james h jackson jr @jameshjacksonjr@librem.one

This article by Barton Gelman, in the Atlantic, pulls from sources within the Republican Party, and lays out their strategy to stay in power, essentially engage in a coup, if they lose the election.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/

Regardless of how many of us feel about elections, this is something we have to pay attention to.

The strategy Gelman talks about has three phases.

The first is using the police and forces from the Right to intimidate voters in cities in swing states.

For the most part I really enjoy using Matrix for chat. But the IRC bridge, particularly with Freenode, is really really irritating. Especially getting kicked from Matrix rooms that are bridged because my IRC connection has been "idle" for too long. So I find myself falling back to IRC where I would rather use Matrix because of the bridge can cause more problems that it solves.

Trying to catch up on the backlog this afternoon.

@amosbatto @purism I'm pretty sure now that we can drive 4K UHD with the #Librem5:

External screen, keyboard and mouse attached to my phone running my favorite IDE - Qt Creator. Looking forward to try this setup on the first post-pandemic game jam :D #librem5 @purism #convergence #gnu #linux #phosh

@purism made it!

Today I looked for a online radio application for my notebook and found #shortwave.

Looking at its homepage I've been surprised by the information that it is using #libhandy and compatible with the #Librem5.

Now listening to #radioparadise happily. Nice application!

"For 18 months, residents of a village in Wales have been mystified as to why their broadband internet crashed every morning.

Now engineers have finally identified the reason: A second-hand television that emitted a signal that interfered with the connection."

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ixlwdv/an_entire_village_lost_its_broadband_at_the_same/

UC Berkeley Inappropriately Admitted Students as Favors to Donors
https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-113/sections.html#section1

(submitted by jbegley)

Single sign-on is not only convenient, it also comes with a lot of security risks: https://www.wired.com/story/single-sign-on-facebook-google-apple/
Instead, use a password manager like KeePass, and look out for Google alternatives whenever possible. Here are some recommendations: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail/ 😀💪

@eff Countries in the Americas are missing a key opportunity to strengthen their safeguards on communications privacy with rights and principles common to the global data protection toolkit. 5/

@eff Since 2018, Brazil, Barbados, and Panama have adopted GDPR-inspired laws in the region. These set a legal basis for safeguards on the processing of personal data, and a right not to be subject to automated decision-making and portability. 3/