Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

As my old boss used to say: "I don't get why programmers get paid that much. It's all just a bunch of for-loops!"

"Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are among the top 10 contributors to Joe Biden’s candidate campaign committee in the 2020 cycle, according to OpenSecrets." https://variety.com/vip/house-antitrust-report-on-big-tech-less-would-have-been-more-1234796332/

#phosh 0.4.5 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.4.5

This one adds a torch/flashlight quick setting, improves support for external screens and switches to structured logging. There's also a rather long list of internal fixes as well as translation updates (thanks a lot for that)!

#librem5 @purism #gnomeonmobile

We are in the first stages of a long anti-encryption march by the upper echelons of the European Union, headed directly toward Europeans’ digital front-doors. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/orders-top-eus-timetable-dismantling-end-end-encryption

Work at Google. Work at Facebook. Work at Palantir. Heck, work at Phillip Morris or Exxon Mobil or Halliburton. But don’t you dare be proud of it. And don’t you dare tell me you’re working to bring about a better world for everyday people. Don’t you fucking even dare.

Today in #Berlin the pigs and german state are trying to evict anarcho-queer-feminist project #Liebig34. Solidarity with all those on the streets! Berlin for people not pigs!

https://puri.sm/jobs/ On-Site EE position and PureOS GTK App Dev position posted https://puri.sm/job/pureos-gtk-application-development/ come join!

The Google v Oracle ruling will be hugely consequential for software development. Even if the Supreme Court finds fair use, that may be small comfort for startups that can't afford to litigate to protect their right to reimplement APIs https://www.forbes.com/sites/martingiles/2020/10/07/supreme-court-google-and-oracle-api-software-case/#23adea3b592c

Electric cars really do cost less to own than gas-powered vehicles, report says
https://www.engadget.com/electric-cars-cost-less-to-own-than-gas-vehicles-133913554.html #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

If you like, use or even produce Podcasts, you should read this. And you should demand podcasts to be available via RSS. Having a show locked into Spotify or audible is _not_ a podcast. You're just handing them your audience for free.
https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2020/10/08/podcast-privacy-tracking-listener-data

@stephaniewalter This is a great idea! I wonder though about the tax implications. Would the receiving organization have to pay taxes on the gift they received from you? Any experience with that?

@purism While fixing #convergence related issues in #phosh, #phoc and the kernel for the #librem5 I wanted things to be more automatic. So #phosh can now enable a 'docked' mode on screen plug: windows become moveable automatically (and get their close button back), #squeekboard gets disabled and there's a quick setting that lets you toggle that too: