Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

After The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints brought back thousands of missionaries during the pandemic, many are now using smartphones, video calls and social media to help recruit new members. http://apne.ws/fixmf7j https://twitter.com/AP/status/1269046859684884480 #News #AP #Jesus

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Full-List of bots: https://joejoe.github.io/mastodon

Looking back at how Signal works, as the world moves forward

https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-as-the-world-moves-forward/
#newsbot

Helium shortage has ended, at least for now https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20200605a/full/

Look out on Friday for a podcast about forms of surveillance being used at and around protests from Hong Kong to America.

In the meantime check out this podcast we did about extraction, a technology almost certainly already available to police near you: https://privacyinternational.org/video/3786/podcast-extraction

As I've revealed in my last Patreon post, I've been working on adding end-to-end encryption APIs into Mastodon as an upgrade to the direct message system.

Any and all technical details available at the moment are here:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/13820

An implementation guide for app developers is being worked on.

#mastodev

New leaflets available to explain how Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) works.

They are available in in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish:
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/promote/material/leaflets/

You can print them out, to distribute them where ever you believe fits.

Thanks to @dileodile for making it, and thanks to @anhdres for the illustrations.

(Tails protects you against surveillance, censorship, advertising, and viruses with a full digital security toolbox to allow secret communication)

New releases, community activities, events, new guidebooks and more – May was a busy month for LibreOffice! See what we've been up to, and join us: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/06/03/libreoffice-monthly-recap-may-2020-news-events-and-more/

Great news today 🎉

Collabora Online is the default office and collaboration app in @Nextclouders@twitter.com 19 Hub – released today!
With an easy single click-installation. Wonderful for home users and fans of LibreOffice online 🌞

Read more https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-online-as-default-in-nextcloud-hub/

#homeoffice #privacy

A pandemic should neither legitimize nor allow private companies to track its employees.

#PrivacyAware 🔒

https://slate.com/technology/2020/05/workplace-surveillance-apps-coronavirus.html

The reception for a #secure mini-PC with Pureboot (#coreboot + Heads) and #LibremKey has been incredible!

Thank you for supporting the #LibremMini and Purism 🙏

Get your new home/office desktop, server or media center https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini/

"Every model, every config" -- Lenovo brings #Ubuntu to its workstation line

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/06/ubuntu-on-lenovo-laptops

#linux #opensource #Lenovo

RT @fkarlitschek@twitter.com

Today 4 years ago 12 people founded Nextcloud to create a complete Free and Open Source alternative to centralize proprietary cloud services and open core competitors. Together we achieved a lot more then what I dreamed of. Thanks to everyone who is contributing.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/fkarlitschek/status/1267771663548112897

"Police depts are using drones... if the practice becomes normalized, we could see police use drones that can identify civilians using facial recognition or that can access the data on your mobile while they’re flying by," warns @thor_benson. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/coronavirus-drones-police/

Our great partner @CollaboraOffice explains the integration of Collabora Online in #Nextcloud in their press release! Learn about how easy #privacy friendly document editing now is on the web!
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-online-as-default-in-nextcloud-hub/

We are proud to have shared our expertise and contributed to the production of a second edition of the “Handbook on #DataProtection in #Humanitarian Action”, jointly published by the @icrc and @privacyhub_bru:

https://www.icrc.org/en/handbook-data-protection-humanitarian-action https://nitter.net/ICRC_library/status/1268075066132017153

Librem 15 - The Desktop Replacement

- Intel Core i7
- Up to 32GB DDR4 Memory
- 15" Matte Screen
- PureOS (Free, Private & Secure)

https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/

We also supply privacy screens: https://shop.puri.sm/shop/privacy-screen-for-librem-15/

#privacy #security #linux #laptop

If you're concerned about your internet traffic being monitored, use our Tor hidden service to publish: writeas7pm7rcdqg.onion. Then, in the URLs you share, replace this part with "write.as", so others can easily read it.

Twitter account reposting everything Trump tweets, suspended within 3 days
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-donald-trump-suspend-tweets-policy-violence/

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Shipping update June 3.
#PinePhone
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9942

The French Avia Bill seeks to tackle internet hate speech, but will lead to censorship and privatized enforcement instead. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/eff-files-amicus-brief-top-french-court-bring-down-controversial-avia-bill