João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

About the Matrix incident on July 26 2023 https://text.tchncs.de/tchncs/about-the-matrix-incident-on-july-26-2023

so how's it going over at the Dark Fediverse, the loose network of awful nazi and TERF sites that everyone over here has fediblocked?

well, Alex Gleason - or Soapbox TERF - has quit his job at Truth Social to go work on integrating Soapbox with the Nostr network, which is like the dark fediverse but with bitcoins. Gleason got funding from Jack Dorsey to do this work.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/truth-social-head-engineering-leaves-220000904.html

Soapbox is Gleason's fork of Pleroma after he was so much of an arsehole he managed to get kicked out of that project, and the project was largely the other ten guys at the table

i can hardly describe my lack of surprise that Gleason was at Truth Social.

Gleason is a transphobic gay man, btw. Wonder how that went down at Truth Social.

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that Dave."

#WebEnvironmentIntegrity #FuckGoogle

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A prediction (based on decades of coding):
There is some code - somewhere deep in the zillions of lines of X(Twitter) code - which absolutely and wrongly depends on the literal string "twitter".
And, as the rebranding continues, it will fail, spectacularly.
7/24/23
#TwitterX
#X

@sethi @kaiengert a few more screenshots from #Thunderbird on #LinuxMobile. With the folder panel hidden and the message list switched to Card View it is quite usable. I've also added the Folders Toolbar button for switching between accounts.

Welcome to Wayland.social: the successor to X.com.

#Inkscape is proud to present version 1.3! 🎉

You’ll find improved performance, new features & a solid set of improvements - focused on helping users get organized & work more efficiently with our free & open source vector-editing software.

Draw freely.

https://inkscape.org/news/2023/07/23/inkscape-launches-version-13-focus-organizing-work/

riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/2023/07/msg00053.html. Additional information is available on the Debian Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/riscv64.

After Twitter rebranding to X, Mastodon has announced they’re rebranding to Wayland.

Good news! riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture
https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/2023/07/msg00053.html
#debian #linux #riscv

This is a #librem5 and a #pinephonepro without any hardware specific code

This took a lot of work

"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