Ian @ioh@blombus.com

Hey, so this is super cool.

Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf

You don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the toilet, or wear clothes. Privacy isn't about having something to hide, it's not about keeping secrets. It's about being able to choose what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being. Privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

On #AlpineLinux & #postmarketos , I was fed up with the janky way that xdg autostart is used to run things on login, so I wrote a brand new user service supervisor, called superd. It's like systemd --user but without all of the rest of systemd.

https://sr.ht/~craftyguy/superd

"#OpenBSD/arm64 works well enough on Apple M1 systems for some wider testing."
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=164768935419551&w=2

I am constantly amazed by the work of the Sea Shepherd crew, they document the devastation in the oceans like no other.

Here's a picture of 100'000 dead fish dumped by the Dutch super trawler F/V Margiris in France's Bay of Biscay.

Iffy Books is a new little bookstore in philly seeking to share knowledge of hacking, free culture, gardening, zines.

Today I went with my friend to set up a Wemo D1 clone with another non-techie friend and we were able to get this chip to display a website! It was my friend's first time learning html and css, and as a designer it was a lot of fun for her. I enjoyed being able to learn a new board to use with the Arduino other than the circuit playground.

The guide zine is available for free (along with the zines for all the other workshops) if you want to try as well. It's still a work in progress since today's session was also a bit of debugging, but great fun!

https://iffybooks.net/pocket-wifi-portal/

You might see that there is actually a use of some work by #varia on there! @rra

Iffy Books will be soon to join Mastodon too (after a little persuasion :) )

I'm also very excited to learn about efforts to implement a mesh network for Philadelphia!

https://phillymesh.net/

#IffyBooks #mesh #meshtastic

Multiple Windows is now in the #Lagrange dev branch. Not quite glitch-free, yet, but starting to work pretty nicely.

Needs some optimizations, though.

And after quite a bit of time, finally the next part of the pinephone camera series

https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-pt5/

In love with wombo