Seit ich #GrapheneOS laufen habe lerne ich täglich neue Dinge. Was mich etwas erschreckt sind Berichte zu Sicherheitsmängel im #Fdroid - besonders im offiziellen Client, aber auch in moderneren wie #Droidify aufgrund der zugrunde liegenden Architektur. Der angehängt Artikel ist da meine Hauptquelle.
Ich bin jetzt testweise dazu übergegangen, #FOSS Apps per #Obtanium zu beziehen. Das ist sozusagen ein fancy RSS Reader, der die Github Quellen auf Updates checkt. Bisher funktioniert das gut, auch wenn die Einrichtung aufwändig war.
Aber auch da bin ich mir unsicher: Ist das wirklich sicherer, als den Droid die Arbeit machen zu lassen?
I find it strange that #BlueskySocial wanted to create their own protocol just because the existing ones weren't "good enough". Who's to say everything will always stay the same? We've been having development in every major protocols throughout the history of the Internet, look at http for example.
No, I think they know they won't get enough money or control in any other way than to develop their own. The openness is just a facade here. #ActivityPub#Fediverse
@rolle This is not uncommon in #FOSS. People create a new thing instead of improving an existing. It doesn't necessary has to be bad. See #Gnome, #KDE, #I3, #XFCE, etc. It might make progress slow to have people working in different things for the same porpoise but it might also bring new benefits and choice. I'm not sure if it's good or bad, but it's how it is
Battling Linux this weekend. Got a new laptop which I understood was certified for Ubuntu.
After swapping out hard disk and memory, I read the fine print on certified message.
"Pre-installed in some regions with a custom Ubuntu image that takes advantage of the system’s hardware features and may include additional software. Standard images of Ubuntu may not work well, or at all."
Weird certification that does not work with standard install. WIfi is not working at all.
My most awaited project of the year, the TROM II documentary, is now finally close to its release! 😃 So I just want to share a few thoughts as to why its so interesting for me:
👉 The entire #documentary, around 5 hours long and divided into 4 parts, is made by a single person (@tio), using only #FOSS software like @kdenlive for editing, and on a #linux distro (tromjaro.com) as the main OS. This in itself is a very impressive feat! And also a shout-out to the awesome #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource community for how much it has grown. I heard this documentary is the biggest project ever made on #kdenlive so far, and making such a big documentary by a single person is no joke - took years of hard work to complete.
👉 Following a #FediFirst approach, it will be released on #fediverse platforms like @peertube first! Free for all to watch without any ads or data collection. I don't know if this will be uploaded to proprietary platforms like #YouTube, tho I'm sure #Peertube will always have top priority 😉
👉 Unlike the first TROM documentary which was released a decade ago, this one features interviews with people like @bigworldsmallsasha, @aaron, @sober_pirate, @georgi and Tio himself. They talk about their personal lives, how they grew up in this world and such, their stories are supposed to give us a larger perspective on how our current society works. I can't tell you much more until I get to watch the documentary and see how all of this falls into place 🙂
👉 No stock footage has been used in the documentary! If making a 5 hour documentary doesn't sound hard enough for you then this will do it, lol 😄 So for example if it shows some scientists looking at data in one scene, then its actual scientists looking at actual data that they work on, not some stock footage of actors pointing at screens and faking stuff. Finding real world footage like this is a time consuming task as it'd require going thorugh a lot of documentaries, videos, etc looking for the right clip you need.
👉 If you've ever read any of the TROM e-books or seen their videos before then you'll know how it goes - looking at the world from a scientific perspective, encouraging people to be curious about the world we live in and the universe that surrounds us, and perhaps most important of all, to cut through all of the social constructs we've been accustomed to and see the world for what it really is, because only if we truly understand our world can we solve the many problems that are plaguing our planet right now. To get a little taste of what TROM is about you can try watching these short videos they've released in the past:
FOSStastic apps are everywhere! I’ve been highlighting projects I’ve come across during my journey into #Linux and #FOSS. Please SUPPORT your favorite projects!
App Number 17: kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows
As a reformed #macOS user, I still have the muscle memory of using the ⌘ key instead of CTRL for common keyboard shorts. #kinto allows me to keep using my ⌘ key on my MacBook in Linux!
I've seen other terms, but I use the label "fossbro" to refer to a set of toxic attitudes which through their vocalness defines the software freedom movement to those outside it.
Comprising:
Ableism, thinking everyone should have the skills & desire to modify their software.
Entitlement, thinking they're the entirety of the community a FOSS project may wish to serve. Harassing you if you e.g. reduce the visibility of configuration options.
I've spent a good portion of the last three years redesigning and rewriting #Firefox crash reporting machinery. It is a complex patchwork of tools that served us we'll but had an important limitation: it was tightly integrated in the project and almost unusable outside of it.
One of my goals for the rewrite was to make it useful to the broader #FOSS ecosystem and I feel that we're being successful on that front. 1/2
@raucao yep, we need better account migration in #AP and the is nothing in the speck to stop this happening. The is the problem of the #fedualisam of our "governance" of #FOSS and #opensource that we do need to address that is currently not prioritizing this.
@raucao if you wonder what the "problem" is? It's that for the last 40 years the domanet ideology has been neo-liberalism which has proven to be a #deathcult, look at #XR movement for factual information on this.
All the #dotcons are made as an image of this ideology and its also imbedded in different ways in all #FOSS projects unless people knowingly think in different non #mainstreaming ways.
Many apps are inaccessible for blind/VI people. Developers usually have to implement #Accessibility features from scratch for each platform they develop on, which can scare them away. The good folks over @accesskit are trying to change that with their #Foss project, #AccessKit. Their goal is to create a cross-platform solution for accessibility that only has to be implemented once. I'm posting this to spread the word. Let's help them reach their goals! https://accesskit.dev/#Blind#A11Y
I'm looking for folks discussing the overall quality of open source software, either from the product, privacy, or design perspective. Any recommendations? Thank you in advance #ux#uxdesign#privacy#ProductManagement#foss#OpenSource
Intalled #Darktable on the laptop tonight, so I can process images on the road. I'll be underway for the next 8 days, so I need me some image processing power to go.
Gallery for Android is a light-weight Media Gallery app for Android made with Jetpack Compose. It supports albums, favorites and more. It also features an integrated video player.