Marc Madness @marcmadness@librem.one

Under His Eye – Edward Snowden on how Apple just declared war on your privacy

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i

Also, see: Apple is trying to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We must not let it.

https://ar.al/2021/08/08/apple-is-trying-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-violate-your-privacy-we-must-not-let-it/

#apple #privacy

Check out this new book release: "Designing Ebooks With Free Software," by Bruce Byfield! Available as a hard copy or as a free download in EPUB, MOBI, and ODT format: https://www.designingebooks.com/

For people asking about #PineNote panel's EMR pen response time, here is a short video.

Is it time yet to acknowledge how entirely goofy and counterproductive this whole proof-a-computer-did-math-as-token-of-value lark has gotten, and all just go back to trading for stuff we want with shiny rocks off the ground or pretty seashells or whatever?

When you write hashtags, remember to use CamelCase (where each word has a capital letter).

This makes it much easier for blind and partially-sighted people's screen reader apps to read the hashtag out loud, and makes your message much more accessible.

For example #DogsOfMastodon is easier for a screen reader to say out loud than #dogsofmastodon, as CamelCase makes it obvious where the words are.

#FediTips #MastoTips #Accessibility #A11y #Hashtags #ScreenReaders

Hey, folks..

It seems that there will probably be an in-person #defcon this summer, which means that #badgelife will be a thing.

I have a limited number (not more than 50) hand-made #badgelife things that I'm giving away for free. Yes, free. Those extra badges are cool, but they get expensive real fast, which means that a lot of folks get locked out of talks, tracks, some villages, and parties. This is for the not-rich, not rockstars, not super well connected folks in the community who want to find each other and do cool stuff together.

DM me if you're interested. I can give away up to three per person if you promise to give the extras away to folks who'd like them.

The #hacker community is just that - people.

Please boost?

#hacktheplanet

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