9. Long press on the input box and press "Paste".
10. Press the "Go" button.
11. Locate the link in the Mastodon post and press on it.
We have to do better than this, people.
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How I view links from Librem Social (Tusky fork) at present:
1. Press the three little dots in the bottom-right corner of the post containing the link.
2. Select "Copy the link".
3. Press the square Android button to get the list of open windows.
4. Find Lightning and press on it.
5. Press the three dots in the top-right corner.
6. Select "New incognito tab".
7. Press on the URL bar.
8. Press the backspace button on the on-screen keyboard to delete "about:blank".
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...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)
Initial support for booting the Librem 5 Phone has just landed in PostmarketOS!
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.
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)
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)
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)
The witch hunt continues:
http://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/
My first thought: this is exactly what they (those who attacked rms) wanted. Divide and conquer.
My second thought: how has Stallman's behavior over the years undermined the empowerment of all computer users?
My last thought: why didn't the people making the statement explicitly state the behaviour(s) they believe to undermine?
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
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