Jon Spark @jon@jonspark.com

🆕 features

New keyboard shortcuts! Left/right changes columns, 7 opens the compose box.

🐛 fixes

- Many iOS bugfixes (including iOS 13)
- Search fixed on Mastodon v3
- Accessibility fixes
- Many other fixes

Thanks to @stevegenoud and GitHub user chexxor for help with this release!

Release notes: https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/releases/tag/v1.14.0

Yup, this: https://witchdoctor.co.nz/index.php/2019/10/what-to-do-about-our-rotten-media/

#Cheap #Android #smartphones have a disturbing secret | #privacy https://www.fastcompany.com/90408472/cheap-smartphones-have-a-disturbing-secret

If you're always on your smartphone (aren't we all?), this could be for you. Here's another cool, pro-privacy, open-source project from Linux pioneer, Gaël Duval. A Google-free Android clone: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-e-google-free-pro-privacy-android-clone-is-now-available/

The monumental impact of C at https://opensource.com/article/19/10/command-line-heroes-c - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/1q2942xt1w #freepost

Everything is in the title ^^
Thanks for covering /e/ OS, Steven Vaughan Nichols!
#Android #privacy #ungoogle #opensource #Antwerpen #ONS
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-e-google-free-pro-privacy-android-clone-is-now-available/

A patent lawsuit against GNOME at https://lwn.net/Articles/800516/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/qewkm3ccya #freepost

"I'm impressed by Duval's privacy-first approach, which builds on the existing successful Android platform... He is making the best of it!". Thanks #StevenVaughanNicols
and #ZDNet
Check our website and order your /e/ smartphone today!

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-e-google-free-pro-privacy-android-clone-is-now-available/

Kinda perfect

Facebook’s ambitions for the brain are coming into focus

https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/9/25/20882004/facebook-ctrl-labs-acquisition-competition-strategy

Yup, we should strive to get off medications if/when we can, but they serve a valuable purpose for many, that includes mental health.

When an ad is played on Youtube, I star away from my screen. My mind immediately ask the question: "Is the video so important that you need to wait for an ad to finish?"

99%, it's "no" and I close the Youtube tab, back to work.

Thanks Youtube!

The first single-chip 5G SoC has over 10 billion transistors.

This is for a phone.

The future is wild.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14851/huawei-announces-kirin-990-and-kirin-990-5g-dual-soc-approach-integrated-5g-modem

Everyone can help training @mozilla Common Voice!
Record your voice, help validate the recorded sentences...
Super easy and funny do do!
Open Source voice recognition software is important if we want to have open source assistants...
#AI #voice #opensource
https://voice.mozilla.org

lol truth

#joke #jokes #meme #humor #humour

Today's feel-good story.

"The Best Obituary Ever, and the Wacky Funeral That Followed

A Connecticut prankster’s newspaper eulogy has captured hearts from London to Pittsburgh and back."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/nyregion/joe-heller-obituary.html

Especially in the USA but also in other countries this is the literal truth....

#USPol #Politics #freedom

Please dont forget to check in on your friends struggling with Depression and other mental illnesses. Your compassion means a lot to them I'm sure!

#suicide #depression #mentalIllness

Yes! That's an /e/OS build running on the @PINE64
#Pinebook - Ain't it cool? 😎

#linux #android #OpenSource #ungoogle
#mydataisMYdata

KDE's text editor Kate is now available in the Microsoft Store!

Our mission to spread software freedom to many platforms continues.

In the meantime, you can try out Kate on Windows and let us know how you like it:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/kate/9nwmw7bb59hw?rtc=1&activetab=pivot%3Aoverviewtab