Specify Form-Factors in Your Librem 5 Apps
"As a user you also want to know which applications are relevant to run at a given time, so Phosh will let you run desktop-only applications only when the phone is docked."
https://puri.sm/posts/specify-form-factors-in-your-librem-5-apps/
More than 2,000 law enforcement agencies across every state now have access to technology that allows them to extract data from confiscated phones.
A new report by @TeamUpturn details the dangerous growth of these tools: https://www.upturn.org/reports/2020/mass-extraction/
Microsoft got in antitrust trouble for bundling IE for free w/ Windows to compete with Netscape.
Now imagine Microsoft controlled whether Netscape could be installed or updated on Windows, and blocked them, and you are closer to the current situation with phones.
So impressed with the work @johan Thelin has done with FOSS North this year despite all the challenges that have come. The schedule for the upcoming talk is pretty amazing and relevant. https://lnkd.in/gAgzqMd
So grateful for all of Johan's work to keep what I humbly feel is the best independent, FOSS conference in Scandinavia.
Thanks for the 1,673 app votes so far! Already at 16% of our 10,000 vote goal!
Help fund the apps you desire with "Fund Your App":
It’s time to celebrate software freedom! Join us online TODAY for a fun and informative 35th birthday celebration that will honor the history of the FSF and discuss exciting plans for the future: https://u.fsf.org/fsf35
Introducing: Librem AweSIM
Unlimited cellular plan that works with the #librem5
- #privacy as a service
- A new phone number registered in Purism's name
- Unlimited talk / text / data
- No contracts, cancel anytime
All for just $99/month
Learn more: https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/
Submit your session for #LibrePlanet 2021 by October 28! We invite activists, hackers, law professionals, artists, students, developers, young people, policymakers, tinkerers, and more to participate: https://u.fsf.org/359
Desktop and Phone Convergence
https://puri.sm/posts/desktop-and-phone-convergence/
"The #librem5 is more than a phone, it’s a full desktop computer in your pocket designed to be just as mobile as you are."
Free Unix! 37 years ago today, the initial announcement of the GNU operating system was posted to Usenet. Every day since then has brought them closer to their goal of a world where users can do their computing in complete freedom. https://u.fsf.org/2on
Don't forget to submit your session to #LibrePlanet 2021 by October 28th! LibrePlanet is the FSF's annual gathering for free software activists, developers, and all those concerned about digital ethics. https://u.fsf.org/1y7
Next FOSDEM: 6 & 7 February 2021, online https://fosdem.org/2021/news/2020-09-01-dates-fosdem-2021/
Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦♂️
PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE
And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)
Boost if I'm right.
"Google is a popular target for this kind of request because almost everyone uses Google products in one way or another ... Moreover, Google frequently has GPS data that places a user's phone to within a few meters" #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/feds-cant-ask-google-for-every-phone-in-a-100-meter-radius-court-says/
Is your school forcing you to use Zoom, Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? We want to help you stand up for your rights! Sign and share our petition, and tell us about your school: https://u.fsf.org/34d
#Pureos for Creatives Part 3: Studio and System Set Up with JACK
https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-for-creatives-part-3-studio-and-system-set-up-with-jack/
"JACK is the standard audio server for working with professional audio on Linux."
The final post in our three-part series on PureOS for Creatives by our guest blogger, Tre Scranton
If I were to create an advertisement for #RSS, it would be like this:
"Do not let GAFAM curate the web for you. Curate it yourself. Use RSS feeds."
Feel free to steal this. 😉
Both the Librem 14 & Librem 15 are still $200 off!
Laptops designed to respect your rights to #privacy , #security , and #freedom
Librem 14: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
Librem 15: https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/
We need to defeat this bizzare cognative dissonance people face when they have to re-evaluate the place email holds in their mind. It's not some useless relic of the last generation to cast off in the course of chasing the shiny new.
Email:
- Federated
- Decentralized
- Built with open standards
- Fault tolerant
- Enjoys a wide variety of open-source clients & servers
- Has widely available implementations for almost every programming language
- Already being used for software development at scales greater than GitHub-style development has ever dreamed of
"Email? Yuck"
Screw that noise. Set aside your preconceptions and look at email for what it is. The things that make you "yuck" about email are more related to the bastardization of email *software* by corporate interests like Google and Microsoft, and have next to nothing to do with email itself.
#ICYMI - Librem 5 Evergreen Update: Mold and Milestones
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-evergreen-update-mold-and-milestones/
"It has been a long journey from our crowdfunding campaign to this important milestone. We want to thank the community for your support through each step of this process and joining us for this crazy ride!"
Carbon based life form with predilection for binary data. :emacs: