John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

I'm not writing an entire blog post about how stupid a US TikTok ban would be because this is all that needs to be said:

If the Chinese government is in your threat model, don’t install TikTok on your device. Otherwise, your actual problem is surveillance capitalism.

After several months of hard work, it's a good feeling to be able to say our @fdroidorg board of directors is officially chartered and running, and finally with an official legal entity through Dutch stichting (foundation) Commons Conservancy.

💚 Very humbled to be able to serve in this inaugural group of talented volunteers, and even more excited about helping #FDroid into the future.

https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-droid-board.html

#boostsWelcome #Android #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

🎉 We're growing! Our global #FDroid community is pleased to announce that we now have an official governance plan and a brand-new volunteer Board of Directors. We're excited to work with them to keep improving the leading all #FOSS mobile app catalogue!

https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-droid-board.html

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Android

New from IFTF: we have a Grants Administration Committee!

https://iftechfoundation.org/committees/grants/

IFTF is exploring the possibility of disbursing #grants for small projects related to #InteractiveFiction. We continue to explore ways to foster and support the ecosystem !

No concrete details/timeline right now but the committee hashing out details/processes for our first grant disbursement. We'll need applications, and independent advisors to help with the selection. Keep watching this space for more details!

Howdy, all! Could you do everyone a favour?

If you're posting about a show, movie, sporting event, etc, could you please put that stuff behind a content warning so as not to spoil it for the rest of us? Thanks!

Signed,

An F1 fan tired of having race results spoiled by social media

🥰🍄😂

Accidentally installed GNU Guix on PinePhone Pro 😄

Just two days of constant kernel rebuilds, a few cross-compilation quirks fixes and here we go! :)

#pine #pine64 #pinephone #gnu #guix

Did you know CC has monthly office hours with the legal team? Come and ask us anything (or just chat): https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/12/open-office-hours-with-ccs-legal-team/

Next one starts in about 30 minutes!

So what’s the best way to search for/find accounts on the broadest possible set of fediverse servers? I’m considering criticizing an “open” organization for not being here yet, but I realize it’s actually very hard to know for certain if they do/don’t have an account.

Could there be a bigger disaster for the #samsung mobile baseband software stack team? Internet-to-baseband remote code exscution. Seriously? https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
- IMHO, all that SIP/SDP should happen in an unprivileged userspace proccess under Linux - not in the cellular baseband cpu/OS.

This description of a cursed magic rock from an old issue of Dragon Magazine is basically just a cell phone.

and we are live!! you can back the MNT Pocket Reform (open hardware 7" mini laptop) campaign now: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform

and we are very thankful for spreading the word!