Lorenzo @ranfdev@linuxrocks.online

For almost five years, we have been doing the exercise of replacing stock OS on phones. We can tell first hand how oftentimes unnecessarily difficult/impossible it is. In the interest of reducing the insane amount of e-waste and truly being in control of our devices, we need laws that allow us to install any software on any device!

Thanks to @fsfe for writing a nice open letter about just that, we happily signed it:

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.en.html

Apple will now allow Blink and Gecko based browsers in iOS after lastest EU ruling.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/26/apple_ios_browser/

what shift key do you use (boost pls)

Big shout out to our dev teams. Thanks to their efforts, we have a free software mobile platform and vibrant third party app ecosystem based on the GNOME stack. And because
we are upstreaming improvements the GNOME experience on desktop has gotten much better at the same time! Read more by @tbernard https://puri.sm/posts/how-to-be-upstream-first/

Exciting new milestone for Blueprint support in Workbench

It's like those 2 were made for each others !

#GTK #GNOME

https://github.com/sonnyp/Workbench

https://gitlab.gnome.org/jwestman/blueprint-compiler

#OsmAnd, a popular mobile front-end app for #OpenStreetMap launches a new version of their website

Autofocus glasses!
What with the inexorable march of time etc, I find it harder to change focus from near to far.
These glasses have refocusable lenses (from some horrible cheap dial-eye specs), a couple of little linear servos to drive them, and a couple of endoscope camera modules to track my eyes.
The focus is adjusted based on where my eyes are converging.

When we created ODF 20+ years ago, Microsoft first laughed at the committee at OASIS, then made OOXML to render it moot, then rigged ISO to make OOXML a standard, then implemented ODF and now participates in the ODF committee and helps fund its work through COSM.

#Bluesky is Twitter's OOXML to #ActivityPub and it's at the "rigging ISO" stage.

My brain is 🤯 rn. I'm going on a trip and I was thinking about which laptop I want to bring (I have a bunch of old laptops lying around that people give me). I realized I can use my #SteamDeck as a laptop by docking it with my #Nexdock !! This didn't even occur to me as a possibility before now. This is so cool.

Porting GNOME Builder to GTK 4 – Happenings in GNOME https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2022/04/22/porting-gnome-builder-to-gtk-4/

Apparently Apple is really intent on backdooring end to end encryption so they can run algorithms on people's private content.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/20/apple-says-new-child-safety-feature-to-be-rolled-out-for-uk-iphones

They ditched (or more realistically: postponed) this in the US because people were outraged (largely the information security and civil rights communities).

It makes me sad, not because I like Apple (I don't), but because they were the giant that was advertising that they were pro-privacy.