Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
The skills and talent of the people I work with frequently amazes me. Like how our Design Director uses all free software tools to make our #LibremOne commercial: https://puri.sm/posts/see-your-junk-behind-the-scenes/
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Check out how we made that "See Your Junk" video with free software only :
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@kyle Did this many years ago and have never regretted it. I have basically ruled out the option of flying altogether and now drive everywhere. Love being the master of my own schedule.
@misslav It's an RV built on a 1995 Dodge cargo van chassis. Pre-ODB2. Minimal computer. Main computer is my FOSS entertainment system: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/diy-rv-offsite-backup-and-media-server
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If only there was a Tech podcast / show that had...
- No Swearing (kid and work friendly)
- No personal attacks ("Be Excellent To Each Other")
- No political attacks (no matter who you vote for, we're friends)
- Lots of nerdy-ness (goofy and serious)
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The Intercept is hiring a digital security specialist in NYC, if anyone is interested!
You’ll work directly with journalists on operational security issues related to securing devices, communicating with sources, protecting document sets, and collaborating securely. You'll also develop curriculum for and help run an internal digital security training program.
This is a union job. POC, people with disabilities, women, and LGBT candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
By the way, I know all of this because I've been handing out custom per-use email addresses for years. Makes it easy to find when someone sells you out.
Follow up: in the brief time that my email was in Square's system, they opted me into ads from a local merchant I used the card at a month before Square got my email. So I get to opt out of those now too... #privacy
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Stories like this one from @arstechnica are not unusual:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/google-confirms-2017-supply-chain-attack-that-sneaked-backdoor-on-android-devices/
That's why Purism takes the digital supply chain so seriously. Read about our efforts to protect the digital supply chain here:
https://puri.sm/posts/protecting-the-digital-supply-chain/
I just wrote a post that talks about user empowerment and how that influences how @purism designs its products, from hardware to software to security to services to social: https://puri.sm/posts/with-purism-products-you-are-in-control/
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In this free Linux Journal ebook, @kylerankin expounds on some of the lessons he's learned through the years that might be obvious to longtime sysadmins but may be news to someone just coming into this position.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1340386sysadmin #devops #FOSS
@dekkzz78 Check out my follow up reply to this post. Upon examining the block list I found some Google sites that aren't also on the unblock list (some are on both, I assume unblock takes precedence), so I should have said "many" instead of "all".
@okennedy I honestly don't know. I consider Microsoft an expert at selling software and even they have given up on it and moved to a services model. At smaller scales maybe a Patreon-style donation model?
In honor of another Open Core company moving to the Extinguish phase of Embrace/Extend/Extinguish for their #FOSS code, here are some of my thoughts on Open Core: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/some-thoughts-open-core
@freakazoid To be fair, disconnect.me explains on their site that they don't accept money to unblock sites.
I'm more wondering how effective tracker blocking is, if most of Google's domains are on the unblock list...
To follow up, *some* Google sites are on the block list, but many more are on the unblock list. The complete list of blocked sites is here: https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/blocked and the list of sites they allow through is here: https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/unblocked
Mozilla announced "Enhanced Tracking Protection" to protect people from tracking (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/), but if you check out the https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection list of trackers, all Google trackers are still allowed through. #privacy
@erlend Welcome!
- Personal Site
- https://kylerank.in
- Personal Bibliography
- https://kylerank.in/writing.html
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
