Jonathan Frederickson

Live near #philly - tech interests include #foss, #decentralization, #userfreedom - non-tech interests include #biking and #safestreets advocacy

Location: Haddon Township
Blog: https://www.terracrypt.net
BookWyrm: https://bookwyrm.social/user/jfred

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2026-08-18 21:30:50 UTC

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I dream of a Guix-based ocap OS for phones/tablets/laptops

2026-08-10 16:01:28 UTC

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I love this! It reminds me of the Wiggle bike protest in SF in which a bunch of cyclists obeyed the law en-masse to prove a point: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-bike-riders-Wiggle-protest-could-stop-6413072.php
That one was described in that article as "the unusual act of engaging in civil obedience" which always cracks me up

2026-07-29 13:42:41 UTC

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You're making me want to customize my Reform's keyboard like this now. That looks awesome.

2026-06-13 18:32:48 UTC

"A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones" - https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/
From the same author of the Junkyard Computing paper from a while back (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3575693.3575710)
I keep hoping this kind of device reuse will catch on... glad it seems to be getting more attention! Hopefully we'll see more devices made easier to repurpose at the end of their first life
#solarpunk #climate

2026-02-17 13:28:42 UTC

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If my understanding of things is correct, this seems like the kind of thing that could be accomplished in the fediverse using ActivityPub C2S. Which of course depends on C2S actually getting some use... but a more generic ActivityPub server with varying C2S frontends could get us there, I think

2026-02-14 14:47:18 UTC

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So far it doesn't look like the PCB design files are in that repo, only the schematics and 3D models. Which is still very cool (and I did back it myself) but it's not (yet?) like the Reforms where all the KiCad project files are available

2026-01-26 21:17:47 UTC

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This is lovely and I will absolutely be using it this weekend

2025-12-03 17:43:55 UTC

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That it scales down to mobile phones pretty well! I'm hoping the mobile patches that pmOS uses make it back upstream :) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/GNOME

2025-12-01 16:58:45 UTC

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I loved the description of it as a "sicko box" - it's not wrong XD
Occasionally someone will see my Pocket Reform and ask me "do you recommend it?" and I'm like "if you're a particular kind of person like I am then absolutely yes, but..."

2025-08-04 22:14:13 UTC

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That looks beautiful! Where is this?

2025-05-27 17:23:51 UTC

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Those Mastodon/Fediverse stickers are *great*. Need to see if they'll ship to the US...