blendergeek @blendergeek@mastodon.social

If you are healthy, between the ages of 18-55, and are in #Seattle and want to participate in the #coronavirus #vaccine trial: https://corona.kpwashingtonresearch.org/

Mycroft, the open source digital assistant, has been targeted by a patent troll 😡

https://mycroft.ai/blog/troll-hunter-mycrofts-position-on-patent-trolls/

Everyone's favourite screensaver collection is now available from #fdroid!

XScreenSaver (Standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.jwz.xscreensaver

I'm actively recruiting volunteer devs for a native Signal / Signal-like client in Gtk, in the hopes that we can bring it to the @Purism Librem 5 phone. Please contact sean.obrien@puri.sm if interested.

PGP/GPG: FA9D 40F1 5FE1 D8AB 8312 4AAA 77E3 1447 CD1F C3F6

.@jriddell sums up his thoughts regarding the KDE - Red Hat situation.

https://jriddell.org/2018/11/02/red-hat-and-kde/

We're excited to announce that we've incorporated The http://Matrix.org Foundation: providing a formal, independent, non-profit, neutral custodian for the Matrix standard for decades to come!! We're still bootstrapping the governance; see https://matrix.org/blog/2018/10/29/introducing-the-matrix-org-foundation-part-1-of-2/ for details

Great news for real-time, self-hosted office document collaboration: @CollaboraOffice@twitter.com and #Nextcloud announce deeper integration with a sharing/comments sidebar, image insertion and more!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-and-collabora-bring-deeper-integration-to-document-collaboration/

"Critical 5G article got me fired... Advertisers and corporate sponsors cannot abide by “opinions”... Independent opinions and viewpoints as well as unhindered research can only be done with a direct payment method from the customer (the reader)..." https://medium.com/@dvorak/5g-got-me-fired-ce407e584c4a

The thing I am most excited about with the Librem Key is its integration with Heads to make detecting tampering easy. It's something that doesn't exist anywhere else and in this deep dive post I explain the technical details. #infosec https://puri.sm/posts/the-librem-key-makes-tamper-detection-easy/

"What is ActivityPub and how will it change the Internet?". Nice post by @jdormit!

https://jeremydormitzer.com/blog/what-is-activitypub-and-how-will-it-change-the-internet/

(The only thing I'd challenge is the bit about needing lots more users to compete with Facebook and Twitter - I think most active users here would say that the fediverse is doing well already & it doesn't have to become a wholesale Facebook/Twitter-slayer for it to be good and useful! I think in general we - I'm guilty of it too - spend too much time focusing on & comparing with them!)

Hi all. We're aware of the SET antifeature, and yes, it's a bug.

More details and progress here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/issues/565

Psst... don't tell anyone, but we just merged Python 3.5/3.6 support for Synapse into develop. If you want to help us dogfood & report any last utf8/byte issues (knowing that it might explode and/or format your cat), then git checkout develop! https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/3576#event-1844185956

The release video is out! Check out the new features in GNOME 3.30.

https://peertube.video/videos/watch/41dd1087-c2bb-48d9-9c5c-071119b61ac1

https://youtu.be/bNA-Q8fQqTc

We have a new progress report on the #Librem5

https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-2018-09-hardware-report/

@renatolond since Github won't let me make a PR against your fork of Mastodon (because the base project names are different), you might want to merge this commit https://github.com/friendcamp/mastodon/commit/0738c69392d41de7e745ed57e22230a4c9088d4b

The "Boolean" trick there doesn't actual cast correctly because it's looking for {true: foo, false: bar} in the object rather than {0: foo, 1: bar} in the object. (I suppose you could have done "+Boolean" to get it to work as well but I used a ternary instead)