Jeremiah C. Foster @jeremiah_@mastodon.social

In Case anyone is curious,

@craftyguy and I successfully sent an encrypted MMS via gpg!

@joao
@craftyguy

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/671

There was an interesting conversation about just making chatty natively support encryption over any communication medium (like text secure used to do). I recorded it here.

Luca Bonissi bought a Lenovo laptop which came with a pre-installed Windows license he didn't need. He asked for refund, Lenovo refused.

After a 2-year court case, Lenovo had to pay 20,000 euros in damages for abusive behavior.

⭐ One of 2021 highlights

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20211110-01.html

I recently announced that Sequoia has a web of trust implementation. Today, I piblished the first version of a specification. Incredibly neither PGP nor GnuPG specifies how they implement WoT! My document tries to address all of the details and includes implementation advice (an efficient implementation is non-obvious, but happily not complicated). #pgp https://sequoia-pgp.gitlab.io/sequoia-wot/

Another sterling FOSS event comes back to real life 🐣 This is the #FossBackstage #CallForPapers (deadline upcoming). #NotRemote #OpenSource https://foss-backstage.de/news/call-participation-now-open

Chatty 5.0~beta is out!

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/tags/v0.5.0_beta

This is the first Chatty released with integrated MMS support!

Holy shit https://metabook.fyi/

jazz #shotonlibrem5

An overview of the markup language I'm working on for building user interfaces in GTK.

https://www.jwestman.net/2021/10/22/a-markup-language-for-gtk.html

vvmd and vvmplayer have been accepted in @debian unstable! They provide visual voicemail notification on Linux phones and have been contributed by @mobian dev @kop316 . Thanks and congrats!

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1269332/accepted-vvmd-03-1-source-amd64-into-unstable-unstable/

Adaptive version of #gnome #calendar running on #pureos on the #librem5. This is still a work in progress, some issues still need to be solved before releasing this. But again; “hey it’s progress” :D.
Credits to @KekunPlazas fr his work on this.

just droppin' some TRUTH right here:

you can remove all mastodon assets and repaint interface a hundred times, it doesn't become less mastodon, which licence you brazenly violate!

Can you help with packaging Gradle in Debian? Submit a bid. https://deb.li/3yb1A

We filed a lawsuit today against Vizio because they fail to fulfill even the basic requirements of the #GPL. You can check out the complete materials here:
https://sfconservancy.org/vizio

Hey fediverse, does anyone have a picture of a laptop with a "This machine enforces copyleft" sticker?

This is convergence; the same software stack across devices and your user/app data working across devices.

"Debian GNU/Linux riscv64 port -- Sponsors and Build machines" by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo https://people.debian.org/~mafm/posts/2019/20191211_debian-gnulinux-riscv64-port-sponsors-and-build-machines/

Official communication channels for Debian https://bits.debian.org/2020/03/official-communication-channels.html

Have ideas for how to improve Debian? Submit a project proposal. https://freexian-team.pages.debian.net/project-funding