Posted an update on gemini, featuring #wvkbd #swipeGuess #suggPicker and other such #SXMO #mobilelinux developments.
gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/capsule/2022-01-24-status.gmi
Linux Mint announces new partnership with Mozilla
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/01/linux-mint-announces-new-partnership-with-mozilla
If you've been exposed to Moxie Marlinkspike frequent rants about how people are dumb and lazy and we should have centralized systems for their happiness, André Staltz wrote a very good counterpoint (from @makeworld )
https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers.html
Sxmo 1.7.0 was just released, featuring most of all lots of fixes and small improvements that should make daily usage easier. Thanks to the many contributors!
Release & upgrade notes: https://lists.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-announce/%3C20220107164241.u7q5uaok5wkw37y6%40worker.anaproy.lxd%3E
Saw this comment about #gnome4 #adwaita theme flat design that rings true:
> changing buttons to be plain icons means removing crucially important contrast between elements and weakening visual cues to the user that things are clickable. In effect it makes it harder for the brain to “parse” the interface the person is looking at and leads to users having a harder time navigating the interface
(Personally, I think icon-only buttons are a necessary evil for mobile)
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/10/12/platform-design-goings-on/#comment-23856
Comparing the Librem 5 USA and PinePhone Beta by @amosbatto
https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/comparing-l5-and-pp/
Trying out #deltachat because it makes sense to me (even if I don't understand the inner workings), being a heavy email user myself. Also avoids problem of convincing people to adopt something new in order to be useful.
I understand the chats are kept separately from your emails, which I like because I was concerned that short chat messages would clutter up my email folders.
Preparing another patch for the swipe-typing keyboard (#wvkbd on #SXMO on the #pinephone)
Any thoughts on the color choice? #postmarketOS @postmarketOS
Upgraded my #alpinelinux server to 3.15, with a new release of #nextcloud and #postgresql...
Had issues with the postgresql upgrade, but (thankfully?) alpine still supports the older version, so I can cross the #pg_upgrade bridge at some later point.
Started setting up an #XMPP server (#prosody #prosodyIM). Next steps: figure out/fix auto encryption in #dinoIM, allow attachments, store 1 week of message history. And for the later future: figure out audio/video calling? (From what I've read, we can do that without #SIP)
Can you imagine how many years of email admin lives would be saved and how simpler their lives would be if people simply did not send emails to #gmail and #hotmail ????
google and microsoft are like two of the biggest offenders when it comes to email, bullying smaller services. And yet every email sysadmin has to work to comply with google and MS rules.
does anyone have a broken DSi or 3DS, or a Wii Fit U Meter they'd be willing to donate? or just anything that has a 78k0, 78K0R or RL78 chip
"broken" being the screen hinge broke, a badly corrupted flash, etc, it still kinda needs to boot
context: I'm trying to get the firmware out of the DSi BPTWL chip and maybe also the 3DS MCU, and also the fit meter because why not, as these are very similar chips. except they all differ in small ways in their in-circuit flashing interface and bootrom (which implements the former) so that I need to sample a number of them. also the RL78 debug interface has been semidocumented by fail0verflow and I want to try to expand that to the other chip types. access to this debug interface, even when disabled by the firmware, would make it much easier to recover the flash using voltage glitching (lower complexity exploit)
yes I know the 3DS MCU firmware has been obtained already but that chip is in the middle between the 78k0 and RL78, making it useful
I broke my #firefox install on my #PinePhone (maybe because of enabling/disabling testing repo on #postmarketos edge? (not stable)), and... I don't miss it that much. Performance was always dodgy. Important sites (like #sourcehut's 'create repo' page) work fine in #links.
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