João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

To protect your privacy and shield yourself against 0-days and malicious advertisers, an adblocker is an important part of your security stance.

The FBI, NSA, CISA, and UK National Cyber Security Centre all recommend adblocking as a protective measure.

You'd never disable your firewall or antivirus because a site asked you to. NEVER DO THIS WITH YOUR ADBLOCKER.

That's the only pertinent point here. Everything else is noise.

#adblock

I've discovered how to handle phone calls 📞 via telepathy in #Amazfish! The code is from the GPLv3 project called Rockwork (Pebble UBports companion app). #OpenSourceRocks 💪

Proof of concept included! 🚀 Check it out here
https://github.com/piggz/libwatchfish/pull/3

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (41/2023): #PinePhone Video Recording

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-41-2023/

#PinePhonePro #Librem5 #Capyloon #Mobian #LinuxMobile #Lomiri

Hi folks! Would you like to become better hackers?

I offer a #hacker #course for the first 3 lucky applicants.

Want to learn #Rust? #Linux? Or just have someone who knows where to find answers about the universe?

Now I'm ready to become your #mentor - if you support me :)

https://opencollective.com/dorotac

“When we build communities that tolerate abuse, we exclude anyone unwilling to tolerate being abused.” 💯💯💯

Thanks @mjg59 !

Mobian started as a hobby project, triggered by the excitement of finally being able to hack one’s mobile phone at will. It is fair to say that the device that made it possible back then was the original PinePhone. However, after running once again into the same difficulties we experienced over and over, we’re wondering whether maintaining support for this device is still worth the effort…

https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30/paperweight-dilemma/

10/10 meme

When you have been using Mastodon for a while and you finally install Linux

I never get tired of posting my phone running on the latest stable kernel. Props to @purism for doing all the hard work to maintain the #librem5 kernel and making it easy for @mobian to use it!

Around 2021, I would've considered going to Israel in the future if Netanyahu was ousted in the elections, and the extremist right-wing members of his government would go out with him and if there was a glimmer of hope of peace with Palestine. Instead, he's still there, and they continued ruthlessly murdering Palestinian civilians and confined them to Gaza, the biggest open-air prison in the world.

@liw I think for folks that are really new there's still some fundamentals missing. in particular "self-contained" and "no bundled libraries" don't really make sense without an understanding that Debian fundamentally cares about its users' experience more than it cares about upstreams - that's why it offers stability guarantees and that's why it has its own security team that doesn't like bundled libraries, as opposed to having no/a significantly smaller security team and a reliance on upstreams to bump vendored libraries when appropriate.

there's a healthy amount of distrust of upstreams' processes in Debian and that's a feature. but that can be hard to understand as a newcomer who's wondering why all the software is so old.

Hard to avoid this conclusion.

#ActorsStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #UnionStrong #u1 #power #money

An 11% increase in hate crimes against trans people is a direct side effect of Tory political strategy.

#TorysUnfitToGovern #ToryHateCrimes

I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.

Im impressed with the quality of the USBC charger and cable OOB, this is going to be an interesting few days.

Initial feel is really good, light and small enough to have a use case, the magnetic pen sticks good and the magnetic cover is pretty good, i have yet to have any complaints, however i am not sure i should trust it entirely to keep the device from sliding out -- it will take usage to fibd out.

I had a associate draw on it using #krita #linuxart #art #pureos and they were impressed and felt it was good ebough for their sketching use case at minimum.

I will get feedback from long time 15 year #wacom #cintiq users, i would imagine they will find it adequate for some professional use cases which is excellent news as we have tried #wacommobilestudio and other devices with different degrees of success on #linux -- FYI wacom mobile studio is a PITA due to #nvidia having such problematic linux drivers -- it can be better to ommit usage and simple use #intel in that scenario.

The keeb wasnt working oob so i plugged in a wired on, i imagine its a easy fix, #phosh GUI didnt play nice with #krita but considering the value of krita on a light #tablet thats no big deal as it can be swapped out for #gnomemobile or other interfaces as convergence becomes more defacto.

I am pleasantly surprised, i am sure i will run into some rough edges as with any generation 1 product but my first impressions are that purism did an excellent job. Im sure there will be room for criticism ans self evaluation too but all things considered in my opinion we have a banger here -- the cameras were pretty decent too at a glance on the photos app.

I think this may be the year of the linux tablet, ha /s

Here are some photos of the Librem 11 that just arrived today. I ordered on day 1, hopefully this helps people understand the scale of the device -- see #steamdeck comparison.

My initial impressions are extremely impressed but I am pretty easy going considering I really like the pioneering in the #linux space by Purism. I'll write upore on my other account soon.

#purism #librem11 #librem5 #linuxtablet #linuxmobile #linuxphone

Had the need to charge an all electric Kia recently and guess what: both the charging stations app and the vendor's app are proprietary so how would I know when charging finished?

Turns out people around #HomeAssistant figured out the vendor API so I could use that to have a small app to monitor the charging status on my #Librem5 running #phosh

#gtk #gnome #MobileLinux #ev