João Azevedo @joao@librem.one
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The good thing with people like @rmader constantly praising the work of @pipewire and @libcamera devs, is that you end up looking at upstream (or at least, actually submitted) kernel patches and make sure camera support for your device gets more future-proof.
In the end, it's very likely @mobian will soon ship a 6.4 kernel for the #PinePhonePro where (almost) all camera-related patches have been submitted upstream already :)
https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/devices/kernels/rockchip-linux/-/merge_requests/61
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🏳️🌈🖖🏽
Clears throat, then says it loudly for those praying in the back of the room.
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bluesky is experiencing major community backlash after the platform allowed users to register handles with racial slurs
but it's about more than just that
i spoke to bluesky users to find out what's going on: https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-racism-username-anti-blackness
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Happy 30th birthday, Slackware!
http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php
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Join us for our building week, 7th to 13th August in #Kanthaus, #Wurzen! There'll be tasks and fun for everyone, even without building experience. It's a great moment to get to know the community, too. https://kanthaus.online/en/blog/2023-07-14_bauwoche
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Q: "Will Meta get my data or be able to track me?"
A: Mastodon does not broadcast your email or IP address, so Meta will only be able to extract every piece of information from your public profile data, public posts, and followers-only posts and DMs targeted at users on Threads.
They can and will do so to a degree none of the hobbyist fediverse search engines could even dream of, but that's no reason to overreact and threaten that sweet Meta money we're receiving.
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Movim 0.22.1 is out! 🥳
Bug fixes and performances improvements for this version. Check our release note on our blog to know more https://mov.im/node/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/ab724b18-7b9d-4f14-8111-aada074a73bd 😋
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people: Gargron, stop flagship being so huge
Gargron: welcome my new friend, Meta !
peolpe: not like that ! X (
Gargron: welcome my new friend, Meta !
peolpe: not like that ! X (
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One of the issue preventing #LinuxMobile distros from shipping a #PipeWire / #libcamera camera stack is the fact that it requires #wireplumber as session manager, which again does not always play nicely with #pulseaudio, if that is still used as sound server.
Unfortunately switching to PW for sound is not always possible yet because some mobile-specific packages depend on PA. So if you want to help with camera enablement, please consider helping with issues such as https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/wys/-/issues/13 :)
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Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over Threads
in November, Elon Musk mocked laid off Twitter employees, saying “their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere”
well, apparently some went to Meta to build Threads & Musk now has a problem with that
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Before you create a Threads account you should know that you can’t delete it without nuking your entire Instagram account.
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Glad I have a Librem 5 phone with hardware kill switches - France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens' Phones
https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772 #purism #librem5 #privacy #security
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Intriguing how everyone's aware by now that Threads can't be launched in the EU because it is not compliant with privacy rules, but no one outside the EU takes the clue that Meta keeps sucking every scrap of users' digital footprint and that sensible users (not just the European Commission), should deem this utterly unacceptable and stop using any of Meta's services.
#Threads #Meta @EU_Commission #privacy #GDPR
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Also, it's not like users never had the power to bypass a distro and it's criteria, and install from a third party repo (AUR, PPA, copr, pip, npm, cargo), or install the pre the package manually, or build from source.
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But if a package meets the criteria of a distro, them packaging it or not for a distro depends only of a volunteer distro packager wanting to commit volunteer time to package it for that distro.
It does not depend on some “Central Commitee making arbitrary choices” (my choice of words).
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Distros have criteria and characteristics. Some distros may commit to only package Free Software, others might not care. Some might want to be rolling release and others stable. But you know what, none of the distros ever kinda hid those criteria. And distros have the right to make those choices, and users have the right to choose a distro that suits them.
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One of the things that is kinda irritating for me, in the "Linux distro model" debate (traditional packages vs immutable+flatpak) is the characterization that some proponents of the latter model make of how stuff gets packaged to "traditional" distros, phrases like:
"The distro grabs all the software they want their users to have access to."
As if distros had some central committee that make those decisions in an arbitrary way. And acted as a middleman that wants to keep control.
