John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Does anyone know of a decent round-up of current (2019/2020) TV OSes? I'm interested in factors like offline-breakage, known spyware-phone-homing, availability of SDKs, sideloading, etc.

Can't find anything even close to contemporary. Boosts 'preciated; will post any answers I find....

Friends don’t share links with their friends with UTM / marketing parameters still attached! (https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/43fb0e8b-5c91-4e1e-88a3-4e901f654fb2)

Don't forget to tip your server

https://twitter.com/_w0xy/status/1117802872702418945

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A firefox extension that makes a little celebratory sound every time you close a tab.

OpenTrace has been released under GLPv3 github.com/opentrace-comm… #freesoftware #tracingapp #veiligtegencorona

in switzerland you aren't allowed to have a train with exactly 256 axles because of an integer overflow in the axle counting machine

i wish i could fix my software bugs by making it illegal to cause them

Several updates have been made in jitsi -
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi/issues

1. A jitsi server is only as good as the host.

2. Lately many servers are overloaded.

3. There is more than one host for jitsi

List of jit.si servers:
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances

we can also contribute to making jitsi better -
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Another server I am looking at is BigBlueButton - https://bigbluebutton.org/

I am just not good at standing in line to ask a Corporation to fix things and be nice to me.

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Agaric is reaching out to cities and communities about our platform Resource Locator. Groups are using the Find It platform for COVID-19 resources and for programs that aggregate resources. http://finditcambridge.org You can write to us to get a site up quickly. ask@agaric.com

RT @heydonworks@twitter.activitypub.actor
"Capitalism funds innovation. You wouldn't have the iPhone without capitalism."

Zoom meetings aren’t actually end-to-end encrypted, despite misleading marketing on their website, in their security white paper, and in the user interface in their app https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/ by @yaelwrites and myself

A new version of #LibreJS has been released, fixing a bug that caused it to crash on recent Mozilla-based browsers. Download the latest release here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/librejs.git/commit/?id=f8d2fdd802b66767d9bc80685ebdac5740bdb8dc

One of the most powerful principles of #FOSS and open hardware is the ability to audit and verify.

See the community maintained #Librem5 promise delivery chart to see how we are disrupting the #bigtech #smartphone duopoly https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-promise-delivery-chart/6959

#Purism #privacy #security

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