Josh Fowler @joshfowler@librem.one

We've just crested 15,000 responses for the @ubuntu@twitter.com User Survey 👏 Results are skewing towards desktop (which is great for me) probably thanks to the @omgubuntu@twitter.com coverage 😎 If you've not completed it yet, please do. Any #Linux user feedback is welcome 👍
https://ubuntu.com/blog/the-ubuntu-20-04-lts-pre-release-survey

We are living in an age where everything from clothing to furniture to technology is cheap and disposable. The assumption is that nothing lasts, so one might as well buy the cheapest thing and throw it away when it inevitably breaks. Nowhere is this more true than the phone market, but it's something we want to change with the Librem 5.

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-longevity-solving-the-problem-of-disposable-technology/

Amnesty International: Facebook and Google are a threat to human rights #gafam #privacy
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/21/facebook-google-amnesty-international-human-rights/

If you have a .org domain name: go renew it now. For the full 10 years.

Registration rights for .org were just bought by a private equity firm. And as part of that contract, the price caps were removed.

Anything in .org will get much more expensive, soon.

A ten year renewal will cost you a bit over a hundred bucks. Which is probably less than one year will cost you in the very near future.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/

If someone's looking for an app idea, I would love a nice GTK Mumble client. The audio quality is really nice, especially for calls with a lot of participants, but the UI of the Qt app is terrible.

@purism For UK customers

ssh is probably the most underrated tool I use every day. The capability for me to sit basically anywhere on the planet with an internet connection and remotely get stuff done over a secure connection is a boon. I don't think any other tool comes close to the usefulness of ssh.

We did it! We came together as a community and met our fundraising goal to defend software freedom from patent litigation.
💙
Next up comes the hard part - winning this lawsuit and setting precedent. Stay tuned for updates as we progress forward

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund

To everyone who still makes text-based tutorials, thank you!

I'd much rather follow a text tutorial than wait 15+ minutes for a video tutorial to load.

Your work is very much underappreciated. Thanks again! 💜

Openclipart.org has finally been [properly] replaced with http://freesvg.org

It's a site, based on Laravel, providing CC0 and public domain SVG files, including the 55,000+ we scraped from openclipart.org

#openclipart #svg #inkscape

Adobe is deactivating all accounts in Venezuela.

"The cloud is the future" my ass.

https://helpx.adobe.com/la/x-productkb/policy-pricing/executive-order-venezuela.html

Just re-upping this offer: because being comfortable with git is a barrier to entry to many FS/OSS projects, and because I care deeply about lowering those barriers, I will tutor anyone who asks for help with git, and/or connect them with any mentor(s) they might prefer.

I'll do this while I put energy and work into making the tool more approachable, and into making better tools and learning paths.

Boosts gratefully appreciated.

#gittutors