keverets @keverets@librem.one

Our 6-yr-old Fairphone 2 is being upgraded to Android 10. That’s 7 years of software support! An industry first for an Android device! 🙌 Together with the open source community we built the operating system. Proving it is possible to put sustainability at the heart of tech. 🌿

Has your phone stopped receiving software updates? Wait before tossing it away: #FreeSoftware might give your device a second life.

Consider #UpcyclingAndroid to overcome software obsolescence and reduce e-waste. 🌳 #ewwr2021

https://www.upcyclingandroid.org/

Nerds destroy the world.

Hi @delta I just convinced my friend who uses K9 to turn on "Autocrypt mutual mode" and then our chat (them on K9, me on Delta Chat) became encrypted ♥ That is awesome

Looks like I'm NOT that paranoid because of refusing to use any fingerprint related unlocking mechanism after all.
https://blog.kraken.com/post/11905/your-fingerprint-can-be-hacked-for-5-heres-how/

Only shows how big #GoogleMaps has become, where a government agency "asks" them to modify their features, and whose users "pay" for the "free" map by becoming targets for advertisers

P.S.
Many of these cycleway maps are available for Free #OpenStreetMap 😜
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RT @onenewsph
The Department of Transportation says their bike lanes have pavement markings, physical separators, solar-powered road studs, and thermoplastic paint.
https://twitter.com/onenewsph/status/1463753063471136770

KDE Neon now comes with a built-in energy consumption viz. This is great!

@kde @kde @kde_community #operatingsystem #os #linux #green

2001
https://archive.org/details/Maximum_PC_May_2001/page/n87/mode/2up

New NFT things: https://babysongbirdsnft.com , (on blue bird @BabySongbirds ).

Don't buy them: it infringes my moral right (https://davidrevoy.com/article864/) and they added CC-By compliance just now after fans noticed.

You can collect same pictures here for free with better quality: https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2019_bird-generator/

If you run a synapse matrix homserver, you should plan some time to update it next Tuesday: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/11/18/pre-disclosure-upcoming-security-release-of-synapse-1-47-1

While I'm sending out reminders for my various co-op pipe dreams: anyone want to start an #XMPP server run as a platform co-op? We've got a mailing list and chat room, but we need a wider skill set represented before we can reasonably get started! DM me for details! #coops

We released version 1.4 of Briar ✨ 🎉 🥳 🎈
• Share the app with people nearby without internet access
• Exchange encrypted messages via SD cards and USB sticks

https://briarproject.org/news/2021-briar-1.4-released/

Today's irritation is an electric toothbrush that needs a new battery, and there's no way to open it non-destructively.

A Linux distribution with the /e/ ecosystem and Android applications. Nice review at @TechRepublic

"This is truly something no other Linux "cloudified" desktop has ever achieved and it's pretty amazing."

#mydataismydata

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-finally-has-an-impressive-cloud-like-os-in-ubuntu-web/

Never indicate semantic differences with only color. Always use the trifecta of color, shape, and text. This way, people who can't distinguish colors see shapes and people who can't see shapes can hear text.

Add texture where that's possible.

"If it's free, you are the product" stopped being true once the rest of the companies saw how much money there was in selling customer data. Now you are the product regardless of whether you pay.

Well, there it is: Block view-source, block save page, on track to be accepted in to Chrome.

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3260807

Centralised messenger Signal has just announced that they are making part of their server software closed source. They claim it is to fight spam, but by using closed source they make it impossible for outsiders to verify the truth. This is worrying.

We really, really need a fully open, decentralised alternative to Signal.

There are several alternatives being developed, please support them:

➡️ @snikket_im

➡️ @xmpp

➡️ @matrix

➡️ @delta

➡️ @briar

➡️ @Jami

#Signal #Alternatives #Privacy

Can you imagine how many years of email admin lives would be saved and how simpler their lives would be if people simply did not send emails to #gmail and #hotmail ????

google and microsoft are like two of the biggest offenders when it comes to email, bullying smaller services. And yet every email sysadmin has to work to comply with google and MS rules.