We know you have been waiting patiently, but the wait is finally over.
Manjaro ARM 21.04 has just been released, with a slew of new images for your devices!
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-21-04-released/61974
Using, re-using, and re-implementing software interfaces is the industry standard. EFF will keep fighting to make sure it stays that way. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/victory-fair-use-supreme-court-reverses-federal-circuit-oracle-v-google
500 million #LinkedIn users' data is for sale on a hacker site
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/08/tech/linkedin-data-scraped-hacker-site/index.html
Looking better than initially. I might buy one when the software is more matured
Sneak Peek of the Next PureOS Release on the Librem 5 – Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/sneak-peek-of-the-next-pureos-release-on-the-librem-5/
#Google's Project Zero Finds a Nation-State #0Day Operation https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/04/googles-project-zero-finds-a-nation-state-zero-day-operation.html
34% of WFH workers say they’d rather quit than return to full-time office work
And if they do need to come back to the office, even part-time, employees said they expect some changes. For example, they’d want their employer to cover their commuting costs, and also provide some form of childcare.
#Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-data-leak-idUSKBN2BU2ZY
Google illegally tracking Android users, according to new complaint | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/google-of-illegally-tracking-android-users-according-to-new-complaint/
Yes, it's my fault you guys are a bag of dicks?
Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awzp/facebook-says-its-your-fault-that-hackers-got-half-a-billion-user-phone-numbers
I'm very glad I never added mine and ignored all the 2fa nags back when I would check #facebook.
Amazon has made a cruel “take it or leave it” demand to its 75,000 delivery drivers: submit to face surveillance or lose your job. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/dystopia-prime-amazon-subjects-its-drivers-biometric-surveillance
"Build Rot" ... Automated Builds need to be fixed every month or so ... Even though nothing has changed 🤔
For people using the edge branch of #postmarketOS, please make sure you check https://postmarketos.org/edge if you notice any breakage. We report ways to fix known problems there, most recently PipeWire-pulse being installed and replacing PulseAudio, breaking audio.
Facebook just doxxed a half-billion people: don’t let it use their plight to justify making it harder to leave Facebook! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/553000000-reasons-not-let-facebook-make-decisions-about-your-privacy
swiley.net
Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html