Uhm, I'm listening to #InternetRadio using my #Librem5 while on my #notebook at my desk. Why?
There's this bug letting pipewire-pulse fail, because too many connections are open.
I didn't find a way to have the #Shortwave #Flatpak play directly using pipewire.
Nice to have the same software stack on my mobile phone which now is connected to my usb speakers.
moccafair Espresso El Rubio Bio
It's one of my #favorites. Sometimes it tasted just a tid too bitter, but usually very balanced.
People habituate to the incursion with some combination of agreement, helplessness, and resignation. The sense of astonishment and outrage dissipates. The incursion itself, once unthinkable, slowly worms its way into the ordinary. Worse still, it gradually comes to seem inevitable
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
📣 Shortwave 5.0 is now available, bringing background playback and completely revamped stream recording!
https://blogs.gnome.org/haeckerfelix/2025/02/05/shortwave-5-0/
@haeckerfelix Great! Thank you! This is what I was dying for :) (not sure if I missed it in previous versions but I found it :) )
I need to reclaim some space on the wall of my office and decided to transfer my notes about #espressi I tried into my blog to be searchable by their tag for future reference.
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My preference is strong #espresso with little to no acid and a good balance of bitterness. I care a lot about the source and try to find beans that are traded in a way that values the work of the people growing the coffee.
Nearly all of the coffee I buy is labeled to be grown ecological and I'd strongly prefer beans grown in the shadow. So far I couldn't identify #shadegrown #coffee easily in Germany.
This morning, on February 2nd 2025 at 06:58 (GMT+1) I've received an E-Mail by Oracle stating “Your Oracle Cloud account has been reactivated.”
I couldn't believe my eyes and didn't really understand how to respond. At the point in time where I received this E-mail, my post regarding Oracle's mistreatment has already gathered thousands of shares and was also discussed heavily on Hacker News among other platforms.
My many pleas and requests from the past week didn't do anything. My GDPR request didn't do anything so far. But within a few hours of public complaints and so many people telling me to take this to court... I guess this was simply the easiest way.
I still don't fully understand the E-Mail I've gotten. It talks about an order about universal credits that occurred at 5:20 AM, where I've been cold asleep. When I login to Oracle Cloud, no such credits exist. Additionally, they don't show up when I look into the “Cost and Usage Reports” under my account management. Even more interesting are the dozens of files showing an account and server activity, with the calculated cost of it all, for a time period where my account was supposedly irreversibly deleted.
I'll share more interesting findings soon. I am honestly just shocked about this development. I would've expected many things except for a 180.
Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113879369270806353
What a weird coincidence.
Day three of Trump's term and the largest push for surveillance capitalism yet has been made: Project Stargate will be a $500.000.000.000 (500 billion USD) data center used for running a multitude of AIs with the purpose of spying on you.
Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and CEO of Oracle, one of the main partners of Stargate, said:
“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on [...]. We're using A.I. to monitor the video.”
— Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle on how the company's A.I. systems will be used for in the future [Source: Business Insider]
This is who is in power now. This is the vision they have.
After some time the brackwater between glass and knob gets really annoying. Some models of lids already bring some openings already in their design. If not…
#deskhop now uses a different serial number for each board. This allows to use the same notebook on two different desks each installed with its own deskhop and different keyboards.
#udev now can distinguish between the two keyboard/mouse combinations connected to deskhop. This allow for different setting/keymappings on the two different keyboards.
I added my solution to the original issue.
Due to the discussion around #deepseek and the #privacy aspects of using it I read about #KeystrokeDynamics.
Imagine - each time you fill a form on the some website you're actually leaving fingerprints on it by the way you type. If the site reads your keyboard through a websocket connection and thereby knows the rhythm you have clicking your single keys, the time you hold down each key and the pauses you make thinking, this is a biometric that might even reveal the mood you're in.
There's tons of literature out there about various aspects of using keystroke dynamics.
I'm using a #deskhop* to connect my keyboard and mouse to my notebook and #Librem5 mobile phone to use both seamless like a multi-monitor setup.
Reading about a failed indiegogo campaign to build a usb device changing the metrics of typing in a way to cloak keystroke dynamics I had the idea that this maybe could be an extension to deskhops functionality.
Sending and receiving large or confidential files via #email is difficult: the size often is not accepted by the recipient and confidential content might be transported unencrypted and via any number of relaying smtp servers.
I used psitransfer for #filesharing for a while, but it doesn't offer an upload protection for multiple users and it doesn't support handing out upload tickets to people that I'd like to invite to send me a file.
I'm now testing lufi on a #yunohost. #lufi offers the integration into an existing user database (like in the case of yunohost openldap) and it allows users to invite third parties to send them files using a time limited upload ticket.
“Our ultimate ambition is to transform the overall Google experience, making it beautifully simple,” Larry Page said, “almost automagical because we understand what you want and can deliver it instantly.”
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
Minirelease for Feber (a simple, self-hostable, portable group calendar): 1.3.0 \o/
Although #feber does not support multiple calendars per installation, it can easily be installed multiple times under a single domain (simply copy the installation files into multiple subdirectories), and this release is all about officially supporting this by isolating the (php) sessions across different calendars (which previously was not the case). Many thanks to Thom for communicating this usecase and issue to me!
Also included in this release are some tweaks and use of gender neutral language ("account" rather than "user") for the french translations (thank you @CyberSaloperie!), which I'd like to extend to the other locales (and internal translation keys etc.) when I finally get to it. :)
Website: https://simonrepp.com/feber/
Repository on codeberg: https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/feber/
Clear sky, no #clouds.
Copying the image from one #Librem5 to another #Librem5.
Stars shining, just me my notebook and two usb connections.
#Freedom, #sovereignty and no other peoples computers.
It's time to #upgrade my #yunohost to version 12. I started drafting and testing a plan on how to get through it without any unwelcome surprises.
If you're interested in upgrading your own yunohost: you're welcome to look at my draft (yes, I didn't write it with sharing in mind ).
Any feed back is welcome! When I'll done I'll publish the final version as a reply to this post.
Did anyone know about this federated "flea market" / craigslist type classified software? It's called flohmarkt. I came across it by accident today. Looks simple to setup and install, also.
Code is here:
https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt
Documentation: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki
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Image 1, main instance page for one instance, fedi.markets, with a product for lego's circled in read
image 2: an add for Legos lights
Inage 3, what the Lego light listing looks like from my #mastodon instance
Image 4: It's about section and preview image at Codeberg. #Fediverse
You send private DM to the ad you are interested in #Federation #flohmarkt
Upgraded my testing #yunohost vm successfully to #bookworm.
My production #yunohost is in some places modified and actively being used for #email, #matrix and some other things by friends+family.
To get an estimated of the time needed to upgrade it and find any issues beforehand I setup a testing board and copied the installation over to test the upgrade.
I just tagged version 0.2.0 of OLS, my experimental local #location server. It's a bit over-configurable and under-documented, but may be of interest to technical users who want to play with location services on Linux. Get it from #Codeberg.