Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Reminder:the real existential threat to Free Software isn't the make-up of the FSF governance board. It's US multinational corporations funding legal reports encouraging companies to shun Copyleft licensed software, calling it "too risky" for business use. (of course, if you want to see a real legal minefield, take a gander at any proprietary EULA... if you can find one - they tend to be completely hidden). Also: the shade thrown by Github and MSFT on Copyleft at every opportunity..

Accessibility report: I setup a Nextcloud form asking for accessibility requests for a presentation. There was one form response suggesting captions, which we had via jitsi

We had one blind person who could not use the form. I need to file a bug with NC f about that and colors

For the blind person, we tested jitsi and BBB ahead of time. There were difficulties with the available browsers, but we made it work

The jitsi recording did not have the captioning, so I need to work on that as well

Kudos to the @suntimes Ed Board for raising the alarm: "Under the guise of helping small businesses, lawmakers are trying to repeal or eviscerate Illinois’ pioneering Biometric Information Protection Act." https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/3/16/22334405/biometric-protection-bipa-illinois-law-legislation-editorial

@MirceaKitsune @linmob

There are a couple serious reasons why #Librem5 is much more expensive than #Pinephone, apart from the product quality:

1. @purism intentionally choose #hardware manufacturers supporting #FOSS to change the #industry https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

2. @purism pays professional developers to work on #phosh #freesoftware #mobile interface, which is installed on most Pinephones https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Frequently-Asked-Questions#310-why-did-purism-decide-to-create-the-new-phosh-interface

More details: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Frequently-Asked-Questions#17-why-does-the-librem-5-cost-so-much-compared-to-the-pinephone

#Librem5vsPinephone #Linux #smartphones

#Librem5 vs #Pinephone

#Convergence aka #Desktop mode works fine on both #smartphones for light tasks. But what is "light"? This is where they differ.

#Librem5 (left) smoothly plays two videos simultaneously (one of which is 60 fps), whereas #Pinephone is struggling with single 30 fps video.

Why? Librem 5 has 30% faster CPU clock speed, 140% faster RAM standard, roughly double the GPU performance. More details: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-phones.

#innovations #gadgets #tech #Librem5vsPinephone

For those forced to use AWS for services, and have to sign in to a "root account" for your organisation - which now *requires* 2FA... it's very very tricky, because only one person (generally speaking) will have the 2nd factor... which creates a massive liability for organisations (e.g. mine) where the person with the second factor is unavailable when you urgently need to access the root account. One would have thought AWS would have a smarter system. One would be mistaken.

OpenSSL will release a HIGH severity issue fix on March 25:

https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2021-March/000196.html

Hey guys, Thunderbird is STILL hiring developers. You can help modernize an application used by ~20,000,000 people and growing!

The open source community can make something better than Outlook, but only if folks come and build it.

https://thunderbird.net/careers