Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

"The nice thing about buying food for a man is, you don't have to laugh at his jokes."

Preston Sturges’ SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS (1941) is now streaming on Prime and nowhere else (without a VOD rental).

#FilmMastodon #TCMParty

1 year ago I ditched my Macbook, bought a Framework laptop, and moved to Linux for professional UX design work. In this article, I explain as simply as possible:
- Why I switched to Linux
- How you can do the same.

I cover design-specific concerns like:
- How to use Apple devices like the Magic Mouse in Linux
- Which design tools are available and how to install them
- How to find help if you get stuck

https://www.chris-wood.design/resources/linux-for-ux-designers
#Design #UXDesign #UIDesign #Linux #MacOS #FrameworkLaptop

As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.

Two-thirds of the $310 million that Kamala Harris raised last month came from first-time donors, according to the campaign.

It seemed necessary to make this.

All set up for #FOSSY24!

Come talk to us about #postmarketOS, #linuxmobile, or #systemd!

Much is being made of the fact that Philly will be Harris”s first stop on her tour with her running mate. While that may bode well for Shapiro, you know who else is from Pennsylvania?

RAIN (1932) w/ Joan Crawford and Walter Huston is now on Prime Video and Kanopy.

This is the 90th anniversary restoration, released on Blu-ray in 2022 — a vast improvement over public domain transfers streaming elsewhere.

#FilmMastodon #TCMparty #JoanCrawford

Deals on Kindles may seem attractive, but don't forget Amazon is one of the most devoted peddlers of DRM. We prefer books we can loan to our friends, free of restriction and prying eyes. Read more about how to live DRM-free: https://u.fsf.org/1aj #EndDRM #DRM #BoycottAmazon #Amazon

🥳 On this day, 10 years ago, we launched Signal on iPhone, which existed on Android as RedPhone and TextSecure 🎂

📞 Back then, Signal was only an encrypted voice calling app using the ZRTP protocol with short-authentication strings.

💬 It’s only 6 months later, that Signal Protocol-based encrypted messaging would launch.

https://www.wired.com/2014/07/free-encrypted-calling-finally-comes-to-the-iphone/

I'm reminded of a remark by the noted social theorist of gift exchange Fred Rogers: “And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child, the gift is really self”. The gift is really self, you Google AI weirdos.

WOW - online course on using crochet to make "Topologically nontrivial, visually pleasing yarn sculptures" https://momath.org/onlinecrochet/

US security firm unwittingly hired apparent “nation-state” hacker from North Korea

KnowBe4, which provides security awareness training, was fooled by stolen ID.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/us-security-firm-unwittingly-hired-apparent-nation-state-hacker-from-north-korea/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Finally, we have a date to share 🤠
#linux #vanillaos #opensource #cloudnative #releaseday

The recent CrowdStrike outage is a wake-up call: centralized services are a single point of failure. 🌐

For true digital resilience, we must decentralize and diversify our technology. Read Nextcloud's take on this event.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/global-outage-shows-lack-of-digital-sovereignty-and-resilience/