Joshua Crawford has moved @jlcrawf@librem.one

I don't dispute that jails are hard to break into, but they are even harder to break out of. How many of us would choose to live in a prison in real life? Instead we make risk assessments that balance personal freedom and security, and the digital world should be no different.

On this day in 1776, the British hanged Nathan Hale. His last words were NOT, "I would speak out, but it would cause me personal and professional harm."

Boost if you won’t shop at businesses requiring vaccine passports.

Fitting in is overrated

#Pinephone #Mobian #MMS via #Matrix (mini) #Howto:
1. Sign up for two matrix accounts
2. Remove chatty, install kop316/mmsd and untidylamp/mmmpuppet
3. Configure mmsd for your carrier and mmmpuppet for your matrix accounts
4. Set up services to start them on boot
5. Do the mms thing with a matrix client like fractal on the phone or element on the web.

It is also possible to run the matrix server locally on the pinephone if you install it from pip.

I'm looking for a privacy respecting GPS bike computer. I'm not interested in pairing to an Android/iPhone smartphone, I'm trying to get rid of mine! I don't want to have to register to an online account or install a program on Windows or macOS, as I run Linux at home. I want to be able to upload map updates (OSM preferred) and download gpx traces from a regular file browser through USB... Cadence monitor compatible a +.

Mission impossible?

Thx!

@mastobikes
#cycling #mastobikes
#askfedi

Rand Paul on further lockdowns and mandates:

"Resist. 

They can’t arrest us all. They can’t keep all your kids home from school. They can’t keep every government building closed – although I’ve got a long list of ones they should.....

We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and feckless bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again. 

If you love the “tranquility of servitude” better than freedom, “Go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

― Samuel Adams

@Jdogg247 I’m not getting the vaccine and I am ready and willing to literally physically die if the government wants to cross that line in the sand.

#OMG #DoubleRainbow! Taken when picking up my boy from school.

#photography

Imagine if you could file a digital restraining order against tech companies. If a creepy person follows you any time you leave your house, looks through your mail, and watches you from the street whenever you're at home, you can legally make them stop. Why not companies?

Hey, everyone, I am new on mastodon. I am really loving it so far. What is everyone's favorite iOS app for accessing it? Thanks! #mastodon #iOS #advice #newbie

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