João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

🔥 Diaspora down 🔥

Due to some maintenence work resulting in admin falling asleep in front of computer while doing it, diaspora has been down tonight. We are very sorry for that. It will be comming back within next few hours.

in the future we promise to not sleep :P

https://state.disroot.org/incident/193

I wrote a piece on the @purism blog on why consent is critical for #privacy, the tech industry's failure to get consent, and as a result how "Privacy has become the tattoo removal of the information age". https://puri.sm/posts/consent-matters-when-tech-shares-your-secrets-without-your-permission/

Runs on Librem 5, Day 24 - July Librem 5 Update

ArchiveOrg: https://archive.org/details/librem5day024julyupdate

YouTube: https://youtu.be/u5hISNi_Jws

Battery status information coming up on the #librem5 devkit (https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/merge_requests/10, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/merge_requests/34):

Super pumped about the new Raspberry Pi! Needs a bit more freedom though. #freemyfirmware

Runs on Librem 5, Day 23 - GNOME Disk Utility

ArchiveOrg: https://archive.org/details/librem5day023gnomedisks

YouTube: https://youtu.be/IipYuoXHFyc

Nice. Nextcloud already runs on the brand new Debian Buster: https://www.c-rieger.de/nextcloud-on-debian-10-buster-wip/

Purism and the Linux 5.2 Kernel.

Here’s a list of contributions for the Linux 5.2 kernel cycle, for which our team recently contributed with 14 patches.

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-the-linux-5-2-kernel/

Happy to see that #SUSE will have it's 2020 #SUSECON in Dublin - www.susecon.com It looks like part of the theme will include a focus on solutions for #embedded devices! Let's Get it On - @opensuse http://bit.ly/32j51ZM

Weather ruined my weekend plans, so I did update hubzilla to 4.2 last night. Still need to workout some things like thumbnail migration away from db etc.

NEW: A $1.35 million #watch was stolen from the son of an #Azerbaijani official. First the official’s family denied it happened at all. Now they’re denying the watch was his. But the new story doesn’t add up either.

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/son-of-azeri-oil-chief-has-new-story-about-stolen-luxury-watch

I may as well quit my job because the most perfect #infosec video has already been made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToEiHXS2CmY

Explore the technology behind LibreOffice! Download the source code, make changes, and build it on Windows: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/07/09/start-developing-libreoffice-download-the-source-code-and-build-on-windows/ (see the link inside for a GNU/Linux version)

RT @TiersLieuxEdu@twitter.com

«Apprendre par le faire: méthodologies de projet et interdisciplinarité dans les tiers lieux éducatifs» Le Mercredi 21 août 10h15-11h15 retrouvons-nous à #Ludovia16 au Bootcamp @TiersLieuxEdu@twitter.com pour documenter nos pratiques & réflexions. Ou contribuez sur https://forum.tierslieuxedu.org/t/programmation-du-bootcamp-tiers-lieux-et-education-ludovia-16/766

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TiersLieuxEdu/status/1148122802333061125

Runs on Librem 5, Day 19 - Sudo

https://youtu.be/ny2qfygXNkU

GRUB 2.04 has been released. According to @phoronix this version, which has been two years in the making, includes RISC-V architecture support, native UEFI Secure Boot support, support for the F2FS filesystem and more.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GRUB-2.04-Released

The official press announcement for Debian buster's release is now available https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706 #releasingDebianBuster

Following Pixar's Toy Story naming scheme, Debian's releases have been: buzz, rex, bo, hamm, slink, potato, woody, sarge, etch, lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch and now buster. Future releases will be bullseye and then bookworm.

Are gremlins a type of goblin?