Dean @dean@librem.one

I love this post:

"When we first approached hardware manufacturers almost two years ago with this project most of them instantly said “No, sorry, impossible, we can not help you.”. Others warned us, that it could never work, that it was too complicated, “the industry does not do that” and so forth.

And yet here we are, later than we wanted, but we are actually shipping first hardware! It is possible but it comes at a price." #Librem5

https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

There's a petition to Save the .org top level domain. Apparently, ICANN could still stop it from being sold.
https://savedotorg.org
I know, petitions rarely work, but I also know that _sometimes_ they do.
Please consider signing if you _run_ anything there, or if you _use_ or _care about_ anything that's on a .org domain. Also, boosting this to others who follow you, would be very much appreciated.
#SaveDotOrg

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

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison could free Assange from Belmarsh prison if he wanted to, James Ricketson tells Newscorp.

The Australian filmmaker was freed from prison in Cambodia after Australia's government made representations on his behalf.

https://t.co/DZufxNhWuA

We're trying to defend #FOSS from patent trolls. Please help us: https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/

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! #Purism #Librem5 #Linux

"If this video disgusts you, it should. It happens daily in Iraq. The rules of engagement in Iraq are a joke"

- Ethan McCord, the US soldier seen carrying one of the two severely injured children in the #CollateralMurder video.

https://t.co/1OW8c5y2oq

👏 Send huge congrats 👏 to @mastohost for this. It is for the health of the #Fediverse and a very good call.

They write:

"I have added the following to the terms of service:

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I will not accept to host Mastodon servers that promote or that become a gathering of users around the following topics:

...National Socialism
Nazism
Holocaust denial
Racism
Alt right, including under the disguise of freedom of speech
Gender-critical
Sex and gender discrimination
Transphobia
Misogyny....

I will also not accept Mastodon servers that are mainly used for the following activities:

Automated sharing of third-party content, news sources, websites or social media content that doesn’t belong to you

Trolling, insulting and derogatory comments towards others outside your server

Mass following and aggregation of content..."

https://masto.host/changes-to-the-terms-of-service/

Read the full leaked draft NASA/NOAA US climate change report
#Strike4Climate #climatestrike

https://t.co/9zSEupSvZf

Librem 5 shipping starting 24 September 2019 https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/ #purism #linux #linuxphone #linuxmobile #gnome

User empowerment is the best tool to curb online harassment.

https://puri.sm/posts/curbing-harassment-with-user-empowerment/