tomasoqvist @tomasoqvist@librem.one

You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?

If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".

You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.

https://developers.google.com/android/binary_transparency/google1p/overview

Meta (Facebook) has started deleting comments / posts on Facebook where a well established and beloved Linux site distrowatch.com is mentioned.

Accounts there became flagged as a "danger to cyber security" via Linux and Distrowatch related topics.

Things keep getting funnier and sillier are they not 🙂

Then again - Meta / Facebook is a rusty thing of a past in every sense..

👉 https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews

@distrowatch #Distrowatch #Linux #Facebook #Meta #ban #madness

The operational costs for:

https://pixelfed.social
https://pixelfed.art
https://pixelfed.org
https://fediverse.info
https://fedidb.org
https://loops.video
https://push.pixelfed.net
https://pubkit.net

Now exceed $4,000 USD per month, we currently get $1,465 from Patreon.

We could use your financial support more than ever while I build a foundation for long term financial support (think official hosting).

Please boost 🙏

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

Anyone who goes through my post history, knows I work for Meta (Facebook).

I am "Consumer Content Administrative Manager". My primary duties include content appeals, account appeals, account reviews, and some peer review.

It is no surprise that my job depends on people using Facebook. Today, I am going to suggest, you not do so. I can make that suggestion because we have a user base of billions, and I know most people would keep using Facebook even if the Devil ran the company. People are strange.

But if you feel you can truly live without Facebook, do so. Internally, things are changing, and not for the better. You should especially consider leaving Meta if you are a minority, woman, LGBTQ+, trans, or identify as progressive, politically. If facts matter to you, and misinformation is something you do not want to be subject toward, you should especially consider leaving, Facebook.

You have no privacy from Meta, while using Meta. None. I do not care if you believe you disabled a "feature" or "opt out" of something. You only seem to have done so. And even if you're going to continue to use Meta, uninstall the app (all of them). We collect data on you, even when you're not using the app.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Threads

Proton is giving away $1 million "to support a better internet"

https://proton.me/blog/2024-lifetime-fundraiser-results

my new year's resolution is to re-watch cowboy bebop; and to get other people to watch cowboy bebop

if you don't get this post, watch cowboy bebop

Prepared most of the Demo devices for tomorrows Embedded Software Meetup in #zurich . @devrtz and me will give a session about #linuxmobile, #mobian and #debian - Feel free to join us at Gardena, digitalhub.

https://www.meetup.com/embedded-software/events/304286819

Recommendations for mobile Linux desktop environments that run well on an x86 tablet? https://lemmy.ml/post/23450188

HAAAhahaha

Today a couple approached me while I was finishing taking 360° photos for #OpenStreetMap to ask if I was doing cartography. They were surprised to learn than I was not being paid! We talked for several minutes about OSM, and they asked a lot of questions about where to access it and what apps to use. I showed them @organicmaps and how they could use it to find details like water fountains and bike parking, which aren't present in Google Maps. They were so excited!

This is why I do the work. 🙂

I feel very disconnected on every community but here, pmOS and GNOME make me feel that there is people like me!, thank you!
#postmarketOS #GNOME

@wannoye @tomasoqvist Yes. I can confirm this, the update fixed the sound when calling and receiving calls. I hope it will stay like this. 🙏️

I started regularly donating about a year ago. I am now supporting 8 different projects with 20,77€ per month, and it didn't hurt at all.

Why pay for something free? Because free software only exists because other people already paid for it. Someone has to do it. It's time to do your part!

If you can afford a subscription service, then you probably can afford a little donation, too. Start with 0.1% of your income.

Check out @Liberapay or @opencollective

#FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

@tomasoqvist I cannot recall when was the last time I had no issues with the sound during the calls. Didn't tried to use #telegram for calls but I'll try later, but as there is no sound when testing it from settings, I presume that it will also not work. Also, I have a POCO F1 running #phosh (same SoC as #oneplus6) laying around and I will test on it as soon as it charges a little (didn't use it for a while).

Apparently, the market share of Linux on desktop in Norway is 18%. I have to stop buying so many computers. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/norway

Techbros: We pushed AI everywhere to increase your productivity and wellbeing!

Meanwhile techbros to investors: