Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one

August Community Update!

We're excited to announce the
#PineNote: fast refresh e-ink panel, 4GB RAM, 128GB eMMC, Rockchip RK3566- $399

Also:
- #PinePhone keyboard enters production - coming soon

- #PinebookPro new touchpad firmware

- #PineTime & #PineDio

- development updates

And _much_ more!

https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/

https://drewdevault.com/2021/08/10/Apple-CSAM-scanning.html

After a big month of hard work, I'm happy to release today a new website for my webcomic Pepper&Carrot! It was a rewrite I made from scratch this time: https://www.peppercarrot.com/

More infos and report on the blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article853/new-website-for-peppercarrot

Why self hosting is important

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-23-why-selfhosting-is-important.html
gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/why-selfhosting-is-important.gmi

#fediverse #selfhosting #chatons #life #internet

@solene

The Biden administration teased a sweeping antimonopoly executive order last week, including a Right to Repair provision aimed at agricultural equipment - a direct assault on the corporate power of repair archnemesis John Deere. It

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/07/instrumentalism/#r2r

But it turns out that the executive order goes far beyond tractors and other agricultural equipment - it also applies to consumer electronics, including mobile phones, and this is a *huge fucking deal*.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d5yb/bidens-right-to-repair-executive-order-covers-electronics-not-just-tractors

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The #keyoxide project is celebrating its first anniversary today 🎉 thanks to all for your support!

New Pepper&Carrot Episode 35: "The Reflection" is now published online! https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article468/episode-35-the-reflection
(and it's my 40🎂 today! 🎉😺)
#peppercarrot #krita #creativecommons

Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.

A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."

People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.

Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.

How a 30-year-old technology – #WiFi – will turn into our next big #privacy problem - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/how-a-30-year-old-technology-wifi-will-turn-into-our-next-big-privacy-problem/ interesting technology, done right...

New Pepper&Carrot "Episode 34: The Knighting of Shichimi" is now published online! (with many translations)
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article467/episode-34-the-knighting-of-shichimi
#krita #webcomics #creativecommons #peppercarrot

Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone - https://www.alvarez.io/posts/living-like-its99/

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A very good read, and also, a very hardcore approach about getting out of the digital life.

@amolith saw this site recently -- http://solarprotocol.net/

New derivation:
A Pepper&Carrot RPG-themed idle video-game by Congusbongus and StarNavigator, free/libre and open-source (won second place at MiniJam22). 👍
Open culture FTW! 😎
→ Blog-post with link to play: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article818/
#indiegames

Today I learned freezing soap bubbles are beautiful.

There's no stopping the Viking invasion as Valheim hits 3 million sales https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/02/theres-no-stopping-the-viking-invasion-as-valheim-hits-3-million-sales #EarlyAccess #OnlineCo-op #IndieGame #OpenWorld #Survival #Steam #Unity

Indeed: from a great article about Wikipedia at 20:

"Wikipedia shouldn’t really work, but it does. It shouldn’t be able to survive in a hyper-capitalist commercial world, but people keep donating to it. Its model is unique and bizarre – a relic of a more open, idealistic 1990s techno utopianism, but it may still outlast even the biggest corporate tech giants."

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/15/anarchy-algorithms-decentralisation-wikipedia-at-20-an-interview-with-jimmy-wales/

"Why I still use RSS...I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS....Having only the content I want to see only be shown when I want to see it with the freedom to jump between readers as I please, all with no ads? For me, no other service comes close to the flexibility, robustness, and overall ease-of-use that RSS offers."

https://atthis.link/blog/2021/rss.html