João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

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Friendica 2021.12 Release Candidate available

We are happy to announce the availability of the release candidate branch of Friendica 2021.12, which was just branched off the current development branch, to focus on fixing existing bugs and smoothing out of rough edges. If you want to help in this process, you can checkout the 2021.21-rc branch from the git repositories (core […] https://forum.friendi.ca/objects/39bbe52a389078d72bb92daacf10a1f1c24574bd

A snapped application to make installation of appimages easier. Quick, someone make an appimage of flatpak, to complete the set! #GottaCatchEmAll https://snapcraft.io/appimageinstaller

⚠️ #Mastodon v3.4.4 is out with some bug fixes! It is a backport release, if you are already using latest code from the main branch, you do not need it

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.4.4

🗓️ November 2021 status: Talks and testimonials

https://blog.cryptpad.org/2021/11/24/status-2021-11/

Nheko 0.9.0 is out! A lot of people contributed to it, so check it out on Flathub or here: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/releases/tag/v0.9.0

The changelog is slightly longer than 500 characters, but look forward to lots of E2EE improvements, room directory support, custom sticker packs, token authenticated registration, new icons, jdenticons, animated images, accepting knocks, limited spaces support, message forwarding, a new media player and a lot more! 🐈‍⬛

Working with @devrtz on displaying avatars in #calls and #phosh for ongoing phone calls:

#librem5 #gnomeonmobile #libhandy #libcallui

Chris Talbot aka @kop316 plays a huge part in getting MMS support into modern mobile Linux distributions. ✉️ 🚀 📱

In the #postmarketOSpodcast interview, he talks about:

* #mmsd-tng
* #vvd
* #phosh antispam
* his ska punk band
* @mobian
* @purism #librem5
* @PINE64 #pinephone.

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/11-Interview-kop316-mmsd-tng/

you may now test the freshly born and much requested #cryptpad instance of #tchncs !
https://pad.tchncs.de

"People, stop centralization! Centralization bad! Decentralize now, decentralize everything!

Please star my project on github"
- Developers of the 2020's

As result of Deployment no. 27 following services have been upgraded.
- Upgraded gitea to version 1.15.6
- Upgraded Cryptpad to version 4.12.0
- Upgraded Nextcloud to version 21.0.5.1
- Upgraded Lufi to version 0.05.16

Worth noting is new feature on cryptpad that allows you to import spreadsheets meaning you can import any ods/xls file into cryptpad and use it as collaborative pad).

https://disroot.org/en/changelog

Today (09.11.2021) starting from 21:00 CET we are going to do some maintenance work on disroot. As result there will be short downtimes of following services:
- Cryptpad (https://cryptpad.disroot.org)
- Gitea (https://git.disroot.org)
- Lufi (https://upload.disroot.org
- Nextcloud (https://cloud.disroot.org)

We hope the downtime will be minimal. More details: https://git.disroot.org/Disroot/CHANGELOG/milestone/104

black orange https://videos.coletivos.org/videos/watch/6b5917b7-c36b-4de7-95a3-2d28df6053e7

LXQt 1.0.0 Desktop Environment Released After 8 Years of Development, This Is What’s New

https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-1-0-0-desktop-environment-released-after-8-years-of-development-this-is-whats-new

#LXQt #desktopenvironment

On November 9th, I'll be talking on PackagingCon about creating Flatpak packages without using flatpak-builder:

https://pretalx.com/packagingcon-2021/talk/ZWAPSZ/

The talks are just 20 minutes long, so it's focused on "how do I achieve something functional" rather than technical deep dive. See you there!

https://packaging-con.org/

In urgent beging need of financial help!

I couldn't pay for my full rent this month and my landlord wants to throw me out because of it, I didn't have much money because of my medical sick leave and I'm really short on money, to eat and pay bills.

If anyone has anything to help, please! I'm begging!

My PayPal is https://www.paypal.me/melissalaguel

#MutualAid @mutualaid

Our new 3 minute video "The Core Values of #SoftwareFreedom" is released.

Here the link to our new own #peertube instance:

https://media.fsfe.org/w/eh5oAFR9VNwqPzUtBzm8sb #FreeSoftware #OpenSource