Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

#RIP “Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission, has died, NASA announced Friday. He was 97.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jim-lovell-dies-age-97-apollo-13-commander/

This feels super awkward to ask, but I'm trying to crowdfund a used M2 MacBook for #postmarketOS development. My current ARM laptop can't safely run VMs (have to choose between virtualization or battery monitoring 😅). Daily-driving new hardware has helped me improve other ports (e.g. ThinkPad X13s), so this would help me work more efficiently and advance the M-series port in pmOS!

https://ko-fi.com/craftyguy/goal

🇯🇵 Japan has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions.

Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop.

This is a major step forward for browser competition.

Full analysis here:

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https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-apple-must-lift-engine-ban-by-december/

Excited to share that Bottles has been selected by the NLnet Foundation as part of the February 2025 NGI0 Commons Fund. One of only 40 projects supported in this round. Full announcement here: https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250804-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html

#linux #windows #opensource #FundingNews #gaming #FOSS #NLNet

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi
I like how the search engine is the product instead of me .
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Tuba v0.10.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!

✨ Highlights:
- New Composer
- Grouped Notifications
- Play media from third-party services in-app with Clapper
- In-app web browser
- Collapse long posts
- Mastodon quotes
- Iceshrimp Drive
- 'Featured' Profile tab
- Local-only posting
- Search History
- Alt text from file metadata
🧵

As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
https://github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/releases/tag/v0.10.0

postmarketOS in 2025-07!

* apk3
* /usr merge
* immutable postmarketOS
* Fairphone 6, iPhone X, Lynx R1
* New project for improving audio reliability
* postmarketOS joined the GNOME Advisory Board
* PCBs arrived
* Events: FOSSY, DEF CON, FrOSCon
* MSM8917 modem
* Plasma Camera 2.0.0

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/08/03/pmOS-update-2025-07/

#fossy2025 #defcon33 #froscon20 #linux

R code by Adam Bonica showing his analysis that only 1.6% of more than $600 million raised by Democratic political spam texts actually went to candidates! #RStats 👀👀
https://github.com/abonica/Mothership-Strategies-FEC-Analysis/blob/main/mothership_complete_api_analysis.R
His blog post: https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation https://www.threads.com/@rickhasen1/post/DM6S6oqSsEE

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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use #RSS.

https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

You should be using RSS.

Molly White has a good intro: Far from being the new hotness attracting glitzy feature stories in tech media or billions in venture funding, RSS has been around for 25 years. [...] Many, if not most, websites publish an RSS...
https://jwz.org/b/yksN

BOOK PROJECT: History of Economic Thought
One project I might spend a solid month on this fall is to try turn my history of economic thought lecture notes into a ms. for a relevant “history of economic thought” book—that is, a book that starts with (a) the need, if we are to be prosperous, to both have and coördinate a societal division of labor at scale, (b) the value of the market system as a way of achieving that coördination, and (c ) all the things that…
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/book-project-history-of-economic
#adam-smith

I was using mastodon before it was cool.

Narrator: that's currently.

I don't want to brag, but somebody got first place in the Stardew Valley Fair today, and it wasn't Pierre. 💅🏼

“Bruno Latour, Designer” by Cameron Tonkinwise
https://buttondown.com/otherworlds/archive/ow-10-bruno-latour-designer-by-cameron-tonkinwise/

#Design #ANT

How bachata rose from Dominican Republic’s brothels and shantytowns to become a global sensation https://theconversation.com/how-bachata-rose-from-dominican-republics-brothels-and-shantytowns-to-become-a-global-sensation-260886

This is Checkmate, painted in 1799 painting by German artist Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch. It is often thought to represent Man losing their souls to Satan, but Chess Master Paul Morphy noticed there is still a winning move. The Angel's very pointed look makes more sense; there is still a way out, a bit of hope.

The Gift of Life

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

The most amazing cave- videos.trom.tf/w/hNQGWL9YRHyQ2…

The Cave of Nerja, in southern Spain, is absolutely enormous and was inhabited by humans thousands of years ago. Explorers have found cave paintings, human bones, and evidence of cave hyenas living in the cave around the same time as humans. The Nerja Cave also holds the largest stalactite in the world, measuring around 32 meters.

This was such an amazing experience for us, it is hard to show the immensity and uniqueness of this cave in a video or photos. We were also able to get in there for free as they give free tickets away every weekday at 9:30am. cuevadenerja.es/en/

Meanwhile, desktop Linux has a 20% market share here in Norway! 🇳🇴

#Norway #Linux #MarketShare #Windows #OSX #MacOS #ChromeOS