BeardlyDavid @fssofdeath@librem.one

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.

'Anonymized' Data Is Meaningless Bullshit
https://gizmodo.com/anonymized-data-is-meaningless-bullshit-1841429952 #privacy #security

If you think about it, the average person has slightly less than one testicle.

anyone have links/ideas on how to passively cloak yourself from facial recognition systems?

i'd like to make a wiki page on the topic.

please boost for visibility

I reviewed Sobrii non-alcoholic gin.

http://www.kellysniderfamily.com/adam/sobrii-0-gin-non-alcoholic-gin-review/

#dryjanuary

"First they came for #Assange and #Chelsea, and I didn't care because I read too many articles about #Assange's persona and was gullible.

Then they came for #Greenwald and I didn't care because I 'had no time' and because 'hacking is a crime, you see?' and because Brazil is far away..

Then I realized: 'oh wait?! what?! Shit!!!', shortly before I got arrested myself by fascists hordes."

#MastoFiction #OrIsIt? #FreeAssange #FreeChelsea #DontExtraditeAssange

#Purism #Librem5 #Librem5Aspen