TechZerker @techzerker@librem.one

Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦‍♂️

PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE

And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)

Boost if I'm right.

iOS 14 will give users the ability to give apps their approximate location, w/out revealing where they are, reports @KateOflaherty. 🙌

Not an iPhone user? @jenvalentino shares how to opt out of location tracking: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/technology/smartphone-location-tracking-opt-out.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/08/16/ios-14-this-hidden-new-feature-is-a-momentous-leap-for-iphone-privacy/#3f4ee2381e59

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1301154665501995008

I wrote a book!

💀 👻 📚 ✨ 🖤

If you love D&D and traditional fantasy with a twist, you might well enjoy BOOKS & BONE!

-scholars and libraries!
-black magic!
-zombie friends!
-evil necromancers but ... friendly?
-ace romance!

Follow Ree, necromancer town archivist, as she attempts to keep her family and neighbours from killing a foppish, arrogant, and amiable historian from the world beyond the crypt.

Sample and buy links: https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/books-and-bone-by-Victoria-Corva/

Turn off a few notifications.

It came! Bright, shiny new Pinebook Pro!

We’ve brought elementary OS 6 pre-release builds to Pinebook Pro as an experiment, and it works pretty well. :) Read David’s write-up of the process and learn how to get it for yourself! https://blog.elementary.io/elementary-os-on-pinebook-pro/

"The spread of computers and the internet will put jobs in two categories: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do."

-- Marc Andreessen

It's been some time since our last release, but CryptPad v3.21.0 (VietnameseRhinoceros) is now available on https://CryptPad.fr. Its source and release notes can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/releases/3.21.0).

You don't have to finish it all today.

Well, I know what I won't be buying... 😑

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/18/21372435/oculus-facebook-login-change-separate-account-support-end-quest-october

I am not in the market for a VR headset but if I was, there is a brand I know I wouldn't touch even with a 10-foot pole.

I know Oculus is a Facebook company, but tying hardware to an online account is a very bad idea.

And tying it to a an advertising and data collection platform that requires that you send them a piece of ID in order to open an account with them is beyond ridiculous.

https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-and-unlock-social-features

Google Street View coverage in Europe

A few months ago I teamed up with Liam from @gamingonlinux to produce a video about Mindustry. In response, a viewer went above and beyond, and posted this lengthy list of open source games.

I felt it deserved wider visibility than being buried in a comment section. He even includes a short note about each title and where you should be able to obtain it.

https://listed.to/@jasone/17516/note-to-self-check-out-these-open-source-games

My apologies to @gardotd426 that I forgot and which did most of the work to port Regolith to Archlinux (see https://github.com/gardotd426/regolith-de )

awesome job, thanks for it!

The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services wants to greatly expand its processing of our personal information, in the name of containing COVID-19, but without showing actual benefit to public health. We oppose this data grab. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/no-expanded-hhs-surveillance-covid-19-patients

Wow, after a single week of on-campus instruction, student/staff COVID-19 infections went from 10 to 177, prompting UNC-Chapel Hill to move to remote learning: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/unc-chapel-hill-coronavirus-cluster/2020/08/17/8ebce060-e0ab-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

Yes! Telegram video calls are here! And end-to-end encrypted! 🥰

(group video calls coming later this year too)

https://telegram.org/blog/video-calls

Just opened the app store on my phone and saw "Simple & Privacy-Friendly Flashlight App" listed.

Crazy that it is necessary. Every flashlight app should just be a flashlight app and not a way to collect and share user data 🙄

What a world we live in 😂

So many people saying they're switching from Firefox. Won't this only make the problem worse?

If you're switching to Brave or qutebrowser or UnGoogled Chromium or something, you're only strengthening Google's monopoly. If you're switching to a Webkit-based browser like Epiphany, you're shifting the monopoly towards Safari, whose parent company doesn't consider the Web a priority.

That Mozilla has bad management doesn't change the fact that Firefox is the most viable option for the open web.

Before you start your day, try to make a list of the 3 most important things to focus on that day.