David Heidelberg @okias@floss.social

🦄 Geary 3.36.0 has been released! 🍃🍃

A new composer, undo everywhere, and finally no more accidentally archiving emails when you press the A key. 😅

Enjoy!

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/geary-list/2020-March/msg00001.html

#Geary #GNOME #Linux #Email

Even emojis can be generated avatars.

Wow, that was quick: Thanks to Lucas Stach our #etnaviv runtime power managemt fix already landed in linux-next: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/?qt=range&q=ea4ed4a55f7363ad8db1863bd536548fb7e5c6aa..78f2bfa3181cd7ee134274aa17177dd933c69dc1

The fix hits the #librem5 with the next kernel update.

I drafted this #FacialRecognition ban for #NewHaven with the help of @eff and we're building momentum to get it passed. After the Fight For The Future action at Yale tomorrow, we will make sure the Elm City joins cities around the U.S. in passing this important #privacy safeguard. 1/2

#phosh 0.2.0 got released:

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/tags/v0.2.0

featuring first quick settings (for battery, rotation and feedback), proximity sensor support and more ground work for better notifications and translation updates.

#librem5 @purism #gtk #wayland

"Should you self-host Google Fonts?

Yes it's better to self-host as the performance gains are substantial."

https://www.tunetheweb.com/blog/should-you-self-host-google-fonts/

Shortwave running on the PinePhone! Looks awesome! 😎

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNcRxsJRdaQ

#Phosh #PinePhone #GNOME #Shortwave

#Sweden will likely pass a new law tomorrow which allows anyone from law enforcement to install spyware on computers, phones and smart devices a mere personal suspicion that a crime may have been or be committed. No warrant required.

Europeans may want to think hard about their options for full disk encryption, boot chain integrity and so on. Most #linux distributions have good options.

https://femtejuli.se/2020/02/05/stoppa-lagen-om-hemlig-dataavlasning/

#infosec #fascism #bigbrother

Shortwave Beta 2 is now available! 📻

https://blogs.gnome.org/haeckerfelix/2020/02/17/second-shortwave-beta/

#GNOME #Shortwave #Rust #GTK

Watch "Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/eW-OMR-iWOE

StreetComplete - Crowd sourced contributions to the OpenStreet maps

StreetComplete (OpenStreetMap surveyor app) - https://f-droid.org/app/de.westnordost.streetcomplete

After adding proximity sensor-support to #iio-sensor-proxy (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/merge_requests/298) and adding runtime-pm support for the chip used in the #librem5 (and it's devkit) (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/cover.1580721204.git.agx@sigxcpu.org/) we can now wire it up to #phosh to fade the screen and prevent keyboard input:

Jonathan Carter on the #Librem5 "The #Gnome apps are fast and responsive and just feel natural on this form factor. I’m looking forward again to having a pocket computer that can run Debian." - Random bits from FOSDEM 2020 https://jonathancarter.org/2020/02/07/random-bits-from-fosdem-2020/

freedesktop-sdk 19.08.07 has been released with Mesa 19.3 - which means that flatpaked apps can use OpenGL out-of-box with upstream unmodified runtime on the Librem 5 now! \o/
https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/commit/bd5e42ef67e3f8e45fe122341264574534338aff

The year is 2025

There are five browser cores:
- webkit
- chromium
- gecko
- servo
- youtube-dl, which ended up implementing a full-fledged browser in python to keep successfully downloading videos

Over the past few years I've noticed myself stopping to do custom tweaks on my own system, and instead working to fix the underlying issue for everyone.

I finally wrote my thoughts about this down in a more coherent form https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2020/01/17/doing-things-that-scale

If you are using libhandy, use the libhandy-0-0 branch instead of master — e.g. in your Flatpak manifests.

We will soon bump the API version on master to prepare libhandy 1.0, so if you get libhandy from that branch, your app *will* stop building.

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy/tree/libhandy-0-0