Happy to announce that the new version 2.10.2 of our Android app landed in F-Droid and Google Play over the weekend 🎉
This one brings in a lot of fixes and improvements from Conversations, and adds a new in-call dialpad feature.
The dialpad will be valuable for people who use the app with XMPP gateways such as https://cheogram.com/ and need to navigate automated phone systems.
Watch this space for upcoming releases of the Snikket iOS app and server software too 🙂
I'm sure you've all signed already the #10YearPhone campaign by repair.eu, right?
Thank you!
Vizio's free ride is over. The nonprofit Software Freedom Conservancy has filed suit against Vizio to force it to comply with the GPL - and this legal challenge has the potential to change the game for GPL enforcement in a profound way.
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
You see, the Conservancy isn't suing on behalf of the copyright holders whose code Vizio is illegally using - it's suing on behalf of the *users* of free software who are injured by Vizio's attack on the commons.
8/
@CryptoBot the only responsible places to mine are where & when the heat is needed
Me, 1991:
Woaaa! Robots are cool! 🤖 👍
Me, 2021:
Figuring out that I am asked by a robot (a web server) to prove that I am NOT a robot, and that I can't as it would imply to execute javascript code from a company (Google) that I block because -among others- it helps guide US killer-robots to their targets (project Maven), it owns dozens of drone companies and the patent portfolio of Boston Dynamics... 💣 💥 🤯
@7daq0@social.anoxinon.de @e_mydata though true, this may not be the proof that convinces anyone. They compare /e/ to LineageOS with openGApps installed.
@DeveloperMemes C-Pound.
@picolo @gael /e/ had to change several other connections, such as Connectivity check. Lineage suggests installing GApps, and without that there is no way to install apps in the default install (backflips needed to get f-droid or Aurora). Also many proprietary apps will fail without GApps or microg with signature spoofing.
Wish they had tested a stock Lineage as well, but in the vast majority of cases, GApps is installed along with Lineage
@xerz @kravietz it's unfortunate that the authors don't separate stock LineageOS from LineageOS with the "Optional" (but usually recommended) GApps. /e/ did get a lot of crap (validly) for not removing all traces of Google connections from their forks of Lineage, which they eventually dealt with.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210303061041/https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/e-foundation-final-look/
Study reveals scale of data-sharing from Android mobile phones:
Even when minimally configured and the handset is idle, with the notable exception of e/OS, these vendor-customized Android variants transmit substantial amounts of information to the OS developer and to third parties such as Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Facebook that have pre-installed system apps. There is no opt-out from this data collection.
I happen to be using /e/ OS for the last ~2 years on all my #android phones and quite pleased to read it.
@SuricrasiaOnline @mdhughes depends where you are. Near Toronto there are 30-50 channels - all major US and CA networks - with free HD content (paid for with non-targetted ads), but in other parts of the province there is often only the CBC or nothing.
Wow, Firefox 93+ supports viewing and filling in PDFs with 'XFA' forms (as used by the Canadian government), making it one of the few good options for doing this on Linux (or with anything besides Adobe tools on Windows and macOS). This is great news for anyone who has to deal with these annoyances.
my flatmate got himself a 3d printer so, ofc I asked him to print me a #pinephone stand. Used a rainbow filament.
not my design, here is the thingiverse link.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4829608
Remember our toot about Nextcloud synchronisation? 🎉 Seems we have a winner!
🔄 With the merging of https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/pull/5243#issuecomment-937046643 it will be possible to sync AntennaPod with a gPodder 'server' in your own Nextcloud instance.
Will be available in AntennaPod 2.5!
@danyork Their recent overview of the state of the market is here: https://www.ifixit.com/News/35377/which-wireless-earbuds-are-the-least-evil
... and that settles the question for me.
We pay to Steam, Netflix, Amazon prime, Spotify. But not to Wikipedia, Archive.org, Librivox, Project Gutenberg, for our favourite Linux distro.
The huge asymmetry between corporate and community has not emerged naturally. It is a product of our choices of not supporting community oriented projects.
The short conveniences vs the long-term good. We always chose the former.
In face of surveillance capitalism, we must and must change.
It's my book-birthday! Today marks publication of the Tor (US/Canada) paperback edition of ATTACK SURFACE, a standalone adult Little Brother book.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757517/attacksurface
Little Brother and its sequel Homeland were young adult novels that told the tale of Marcus Yallow, a bright young activist in San Francisco who works with his peers to organize resistance to both state- and private-sector surveillance and control.
1/