Ainent @ainent@librem.one

Intel's Hidden In-Chip Operating System

https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system/

Buried deep inside your computer's Intel chip is the MINIX operating system and a software stack, which includes networking and a web server. It's slow, hard to get at, and insecure as insecure can be.

"Mozilla gives $100k to fund Antifa email" - March, 2018

Hooooo-doggy. That one got me yelled at!

https://odysee.com/@Lunduke:e/mozilla-gives-100k-to-fund-antifa-email:b

#SolarWinds wrote a blog post a in 2019 about how #FLOSS is dangerous because anyone can push malicious code to FLOSS projects:
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Geek-Speak-Blogs/The-Pros-and-Cons-of-Open-source-Tools/ba-p/478665

The irony could not be sweeter.

#InfoSec #IronySec #SupplyChainAttacks

/via @cguess

The government in #Portugal is making a tracking phone app mandatory by law. Among other features, it forces geographic tracking on at all times. Expect similar things in other members of the #EU. A #Linux phone was never so necessary.

I ordered a #Librem5 from @Puri_sm over three years ago, but am still waiting. There aren't many alternatives, but reality is imposing itself. Hope the #Librem5 makes it on time.

#nineteeneightyfour

Thre is a new (October 14, yesterday) paper on the Infection Mortality Rate for Covid-19, published on the World Health Organization website.

https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

Read the whole thing of course. I am publishing the summary paragraph from page 10, in the next post (due to 500 character limit).

If I were to create an advertisement for #RSS, it would be like this:

"Do not let GAFAM curate the web for you. Curate it yourself. Use RSS feeds."

Feel free to steal this. 😉

Is your school forcing you to use Zoom, Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? We want to help you stand up for your rights! Sign and share our petition, and tell us about your school: https://u.fsf.org/34d

First post from my new #LibremMini from @purism ! Working on getting this system completely set up.

There is now a Mastodon instance for publishing scientists: FediScience.

Everyone is welcome from PhD student to professor, as well as researchers from outside of academia. You are welcome to stay afterwards, but it is also easy to change to another server.

There will be a lot of science talk on this server, but there is no need to only talk science

https://fediscience.org/invite/j6X8z7qF

Boosts are appreciated to let others know about this new instance.

This is among the reasons I never post pictures of my son. I understand and accept risks to my own identity, but I don't own his online identity--I'm merely a steward of it until he's an adult. I hope at that point I can hand it off to him untarnished and unexploited. #privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html

Stoicism or Buddhism? Either way true...

♲ @TheAncientSage@twitter.com: Everything is fleeting. Why care?

Why become emotional about something which is temporary, which you'll soon forget?

Just sit back and observe the transience of everything. You'll see how you waste your energy on trifles.

Most things are just not worth fretting about.

Find out what it takes to build a freedom respecting smartphone: Our CTO Nicole Faerber recently spoke at #CCCamp about the challenges and lessons learnt building the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-cto-presents-a-mobile-phone-that-respects-your-freedom-at-cccamp/ #purism #librem5 #linux #linuxphone #linuxmobile