João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

Podcast episode 30 is out now. The creator of Alpine Linux @ncopa joins us to talk about:

* Alpine's origins in Gentoo
* Why apk2 is so fast
* Plans for making apk3 even faster
* What's missing in Alpine for reproducible builds
* Going from openssl to libressl and back
* What he would do if he didn't work on Alpine

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/30-Interview-Natanael-Copa-Alpine-Linux/

#alpinelinux

First time MeetingPoint runs on a phone!
Video sharing (from the builtin camera) and audio also works. Its in the GNOME shell-dev room.

Screenshot taken by @rmader on a #PinePhonePro at #LinuxAppSummit #LAS2023

#LinuxMobile #GNOME #vala

This is real-world XKCD

See full thread: https://twitter.com/rachel_l_woods/status/1649790435533922307?s=61&t=Ugdi4XBKf_2ovJ1y9hKs4w

If only the #DemocraticParty leadership took #unions as seriously as #billionaires do!

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe

#LAS2023 is also on PeerTube:

Roome 1:
https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/4fGEuiycXQRqMtS6RSGPPe

Room 2:
https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/iK7Vg2sLsTTfxMDWQYco1a

Are your fingers crooked from typing long and complicated #passwords ?

Here's relief for you: a #password generator which cares about your hands:

https://dorotac.eu/posts/password/

```
# cargo run 128
t i8ep51\:,.9y0me 94;z
Entropy: 129.07819
Chars: 22
Presses: 23
Modifiers: 1
```

Much better. Capitals and %$^$ should be just a garnish, not half the meal.

#security #entropy #ergonomics #typing

Debian GNU/Linux in the wild 😀

First #RaspberryPi earned a shitstorm by hiring a cop formerly specialized in hidden surveillance.

Now they accept an investment by Sony for their proprietary AI engine to be included in the next Pi. Which "only sends metadata to the cloud".

Here's a fine list of alternatives to that now-garbage company:

- https://pine64.com/
- https://beagleboard.org/
- http://www.orangepi.org/
- https://www.banana-pi.org/
- https://www.hardkernel.com/
- https://www.friendlyelec.com/

#Privacy #Security #SBC

Nice #Librem5 update today brings Camera-Update. All the different functions (Gain, Balance, Exposure, Focus) can now be set to auto. While not always working perfect, this enhances my fotos as my use case in 99 % is not to set all parameters perfectly but to just take quick a foto. Also there is video-recording now. I am excited. I am about two weeks daily driving my Librem5 now and I feel that I will not switch back to Android. #purism #linuxphones

I'm now convinced that #Phosh is the best for tablets and convertibles. Thanks to everyone who worked on this.

#Gnome #LinuxTablets #linuxmobile
@purism @agx @tbernard

Fedi is the most strange thing in the world.

On normal social media, you write a message and people just ignore it forever.

Here, you write a message, it stays ignored for 1 or 2 years, and then all of a sudden, for no reason, with no explanation, someone finds it somehow, boosts it, and it gets 200 likes and 120 boosts.

What the fuck.

I'm sure someone will boost this message in 2021 or 2022.
debnyan_himeko.png

Hey, from now on, I'll be totally inactive on Twitter.
Goodbye Blue Bird.

Blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article964/goodbye-blue-bird

Librem 5 waking up from system suspend on incoming call's first signal; soon your L5 will do that too. #librem5 #mobile #linux #gnu

Some of the styling for #phosh's long button press menu is now in place (aka merge requests) and things are also tied to the emergency call side.

This is how it looks when emergency call numbers are fetched from the phone's sim card:

I've been playing around a lot with PGP since I have an openPGP card in my phone.

I made a backend to have my PGP card sign and encrypt messages in Chatty, the hope being that I can add transparent encryption/signing to SMS/MMS and the other protocols Chatty supports:
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/merge_requests/1208

What's left now is to work on the UI to have friendly user integration.

@nextcloud what an endorsement!

I was looking on github for a repo for the website, couldn't find one.

Was wondering if you'd be up for switching to @plausible for analytics so you could get rid of the cookie banner.

#cookieFree

Agreed!! Plausible is a great tool for tracking just basic information and not invading people's privacy 🔏

...for my usage pattern the fact that mpv can now successfully disable the screensaver is the most notable improvement in this release 📺 .

phosh 0.26.0 is out 🚀📱:

Lots of this release was internal rewiring and test suite improvements for upcoming changes but there's some more:

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.26.0/

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux