Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

Signal isn't just for Vice Presidents, NoVaLUG now has a new Signal chat room: https://signal.group/#CjQKIGYAYkoVLdiHZjUhpfxZBa5s-XIZ8AyrMWo-GQh9lVcJEhBXh7NEH3GOHPYNd2Xhmq8H

We also have XMPP: https://xmpp:novalug@groups.sendero.snikket.chat/?join

Introducing {maposm}, an R package that extracts, modifies and merges sets of layers from OpenStreetMap for cartographic purposes.

On github: https://github.com/riatelab/maposm

The package is not on CRAN, but it is on r-universe: https://riatelab.r-universe.dev/maposm

#RStats #rspatial #GISChat

after many days of work, here is another functional demo of #GNOME shell running on the secondary display connected to the #flx1. it took many hours to build the app and make everything act nice and not crash and integrate cleanly. still a long way to go but i think it is a good time to showcase the progress in the past 7 days.

i hope to get this ready and done by 13.0.9 which is the next release but obviously no promises.

#debian #furios #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile

Here’s to another relaxing Sunday.

Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”
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Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s property.

https://www.propublica.org/article/frank-schuler-gsa-doge-syndicated-conservation-easements-tax-scam?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Tax #Scam #Trump #IRS #Government #USPolitics

Microsoft is introducing ads into a free version of Office, which seemingly only lets users save to OneDrive.

In other news, LibreOffice is also free, doesn't have ads, and lets you save your documents wherever you want. I use it every day for my work. It is available here:

https://www.libreoffice.org/

UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is open until March 3rd! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

user2025.r-project.org/call
#RStats

I joined NPR's Here & Now to discuss car bloat:

“There's been no accounting through regulations or taxes to push people who are buying a car to consider the societal impact...When you don't price [negative externalities], you end up with people buying more big cars than is societally appropriate."

#cars #safety

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/02/12/suv-health-hazard

My friend Martin Ratcliffe recently shared his photo montage of the 2023 annular solar eclipse over Bryce Canyon, Utah.

I may be biased, but I think it's spectacular (and it got selected for an astronomy picture of the day).

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231019.html #science #photography #art

Many of us are aghast at the unprecedented dismantlement of the US administrative state. All around me, people are trying to connect what’s happening to historical events. Here's my attempt to offer a few possible frames for sense-making right now: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...

Welcome the Marx Bros. to the public domain!

Their first film THE COCOANUTS (1929) is now on Tubi in a P.D. transfer.

Distributor Shoreline Entertainment's website says their classic film P.D. titles are “legally sourced from the owner,” which may explain why the transfer looks so good.

#MarxBros #TheCocoanuts #Film Mastodon #PublicDomain

I don’t usually do this kind of evangelism, but if you’re looking for a reason to try #XMPP on #GlobalSwitchDay, now’s the perfect time: #Conversations_im is currently free on Google Play!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations

Coming soon: When you add a linked device (Desktop or iPad), bring your whole chat history + last 45 days of media. The transfer process is end-to-end encrypted & completely optional.

Don't want to leave the past behind? We leave you to your own devices.

https://signal.org/blog/a-synchronized-start-for-linked-devices/

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages:

https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/

Richard Donner’s INSIDE MOVES (1980) is on Prime if you need some positive energy in your life.

John Savage, Diana Scarwid, and David Morse lead a quirky ensemble in this tale of second chances and the power of found family.

#InsideMoves #FilmMastodon

😂🤣😂 Congrats @dansup! #Pixelfed was mentioned on The Daily Show! I guess @pixelfed is approaching mainstream status. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

👉🏾 https://www.threads.net/@thedailyshow/post/DE3UWbnyHDA

someone in the chat asked if the flx1 can run a KVM machine and my initial thought process was well, probably not out of the box since during the boot process EL2 is locked and even if kernel has KVM, it will never initialize correctly.

so today after finishing my daily tasks i decided to take a stab at our bootloader, preloader and trustzone's source code.

Lo and behold, turns out i did indeed cook.

Docker support will land in the next release too!

#flx1 #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #qemu #kvm