saf @saf@librem.one

The trouble users had yesterday launching apps on #macOS isn't just a technical problem, but a moral one. Operating systems should service their users, not phone home to a corporation to see if they're "permitted" to run the program. #Apple

I was inspired to expand this into a full article to give myself a bit more space to talk about the issues:

https://puri.sm/posts/the-general-purpose-computer-in-your-pocket/

Did you know? LibreOffice has an alternative user interface called the NotebookBar! To try it out, go to View > User Interface > Tabbed in the menu...

If you are or are not a #signal user, please consider taking the signal user survey. Signal does not collect analytics on their users to respect privacy and I appreciate them transparently asking for the feedback instead. More information on their blog entry: https://signal.org/blog/signal-research/

Link to survey: https://surveys.signalusers.org/s3/03fb88477ded

Also, if you haven't tried signal in the last year+ they have made significant user experience improvements (new features, ease of use, stability).

I am really loving this app. Whenever I used AppImages before, I had to extract it first to get the icon file (many don't integrate with the system by default) and then create a custom launcher. Now, it's just as simple as making it executable and running it. AppImageLauncher takes care of mostly everything else.

https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

October News Update:

- New Pine Store

- #PineTab & #PinebookPro LCD shortages

- #PinePhone @ManjaroLinux CE box + image

- PinePhone Qi charging, NFC & keyboard

- #SOEdge AI module-call to action

- #PineCube IP camera now available+ more lenses coming

- #PineTime progress & more

https://www.pine64.org/2020/10/15/update-new-hacktober-gear/

On my work laptop I started using Seamonkey as my daily browser and outlook email client. And what a pleasure it is to use. It's extremely responsive and usable.
However, addons is a mission, because Mozilla just breaks shit left and rigt. Seamonkey is a newer FF fork than Pale Moon, but uses xpi addons like Pale Moon.

#Mobile #Security project « #Precursor : Mobile, Open-Hardware, RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) Development Kit »📱https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

Secure Messaging Apps Comparison | Privacy Matters
https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

Sharing is caring. But sharing your data is irresponsible and short sighted. Stop it. #deletefacebook #deletegoogle #deletewhatsapp

@dyamon Slax is made exactly for that purpose.

I found this awesome app for the webcam I bought recently. I tried using Cheese but it didn't support H264 or MJPEG and it resulted in the resolution being 640 x 360. (I have an unbranded 1080p webcam.) GUVCview and a few others fared no better.

https://webcamoid.github.io/

Kdenlive 20.08 is out with many great improvements.

https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/08/kdenlive-20-08-is-out/

WOW!!!!!
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR:)

A search engine for #peertube

"PeerTube Index is a centralized search engine for PeerTube videos. We run a crawler that visits PeerTube instances to find videos and new instances. All found videos are made searchable by their name. We exclude videos marked as Not Safe For Work (NSFW) for now.

This site is not affiliated to Framasoft, the maintainer of the PeerTube software. "

https://peertube-index.net/

#peertube #searchengine #index #search

@fatboy Reminder to everyone that PaleMoon and Basilisk are both perfectly viable browsers.

I personally use PaleMoon and I absolutely love it.

RachelByTheBay / File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness
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http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/08/11/files/
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This is
where you create a temporary file, drop all of your data there, and then
rename it into place.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/12/instagram-accused-of-harvesting-data/

Introducing appimage-manager a "package manager" for #AppImage

https://appimagecrafters.github.io/appimage/2020/08/07/appimage-manager.html
#GNU #LINUX