Hacker | Entrepreneur | Free Software & Privacy Campaigner.
Founder, https://deeproot.in & https://mostlyharmless.io. Uses, builds, supports and sells Free Software, Liberated Hardware & Self-hosted Services.
Host of the https://freetalk.show.
| Home Page | https://abhas.io |
| Building | https://libretech.shop |
| Libre Support | https://ask.libre.support |
| Documentation | https://docs.libretech.shop |
I will be delivering my talk, "Building a Liberated Home - for myself and others" on Sunday, March 20, 2022; 14:30 – 15:15 EDT (Monday 21 March 12:00:00 AM IST)
at the all-online LibrePlanet 2022 conference organised by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). I hope you’ll check it out!
More details and registration: https://libreplanet.org/2022/
Launching: The Mostly Harmless USB Disk
An answer to the ultimate free software problem:
"How do I liberate or fix a computer when I don't always have a bootable USB disk handy?"
Never feel limited again. Keep a MH-USB disk with you all the time.
https://mostlyharmless.io/usb/
Demo video:
Stock is now available on the Libre Tech Shop for liberated computers. You can purchase one on the product page below:
https://libretech.shop/products/lc230
It had been tough to acquire stock for the past few months but I have many units available now.
Check out these new 68% keyboard prototypes and the journey to them:
https://ask.libre.support/t/building-a-68-keys-keyboard/51/4
Here are some much needed updates. The PCBs The PCBs for the keyboard arrived quite some time back. They were manufactured by Lion Circuits here in Bangalore. The PCB design shared as a part of the 68keys.io project was exceptionally good and useful. With minor adjustments on the side of the PCB manufacturer. The Plates The next step is to get the plates made. One of the simplest ways of making a keyboard is to build a “sandwich case”. That includes a switch plate on the top, spacers...
Here is a build-log of my attempt to build an (almost) perfect home automation solution...
My goals:
a) it should be easy to re-program and flash new firmware
b) it should be simple for owners to pre-configure and compile custom firmware
c) it should not be frustrating to configure and integrate multiple devices in a network
https://ask.libre.support/t/attempts-in-building-an-almost-perfect-home-automation-solution/
Premise:
A hackable product makes it trivial for its owner to customise, compile and install (ie. flash) the software which powers it.
An (almost) perfect home automation solution: A Build Log I usually start at the start - but that will take a long time. And the challenges that have been already overcome are not as interesting as the ones that I’m working on now. Background The most basic premise of “home automation” is very simple - I should be able to control a switch using a computer. This implies that the switch must be controlled by a relay, the relay must be controlled by a microcontroller and the microcontroller,...
I forgot to mention that the Libre Tech Shop is 100% LibreJs compliant.
That was my first criteria for choosing an e-commerce framework. The choice Wordpress + Woocommerce enabled me to add LibreJs headers to all the javascript code (all of which was free/libre software already!).
I am delighted to launch the 'Libre Tech Shop' - a unique shop for products that respect your freedom to learn, hack, extend and do things yourself.
Check out the online shop at:
The background story behind this launch:
https://abhas.io/libretechshop/
Here - you'll be able to buy liberated computers, hackable mechanical keyboards, private and secure home automation solutions, wireless routers, spare parts and much more.
Today, at DeepRoot GNU/Linux, we complete 20 years of building, selling, supporting and advocating #FreeSoftware and #GNU/#Linux.
Please do visit the brief timeline we've published at:
I'm looking forward to using this occasion to discuss software freedom, self-hosting, building / running a free software business and so much more.
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Excellent overview of SSO protocols
