BeardlyDavid @fssofdeath@librem.one

It's sadly ironic how many privacy-related articles are shared with tracking parameters added to the address.

So here's a PSA to protect your friends & followers: When you share *any* links, please check for (& remove) text in the address that starts with ?utm_

Thank you.

With #privacy and #security breach increases we've seen a steady increase of recommendations for Purism products. We are so happy we can help people, their families and businesses protect themselves. Curious to see what a #Librem laptop can do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVcJgCvFuWo #encryption

It still needs a lot of work, but a proof of concept for window thumbnails in #phosh appears to work :) #librem5 @purism

Protip: when someone from an opressed group (e.g. POC, immigrants, women, etc) complain about something a privileged group tends to do (white, non-immigrants, cis men, etc), if you are from the privileged group, there's no need for you to comment assuring that you don't do these things. There's also no need to comment "lol yeah we're horrible aren't we" on a serious post about terrifying opression. It makes you seem defensive and like you're not taking opression seriously.

If you don't do those things? Congratulations! You don't get a medal, that's a bare minimum. If you do those things? Quietly improve and maybe boost the post that made you realise that you did wrong.

I know it doesn't seem like a big deal if you're privileged but it gets tiring when half the replies on a serious post about opression are joke replies by the privileged group.

"Do you really want to plan for a future where you have to fight with someone who is as good as you are?"

-- Billon Zuckerbezos

https://www.ft.com/content/b38c5cf6-198a-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4

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.