"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io

This is precisely why open-source Android ROMs such as e.foundation and lineageos.org are so important for the health of the #Android ecosystem. https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3330/senior-google-engineer-reveals-privacy-bombshell-androids-preinstalled-apps

"It Sounds Crazy, But #Fukushima, #Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Show Why #nuclear Is Inherently Safe"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11/it-sounds-crazy-but-fukushima-chernobyl-and-three-mile-island-show-why-nuclear-is-inherently-safe/

2000s hackers: My dream is to connect all of my devices to the internet.
2020s hackers: My dream is to disconnect all of my devices from the internet.

What is some convenient scripting system one can replace #Bash with? I feel like writing bash is so impossibly error-prone that it should have been banned from the internet for a long time. I'd even prefer to do something #Python or so. But even #Rust is probably more convenient.

‘The only uncertainty is how long we’ll last’: a worst case scenario for the climate in 2050

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/15/worst-case-scenario-2050-climate-crisis-future-we-choose-christiana-figueres-tom-rivett-carnac #climatestrike #climateemergency #climatcrisis #environment #pollution

"Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/14/silly_police_infosec_parental_advice_poster/

The slides of my #FDroid talk from yesterday are now online here: https://bubu1.eu/fdroid_fsfe_berlin_feb20.pdf

It contains some interesting stats about F-Droid over the last year.

@strypey But while you can pump it from the ground cheaply, it's wonderful.

Look up the story of Indian's end-of-the-century natural gas boom for a truly staggering lesson on hubris and idiocy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Gas_Boom

#indiana #NaturalGas #NonrenewableResources #Idiocy

Lately I've seen some incorrect statements and facts about Linux on mobile being thrown around, and I decided to write a blog post to give some more correct info. Please give it a read https://fam-ribbers.com/2019/12/28/State-of-Linux-on-mobile-and-common-misconceptions.html 😄

If you see any mistakes I've made, please correct me!

BTW if you don't have this guys blog in your feed check 'em out!

https://syonyk.blogspot.com/

RSS Link:
https://syonyk.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

#Tech #Tinker #Projects #RSS

The plurality of Linux distros is often spotlighted as some kind of issue. I agree that "fragmentation" is a marketing headache, but a technical one?

I don't think so.

Using Linux is (to me) inherently about choice. My choice, your choice, other people's choice. People choice to approach things in different ways for different reasons for different results. To experiment. To push boundaries. Reinvent. Rethink.

Linux is, for me, a momentum or a force, not a standardised end product or ideal.

The last #NewPipe version has been released with #PeerTube support!

"The web is optimized for transmission of large chunks of minimally-styled text; using it to simulate native applications, while impressive, is a terrible idea and should never have become normalized."

@jared

that way of thinking about software "apps" and "users are sheep that like shiny UI and addictive buttery UX" is a problem in itself. users should be more active participants in their experiences with software. that's a big ask for people who are used to the crack people distribute these days, but if we move the line that divides developer and user a bit things might be a lot better and easier to develop and grow.

https://xj9.io/posts/2019/programming-for-the-next-billion/

we can't compete with megas on their terms, we need to come up with something that doesn't make sense to them that they can't copy without destroying their business model.

https://xj9.io/posts/2017/kill-the-web/#let-s-talk-about-infrastructure

@lachs0r @alva gopher browser + markdown viewer would be such an ideal app for reading articles and shit

The Open Book Project

"The Open Book aims to be a simple device that anyone with a soldering iron can build for themselves. The Open Book should be comprehensible: the reader should be able to look at it and understand, at least in broad strokes, how it works. It should be extensible, so that a reader with different needs can write code and add accessories that make the book work for them. It should be global, supporting readers of books in all the languages of the world. Most of all, it should be open, so that anyone can take this design as a starting point and use it to build a better book."

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

#circuitpython #ereader #opensourcehardware #arduino #DIY

compiling linux kernels are an all-day affair for me. There. Now that I've accepted that into my heart, I find the process actually relaxing. It's passive, and you get to see all the text flying by. Is it pretty? No. That would be too strong a word. Something one less than that perhaps.

The next big #innovation after Electron apps is putting your compiled Flutter apps into Android Docker containers and packaging them with the Docker runtime into virtual machine images.

A new Golang utility will be created to easily run this multi-Gigabyte monstrosity. $Utilitynetes will help orchestrate this kind of apps on your desktop.

A security upgrade is simply replacing the VM. No data is lost, since you never had it anyway, it was in the Cloud.