Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one

Does the Snap Store Use Too Much Memory?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/10/gnome-software-uses-lots-of-memory

"We moved to GitHub because everyone's already there"

"We shut down the mailing lists because most of our users prefer to use GitLab in their web browser"

"We're rewriting in Rust because we don't really have any non-x86_64 users"

"We're leaving IRC because Discord is more user-friendly"

What all of these arguments have in common is that they exclude people, centralize infrastructure, and eschew free software for proprietary solutions, all in the name of some ill-defined measure of "progress".

Introducing: Fund Your App

Vote for the mobile phone apps you desire to see working on the #librem5 phone!

https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/

"Fund Your App is a great way to show how far we have come with the Librem 5 and PureOS, it also allows people to vote on what is our app development priority."

#privacy #freedom

Spamtoberfest

https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/01/Spamtoberfest.html

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How about instead of corporations clothing random idiots in their advertising in exchange for flooding FOSS maintainers with garbage, we provided strong mentorship to a new generation of engineers under the tutelage of maintainers whose sustainable careers are guaranteed by the direct financial support of those same corporations?

https://www.socialcooling.com/

"Anyone who uses YAML long enough will eventually get burned when attempting to abbreviate Norway" https://noyaml.com/

This is simultaneously my first Pokemon comic... and my first C comic.

Big day. Big, big day.

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/150422/the-one-about-charmander

The world would be a better place where, when someone encounters something confusing or which doesn't meet their preconceptions, they first tried to learn and understand it before rewriting a bunch of software and shoving all of their notions of correct into the domain

This one is kind of subtle so to be clear I'm talking about the influence of windows and mac on linux

Anbox on the Librem 5

https://puri.sm/posts/anbox-on-the-librem-5/

"Anbox now runs on the Librem 5, getting you access to many additional free software apps that are packaged only for Android."

#librem5 #privacy #freedom #security

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZccG-wtt5FA

Today in The Bookseller - the UK's trade magazine for the bookselling industry - I published "Inaudible," in which I unpack my reason for foregoing hundreds of thousands of dollars by refusing to allow Audible to put DRM on my audiobooks.

https://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/inaudible-1218859

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SourceHut's PeerTube bootstrap fund: first batch

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-09-09-peertube-first-batch/

This graph shows what happens if you *backload* the hard problems, doing them last.

This means that for a larger amount of time, you have a HIGHER risk of your assumptions being invalidated, and you'll have MORE progress which is rolled back as a result of those assumptions being invalidated.

Fun fact: if present-day US copyright law had been in force at the time that Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" was made, Lewis Carol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" would not have entered the public domain for another 17 years

Yay! I have officially made and published my first GNOME desktop application. 🎉️🎉️🎉️

It is called "Short Circuit" , it is a developer scratch pad. If this description does not make sense (Most probably it does not) check out the repo's readme for a clear explanation of what it does https://gitlab.gnome.org/Bharatkalluri/short-circuit.

A GIF is more than thousand words