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Something I didn't know I was missing but now use all the time on my 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.

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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!
gizmodo.com/amnesty-internatio

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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
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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.

wsj.com/articles/google-s-secr

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

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

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that contributes to several free software projects such as , wlroots and ? We've also made dozens of patches to the kernel (5.2, 5.1, 5.0, 4.20) for the and our other hardware puri.sm/posts/purism-linux-5-3

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Aspen batch phones going out next will get an anodized chassis - look at those kill switches. Thank you for your patience as we incrementally ship through tens of thousands of Librem 5 phones over the coming months. Yes, we know you're excited, we are too and you will be impressed!

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My run through of the Librem 5 privacy and security-focussed mobile phone... What a joy to finally have it in my hands! My congratulations to the extraordinary team at Purism.
invidio.us/watch?v=Gvnt78mK-Ac

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We’ve published a Librem 5 Batch FAQ to answer the community's questions from last week's shipping announcement. We will update the FAQ regularly puri.sm/posts/librem-5-batch-f

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The Librem 5 impacts Linux desktops makeuseof.com/tag/librem-5-pho

1. Adaptive GNOME Apps
2. Desktop-Compatible Mobile Apps
3. Improvements to Upstream Projects
4. More Options for Private Communications
5. Hardware Kill Switches

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I just wrote a long, multi-post diatribe about some politicians.

Deleted it. There's enough yelling going on. Me yelling would just be more noise.

Time to pull a Lazlo Hollyfeld.

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