Marc Madness @marcmadness@librem.one

#Axolotl, a 3rd party #Signal client originally created for #UbuntuTouch, is now available on #Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.nanuc.Axolotl

This is very good news for #PinePhone and #Librem5!

Although:

Flying some h.t colors, thanks to @c0debabe. https://www.etsy.com/shop/c0debabeShop

Just tagged phoc 0.6.0 - notable changes: filters out touch events on disabled touchscreens (thanks to @craftyguy), improves handling of tiled windows, includes plenty of bugfixes for mouse pointer support and tries a bit harder to fit windows onto the screen (which may help some Flatpak apps). Grab it for your distro while it's fresh! #librem5 #phosh #phoc #gnomeonmobile #mobile #gnu #linux @purism https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phoc/-/releases/v0.6.0

*laughs in "btw I use Arch"*

RT @SophietheBear1@twitter.com

Happy New 2021 Year! ^____^
#AlisaJArt #art #mastoart #newyear #Christmas #Tux #creativetoots #Linux #Lutris #KDE #Krita #Blender #Godot #Mastodon

Last online blurt of the year: I appreciate all of you reading this.

Friends, family, fans, strangers, everyone paying attention to stuff I put out there: I never take that for granted.

Thanks for inviting me into your heads and lives. It means a great deal to me.

Happy 2021!

Technology as it Should Be

"The power of control by Big-Tech in the app store is but a small example of exploitation of our digital lives. If you don’t control the software, the companies who wrote that software control you. You become a digital prisoner."

https://puri.sm/posts/technology-as-it-should-be/

#freedom #privacy #security

Librem 5 Visual Walkthrough

"With the Mass-produced Evergreen phone now starting to ship, we put together a video walkthrough of the launch software as well as an overview of the final hardware."

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-visual-walkthrough/

#librem5 #privacy #freedom

This is a really significant improvement bringing the #PinePhone one step closer to being daily-driver ready. Alongside battery life improvements, 60hz responsive LCD and touch panel, stable BT and functional convergence docking - we're getting there.
Bravo to all developers!

https://twitter.com/ManjaroLinux/status/1327614609826648066

The trouble users had yesterday launching apps on #macOS isn't just a technical problem, but a moral one. Operating systems should service their users, not phone home to a corporation to see if they're "permitted" to run the program. #Apple

The General Purpose Computer In Your Pocket

https://puri.sm/posts/the-general-purpose-computer-in-your-pocket/

"One of the neatest tricks Big Tech ever pulled was convincing people that phones weren’t general-purpose computers and should have different rules than laptops or desktops. These rules conveniently give the vendor more control so that you don’t own a smartphone so much as you rent it."

#privacy #software #freedom

A new #stable update is out for #ManjaroARM.

It includes some nice stuff like:
Firefox 82
KDE Plasma 5.20.1
Most Uboot packages updated to 2020.10

See the announcement here:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable-update-2020-10-27-kde-plasma-firefox-uboots-and-kernels/34281

How can the decentralized web help keep big tech in check? EFF’s @mala takes us from the Roman Empire to a positive future of the Net in this ten minute lightning talk.
https://youtu.be/JtX-tlE1cok?t=87m50s

Holy shit. 14-21% of Apple's annual profits comes from Google paying them to be iOS' default search engine https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html

Teaching users how to create strong passwords is more complicated than telling them to use a certain number of characters–it requires showing how predictability affects the strength of the password. Check out our passwords lesson plan to learn more. https://sec.eff.org/topics/passwords