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.

Spent some time on getting my old Librem 5 port of Jumpdrive into shape, so it can get upstreamed. It's a super useful little recovery utility to have in your tool belt :) https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/pull/24 #librem5 #gnu #linux #mobile

#icymi - Announcing the Librem Mini V2

"The Librem Mini v2 in just about all respects matches the Mini v1 including the same base price. The big difference is that we can now offer a new, 10th gen i7-10510U Intel processor. "

https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-the-librem-mini-v2/

#privacy #security #freedom #LibremMini

Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping

"Shipping the Librem 5 has been an immense multi-year developmental effort. It is the culmination of people’s desire to see an alternative to Android and iOS..."

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-mass-production-phone-has-begun-shipping/

#librem5 #privacy #security