jocor @jocor@fosstodon.org

Happy April ...... FOOLS!

There are multiple #DIY #opensource ventilator projects ongoing in the face of the #COVID19 virus from Wuhan, China that has become a pandemic.

Open Lung: https://gitlab.com/TrevorSmale/OSV-OpenLung

DIY #ventilator from a Johns Hopkins staffer: https://interestingengineering.com/diy-ventilators-might-ease-supply-shortage-amid-coronavirus-pandemic

If you can help, please do. If you can't please share so these projects can get the help they need.

#SoOthersMayLive

While we're all focused on the Corona crisis the US government is quietly pushing an internet #surveillance bill that is aimed at abolishing message encryption:

We should probably pay attention to this and spread awareness even if we are not American: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online

it should be illegal to put random dot files in people's home directories when .config and the likes exist

I don't know who needs to hear this, but placing an axe through a computer that deserves it is still hacking

There's no upside to mass surveillance.

"A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans’ domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigation..."

https://nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/politics/nsa-phone-program.html

.onion: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2020/02/25/us/politics/nsa-phone-program.html

If you can't fix it, you don't own it.

Repair:
- Is better than recycling
- Saves you money
- Teaches engineering
- Saves the planet

https://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

is punk dead

(boosts good to get more accurate poll results)

Urgent help, Fosstodontians! I was teaching my 8th year old niece to replace a broken iPhone 7 screen. Unfortunately, the home button cable was damaged and now the Touch ID is not working anymore. I went to the Apple Store and they charge 100GBP for this; is there any online shop OR good heart person that can help to repair the home button flexo cable? A new button will not suffice as it also looses the Touch ID. Thanks!

Lamps in video games are powered by real electricity.

This is nice! Brave browser 1.4 has added a 404 detection system with an automated Wayback Machine lookup process. So if you hit a "page not found" you may view the saved version instead.

There's a similar Firefox extension too: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. -- Marcus Aurelius

#linux #linuxmemes #meme #opensourcememe #opensource

bernie sanders is cool and all but what about the year of the linux desktop? i