Mladen @mladen@librem.one

‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security-coronavirus-video-conferencing

Let's be clear. The lack of focus on privacy and security, while a typical silicon valley flaw, was a choice of profit over security.

I've collected some hacks from our kernel team and tested the idle time on battery on my Librem 5 Birch - got almost exactly 6 hours while staying at 38°C the whole time. Not that long ago it struggled to reach 3h and stay under 60°C - and they're not done yet! :D #librem5 #imx8m

Despite of the country being on lockdown, we keep getting guests that ain't afraid of anything - and they sure tweet more than I do. #birds

A community member is looking for volunteer coders to work on BigBlueButton integration in #nextcloud to help schools continue their lesson plans! Want to support education in this time of social distancing?
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-app-for-bigbluebutton-integration/74910

"Purism is a company dedicated to offering us devices with a focus on software freedom, #security, and #privacy, and it just announced a new desktop PC that delivers on all those fronts in a tiny package."

PCMag https://uk.pcmag.com/mobile-operating-system-2/125313/purism-unveils-librem-mini-privacy-focused-pc

Pre-Order the Librem Mini: https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini

Our Librem 13 and Librem 15 are on sale, save up to $200 https://shop.puri.sm/ #Purism #Librem #Librem13 #Librem15 #sale

Our partner HKN offers a 3 month free #Nextcloud setup for businesses in the German (speaking) area including video calls, office document collaboration and more! #homeoffice
https://www.hkn.de/homeoffice

Learn about the recent Librem 5 software updates for March 2020 (Part 1)

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-software-updates-march-2020-part-1/

#librem5 #librem #linux #privacy #security

Shortwave is a client to listen to internet radios, with a database over 25k radios. It is about to ship its first stable version!

How does it look like on mobile? Gorgeous already. Thanks a lot for the app @haeckerfelix!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave

It looks like the latest #Librem5 kernel update reduced active power consumption by another 100-140mA based on my own measurements. I hear there are a lot more improvements in the pipeline once we switch from 5.3 to the 5.6 kernel.

Facebook just dropped an Engineering Whitepaper on how they made the new version of their iOS app faster and more reliable and it basically boils down to "Use native OS API calls whenever possible"

It's a 20+ paragraph screed that reads like a technical manual, and that's all it really says. "Maybe electron is bad and we should use native calls?". They called it "Project Lightspeed".

I'm screaming.

My patches for iio-sensor-proxy to support proximity sensors just got merged upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/-/merge_requests/300 - thanks hadess !

The (mostly identical) code is already live on the #librem5 with #phosh 0.2.0 making use of it.

Wow, that was quick: Thanks to Lucas Stach our #etnaviv runtime power managemt fix already landed in linux-next: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/?qt=range&q=ea4ed4a55f7363ad8db1863bd536548fb7e5c6aa..78f2bfa3181cd7ee134274aa17177dd933c69dc1

The fix hits the #librem5 with the next kernel update.

Apparently when you move a registered Google Fi SIM to a new phone w/o re-registering it w/ the Fi app, incoming SMS have 16 random chars appended to the end. I assume registration causes local apps to hide the text. I wonder what Google is using those strings for?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/5k3h9t/texts_ending_with_tilde_and_random_letters/

wlr-output-power-management finally made it into wlr-protocols: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/pull/61 🚀

Thanks @emersion
for finishing up the wlroots side.

This will allow #phosh to notice screen blanks and trigger them. Compositor part side already done: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phoc/merge_requests/101

#wlroots #phosh #librem5

gnome-usage grew a thermal view using #gtherm :

#gtk #gnome #librem5 @purism

#phosh 0.2.0 got released:

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/tags/v0.2.0

featuring first quick settings (for battery, rotation and feedback), proximity sensor support and more ground work for better notifications and translation updates.

#librem5 @purism #gtk #wayland

Based on @merge 's accelerometer work (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/cover.1569143551.git.lorenzo@kernel.org/) and yesterday's work to hook iio-sensor-proxy into #phosh, enabling rotation is just a couple of more lines of code.

The video shows the #librem5 devkit but it is the same for the phone. Please excuse the low video quality.

You will be able to easily backup your @purism #Librem5!

Did you know that Plasma Mobile apps from KDE are working well on PureOS too? :) This is Kaidan, a Kirigami XMPP client, working smoothly on a Librem 5 @kaidan @kde@mastodon.technology