João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

"As it is, the Fedora lot think Ubuntu is junk, and the Debianisti think everything else is junk, and the Arch folk think they are the true cutting edge, Slackware enthusiasts consider everyone else newbies, while the NixOS folk think all the rest are still in the stone age somewhere"

What an article by @lproven on @theregister. Had a good time reading it 😂

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/18/linux_desktop_debate/

Olá mundo! Conseguem ouvir?

#ArchLinux / #danctnix now ships #Linux #megi 6.4 which has all #PinePhonePro patches for correct camera rotation and location (front/back - used for automatic mirroring in some apps and better camera naming).

This is a great step for having a good camera experience out of the box - the only thing still missing is #wireplumber being installed by default (see https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/issues/537)

After that, one can e.g. install #gnomesnaphot or @dino from #Flathub and it should just work.

#LinuxMobile

Banksy nails it

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

#MobileLinux #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile

Clears throat, then says it loudly for those praying in the back of the room.

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

Happy 30th birthday, Slackware!
http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php

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

− post by @pintoch

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.

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 😋

#Movim #XMPP #Release

people: Gargron, stop flagship being so huge
Gargron: welcome my new friend, Meta !
peolpe: not like that ! X (

very muito bom #metal #rock #psy #kglw https://youtu.be/IpUKO-WKaqo

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 :)

Rent: $0
Staff: $0
Suing Facebook: $1,000,000,000
Cloud: $0

Someone who's good at this economy please help me budget this my company is dying

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

Before you create a Threads account you should know that you can’t delete it without nuking your entire Instagram account.

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

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