Jozua Zwijnenburg @jozua@librem.one

I feel like I'm old enough to stop writing "Hello World" programs.

Will switch to "Bye World" which seems much more appropriate.

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Desktop Linux’s Adoption Problem https://link.medium.com/ER12p1nvZcb

GNOME Shell to get an Activities Overview design revamp in GNOME 40 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/gnome-shell-to-get-an-activities-overview-design-revamp-in-gnome-40 #DesktopEnvironment #OpenSource #GNOME

The Gamer Cat
https://thegamercat.com

Temporarily need more screen space with #phosh? Just scale to 100% instead of 200%:

@purism #librem5 #gnomeonmobile

Windows XP hid file extensions by default because Microsoft thought people would think they were confusing, and then when everybody ran cutekitten.jpg.exe they predictably put out a security alert saying whoops, that was a terrible idea, everyone should change these settings to show extensions. And then in Vista they hid the extensions again and then issued another security bulletin saying whoops we did it again, here's how you put it right

found a donut that reminds me of you <3

The keyboard on this ThinkPad X1 Fold has a dedicated... Wait for it...
Emoji button.

oh wow what do you know, nintendo's doing shady shit again

they did not announce they'd introduce google analytics in 11.0.0 (the most recent update), but there is a way to turn it off

(image source: https://twitter.com/HydrocityAct2/status/1334733245926289409)

Nintendo should make a proper Yoshi’s Island sequel.

One of the most hotly-requested features for elementary OS is proper multi-touch gestures, and we hear you. Learn about the work going into elementary OS 6, our swipiest OS release ever.️ https://blog.elementary.io/multitouch-gestures-in-elementary-os-6/

Why Getting Paid For Your Data Is a Bad Deal: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/why-getting-paid-your-data-bad-deal

Just know that your computer isn't yours. The issues with #Apple's latest OS update laid out very well by @sneakdotberlin but this is not much better on Windows, Android etc.
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

DISCORD DOESN'T DESERVE YOUR DATA

- discord can delete your account at any time for any reason, cutting you off from all of your servers
- discord will lock out your account and force you to enter in a phone number at their discretion/use of vpns
- discord may even demand to talk to you on the phone if you use vpns/tor
- discord regularly reads private dms or private servers to determine account deletion
- messages are not E2E encrypted and there will always be an unencrypted copy stored on their servers
- discord can provide messages to any third party they wish at any time, such as governments or companies without any legal obligation or requirement to let you know
- messages are not deleted when the account is deleted
- discord decrypts voice chats in flight, who knows what they're doing with it, they could have saved every single vc and there's nothing you can do about it: https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/lets-reverse-engineer-discord-1976773f4626
- discord's app is proprietary so there's no idea of what it could be monitoring on your computer
- discord silently tracks all your activity by default: https://sneak.berlin/s/2020/20200218.discord/tracking.png. This probably includes any actions in discord, but also usage patterns like connection times and IP addresses

TLDR: if you oppose censorship, value privacy, or don't want to be datamined out the ass then don't use discord

XMPP is an open-source protocol that supports E2E encryption, offline messages, file uploads, video and audio chats, and more. There are hundreds of clients for all different devices, so if you don't like one then you can always try another. With any of these apps, make sure to enable OMEMO encryption, normally its just a lock icon that you can enable.

A couple of recommendations to get you started:

IOS
- Siskin: https://siskin.im
- ChatSecure: https://chatsecure.org
- Monal: https://monal.im

Android
- Conversations: https://conversations.im- Xabber: https://www.xabber.com

Desktop:
- Siskin (iOS/Mac): https://siskin.im
- Monal (iOS/Mac): https://monal.im
- Gajim (Windows/Linux): https://gajim.org
- Dino (Linux): https://dino.im