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: u.fsf.org/1aj #EndDRM #DRM

@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.

@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?

Severe weather in the area recently, and my OnePlus 6T phone running received the cell broadcast alert! Certainly many to thank for this feature being available on , including @phosh @postmarketOS and many more I don't even know.

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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:

newyorker.com/culture/the-week

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