Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

If you want gpodder to integrate with Lollypop for playback, just go into Lollypop and add ~/gPodder/Downloads to Lollypop's list of music directories.

A two-line change to /use/share/gpodder/UI/gtk/gpodder.ui to change two horizontal panes to vertical ones was all it took to make it fit perfectly on the #Librem5 screen. I love #FOSS.

Many Android phone vendors subsidize their cost w/ malware/spyware/adware just like many laptop vendors, but Android lets vendors make it impossible to remove.

In this case, free Android phones the US govt. handed out to the poor contained Chinese malware. #privacy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/01/09/us-funds-free-android-phones-for-the-poor---but-with-permanent-chinese-malware/

The NSA ran into a similar problem. It's hard for people to avoid the temptation to abuse their power for personal benefit.

For services like this, the best approach is not to collect the data in the first place, or else only give users keys to it. #privacy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/amazons-ring-fired-at-least-four-employees-for-snooping-on-user-videos/

@nitrokey Congratulations! Having Heads in more hands will be great for security overall.

After a few years my #3dprinted shaving stand got bumped on top and the leverage cracked the base. The great thing about #3dprinting is that I noticed it this morning and by this afternoon I had printed the (now much stronger) replacement.

@HalvarFlake Welcome back!

@kev I have a handful of dress socks and boot socks but rarely need either.

@johns Exactly. It reminds me so much of how I felt with my own N900, with the additional excitement of convergence down the road that might mean I can ditch my travel laptop and just have this and maybe a simple laptop dock.

@zachir No idea, but that isn't really my area of expertise.

My grandmother passed away two Christmases ago and as I opened my last package of socks from her, my mom assured me that they had worked out before her death that my mom would take over the tradition.

I mention all of this because now with Haynes's cost-cutting measures, these socks are wearing out much more quickly than past designs so I'm starting to wonder whether one package/yr is enough. With a fresh package in my drawer, I guess I can worry about that next year...

You see, Haynes has made tweaks to this sock over the last two decades and I'm in a special position to notice each of these changes since I don't mate my socks.

First they altered how far down the toe the grey goes. Then they extended the grey to run along the full bottom of the sock (an improvement). Most recently, they have followed the cost-cutting trend of making fabric thinner so the last few years of socks have been significantly thinner.

Over 20yrs ago my grandmother started an annual tradition of giving me a new package of socks for Christmas. Each year I would actually look forward to this gift. This steady supply of new socks were more than enough to replenish the socks that wore out, especially with the original sock design.

A thread on one of my biggest #lifehacks and changing SOC(k) compliance standards:

Over 20 yrs ago I decided to standardize on one type of sock: white cotton Haynes with grey toe and heel and red toe stitching. While I own dress and boot socks, 99.9% of the time I wear these socks.

There are many benefits to this approach:
* No need to mate socks
* If a sock has a hole, throw it away and grab another from the drawer
* Due to family, I haven't ever had to buy these socks myself

@blacklight447 Just off the top of my head: perhaps at home you'd spawn a file share to more easily sync files on the fast local network. Perhaps on untrusted wifi you disable any exposed services, and route everything through Tor automatically. Maybe at conferences you host a "where am I right now?" service w/ your friends.

@blacklight447 I also like the idea of automatically spawning opportunistic services based on state (on home wifi, on untrusted wifi, etc.)

@blacklight447 It'll all depend on how much the services wake up and how many resources they use when idle, I suppose. This is also where front-end caches on another server come in.

@don There's some "because I can" involved, but also I like the idea of hosting personal services on my personal computer since it's always on and online. With a stable front-end server acting as a cache, it could be a pretty powerful combination for private services fully under your control.

@GH0S1 I imagine it will depend on traffic. Front-end cache/proxy could help there

Since I'm running real Linux on my #Librem5 phone, I'm having thoughts like: should I host NextCloud from it? Maybe a Tor hidden service? OnionShare? My phone *is* always on after all, hosting personal services (optionally w/ a front-end cache on my regular server) might make sense...