Jeremiah C. Foster @jeremiah_@mastodon.social

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

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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 !

RT from Lea Verou (@LeaVerou)

Can't setup washer/dryer bought in Europe because my iPhone's region is US and the @hoover_uk hOn app is not available in the US App Store. If that's not @internetofshit, not sure what is.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/1445336004320243715

If WhatsApp infrastructure were owned by users, not Facebook, then #FacebookDown could only affect one household at a time. Communicating with family and work is too important to be the job of one company. Decentralize now! #EmailFTW

Facebook down but the fediverse is still fediversing.

Using SPF, DKIM and DMARC to Enhance Email Security

https://ctemplar.com/using-spf-dkim-and-dmarc-to-enhance-email-security/

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PrivChat #5 | Protection Against Pegasus

Institutions invest billions annually into buying & building malicious spyware. What can journalists, activists, & human rights defenders do to protect themselves?

In this edition of PrivChat, join Likhita and Etienne Maynier of Amnesty International and John Scott Railton of Citizen Lab.
Roger Dingledine, Co-Founder of the Tor Project, will join us as our host and moderator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ovmcZtaacY

Election day is #dataviz day 🎉
Only bars so far in the German election #btw21. The first maps are expected around 8pm. Some URLs to watch:

👉 https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/world/germany-election-results/
👉https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-german-election-results/
👉https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2021-09/wahlergebnisse-bundestagswahl-2021-wahlkreise-karte-deutschland-live
👉https://www.nzz.ch/visuals/bundestagswahl-2021-alle-ergebnisse-der-wahl-im-ueberblick-ld.1645826
👉https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/bundestagswahl-2021-umfragen-ergebnisse-wahlkarte/

ls -X # Lists files grouped by their filename eXtension. Great for when you want to clean up/organize your home directory.

Today we have joined the Tracking-free Ads Coalition committed to ending pervasive tracking. Together, we fight for an internet that puts people first. Because right now you are being tracked, profiled & targeted online. It's time to ban targeted advertising:
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/ban-targetedads
Check out all supporters: https://trackingfreeads.eu/supporters/

phosh 0.13.1 is out 🚀 :
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/tags/v0.13.1

Feedback quick setting cycles through all modes, "Close all" notifications button, improved encrypted media handling and fractional scaling improvements.

#phosh #librem5 #purism #gnomeonmobile #gnome #linux

Just realized that I missed the anniversary of my first commit to #calls #gnome #gtk

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/calls/-/merge_requests/117

which has been the start of a really beautiful journey working for #mobian on the #pinephone which eventually lead to working on SIP in calls for Purism \o/

Lasers and Rainbows!
🌈 🌈

Some folks have asked about making a spam blocker for the #Pinephone . I made one here for #Phosh: https://gitlab.com/kop316/phosh-antispam

If the contact is not in your contact list (or you added it as "Spam), it will automatically hang up.

Also, it has some user configuration options to allow 1) blocked numbers, 2) a caller through if they call twice within 10 seconds, or 3) A way to look for a subset of a number (e.g. an area code, a number prefix) and let that through.

Let me know what you think of it!

Making a #sip call from the #calls app on the #librem5 (and yes audio worked ;) ). This is still a development version of gnome-calls. And work still needs to be done to make it more user friendly and integrated with other components. But hey it is progress :D
Credits go out to: @devrtz that has been working to add #sip on gnome-calls. Also the account on the phone is an jmp.chat account, shoutout to them as jmp.chat is an awesome service :D

I was bored.

Still need a libhandy version for GTK3, and need to discuss the whole approach and the portal key name.

But it works. The code in Builder shows how it looks like from an app's side, that's the whole thing other than meson/flatpak bits.

So proud this program is a Conservancy member project! Hearing about kids who are able to, for example, forgo a fast food job & instead get a first step in a serious career as scientist is just the best! And I love how software freedom is the logical tool to accomplish this.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/aug/03/icr-portland/

OK..so just ordered a new DSL Router.. 5ghz wifi this time. ...

Now I need an USB wifi stick which supports 5ghz....and works with Debian (10 now...11 soon 😬)...and is available in Europe.

Any suggestions? 😊

Boosts welcome! Thx 😊