blendergeek @blendergeek@mastodon.social

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

@TinfoilSubmarine @fdroidorg

If it's on my phone, it came from #FDroid. A small selection:

#OsmAnd
#Nextcloud
#DAVdroid
#AFWall+
#Transportr
#Briar
#StreetComplete
#QKSMS (pinned to older version)
#Fennec
#Klar (default browser)
#NewPipe
#KDEConnect
#K9Mail
#LabCoat
#Markor
#LibreOffice Viewer
#PixArt Messenger (#Conversations fork)
#KISS launcher

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/

Life + 70 years is already an overlong copyright term that suppresses creativity. Forcing it on other countries through trade agreements is a big mistake. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/new-north-american-trade-deal-has-bad-news-canadian-copyright

"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

I wish "uses too much memory for what it does" was considered a bug by more programmers.

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)

Ubuntu Touch OTA4 has been released!

This major update brings various bug fixes as well as a complete rebase from Ubuntu 15.04 to 16.04! There are also a few brand new features to have fun with.
Make sure you take a look at the release article so you're up-to-date on what's new with UT!

Release Article:
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-4-release-166

Upgrade Instructions:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1599/how-to-manually-upgrade-from-ota-3-to-ota-4

#UBports #UbuntuTouch #OTA4 #Xenial #Ubuntu