Maarten van Gompel (proycon) @proycon@social.anaproy.nl

Sxmo 1.8.1 will be released soon with a fix for one of our most annoying and persistent issues - `sxmo_migrate.sh` between upgrades.

I have written a blog post about the change and why we need users to `sxmo_migrate.sh` on upgrades here:

https://momi.ca/posts/2022-02-04-sxmo-migrate.html

First came the Google Analytics news from Austria and now Google Fonts ruling in Germany...

It seems like the EU is catching up to my old post on how to de-Google a website. YouTube embeds next!? 👀

https://markosaric.com/degoogleify/

Important notice for pinephone keyboard users:

Charge the PinePhone only via the keyboard’s USB-C port. When coupled with the keyboard, the PinePhone’s USB-C is to be used solely for data and peripherials. Under no circumstances
should the keyboard and PinePhone be charged simultaneously by their respective USB-C ports

Source: https://files.pine64.org/doc/PinePhone/USER_MANUAL-KEYBOARD-V2-EN-DE-FR-ES.pdf

More fun publisher surveillance:
Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs.

okay, now my #pinePDA is running sxmo since @kelbot gave me the magic swipe gesture to make it go landscape.

multiple workspaces, the toot-lab in one via firefox in fullscreen mode and zoom at 50%, and this is quite the little pocket computer!

I don't consent to downloading, executing or viewing your ads. You are not entitled to my time, my attention, my computer.

I don't care how much you want the money. How much you say you need it. If you don't want me freeloading, put a paywall; I might not pay, but I don't object to being denied a webpage. I object to ads.

There are no acceptable or ethical ads. Ads are distractions, annoyances, disruptions. They interfere with people's work, fun, mental health.

🔖 Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media

tfw Mozilla goes in on crypto nonsense, and the original creators of the Firefox browser call them out on their bullshit.

Frugal computing: developer perspective

On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and what developers can do about it.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/frugal-computing-developer/

#FrugalComputing

After 6 long months of waiting, #postmarketOS v21.12 is live! This release contains 8 more devices, bringing our total number supported in stable releases up to 23! This time also featuring #ttyescape, a way to "escape" to a tty with graphical keyboard when things go bad.

Get it now while it's still hot!

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2021/12/29/v21.12-release/

In E12 of the podcast we mostly discuss what will be in the upcoming v21.12 release. Such as pre-built images for the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 9.7 in this super cute picture (CC-BY-SA-4.0 by Nikita Travkin, one of the hidden gems you can find while browsing through the wiki).

Topics include:
* Plasma Mobile Gear 21.12
* More GNOME 41, less forks
* TTYescape 0.2
* mobile-config-firefox 3.0.0
* New devices in community
* Mainlining OP6/SHIFT6mq/Fairphones
* pmbootstrap news

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/12-v2112-TTYescape-Mainline-OP6-SHIFT6mq-Fairphones-pmb/

i made a helpful diagram of the current state of mobile data and vaccines (mostly about germany)