McSinyx @mcsinyx@librem.one

I missed this post when it came out in December: In Defense of Blub Studies, https://www.benkuhn.net/blub

Some really excellent points:

> Blub studies is a never-ending treadmill of engineering know-how. It’s the fiddly technical details of how Git stores data, or how Postgres locking semantics [work], or why pip install failed this time.…Blub studies is more generalizable than it seems, and has its own way of compounding over time, too. That makes it a lot more useful than you’d expect

According to the FTC, Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years. This is one of the obvious perils of nonfree software: you can't verify that the software isn't abusing you, you just have to take their word. https://u.fsf.org/371
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says

1/ I just published a massive article called "Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now" https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10231-recovering-our-lost-free-will-online-tools-and-techniques-that-are-available-now

I will summarize some key points in this thread, but please do check out the article.

mobile apps that are just web apps which only work on a single company's platform are strange... particularly when they are social networks

QR reading support is now added to Megapixels :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV1iovdFaDs

Stats from my last open source contribution:

lines added: 79
lined deleted: 82
lines in commit msg: 870

I can't decide if I'm doing software development really _wrong_, or really _right_.

me: I _think_ I'm done. Let me just run the full test suit one more time to be 100% certain

test: segmentation fault (core dumped)

me: ... ... ... guess not

We are making progress on the GTK4 rewrite of Fractal (called fractal-nex)

Please note so far it's just the ui.😅

PINE64 February Update! We've said it before, but for real this time: this is a big one...

- A look at #Quartz64 RK3566 SBC
- #PinePhone keyboard news
- We're making a RISC-V SBC! -
- #PinePhone default OS is @kde PlaMo on @ManjaroARM
- #PinebookPro back in March
- #LoRaWAN part of our ecosystem
- #PineTime progress
- much more!

https://www.pine64.org/2021/02/15/february-update-show-and-tell/

FYI from the @matrix community:
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/02/15/how-we-hosted-fosdem-2021-on-matrix

A quick update to the GNOME Maps info bubbles I recently redesigned--they're now adaptive for your favorite mobile Linux device! https://www.jwestman.net/2021/02/10/gnome-maps-adaptive-place-bubbles.html