keverets @keverets@librem.one

The idea that I am constantly under video surveillance at the store, walking on the sidewalk, going to school, driving or working:

(Choose the one that most applies.)

@kyle mastercard sells realtime transaction data: https://www.mastercardservices.com/en/data-analytics

There was some way to opt out per card, but you need to look that up.

Dear IETF: Are you fucking kidding me?
To get an RFC .txt file I must allow Cloudflare and Google tracking?

Are you serious? This is wrong on all OSI layers!

Tor Browser 9.0.4 is out now.

This release fixes a critical security issue in Firefox: CVE-2019-17026. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-904

"Off-by-one errors" isn't the easiest theme to build a party around, but I've seen worse.
https://xkcd.com/2248/

Enlightening look at the power of location data that almost everyone's phone is giving up constantly. Claims of anonymity debunked in chilling way:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

"Yet Another #Librem5 and #PinePhone Comparison" is an in-depth technical comparison of the two devices by #postmarketOS developer @martijnbraam

You can read it here: https://tuxphones.com/yet-another-librem-5-and-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/ #linux

Looking at #KDE Plasma Mobile and #PinePhone is giving me the sort of a glimmer of hope that I haven't felt in a long time as far as mobile anything is concerned.

I love your phone, @PINE64

This opt-in requirement is critical, and the precise thing tech orgs successfully lobbied to remove from the CCPA:

"As a first step, governments must enact laws to ensure companies including Google and Facebook are prevented from making access to their service conditional on individuals “consenting” to the collection, processing or sharing of their personal data for marketing or advertising."

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

Made a video of desktop apps running in #plasmamobile on #postmarketOS on the #pinephone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NIWh2cX3nQ

Oh hey, the BraveHeart #PinePhone is now available to preorder! Go get one! https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limited-edition-linux-smartphone-for-early-adaptor

More likely: Click on all the pictures of people who appear disloyal to [name of company or government]
https://xkcd.com/2228/

The weirdest quirk of the Borda count is that Jean-Charles de Borda automatically gets one point; luckily this has no consequences except in cases of extremely low turnout.
https://xkcd.com/2225/

This is the PineTime. A companion for your Linux smartphone, and new side-project of ours. More news coming in the future...

(If you have experience with FreeRTOS or mbed, and are interested, please get in touch!)

The #Librem5 and the #PinePhone are two very similar, yet very different Linux smartphones. What makes them so different, and which one should you buy?

We wrote an in-depth comparison article that will hopefully help you choose one:

https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-vs-pine64-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/ #linux

so, now you've spent around $150 for your computer, phone, and games. buying these refurbished keeps waste from the landfills. they are all really well supported and the computer has tons of replacement parts available on the cheap so you can repair it if anything breaks instead of throwing it away

for a computer, i use a Lenovo Thinkpad T430. You can get one of these on ebay for around $80. I replaced the harddrive in mine for an SSD so that ended up costing a little bit more, but now it runs about the same as a macbook air.

if you install linux (which these days is easier than installing Windows) you can get a free OS with all the common software you need for free