Abuse survivors should not be locked into risky family phone plans that they may need to escape to protect themselves. We're proud to join a coalition calling for a federal law giving abuse survivors the right to exit these plans easily, and for free. https://tech.cornell.edu/news/tech-privacy-and-anti-abuse-groups-call-on-congress-to-help-abuse-survivors-leave-family-phone-plans/
#PureOS for Creatives Part 1: Music Production with the #librem15
"In 2020, there is a free software equivalent for every mainstream commercial program on the market today."
https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-for-creatives-part-1-music-production-with-the-librem-15/
The first in a three-part series on PureOS for Creatives by our guest blogger, Tre Scranton
Hacked a thermal camera on the pogopins of the #pinephone :)
@muppeth ouch
@torproject Looks like some people have pledged money to the project on #Liberapay that you can claim 😀
https://liberapay.com/on/github/TheTorProject
https://liberapay.com/on/twitter/torproject
Connaissez-vous NoMagic ?
➜ Une association anglaise qui propose des alternatives libres aux services Web propriétaires intrusifs proposés par les géants du Web, et qui fait partie du collectif #Chatons, une sorte de @framasoft d'outre-Manche.
https://nomagic.uk/fr/
The Annual Report of The Document Foundation for the year 2019 is now available. This covers TDF's activities in the @libreoffice and @DocLiberation projects and communities: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/08/10/tdf-annual-report-2019/
The German CloudComputing-Insider site covers the functionality in #Nextcloud Hub (in German) @cloudinsiderde
https://www.cloudcomputing-insider.de/nextcloud-hub-private-cloud-mit-zusaetzlichen-funktionen-a-949900/
The strategic advantages of Phosh for mobile Linux
https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-phosh/
@muppeth also happy to see that threads bettween mastodon and hubzilla users are much more smoother :D
@muppeth Puremaps is quite nice, of course there is the issue of it being able to work with GPS to get a fix and plot routes.
Send me the link to the hubzilla forum, i'll dig up my hubzilla account and pass by.
@muppeth Yeah I have been using it as a daily driver.
As for gpg mail I may be wrong but I believe the only one at the moment for any phone is mutt.
(someone correct me if I am wrong).
But I do not use mail on the phone :)
It is unhealty, sometimes you need to be able to log out.
@muppeth also battery life is improving with updates pretty rapidly
@muppeth /me likes it!
I have a dogwood batch model which is not yet the final model, but pretty close.
Have better network with it in some rural areas around my town than with my old phone.
Been using, shortwave, gnome podcasts, terminal, fractal.
Tried to use Dino on it but needs some love to make it adaptive
libhandy 0.90.0 released: the 1st libhandy 1 beta!
- The API is now stable! 🎉
- HdyCarousel indicators are now separate widgets
- HdyAvatar now has 14 revamped colors
- …
On the topic: things that make me smile about the #librem5 phone
Running the command: `vrms` from a terminal and getting the following output:
This extensive and thoughtful post by a member of the #Librem5 community does a good job of explaining the past and present mobile Linux ecosystem and why Purism's approach with phosh makes strategic sense long-term. https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-phosh/