Joshua Crawford @jlcrawf@librem.one

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I just learned VLC in Linux can stream videos to a Chromecast. One more task my Librem 5 can take over from my old Android phone.

JUST IN - Personal data (phone numbers and emails) of 500+ million #Facebook users has been posted online in a hacking forum.

>sooo happy I never had a fakebook account

So i made a matrix chat room for newb programmers like myself to ask questions and not feel like a complete moron of course also to talk about coding stuff in general. Feel free to join. :) #newbprogramming:matrix.org

One of our youngest contributors,@PizzaLovingNerd
's brother, has been diagnosed with leukemia. No one deserves this, let alone a 13 year old boy. Elliott's parents are collecting funds for treatment, please consider donating. RT for visibility. Thank you!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/elliottinterrupted

Reminder to #LinuxPhone users: Be kind!

We don't want to bum or even burn out the people that do the hard development work, right?
#PinePhone #librem5

This.

And from the Vice article that broke the story: "Among the thousands of other data points, vehicle location data is transmitted on a constant and near real time basis while the vehicle is operating." https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7adn9/car-location-data-telematics-us-military-ulysses-group

"Ulysses claims it can currently access more than 15 billion vehicle locations around the world every month, and it estimates that, by 2025, 100 percent of new cars will be connected and transmitting gigabytes of collectible data per hour." #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/one-company-wants-to-sell-the-feds-location-data-from-every-car-on-earth/

Are you an Android dev who cares about free speech and the Fediverse? Here’s how you can help:

Create an F-Droid build server and submission pipeline similar to fdroiddata.
Fork the F-Droid client app and call it something else. We need the ability to control the default repos, because we’re trying to make free speech software accessible to casual users. Installing F-Droid is difficult enough.
Support the development of @husky, a Pleroma client app.

Why go so far to fork F-Droid itself? Because the project is compromised by anti-free-speech activists:

F-Droid “statement” against free speech: https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html
F-Droid banned Gab: https://reclaimthenet.org/f-droid-bans-gab-app
F-Droid banned Spinster: https://blog.alexgleason.me/fdroid-banned-spinster

We need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

There is currently no solution for a free speech app store, but we can change that.

@LinuxReviews@mstdn.io It's sad to see the beginning of the end for the Foundation. This happens whenever a group of enthusiasts shift their interest from their original goals towards politics.

#Hotspot mode aka #tethering works very well on #Pinephone with #Mobian. #Librem5 then has a decent Internet according to #librespeed speed test! #GNU #Linux

Time to abandon the #smartphone walled gardens of #Android and #iOS

I'm making a table on features that work in various #pinephone OSes. Is this something that other people would want to help with?

I was thinking the data could be collected with toots for each OS and feature. Eg, Mobain phosh users, how's your front camera working?

It is insane to spend billions of dollars sending stimulus checks to people who didn't lose their jobs and didnt suffer any special financial hardship. There is zero reason why every person under a certain income should get money just because there was a pandemic.
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1370093243577348096?s=09

Old and Busted: "If you aren't paying for something, you are the product."

New Hotness: "You are the product."

Check out my post about companies across industries who double dip by collecting and selling data on their paying customers. ⁨#privacy

https://social.librem.one/@purism/105877195253681981