Wow, after a single week of on-campus instruction, student/staff COVID-19 infections went from 10 to 177, prompting UNC-Chapel Hill to move to remote learning: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/unc-chapel-hill-coronavirus-cluster/2020/08/17/8ebce060-e0ab-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html
My uninformed theory about the Mozilla layoffs is that Google waited for anti-trust hearings and then canceled/drastically reduced FF sponsorship claiming COVID cost-cutting, safe in the knowledge that browsers weren't brought up in the hearings. #speculation
Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act bans federal use of face surveillance and withholds some federal tax dollars from paying for it at the state and local level. Tell your elected officials to co-sponsor this bill and vote Yes! https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-ban-federal-use-of-face-recognition
Meet the all-new Librem 14: The Road Warrior
https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
A powerful 14" laptop in a 13" footprint
- Core i7-10710U (Comet Lake) Processor, 6 cores & 12 threads
- Up to 64GB DDR4 memory
- Output 4K Video to two displays
The City of Portland, OR is considering banning the use of facial recognition technologies. This coming Monday, Electronic Frontier Alliance member Portland TA3M will host a discussion which takes a closer look at the proposal. https://www.eff.org/event/portland-facial-recognition-ordinance-drafts
We've received our internal Dogwood batch 🎉 and will be sharing news of the hardware changes and improvements to performance, battery life and thermals soon! #Librem5
A coalition of privacy groups, including EFF, is asking the California Attorney General to revise regulations that could undermine key consumer protections in the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Your computer system is uniquely configured—and thus identifiable—even if you are using privacy-protective software. Learn more with EFF's Panopticlick. https://panopticlick.eff.org/
I should make a patch for dosbox.conf in the package for the #Librem5. That way it'll fit on the screen just right for folks when they install it, with no fiddling.
Getting DOSBox just right on my phone.
I've got my personal priorities. ;)
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