keverets @keverets@librem.one

I don’t know who needs to hear this but…

Privacy isn’t:

- A premium feature
- A setting you must configure
- About having something to hide

Privacy is:

- A basic human right.

New Toyota car owners will need to pay a $8/mo so their key fob can remote-start their car. Cars before 2018 are excluded, because their internal 3G networks are about to go offline, disabling Toyota's remote control. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/toyota-owners-have-to-pay-8-mo-to-keep-using-their-key-fob-for-remote-start/

Looks like this whole #log4j debacle is going to be hard to address due to Java practices consisting in shipping binaries (jars) of unknown provenance.

Glad the one in #Guix is built from source, and now fixed:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=8c989e92b06b9554226e2c42302ccf59ed1f48ae

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Comparing the Librem 5 USA and PinePhone Beta by @amosbatto

https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/comparing-l5-and-pp/

#Librem5 #MadeInUSA #Pinephone #smartphone

CVE -CVE-2021-44228 - critical log4j security vulnerability https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228 | https://lobste.rs/s/zr0rjh #security

URGENT: Starting Dec. 1st, Russian ISPs have started blocking access to Tor. We've also learned that Roskomnadzor, the Russian gov't responsible for censorship, intends to block http://torproject.org.
We need your help NOW to fight censorship!

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-censorship-in-russia/

In *Electrify*, the MacArthur prizewinning engineer Saul Griffith offers a detailed, optimistic and urgent roadmap for a climate-respecting energy transition that we can actually accomplish in 10-15 years.

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The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user

PSA: If you are using an Android phone, and you have Microsoft Teams installed, and you're not logged into Microsoft Teams on that phone: please uninstall it, or you won't be able to call 911!

No, I am not making this up: https://www.androidpolice.com/google-finally-knows-which-app-to-blame-for-androids-mysterious-cant-call-911-bug

I had only ever read about this and never tried it before, but now I can say with authority that this is the correct method and all others are wrong.

I wish there were more just plain winter songs not attached to a holiday. Like, maybe we can just admit that it's cold and dark and maybe that's reason enough to celebrate.

oh wow, firefox developer tools has a tool to simulate colour vision deficiency and contrast loss! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector/Simulation
Very handy!

I think nobody wants this alway-on smartphone camera, Qualcomm! 😡

#mydataisMYdata

https://www.theverge.com/22811740/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-1-always-on-camera-privacy-security-concerns

Dear developers, especially those working on free and open software: every new release is an opportunity to have someone discover your tool.

Make sure you explain what your tool is when announcing a new release and have links to where people can learn more about it.

#foss #dev

@room FluffyChat 1.0.0 has been released featuring a new design, a lot of bug fixes, better performance, a theme switcher, end to end encryption by default, better spaces support and much much more!

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

https://www.reddit.com/r/fluffychat/comments/r5vsxz/fluffychat_100_has_been_released/

Christmas is coming so with it I post my favorite meme for the occasion.

I hate typing on touchscreens. For years, this was a non-issue since I had a BlackBerry Classic. After moving to a more modern phone (first a Moto e6, then a Teracube 2e), I wanted a solution that would make it easier to see and respond to SMS on my computer and larger tablet. I settled on JMP, which connects a number to an XMPP account, and wrote about my experience.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/sending-sms-messages-from-my-computer-with-xmpp-through-jmp/

#jmp #xmpp #sms #messaging #foss #blabber #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal