PublicLewdness @publiclewdness@gameliberty.club

So I'm installing Qubes for a customer. I'm not usually one to complain about things, but I'll make an exception. Perhaps even to their mailing list:

Qubes installer is the least intuitive ever. It finishes, then a little button appears to click "next" but it's hidden in plain sight, and nothing changes on the screen to highly and visibly demonstrate to go next.

Same for configuration in general. I think it's still doing something so I leave it, but it finished ~30 minutes ago.

Bad UI design.

Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h

Thank you from the bottom of our GNU little heart! #ThankGNU to Alessandro Vesely, Charlie Ebert, Colin Strasser, David Ignat, Dean Ujihara, Douglas Hauge, Inouye Satoru, Jason Prince, John Rakestraw, and The Kuckelheims for their generous contribution to the #fsf Let's fight for freedom together! https://u.fsf.org/3vy

#SparkyLinux Kicks Off 2024 with New ISO Release Featuring #MLVWM Macintosh-Like WM, #Calamares 3.3 Installer, and #Linux Kernel 6.7 Support https://9to5linux.com/sparkylinux-kicks-off-2024-with-mlvwm-macintosh-like-wm-and-calamares-3-3

#OpenSource #Debian

The second release candidate of #LibreOffice 24.2 is now available! This will be our next major update, with a new "year.month" version scheme – so it'll arrive in February 2024. And it has a bunch of new features too, which you can help to test: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/01/16/libreoffice-24-2-rc2-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #opensource

This week in F-Droid (TWIF) with news about the following apps was published:

- Element with an update and a fix for a critical bug
- The Fossify fork of Simple Mobile Tools has now 2 additional apps: File Manager and Calendar
- Kore was downgraded due to a non FOSS dependency
- Transportr is back after more than a year

Also, we've had 8 more new apps, 2 removed ones and 150 updated apps.

https://f-droid.org/2024/01/18/twif.html

#FDroid

Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” Mate overview | Stable, robust, traditional
#linux #LinuxMint #mate #opensource
https://youtu.be/NymUTolaTZw

This week's donation went to Trisquel. It's a libre focussed Linux distro whose goal is to not have any closed source software in their repos and not to have any closed source blobs in the kernel. They're one of my favorite FLOSS distros and they have a great forum as well. If you're looking to get rid of software blobs from your system I would give them a try. They are on the FSF approved distro list.



The main website for the project is here:

https://trisquel.info/




The source code is available on Gitlab:

https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel



If you wish to help the project financially they accept donations using Paypal and crypto:

https://trisquel.info/en/donate

FOSS bootloader "Limine" has been updated to version 7.0. It's a minor update with a couple bug fixes. One is a fix for newline handling when reading user input lines and the other fixes versions of external dependencies in "bootstrap" script. Limine is a portable, multiprotocol bootloader that supports Linux, multiboot1 and 2, the native Limine boot protocol, and more. The code is licensed using the BSD-2-Clause license.




The project has an official website:

https://limine-bootloader.org/




The source code is available on Github:

https://github.com/limine-bootloader/limine




The change log can be downloaded from Github:

https://github.com/limine-bootloader/limine/releases/tag/v7.0.0




If you wish to help the project financially the lead developer accepts donations through Liberapay using Stripe:

https://liberapay.com/mintsuki

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1592735069846376454

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1592734888417562632

Discover The Fediverse: Door of Opportunities are only a click away in this weeks Follow Friday.
Help spread awareness for these projects with boosts and follows.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-doors-opportunities/

- Alovoa @alovoa_love
An open-source dating platform.
- Biome @biomejs
Toolchain of the web.
- Apache Airflow @airflow
A data orchestrator and workflow scheduler.
- ApacheDS @apacheds
Modern LDAP directory server.

#FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #ff #oss #foss #floss

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1592726004621643791

https://notthebee.com/article/world-health-organization-trans-activist-be-gay-do-crimes-tattoo-guidelines-gender-transition-kids

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1592726255680098316

The Scottish government has proposed legislation that could result in up to seven years of imprisonment for parents who do not support their children's decisions to transition to a different gender.

https://rebelne.ws/3tQh6bx

“Suburban man”

Anything for the narrative.

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1592729854497787905

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/seti-overtaken-woke-ideologues-more-interested-debating-transphobia-whiteness-searching

today:
* spent the entire day down a vast rabbit hole of ancient Fedora/EL release perl packaging stuff, trying to help a project which really didn't care to be helped. I should've taken a hint and quit sooner, but I am bad at stopping in the middle of things. Oh, well
* emerged, at least, with https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/inxi/pull-request/1 to fix downstream problems

In case anyone was reading along at home with popcorn, here's how that test matrix turned out...