DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

Pharma and biotech companies want to scrap the requirement that patents be "new and useful." Once they don't have to meet that basic standard, health care costs will rise. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-don-t-need-more-bad-patents-8941b5c6-5bb1-4d93-9ca1-a2da87c4458e

Don't miss the #OffTopicalPodcast that was LIVE at #linuxfestnorthwest #lfnw with special guest @lunduke https://youtu.be/CjeJD9KOCXQ

"This is a GAME CHANGER! Purism's ETHICAL services are HERE!"

- @gbryant (aka "The Linux Gamer")

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

RT @IEEESSP@birdsite.link
One paper shows how you can use a hard drive to record sound. The paper's author then used this technique to record the audio for their preview video. Take a listen, it is pretty amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EHQCuWI2jg

https://twitter.com/IEEESSP/status/1124033564616613889

RT @softwarnet@birdsite.link
#infosec
If Facebook thinks that AI Edge - reading messages before/after encryption - is a security solution - they are smoking some really bad granola. It's a back door.

They are using your hardware to do the data mining and stealing your info.

https://twitter.com/softwarnet/status/1125353877308448769

RT @troyhunt@birdsite.link
How on earth did @PCMag manage to publish a piece on certificate authorities and only focus on the paid ones without a single mention of @letsencrypt? Can you comment on this @gleefulmischief? To conclude that "You usually get what you pay for" is grossly misleading. https://twitter.com/PCMag/status/1049419422362931200

https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1125467916525240320

https://twitter.com/jakebackpack/status/1126904689583378432

<<I do sort of love the fact that people think a species that can't manage a perfect 4-billion-year old self-sustaining solar-powered biosphere surrounded by its own self-generated forcefield are gonna somehow be able to build a viable space habitat. >>

This belief is the Atlas Shrugged myth, the idea that all the problems of Earth are caused by other people, the untermenschen, that if you just put all the self-selected supermen together you get paradise.

It's what's driving Silicon Valley's Cloud and Big Data and Disruption fixation. It's what's driving transhumanism and "rationalist" cults and Bitcoin and the alt-right. It's what's making SV ignore the inflated rents they're cursing cities with and the suffering that causes.

It's fascism.

No matter which social network you're on, following a diverse group of people helps you taking a peek at the other side of your personal filter bubble.

You don't have to agree with everything and everyone, but please, at least try to listen to people and their opinions.

It will help you appreciate your own life, and may just make you a little wiser.

Say hello to Telephant!

I've written a little Mastodon client for the Desktop - called Telephant - and am currently looking for beta testers!

Want to help out and don't mind compiling the app yourself? (Don't worry it's fairly straight forward and I've added detailed instructions to the README!)

Join me here:
https://github.com/muesli/telephant

Looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Kaidan joins the KDE community:
https://www.kaidan.im/2019/05/10/kaidan-joins-kde/

In Idaho, a judge has ruled that law enforcement cannot compel a person to unlock their phone with a fingerprint because it would violate their 5th Amendment rights, following a similar ruling in California earlier this year.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/05/10/the-us-government-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-phone-with-your-fingerprint-another-judge-rules/#c3889a144454

In the previous ruling, a California judge decided that both face and finger biometrics are protected.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-iphone-with-finger-or-face-judge-rules/#4a967c1842b7

Curious about the Librem One moderation policy or code of conduct?

"If you are being harassed, or witness online harassment, block and flag the offending user, and a moderator will take action. We do not tolerate harassment."

More information here:
https://librem.one/stay-safe/

Librem One Code of Conduct:
https://librem.one/conduct/

Are you tired of having to explain to your users why their user interface suddenly changed because your SAAS vendor decided to deploy a change without informing you? How about #selfhosting to regain some control!

Check out your options:
https://nextcloud.com/compare/

What The @#$%&! (Heck) is this #! (Hash-Bang) Thingy In My Bash Script
You've seen it a million times—the hash-bang (#!) line at the top of a script—whether it be Bash, Python, Perl or some other scripting language. And, I'm sure you know what its purpose is: it specifies the script interpreter that's used to execute the script. But, do you know how it actually works?
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-heck-hash-bang-thingy-my-bash-script

Librem 5 hardware update report for May 8th!

Including: Display drivers accepted upstream, Mesa, SMS, and compositor work.

https://puri.sm/posts/may-progress-update-librem-5-hardware/

For those of you using Librem Chat on Android, the latest version (0.1.4) removes any code traces from trackers left behind in the upstream Riot codebase (we had disabled them before but the code itself was still there).

https://source.puri.sm/liberty/chat/android/issues/1

A quick hack to support #libremone in gnome-online-accounts for mail account setup

Tech companies and online platforms have other ways to address the rapid spread of disinformation, including addressing the algorithmic “megaphone” at the heart of the problem, and giving users control over their own feeds. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/censorship-cant-be-only-answer-disinformation-online