João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

Just added to the library - "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber (697 pages!)

Read here:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-debt

DRM is one of the real killers for new platforms. Paying customers can’t access services like Netflix or Hulu on their devices. They can’t even read their books on them.

DRM is anti-competitive and anti-consumer.

I miss The West Wing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBAUKa0B7vM

A: The White House has to be careful about the use of force, it's a hostile Congress
B: Well, personally I'd have no problem using force on Congress, but that's not my call

We are ecclectic at grabbing the best things in town: @martijnbraam's megapixel camera app is now available (and the default camera for new installs).
Also, if an upgrade fails due to a gnome-camera [pinhole] dependency: you need to get rid of python3-yoyo-migrations which is superseded by Debian's python3-yoyo package.

#phosh 0.4.4 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.4.4

Besides lots of new translations and i18n improvements this release switches to libhandy 1.0 and makes the wwan signal strength indicator work for #ofono too (contributed by &t). We also expanded the developer docs (https://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/phosh/docs) and @zbrown made some internal cleanups.

#librem5 @purism #gnomeonmobile

now 200 MNT Reform 12.5” displays in stock. getting there!

Big Purism Sale!

$100 off the all-new Librem 14: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

$100 off the Librem Mini: https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini/

$200 off the Librem 15: https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/

#privacy #security #freedom

Esta semana, o lado pop das Capturas olha para as questões de propriedade intelectual, e recorda muita arte relacionada com a ideia do Fantástico. Na tecnologia, fala-se da nova nave espacial chinesa, dos projetos fora da caixa da DARPA, ou de futuras tecnologias. Ainda se fala dos impactos da pandemia nos comportamentos humanos e espaços urbanos, e pergunta-se porque é que em 2020 ainda se discute a inferioridade de expressões artísticas menos realistas. https://bit2geek.com/2020/09/19/ideia-concepcao-imaginacao-capturas-rede-19-setembro-090987654/

Once this is merged, XMPP on Chatty should now support OMEMO on #postmarketOS

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/12066

I found a GTK #weechat relay client that runs ok on #postmarketOS with #Phosh after fixing some performance issues with it. My dream of using IRC (and matrix via weechat plugin.. grumble grumble..) how I want to on a mobile device running Linux is one step closer!

Definitely needs some libhandy love though, any good starting points for porting GTK apps to libhandy?

https://github.com/0x6d61676e7573/gtk-weechat

Adventures of porting postmarketOS to the Librem 5

"I’ve been longing to drop the shackles of Android ever since I made the decision to stop using my Nokia N900. Nokia had given up on Linux phones, and it was clear that there would be no further security patches for my favorite smartphone of all time. "

https://puri.sm/posts/adventures-of-porting-postmarketos-to-the-librem-5/

Guest post by @craftyguy

#privacy #freedom #security

Today in The Bookseller - the UK's trade magazine for the bookselling industry - I published "Inaudible," in which I unpack my reason for foregoing hundreds of thousands of dollars by refusing to allow Audible to put DRM on my audiobooks.

https://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/inaudible-1218859

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DRM isn't hard to break (just google "break audible drm" if you don't believe me!) but it IS a felony to traffick in tools that break DRM. That means that the DRM that Amazon forces on creators and publishers in the name of "protecting" them does nothing of the sort.

But it DOES lock their works to Amazon's platform...forever.

Labor economists talk about "chickenization" in markets where there is a "monopsony" - that is, where a single seller controls access to the market.

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Can't wait for everyone to experience the awesomeness that is the Librem 5! 😍

libhandy 1.0.0 released. 🎉

We released it a bit in advance to let application maintainers update their submodules in time for the GNOME 3.38.0 release. 😀 That being said, we expect distros to ship libhandy as any other regular stable library. 😉

https://download.gnome.org/sources/libhandy/1.0/

#PlasmaBigscreen on your #postmarketOS device, soon this can be a reality! I have a #Pine64 A64LTS outputting it to my TV.

Still some work to do, like getting remote control working, but it's getting there. And yes, this is with #MyCroft integration!

https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/1552

Don't forget to submit your session to #LibrePlanet 2021 by October 28th! LibrePlanet is the FSF's annual gathering for free software activists, developers, and all those concerned about digital ethics. https://u.fsf.org/1y7