pabloyoyoista

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Free Software hacker by coincidence, governance, project or community manager by necessity

I have made it one of my life goals, to at some point be able to provide a family member with a Linux phone they can actually use.

#postmarketOS #GNOME

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postmarketOShttps://postmarketos.org/core-contributors/#pablo-correa-gomez-pabloyoyoista
GNOMEhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/pabloyoyoista
LocationHamburg

I don't think I remember the last time I wrote code... Maybe like 2 or 3 weeks ago? And that is sinking like 20+ hours a week on #postmarketOS

It's quite crazy how governance and coordinating with people takes so much time 😅 The results are totally worth it though!

Unfortunately no office hours for me this week again :(

I have just started the second year of my two year term on the F-Droid board.

One of my goals for my first year was to improve the board's diversity, and I am pretty darned happy with how that is turning out.

I have also helped drive forward some important policy-related stuff.

Let's see what this year brings.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116402716327956884

You know Mastodon are good people because Trust & Safety improvements are on top of the list when they get more than €600K in funding.

The other big news are their plans to specify how instances will be able to share services, called FASP.

And €90K will be shared with other projects to make sure FASP is not a Mastodon-only feature.

Good people working in the general public’s interest. Also kudos to @sovtechfund for funding it.

Yesterday I fixed the Fairphone 5 audio on my Archlinux system, just for myself (afaik I'm the only user of my FP5 stuff).

Within that day, @wrenix submitted a pmOS patch and 3 separate people already approved it (with Luca not even being one of them).

@FestplattenSchnitzel even ported the fix to the FP4 and tested it.

PostmarketOS might not be able to win me over from Arch with their software, but the community they managed to build is impressive.

#linuxmobile #postmarketos #fairphone

Coming soon to #postmarketOS Duranium...

System extensions!

Got most of the of the major features reverse-engineered and fully functional implemented in the UI.

#GNOME #GNOMEApps #linux #GTK #Libadwaita

Power button on this phone feels pretty nice 

I got annoyed because buttons on this phone have terrible quality and don't register presses when case is off.

While poking the board with oscilloscope to find UART I found a testpad that was shorting to ground when I pressed the power button, so here we go.

Also found that shorting two pins around the battery connector makes phone boot with only USB attached (both testpads had same voltage with battery connected and USB cable plugged in) so I can attach a MCU to toggle power on/off and turn phone on/off by setting pins high or low, I should have some octocouplers in parts drawer.

Sadly still no UART, I *really* don't want to deploy a Windows VM just to use some Chinese software to get schematics for this but it should be much easier to find it now.

Someone sent me memory dump from that software and it looks like it opens a tunnel to China (geoblock), authenticates over HTTP with cookie and downloads PDFs from "http://down.dzkj16888.com/down/51/pdf/$VENDOR/$MODEL/$FILE.pdf". I probably could pwn it and archive all pdfs they host on that server but I don't have enough spoons 

RE: https://floss.social/@akademy/116368039922265131

This year we will be celebrating 30 years of @kde at Akademy. Come join us to celebrate and see where the next 30 years will take us!

@aelin @elly when mcafee on pmOS?