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Today’s links:

• Purism starts shipping its Librem 5 open/free phone - if I’m honest something about the company name Purism/pureOS sort of weirds me out a bit but I very much like the product concept, it would be really awesome to have a mobile device running entirely free software boingboing.net #

• Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS - Though the article does cover interesting details it misses the worry that moving dns settings from the OS to the application could cause a lot of issues arstechnica.com #

• Jet fuel from thin air - Aviation's hope or hype? - I'm surprised this hadn't occurred to me before, but even more surprised that I haven't read about it anywhere: is creating fuel from air and water, the two things that humans rely on on for survival a good idea? www.bbc.com #

• The mysterious bug that was causing macs across Hollywood to become unbootable was caused by a Google Chrome update, some installations of OS X 10.8 or earlier are effected gizmodo.com #

• PureOS Librem 5 overall software architecture stack diagram - It's based on Debian developer.puri.sm #

• Highlight, then fade highlight, for list items dynamically added to a list stackoverflow.com #

• It's now possible to link directly to a message in a linkblog, when the page loads the message is momentarily highlighted, also works for messages in the archives - I haven't figured out exactly how to integrate it into the UI yet but here is an example linkblog.io #

• This is the same link but on the archives month page linkblog.io #

• And finally the same link again on the day archives page linkblog.io #