Jeremiah C. Foster @jeremiah_@mastodon.social

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

Spent the morning looking how much work the move of #phosh to #gtk4 / #libadwaita will be and it turned out better than expected.

Needed to stub out some dependencies (libcall-ui, gcr, libgnome-desktop) and hack back support for custom wayland surfaces into #gtk4 but with that things start to work and we can go widget by widget:

A casual reminder that @Framasoft almost exclusively lives on donations.

Do you value their technical work: @peertube, @mobilizon and many smaller contributions to various projects?

Do you value their fantastic social work which encourages citizens and organisations to emancipate themselves from bad actors?

Then you can support their work financially on https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en !