Jon ☎️ @jfred@mastodon.sdf.org

This is a bold thing to write on a lighter

hey have you heard that the IPCC released a new report of critical importance on August 9, 2021, and you wanted to read it but it's a bunch of fucking PDF files and that's not working out for you?

WELL COOL cause i extracted all the text for you and put it in per-chapter HTML files and I also dug up the actual long descriptions of the future scenarios they use throughout the report without explaining them for SOME REASON???

anyway here you go

https://plaintextipcc.nfshost.com/

➡️ @mobian - Mobile version of Debian Linux

➡️ @postmarketOS - Mobile version of Alpine Linux

➡️ @ubports - Mobile version of Ubuntu Linux

➡️ @plasmamobile - FOSS smartphone interface developed by @kde

Probably the easiest option right now is buying a PinePhone or an /e/ degooglised phone, as they have their OSes preinstalled.

However, all these projects deserve support so that alternative phones can become as functional and as easy to use as possible.

(4/4)

Why Generation X will save the web
https://webdevlaw.uk/2021/01/30/why-generation-x-will-save-the-web/

Just typo'ed a servername while reconnecting to an IRC channel, and accidentally put in libera dot net instead of the correct dot chat, and you wouldn't believe where I found myself: Back on Freenode. Who've apparently secured that domain, and are using it to try to trick people back on to their services.

“Breaking: GitHub’s Copilot Is Generating Functional API Keys” https://fossbytes.com/github-copilot-generating-functional-api-keys/

It's #Caturday evening
Time to stop working

😕

Do you use an RSS/Atom reader?

Boosts appreciated for sample size :)

Yep, we need free software for vacuums too: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971681198/users-report-drunken-roombas-after-software-update "go home roomba" "where's that?"

I just get so mad when I think of th is last decade of computing, how we finally got powerful, amazing computers in the hands and pockets of everyday users everywhere, and iOS and Android tag-teamed getting users to expect them as consumption-only devices :\

Google is a "cornerstone sponsor" of FOSDEM this year, which is being run entirely on Matrix, accessible on Android via Element, which has just been pulled from Google's Play Store. FOSDEM is in a week. This all makes perfect sense.

Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.

Okay I don't know how to say this better than the commit message I just wrote so I'm just gonna quote that:

"OMG CAPTP HANDOFFS WORK

With a test, too!

... holy butts"

https://gitlab.com/spritely/goblins/-/commit/caeb8644e09b6dd4f9651e812d61dc9e7124a46c

Big moment for @spritelyproject! (Probably not obvious how big!)

"This is probably not the update you want." https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-48866282e5

The result of Google restricting their services to particular user-agents and builds.

Are standards really standards if you only let yourself (and maybe one friend) participate?

(HT @mhoye for the link)