Beat @beat@librem.one

Call for Debian 11 (bullseye) artwork proposals https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/08/msg00002.html

Here’s the video of my talk “Beyond surveillance capitalism: alternatives, stopgaps, Small Web, and Site.js.” from Creative Mornings Istanbul on Friday.

Edited to fix the audio sync issue, add captions, chapters, and links to all the mentioned tools, etc.

Enjoy + please share! :)

https://small-tech.org/videos/creative-mornings-istanbul/

ARD and ZDF use Nextcloud. And we have a nice new case study about it: https://nextcloud.com/blog/customer-success-story-germanys-public-radio-and-television-deploys-nextcloud/

Librem 5 Dogwood Update:

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-dogwood-update/

More info on the Librem 5: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#freedom #privacy #security #linux #librem5

In the meantime Germany changed course. A very good decision https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-app-107.html

Your Librem 5 is Calling

Default and pixel perfect. A snapshot of the preinstalled applications on the Librem 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhrnMVJDpfs

#librem5 #privacy #security #linux

Nextcloud: The Swiss Army Knife of Remote Working Tools https://itsfoss.com/nextcloud?fbclid=IwAR3aJ3dVTnLyhO10pPHBm8pxOjIfAWhTWPyLTxxjnKpp6bQJSghVhSDdrig

We're thrilled to announce the official release of GNOME 3.36 "Gresik". This version contains 6 months of work by the GNOME community and includes many improvements, performance enhancements, and new features. Please see the link below for more info:
https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/03/gnome-3-36-released/

Announcing the Purism Librem Mini https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini/ Small form-factor mini-PC that puts freedom, privacy and security first.

8th gen quad-core i7 processor, up to 64 GB of DDR4 memory.

With #PureOS, #PureBoot (coreboot +Heads) and #Librem Key support.

#LibremMini #privacy #security

lucky charm
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#ladybird #springtime #spontaneousshot #luckycharm #gardenpic #poppingcolor #red #blackandwhite

Something I didn't know I was missing but now use all the time on my #Librem5 is writing a shell script to perform a task along with a local .desktop file to run it from the home screen. Adding notify-send commands gives me feedback as the script runs in the background.

Amnesty International calls Google and Facebook a threat to human rights. We believe that centralization of power in hands of #GAFAM is indeed extremely dangerous. #privacy #decentralization matter for a free society!
https://gizmodo.com/amnesty-international-google-and-facebook-are-a-threat-1839982963

Announcement from the Thunderbird project: for the future Thunderbird 78 release in summer 2020, they will add built-in functionality for email encryption and digital signatures using the OpenPGP standard, replacing the Enigmail add-on: https://u.fsf.org/2yv

Learn about the rich history of LibreOffice, and the projects on which it's built! https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/

Nice article from http://Netzpolitik.org about TikTok. Cheerfulness and censorship https://netzpolitik.org/2019/cheerfulness-and-censorship/

This article about Google's project to store and analyze millions of Americans' health care data confirms my suspicions about the Fitbit acquisition.

Many people who don't care about mass data collection because "I've got nothing to hide" change their tune when it's health care data. #privacy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790

Prof. Carrol filed a lawsuit against Cambridge Analytica to get his data. It's documented in the film "The Great Hack."

Somebody gets it; the power and freedom of the Librem 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbqjNvpupI
Thanks for sharing your ideas David (hackersgame)

EU and democracy https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#18_October_2019_%28EU_and_democracy%29