Bob Ham @rah@librem.one

...and haptic feedback in calls when receiving a phone call on the #librem5 (as yesterday (https://social.librem.one/@agx/103561184406010030), the audio is important)

@rah @purism

Initial support for booting the Librem 5 Phone has just landed in PostmarketOS!

https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/merge_requests/869

For real like Bandcamp is exactly the kind of service we *hoped* the internet would give us: “hey, people make things, they set their own price inc. free, we provide the storefront, you buy it and the money goes to the creator, you get it in a DRM-free format and can play it however you want, we just make money to keep going & improving and aren’t a VC-funded nightmare company of rampant reckless growth that will do something nightmarish and implode.”

We need more media platforms like that.

Reading up on printer toner. "What the hell does triboelectric mean?"

Looks it up.

Absolutely amazing accompanying photo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect

@DissidentKitty @Are0h @popstar

New research: Dark Energy might not exist after all
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-evidence-anisotropy-cosmic.html

(submitted by BurningFrog)

Eton College exam question asks students to justify the Army killing protesters
https://www.indy100.com/article/eton-college-entrance-exam-question-army-killing-protesters-private-school-9090156

(submitted by BerislavLopac)

Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10542519

(submitted by fredley)

I'm still waiting BTW, for Software Heritage to provide a way for a git repo not on github to be archived.

I've been waiting for years.

Currently the only way I have to get code into their archive is to get the code into Debian.

i do not like the current internet term for works of creative output: ''content''

it is a term that denotes commodification and capitalist marketing

please stop devaluing the cultural importance of people's creative work by referring to it as ''content''

Startpage.com is now owned by an advertising company
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_is_now_owned_by_an_advertising_company/

(submitted by rahuldottech)

@lumi i have considered your views thoroughly and i rebut them with a link to a youtube video of some popular guy saying things

I'm kinda irked that nobody gives credit to http://calagator.org/ for having been an open source alternative to Meetup for more than a decade already

Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/09/exposure-to-air-pollution-is-linked-to-an-increase-in-violent-crime

(submitted by pseudolus)

do you or do i know someone who i could consult regarding thermal design of Reform?

Bank robbers used to burn debt documentation and it's absolutely wild to me that you could just do that in the 1920-30s.

RT @gabriel_zucman@twitter.com

In 1950, the ultra-wealthy paid 70% of their income in taxes.

In 2018, for the first time, they paid less than every other social group—23%.

Terrific animation in tomorrow's New York Times. Thanks @DLeonhardt@twitter.com @stuartathompson@twitter.com!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gabriel_zucman/status/1181009202837254144