Hey peeps! Do me a huge flavor? I moonlight with the immensely amazing Open Source Hardware Association, and we have a new baby mastodon account. Follow and share it? We know our folks are on here, and would love to reach them.
We have way too many patents as it is. The last thing we need are AI patent troll farms generating millions of trivial "inventions" then suing everyone actually building stuff.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-asked-decide-if-ai-can-be-patent-inventor-2023-03-17/
and we are live!! you can back the MNT Pocket Reform (open hardware 7" mini laptop) campaign now: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
and we are very thankful for spreading the word!
Thanks to loading #Ventoy and a few OS on a USB boot drive, I can use the tool I wrote to enable a persistent desktop or server environment that's both (mostly) #Linux distro-agnostic and hardware-agnostic!
It's still a work in progress, but I'm starting to lean toward supporting more desktop environments than #GNOME and more OS options than #Debian (I'm currently improving #PureOS support). I should probably reconsider renaming the project. 😉
@gnome OSHW mini laptop Pocket Reform launching soon on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
Just over 24 hours until the first annual FreeCAD (and free CAE) users conference.
It's all online and registration is free.
So come along and see some of the amazing things people are doing with this amazing FOSS platform.
https://hopin.com/events/freecad-and-free-cae-users-conference/registration
ive got a few blog posts bookmarked, but can anyone recommend me writing on how for-profit companies abuse open source? specifically thinking about how they treat it like outsourced labor- relying on public labor for private profits, but other criticisms like patterns of EEE relevant too.
boosts welcome, want to make sure I cite the ppl who are writing abt this.
These "Floppy Disk Costumes" for SD cards by @charlyn are perfect! 🤩
Get yours here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1406341370
New phone who dis? It's real!
The #Librem5 is almost like the #PinePhone's big and slightly more specced up sibling - a Linux pocket computerbox bringing desktop covergence to a phone - and @purism has contributed most of the code that allows Gnome/Phosh/Linux on a phone to dynamically resize desktop apps. Happy to finally get mine and support this project! Purism got bodyslammed by supply chain issues during the pandemic and is now catching up on shipping ❤️ See https://puri.sm/
The new Food Code recognizes that food from retailers can be OK for donation
This treatment in the Food Code is part of the Biden Administration’s National Strategy on #hunger, #nutrition, and #health . The National Strategy provides a roadmap of actions the federal government will take to end hunger and reduce diet-related diseases by 2030 – all while reducing disparities.
Flathub is soon going to feature verified apps!
I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.
When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.
I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.
It runs in #GNOME or in a headless #server environment and is easy to configure a local apt-mirror repository, link persistent #VM images, customize package lists, and so on. I've been daily-driving this on my laptops/desktops/servers for 2 years.
A nice perk of using a configuration like this is that it eliminates the need to upgrade your system and be concerned about migration issues. To upgrade, simply re-flash the boot drive to the newer OS version and use the same script to configure it.
Passionate about freedom, libre software/hardware, environmental sustainability, and doing the right thing even when it's inconvenient.
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#fedi22 #foss #gaming #mntreform #music #opensource #oshw #pdx #pnw #tech