Marc Madness @marcmadness@librem.one

The dream of modern computing was that a user was someone who could use and modify and create programs. Somewhere we departed from that and made a "programmer/user" dichotomy. And as both computers and programming tools have become more accessible (free, easier to use, etc.), somehow that divide keeps getting worse

Computers are seen as tools only for programmers and as appliances for everyone else. IMO this is bad for society. Being able to program your computer at a basic level should be seen in the same light as basic literacy and numeracy.

RT 🔒: main question I have about Amazon running MGM is what happens with both their fastidious restoration work on their film archive *and* their easygoing relationship with independent theatres and boutique blu ray printers... when Disney took over Fox, everyone got fucked

A lot has changed in our latest #beta with #phosh on @ManjaroLinuxARM for your #pinephone. Get it now: https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/phosh/releases/tag/beta10

You've never heard of the Serenity Falcon? It's the ship that made the Klingon Run in less than 88 miles per hour. #StarsWarDay

“Cryptocurrency is literally like an eight-year-old’s concept of an evil businessman. He just plugs his pollution machine in and gets money for it. It doesn’t make anything, it just. Pollutes. And makes money. Like a fucking Captain Planet villain”

https://twitter.com/WKDart/status/1386187042460106754

Piece of advice: don’t try regulating porn on the internet when you don’t have a strong understanding how the internet itself works. Canadian Bill S-203 shouldn’t see the light of day. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/canadas-attempt-regulate-sexual-content-online-ignores-technical-and-historical

#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