BeardlyDavid @fssofdeath@librem.one

In roughly 40 weeks there will be a microgeneration of babies born to parents who conceived them after coming home from seeing the new "Sonic the Hedgehog" movie.

They'll be known as Sonic Boomers.

#shamelesslystolenjoke

All This Dystopia, and for What?

When privacy-eroding technology doesn’t deliver on its promises.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/opinion/facial-recognition-surveillance-privacy.html #privacy #security #purism

Evince has been adapted to mobile screens with #libhandy and is the new default document viewer for the #Librem5 🎉 https://puri.sm/posts/evince-ported-to-the-librem-5/ #privacy #security #Linux #FOSS

Today I got #fedora running on my @PINE64 #pinephone.

(Lots of help from mozzwald on Discord, using megi's 5.6 kernel.)

Remember Clearview AI, the firm with the huge database of face photos scraped from social media & shared with law enforcement w/out consent?

In this podcast interview, @kashhill explains her journey to expose the company & what it could mean for society. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/podcasts/the-daily/facial-recognition-surveillance.html

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-need-for-protest/

"Justice and law are not the same thing. That which is legal is not necessarily just. And illegal actions can be done in the name of justice. Sometimes, change must happen through people throwing themselves against and beyond the boundaries of the law, pushing those limits beyond what is legal towards what they believe is just. That process will be discomfiting and disruptive. So be it."

Say hello to banana!

Why Clearview AI is a threat to us all
https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/12/clearview-ai-police-surveillance-explained/ #privacy #security

The Purism community is inspiring 🚀

@bilelmoussaoui@mstdn.fr made a #Librem5 #Wallabag app from our app design tutorial https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-app-design-tutorial-part-i/ using #Rust #GTK #libhandy

Thib interviewed Bilal on the process #GNOME #Linux #opensource https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-community-story-read-it-later/

What do you get when you put a billion people into citywide quarantine lockdown with looming food and medical shortages, mix in recent sudden mass unemployment and mass distrust of the government, and then make that population only able to communicate via highly censored and ban-happy social media apps which also double as everyone's only banking system and identity card?

I dunno either but I think China's about to find out.

Based on @merge 's accelerometer work (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/cover.1569143551.git.lorenzo@kernel.org/) and yesterday's work to hook iio-sensor-proxy into #phosh, enabling rotation is just a couple of more lines of code.

The video shows the #librem5 devkit but it is the same for the phone. Please excuse the low video quality.

never forget.