Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@PINE64 announced the end of the #pinephone community editions. Turns out the @mobian edition was the grand finale that could simply not be topped :-).
https://www.pine64.org/2021/02/02/the-end-of-community-editions/

Facebook knew about violent extremists before insurrection, reports find [Updated] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/despite-facebooks-attempts-pro-trump-events-groups-still-flourish/

The #Emacs diary is telling me that today is Groundhog Day.

The thing in the movie is an actual North-American tradition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day

@metal3d @damvfl

Briar for desktop is in beta.
Here's the code and how to install it:
https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-gtk/-/tree/main

If you’re a developer in 2021 and you’re adding tracking devices from Google, Facebook, etc., to your sites and apps, the one thing you can’t do any longer is to feign innocence. You know exactly what you’re doing and you’re complicit in perpetuating surveillance capitalism.

@sesivany @zleap @bugaevc I saw some post on Reddit last night about "simple tips to use hidpi on Linux" and it was an extremely long page with custom hacky configs to coax various programs to embiggen themselves on "4K" displays with X. https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/12/24/A-few-HiDPI-tricks-for-Linux

Meanwhile, with Wayland, you don't have to do a single thing. It just works.

(Comments, including pro-Wayland ones @ https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/la43bw/a_few_hidpi_tricks_for_linux/ )

I've received my #PinePhone #KDE community edition today, and I'm quite impressed by the hardware and software, congratulations to everybody involved!

Update is necessary immediately, as I was not able to close an app before it, but once it's done it's working well.

So this year I'll try to find time to port the #Libervia #XMPP client on #FOSS mobile OSes.

Social media companies are generally not liable for user activity under a statute commonly known as Section 230, a 1996 law that was aimed at encouraging new forms of communication at the outset of the online era.

In the early days of the internet, there were several high-profile cases in which companies tried to suppress criticism by suing the owners of platforms.

One involved a lawsuit against the early online service Prodigy by Stratton Oakmont, the brokerage firm depicted in the Leonardo DiCaprio movie “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The court found Prodigy was liable for allegedly defamatory comments by a user because it was a publisher that moderated the content on the service.

So let me get this straight, there has been established precedent set in court that if a company moderates their content heavily, they are no longer protected under section 230? Where’s the section 230 removal from Twitter, Facebook, and all Google Platforms?

Getting into the mood for FOSDEM 2021 tip #2
Take a tour of Brussels from above
http://www.brusselsfromabove.be/360/grand-place

@Zoohouse Google had removed the element app from the play store. Just looked it up in order to reply here, and google has gone back on this and has now, quite rightly, been reinstated.

https://element.io/blog/element-on-google-play-store/

Could show the power of user pressure over big tech.

@zleap

@derek hi Derek "DistroTube" Taylor! I just encountered your own Mastodon https://distrotoot.com it is very interesting. Good luck and congratulations!

"A mastodon instance created by Derek Taylor, creator of the DistroTube channels on YouTube and LBRY. Derek is an advocate for free and open source software."

Shift Your Settings to Secure Your Data: now available as an audio guide from our #DataDetox Kit! https://datadetoxkit.org/en/privacy/essentials/

No.

The relief bill is done. It's going to help people who needed help all 2020 long while Republicans held up relief the Democratic-led House passed.

Republicans can get on board with Democrats and be on the side of the people for once or be remembered the way they are now: anti-democratic obstructionists who want us to forget racists storming our Capitol. #COVIDReliefNow

Ten Senate Republicans propose compromise covid relief package, request meeting with Biden -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/31/gop-stimulus-compromise/

HTML & CSS Techniques To Reduce Your JavaScript - Anthony Ricaud: https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2020/html-and-css-techniques-to-reduce-your-javascript/

As for my Haphaestus plans:

* line-clamp looks trivial enough to support.
* I do not plan to support "position: sticky" or "position" at all. Instead I'll incorporate this behaviour into CSS Grids.
* Smooth scrolling would be default behaviour as an important affordance.

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Responsible Web Applications - Joy Heron: https://responsibleweb.app/

Creating comic book speech bubbles with SVG and javascript - Paul Spencer: https://humaan.com/blog/creating-comic-book-speech-bubbles-with-svg-and-javascript/

Are you a big Reddit user? Lemmy is an opensource, decentralized alternative.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/UirZ9zPCGtQ

Peertube: https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/eed58554-8c27-47fe-b83a-53cbe6f612e6

@LemmyDev #opensource #lemmy #reddit #technology #privacy #foss