keverets @keverets@librem.one

China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56030340
Something they said?

"I think I'll pass. These days I have a hard time feeling comfortable in crowded bars with loud music and lots of shouting." --me, after the pandemic, but now for a second reason

Amazon Ring still poses a threat to vulnerable and over-policed communities, but its introduction of end-to-end encryption is a victory for privacy advocates.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/amazon-rings-end-end-encryption-what-it-means

#fluffychat has been approved for the iOS AppStore! Thanks to benpa and @matrix for the help with this! You guys are awesome!

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/fluffychat/id1551469600

@moparisthebest @devurandom @kensanata @cjd I guess this is the crux of it:

> To our knowledge, there is no individual nor organization who has yet agreed that they will run a project under the SS Public License and be themselves bound by the SS Public License. That license remains a disingenuous proposal until it's put to use in an “inbound=outbound” licensing configuration.
>
> (Both Elastic and MongoDB require inbound contributors to give them special licensing rights.)

In the last year Google has banned: the Element app, the LBRY app, and several Fediverse apps. If you get all of your apps from a single corporation, be it Google or Apple, you should make an effort to change that.

If you have an Android phone F-Droid is an alternative app repository, and it’s very easy to install! All of the previously mentioned apps have been available from F-Droid throughout being dropped from the Play Store.

If you have an iPhone, please consider other options for your next device. Apple does not respect you enough as a user to consider you possibly more capable of deciding what you should install on your phone than they are. That is absurd; please stop rewarding this behavior with your money.

RT @element_hq@twitter.com

...and the app is back: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.vector.app. Huge thanks to everyone for your patience and support on this, and apologies for the inconvenience. Thanks also to Google for being transparent and apologetic once we'd established contact. Now, back to preparing for @FOSDEM@twitter.com!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355677158174322688

That's irony at its best: Google is one of the gold sponsors of #FOSDEM, and less than a week before the conference begins, it removes #Element from the Play Store. Element is the most-used application for access to the #Matrix infrastructure that FOSDEM depends on.

RT @element_hq@twitter.com

Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355290296947499013

"there is currently no plan for PWA support in Firefox." 😔

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593#c8 #firefox #PWA

YouTube2PeerTube - a bot to automatically YouTube channels to #PeerTube channels.

Check it out. Many people are not yet ready to get rid of YT due to network effects, etc. But you want to be prepared to make the jump at any time, right. And you want to help @peertube grow to great heights, of course :)

This bot by @mister_monster helps you do so with ease.

I just added it to Awesome Humane Tech and #ActivityPub developer tools watchlist.

https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech

https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/Watchlist-for-ActivityPub-developer-resources

@kde @plasmamobile running on @PINE64 #PinePhone and @purism #Librem5.

#linuxmobiles

I seem to be in the minority here but a web page should be able to load its content without needing JavaScript. If your page only loads an empty wireframe without JavaScript, you’ve failed at the web. Bare minimum, load the fucking content. If it’s being pulled dynamically, do that server side and then generate a damn page.

Acapella group doing Windows noises

/e/OS v0.14 is here! Updates are available for phones on Pie & Q!
⚠️If you installed microG Exposure Notification, kindly update it before applying v0.14⚠️
More information at https://cutt.ly/Oj7xInp
Check the release note here https://cutt.ly/Wj7xE5v

Cover Your Tracks aims to make browser fingerprinting and tracking more understandable to the average user. Check it out today! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/introducing-cover-your-tracks

"This is probably not the update you want." https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-48866282e5

Spreadsheets can now be exported as .ods, .csv, and .pdf in addition to .xlsx.*

*: depends on browser support but should work in common modern browsers.

Want to work remotely on open source software? Come help @torproject build anti-censorship tools! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-developer-anticensorship/

Did you know Nextcloud Talk can seamlessly connect to Slack, MS Teams, Matrix, IRC and a dozen other chat services on the web? Cross those barriers, BRIDGE!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/bridging-chat-services-in-talk/