Just learned of an event at 5:30pm tonight at the MLK Jr. library "Breaking up with Big Tech: a club to help you through it". #DC people on mastodon do recommend this to anyone you know who may be interested! @APBBlue @acdha @aram @Dcgirl @samerfarha https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/17350179
@prav I have been using Fluux as a web app on iOS and quite happy with it (installed with Add to Home Screen). Limitation is audio calls are not added as a feature yet but for the text and experience otherwise it works.
After a one and a half year selection process, the new name of the operating system formerly known postmarketOS has been announced during the mystery talk of our very own conference. From now on this project is known as Nura!
Blog post:
https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/
Mastodon:
@nura
Hashtag:
#Nuraeco
@harrymccracken Oh? I thought they were not doing highways yet?
DRM ruins efforts at historical preservation. If all of our media is locked up in digital streaming platforms -- which will go under eventually -- how will it be preserved for future generations? Live DRM-free instead: https://u.fsf.org/1aj #EndDRM #DRM
@popey Wait what is that policy about?
@techlore Also they have just published a Linux version for Arm chips - finally! So that it is now much easier to install Signal on Linux phones. I had been waiting for that for years.
@zak It's the essence of monopoly- they know even if it is horrible most people will not switch away.
@aboutsignal This will be great to use on my Linux phone!
@doctormo @thomholwerda Right, I didn't mean to come off as snarky, it was a genuine question more aimed at the earlier post that "theming is accessibility", but I have the sense that iOS is not themable but also is very accessible. I'm wondering if that impression is wrong, or if there are different paths to accessibility?
@doctormo @thomholwerda Would you consider iOS themeable?
Severe weather in the area recently, and my OnePlus 6T phone running #postmarketos received the cell broadcast alert! Certainly many to thank for this feature being available on #mobilelinux, including @phosh @postmarketOS and many more I don't even know. #phosh #duranium
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I joined Google in late 2008, and left in 2021, witnessing this whole arc from the near abroad (organisationally), aghast at all the same public revelations Claire recounts in compressed form here. For those of us who hoped for better, it hits right in the feels:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-voice-of-google
@smach That's huge!
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