpad Pro support, and more!

See here for an overview of new features:

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

Or grab the download:

https://community.ardour.org/download

@jc I would love to be able to review and use all of these and promote them to my audience because we should all be using more #Opensource

well I found what I need next in my arsenal, this is my PERFECT AND IDEAL pocket laptop for my work on the go and I need to use and review this https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
#linux #gaming #infosec #cybersecurity #laptop #opensource

I just had to update my numbers for a lecture, so here's your periodic reminder: Starlink is now 55% of ALL active satellites in orbit.

And given the recent news about that awful billionaire unilaterally deciding to cut of internet access to parts of the world whenever he decides to, this is extra important to share. Why did our governments effectively gift Low Earth Orbit to one awful dude? This is so bad.

You need to stop using Chrome NOW. It’s not hyperbole: Google just rolled out a change to Chrome that tracks the sites you visit, builds a profile, and shares that with any page you visit that asks.

This is real. It’s not tech bro conspiracy shit.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome

#privacy #google #chrome