Jeremiah :emacs: :linux: @jeremiah@librem.one

Information can have a long life and it’s hard to know who will control the filing cabinets, computers, or databases next. Learn from history: If information in the wrong hands can be used to do harm, it’s best not to collect it in the first place.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/lessons-history-afghanistan-and-dangerous-afterlives-identifying-data

"These findings help developers make educated choices when it comes to determining whether a PWA is the right approach given their target users’ means of Web access."

https://tomayac.github.io/pwa-feature-detector/

Thursday at #DebConf21 online! - We start the day on channel one with 'Mass Campaigns to increase Debian adoption in India' at 12:00 UTC and then 'openqa.debian.net, automated testing of debian-installer and beyond' at 13:00 UTC. On channel two, there is a workshop in Malayalam about packaging: 'ഒരു ഡെബിയന്‍ പാക്കേജിന്റെ സോഴ്സ് ഡൌണ്‍ലോഡ് ചെയ്ത് ‍ഡെബ് ഫയല്‍ (.deb) ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്നതു് കാണാം'. See today's schedule at https://debconf21.debconf.org/schedule/?block=3

Many of the streamed sessions of #DebConf21 are already uploaded in https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2021/DebConf21/ and the remaining ones will appear in the following days. Thank you again from all of us at Debian!

Libadwaita 1.0.0-alpha.1 is out!

Start porting your application from GTK 3 and Libhandy to GTK 4 and Libadwaita now with our migration guide: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/1.0.0-alpha.1/migrating-libhandy-1-4-to-libadwaita.html

Be aware that the API is bound to change until the first beta, planned for mid-August.

nap spots are worth diversifying #librem5 #shotonlibrem5

GTK4's GPU-accelerated GL renderer(s) got a major performance boost in the last few days! Previously it struggled to render simple UIs with single digit FPS on the Librem 5; now it can get pretty fancy :) #librem5 #gnome #gnomeonmobile #gtk

This is in it's infancy but here's the first bits of #GObjectIntrospection for #Erlang using a c-node:

At least some hope: "The ratio of commits by female authors has grown steadily over the past 50 years, reaching in 2019 for the first time 10% of all contributions to public code." Thanks @zacchiro for your work here.

https://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/ieee-sw-gender-swh.pdf #nt

With GNOME 40, most core apps are going to have rounded bottom corners.

Many third party apps have already had them for a while but if your app doesn't yet, you still have a few weeks to get it in shape before 40 ;)

Relevant docs: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy/doc/master/HdyWindow.html

Hiring more devs: https://puri.sm/jobs/

* https://puri.sm/job/on-site-computing-device-technician/

* https://puri.sm/job/pureos-gtk-application-development/

* https://puri.sm/job/coreboot-pureboot-heads-me-fsp-firmware-developer/

@todd @kyle next time people ask why the L5 is more expensive than other Linux phones I will point to this toot. (Besides beefier hardware) Thanks for contributing to the *real* open ecosystem!

OpenPGP in Your Pocket

"Access to the smart card reader on the Librem 5 is something we at Purism have been looking forward to for a long time. That day is finally here..."

https://puri.sm/posts/openpgp-in-your-pocket/

#librem5 #privacy #freedom

Coming soon to a Librem 5 near you: support for the internal OpenPGP smart card reader.