Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

The finished product.

Every year or two around St. Patrick's Day I buy some extra corned beef when it's on sale and then later on I turn it into pastrami. It's a simple process: add a pepper and coriander rub, smoke it like any other brisket, and a few hours later you got pastrami.

@ajmartinez started with a trout crudo, then spanish style cod cakes as the main course.

@Columbkille @benis @ruff I suspect it's not trolling, just different guidance in different countries due to the different types of vaccines being used throughout the world, each with different rates of efficacy.

@le_ArthurDent@mastodon.social Thanks it's (literally) growing on me as well!

@ruff @Columbkille @benis I'm specifically talking about recent real-world studies on efficacy of Moderna and Pfizer (these studies I believe were part of what changed recent CDC guidance). My understanding is that while other vaccines also show some level of protection against transmission, it's not as high.

@benis @Columbkille Thanks for your concern, but expert consensus is that people with post-vaccination immunity do not spread the virus.

It's been two weeks since my second vaccination, so we celebrated our immunity by eating *inside* a restaurant for the first time in a long time. It was weird but also amazing.

Something about this Epic lawsuit is causing some Apple users to notice the pot of water they are bathing in is getting hot.

Couldn't have said it better myself: "Apple says it's protecting our security and privacy, but it has become clear that locking down our iPhones is also about controlling us so Apple can make more money." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/27/apple-iphone-monopoly/

@choboDOC @todd @purism When we have news we'll be sure to publish it on our blog.

@ajmartinez It's a good question. Given the incompatibilities that are already there between Android and the Linux desktop maybe it won't matter all that much for folks like us. It will likely impact the projects that aim to create a fully free software, Google-less version of Android the most.

You sometimes hear people say Linux (and by extension Open Source) "won" because of how ubiquitous it is in Android phones and IoT devices.

Yet today's release of Google's new OS Fuchsia on Nest devices points to a future where Linux is left behind. This is a future where the dominant OSes on devices are Fuchsia, iOS, and Windows.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/google-launches-its-third-major-operating-system-fuchsia/

I remember when it seemed like the open chat standard XMPP "won" 15 years ago when Google Talk adopted it. It seemed like maybe the bad old days of proprietary chat protocols were over.

Google of course abandoned XMPP and later 5 or so other chat protocols. Today the messaging world is a mess of proprietary protocols and networks all reinventing the same wheels.

Apple's testimony today describes their future for computing. In the name of security, Apple wants to vet (and get a cut from) all software installed on all Macs, not just iPhones. This has always been the plan, but it takes time to boil the frog that is traditional computers.

Also this release seems to have done away with the pip install that was in the OpenSnitch UI post-install script and just pulls in dependency packages, so another big improvement.

There's a new OpenSnitch release candidate 1.4.0-rc.2. This one specifically mentions improved window layouts for Librem 5: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/discussions/415