BeardlyDavid @fssofdeath@librem.one

If my brother and I even had a slightly more genderneutral upbringing

- instead of being constantly bombarded with "girls are good in languages and bad at math, while boys are good at abstract thinking (??) and working with their hands" nonsense -

then there's a good chance that I would have moved towards #engineering and my brother towards anything but construction. Alas, he got a technical degree and now hates his job, and I got a uni degree and now look up #woodworking in my free time. 🤷

Librem 5 Update: Fresh Dogwood Pictures

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-update-fresh-dogwood-pictures/

Learn more about the #librem5 : https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#freedom #privacy #security #linux

Si nous ne comptons pas plus de 60% de patients canadiens confirmés atteints de coronavirus, nous risquons de perdre notre statut de «société distincte». Québec

Today's fedi-convos have been interesting but have me wondering about general public's attitudes towards Free software.

Like...hey I *can* use it "gratis" so that means I'm "entitled" to use it for free, including getting updates and support...even I'd I have the means to pay.

You have the right to use Free software at no monetary cost. This does NOT let you abdicate your responsibility to take care of your own systems. Read the license. NO WARRANTY.

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"Agriculture is tricky to do securely, almost everything requires root."

Hackers breach LineageOS servers via unpatched vulnerability - LineageOS source code, OS builds, and signing keys were unaffected, developers said. more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-breach-lineageos-servers-via-unpatched-vulnerability/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

*walking outside during #COVID19 *

EVERY BOOMER EVER:

you, a fool: you don't hate mondays, you hate ~capitalism~

me, wise: actually i can hate more than one thing at a time due to my Enormous Brain

So this is mostly working. I still need to test it on an internal battery. Next steps:
* Software
* Carrying strap
and then v2:
* 7seg time/date display
* Support the analog knobs and illumination
* Actual pcbs instead of a pile of crap

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