Joshua Crawford has moved @jlcrawf@librem.one

going to meet my Dad for breakfast this morning.
the man loves Waffle House lol
he eats there at least 3 times a week

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Audacity updated their Privacy Policy and it looks concerning: to include selling personal user related data (including what they say w/be "hashed ip address").

I cover the privacy policy and offer 4 different potential solutions to restrict Audacity here in my latest post:

#Infosec #Audacity #Privacy #Data #Cybersecurity #News #Blog #Linux

https://politictech.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/3310/

If I could help computer users understand one thing it would be that unless something changes, their future computer will be locked down like their phone, so they can only install software if the OS vendor approves. I talk about this in a new blog post: https://puri.sm/posts/the-future-of-computers-the-neighborhood-and-the-nursing-home/

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For the first time, the U.S. has used its power to globally block news/propaganda websites on the Internet. We began blocking #Iranian news sites last week and redirecting them to an FBI warning. This is very unwise.

"You don't need a gun because the government can destroy you" is the best case for the second amendment any president has ever made

Are mass software updates abused in the name of "security”? All software updates can be done where it respects the freedoms and civil liberties of humans says Purism founder, Todd Weaver. What do you think?🤔 Read more: https://puri.sm/posts/software-updates-that-respects-civil-liberties/

Why Purism will not get a warrant for your phone nor phone data, because everything you buy from us, you own fully. In the latest case, Apple gets the warrant because they own the user’s data. Read more from Purism founder, Todd Weaver https://puri.sm/posts/apples-subpoenas-show-they-own-you/

I am delighted to launch the 'Libre Tech Shop' - a unique shop for products that respect your freedom to learn, hack, extend and do things yourself.

Check out the online shop at:

https://libretech.shop

The background story behind this launch:

https://abhas.io/libretechshop/

Here - you'll be able to buy liberated computers, hackable mechanical keyboards, private and secure home automation solutions, wireless routers, spare parts and much more.

Hi all, Geary is looking for a co-maintainer!

@mjog doesn't have enough time to to do it all by themselves any more, and so is looking for a hand in taking care of day-to-day tasks such as bug triaging and fixing, and working on improving the front-end side of the app in particular.

If you're interested, take a look at the issue tracker, and pitch on in!

If you have any questions, please thread them below or get in touch with @mjog 👇

Cheers!

#Geary #GNOME

“Current trends in the automotive industry point to a future with you locked in a remote control car, your vendor holding the remote." https://puri.sm/posts/locked-in-a-remote-control-car/

In case anyone wants to try out receiving MMS messages on their #librem5 I just wrote down the steps needed for that here, still unofficial and hacky but it does work: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/30#note_151962 #GNU #Linux #ModemManager #libqmi #mmsd #chatty #freesoftware

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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