Mr. Matt @matt@linuxrocks.online

Last week I learned that planting the seeds to convert others from MacOS to Ubuntu or Elementary OS actually worked in the long term.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119282/
apparently, you don't need pillows for sleeping, cuz before tech, human animals still sleep well

I think Wine (and emulators in general) are going to be key for keeping control of our computers from being wrestled away from us. Personal Computing (not just PCs but computing in general) is being subsumed by cloud providers and subscription models and I for one am not about to give up the idea of Personal Computing.

If there's anything that I've learned from 30+ years in computing is that corporate interests are never in the users long-term interests. Ever.

Wow, I'm so happy I switched from osx to linux. This one would have definitely got me. #iterm2 #tmux critical security issue.

Why can't a terminal emulator be just that? Why would you build in tmux integrations and parse stdout like that?

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical-issue-moss-audit/

"Hearthstone pro banned [by Blizzard] after calling for Hong Kong liberation during stream"

https://nordic.ign.com/hearthstone-heroes-of-warcraft/29943/news/hearthstone-pro-banned-after-calling-for-hong-kong-liberation-during-stream

#Blizzard #Hearthstone #Censorship

Almost 20 years after enigmail saw the light of day, and about 3 days before people stop using PGP, Mozilla announces OpenPGP to be integrated into Thunderbird.

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/10/thunderbird-enigmail-and-openpgp/

> The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils."
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> Said Diogenes "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".

–Anthony de Mello

#quote #philosophy

This is, hands down, one of the best articles I have read this week:

"I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)"

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

Japan: This CD is lovingly crafted within the finest tolerances and will last decades, if not centuries.

USA: Wobble is part of the standard.

Librem 5 - first run walk through video https://youtu.be/Gvnt78mK-Ac #Linux #LinuxPhone #LinuxMobile #LinuxSmartphone #smartphone #Purism #Librem5 #Librem5Aspen #PureOS #GNOME #privacy #security

We have arrived

#pixelfed #pixelfedSZN #federation #activityPub #helloFediverse