Leetaur @leetaur@librem.one

Track your own Bluetooth devices via Apple FindMy network in @golang @TinyGo with new project "Go Haystack".

Based on OpenHaystack from @seemoo + many others.

No Mac required! Use any hardware supported by TinyGo Bluetooth! Scan for devices from your computer! TinyScan hardware scanner!

https://github.com/hybridgroup/go-haystack

#golang #airtag #tinygo #findmy #bluetooth

Have you ever used the "column" command? https://tinkerbetter.tube/videos/watch/735e9783-3424-4e15-bc56-e93a1d9705d2

🎥 Timelapse (under)
📦 Source: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2025-01-08_Warrior_by-David-Revoy.html

Just wrapped up the cover illustration for my upcoming Krita brush bundle. It features a warrior, continuing the theme from my previous bundle. I had a lot of fun designing a medieval fantasy gothic look and capturing the light of the golden hour. I also enjoyed the painting process.

#krita #ArtWithOpensource

Last year I got a new #Librem5 mobile #Linux phone. #GPS on this new one works, contrary to the very early ones I had.

Today, I tracked for the first time a run with the #Jogger app. Jogger is a great app available via #Flathub (https://flathub.org/apps/xyz.slothlife.Jogger).

To get it working, I had to do a little tweak on my Librem 5 (https://codeberg.org/baarkerlounger/jogger/issues/8#issuecomment-1103201), but then it nicely found my location and tracked the run.

#MobileLinux #FOSS #opensource #phone

From now on, every time there is a new proposal to backdoor e2ee apps, we're just going to point to this, right?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-officials-urge-americans-use-encrypted-apps-cyberattack-rcna182694

Purism releases the STEP file for the Librem 5, a 3D model file with information about the Linux smartphone's mechanical components. It's not enough to build your own, but could aid in repair or third-party mods. https://buff.ly/47D2PhW #Librem5 #Purism #LinuxSmartphones

Dear community, our presentation on using #GNUTaler for event #transactions at #Datenspuren is now online. Check it out here/Unser Vortrag zur Nutzung von GNU Taler bei Events auf den Datenspuren ist jetzt online #privacy: https://media.ccc.de/v/ds24-410-gnu-taler-event-und-regionalwhrungen-mit-freier-software-und-privacy

Mastodon proves that human-driven curation is superior to algorithmic curation in every single scenario.

The Tildeverse is a minimalistic community-driven Internet experience without the commercial bloatware

For many of us of a particular vintage, the internet blossomed in the ’90s with the invention of the Web and just a few years of development. Back then, we had the convenience of expression on the WWW and the backup of mature services such as IRC fo ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/the-tildeverse-is-a-minimalistic-community-driven-internet-experience-without-the-commercial-bloatware/

#retro #technology #tildeverse

said this to someone on my discord on the topic of making open hardware products; felt relevant to share:

it's hard to do these things at all, it's excruciatingly hard to do them well, and it can be overwhelming, in every sense of the word, to do these things in the open. at teardown another maker told me that making open hardware is a lot like getting punched repeatedly in the face, so, yeah: i have mad respect for anyone who braves all that and gets an actual product over the finish line.

Seems like nobody was reaching for this low-hanging fruit, so I did it myself:

"Glowup" is a quickly hacked up thing that lets you glow your Librem 5 photos up with one click right on the phone, using #darktable and about 30 seconds of processing.

https://gitlab.com/dos1/glowup

#librem5 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #linuxsmartphones #shotonlibrem5 #catsofmastodon (late)#caturday #myfirstlibadwaitaapp 😜

Governments always want to censor and surveil the internet and the only thing that ever changes is the boogeyman they point to as justification for their power grab.

Mastodon is the world's biggest community of people who deeply love computers and also think that the world would probably be better off without computers

Threat models matter.

When a platform/service/app tells you they are “private” or “secure” always ask “from whom?”

Criminals, domestic abusers, law enforcement, data brokers, and intelligence agencies are all different attackers with very different capabilities.

A big thank you to @purism, @linuxmagazine, #ThinkPenguin, #nostarchpress, and Aeronaut Brewing Co. for sponsoring #LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community! Become a LibrePlanet 2024 sponsor too: https://libreplanet.org/2024/sponsors/

Wondering where to stay during #LibrePlanet, where to eat, and how to get around Boston? Answers to all your questions can be found at https://libreplanet.org/2024/getting-around/

The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project.
New blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1020/the-end-of-peppercarrot-and-my-next-project