james h jackson jr @jameshjacksonjr@librem.one

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

A new federal bill may be our best chance to ban government use of face recognition. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-ban-federal-use-of-face-recognition

Did you protest recently? Your face might be in a database https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/17/protest-black-lives-matter-database

Riot is now named Element. Feels a lot better and is faster. Well done!

https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/
#matrix

Thanks to the work of Samuel Holland, crust advanced power management is now capable of running the #PinePhone for 100hrs in idle without the modem (approximately 110mW). With modem on, we should get 40% battery run-time increase (to approx 24 hrs).
Coming to your distro of choice soon!

#100daysofcode Day 96: To try to get group texts working on my #pinephone, I build vgmms ( https://git.sr.ht/~anteater/vgmms ), but encountered an error when running it: https://todo.sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack-bugs/16

Speaking of #PinePhone, are there any projects out there with decent documentation that do make use of the pogo pins? My usual sources (hackaday, reddit) aren't turning up much, except for a breakout board a couple months back. The only thing I'm aware of is the official clamshell keyboard which maybe doesn't exist yet.

@techit @nikolal @marc0janssen If I had to buy a phone now, it would probably be a #Fairfone or #Pinephone. But the most ethical phone is the one you already have. It's better not to replace one needlessly. I don't need anything newer than my old Wiko.

Something to consider regarding #privacy ramifications of #Android on #Pinephone... yes, while even #AOSP likely includes privacy issues we'd all rather get away from, the other way of looking at this is to ask how many cheap, Android phones use only AOSP, are updated regularly and include hardware kill switches for the modem, webcam, mic, wifi etc?

Yes, it's way better to use a real #Linux OS for privacy, but this could actually be a good entry point for people who just wouldn't do that...

Four States Are Sharing Driver's License Info to Help Find Out Who's a Citizen
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/890798378/south-dakota-is-sharing-drivers-license-info-to-help-find-out-who-s-a-citizen

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Guys, am I the only one who didn't know about #Twitter lending all of users' data to #Google?

https://cloud.google.com/twitter

Note that the current UBPorts edition of the PinePhone cannot be used with external screens due to a hardware bug (you can fix it if you’re handy with a solder). The bug is reported as fixed in the upcoming postmarketOS edition of the phone. I’ll probably end up getting one of those as well since I’d like to be able to test on both distributions (one’s Debian/Ubuntu-based and the other Alpine + comes with Phosh) and follow their development.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/hj3w00/pinetab_and_pinephone_external_monitors_external/

If you missed yesterday’s live stream, we had a little WebSocket chat via Site.js running on a $150 PinePhone. You can watch the recording here – now with closed captions, chapters, and links to mentioned sites:

https://ar.al/2020/07/12/live-stream-a-web-site-on-your-phone-with-site.js/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SiteJS #PinePhone #WebSocket #NodeJS #ARM64

Yay home :)

My new mouse arrived (Logitech G502 Hero). It meets my expectations. Nice mouse.