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@twrightsman Sent me a link to a freely-available video, and a transcoding command, and I'll reply back w/ the results.

I'm testing a Librem Mini and comparing it to my SBC home servers (RPi4 and Odroid XU4). All have gig interfaces, but downloading an iso over my gigabit Internet shows massive differences: Mini (~107MByte/s), the others (25MByte/s).

Much respect to hairdressers. After studying an hour or two of tutorials I spent about two hours cutting my son's hair only to end up with a Dumb-and-Dumber-esque bowl cut.

If you're a protester, consider taking actions like switching your phone to airplane mode or leaving it home altogether.

eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/surv

Protesters and journalists covering protests have different threat models. The good news is we have advice for both. First, if you're a reporter on the ground, here are some tech tips.

eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/digi

Last week I was a guest on FLOSSWeekly where I talked about @purism, balancing security with freedom, the Librem 5, and culture clashes in . Check it out: twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/epi

I've joked about printing in Linux for 20 years, but I just got a portable printer for (Canon Pixma iP110) and it was literally plug and play. I connected printer USB to my laptop, it auto-detected/configured it, and prompted to print a test page which worked perfectly.

@darkijah Maybe they blocked us, however I believe some of my followers use accounts from that instance. I don't believe social.librem.one has blocked federation with any other full mastodon server.

@darkijah No idea. We are a standard federated mastodon instance running a custom fork called "smilodon" but we should federate as normal.

The announcement that the DEA was authorized to conduct covert surveillance on protestors got me thinking about how one could protect oneself against that kind of mass surveillance. In this post I give a quick overview of Stingray technology, the implications of its use at a protest, how aerial stingrays (“dirtboxes”) extends its mass-surveillance capabilities, and how the Librem 5’s hardware kill switches give you control over where, when and how you are surveilled.

puri.sm/posts/taking-the-sting

@jfred @aral Well yes, big programs like FF or LibreOffice might take awhile, but they are already packaged for it and for others you could cross-compile on, say, a Librem Mini or other higher-powered x86 system

@jfred @aral It's running the same PureOS as the laptops, just cross-compiled for arm64, so building software is no more difficult than desktop Linux

Only earlier today I was defending DNS against claims that network problems are always DNS's fault, and now Amazon is down apparently due to DNS.

@aral I'm going the other way. I think "my next laptop" for personal use is going to be a Librem 5 + a laptop dock.

For a good quality Jitsi recording (better than the recording feature):

1. Use a beefy machine
2. Run camera to it
3. Run mic to it
4. Set resolution to 1920x1080 or 1280x720
4. Join Jitsi in *spit* Chrome & stream your video/audio
5. Use OBS to record screen and audio

Then, on a second machine: join Jitsi and run screen sharing on Firefox (far better quality).

Switch between camera and screen sharing either on the first machine or via a third machine.

*phew* :awesome:

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"People only dislike ads when they aren't relevant" is at best a myth, at worst a lie. People dislike *all* ads, but tolerate them. Given a choice between irrelevant ads w/ no tracking or highly relevant ads w/ extensive tracking, most would choose irrelevant ads.

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Even in a battle of wills w/ an 8-year-old, the key to breaking a standoff is to allow the other party to save face when they concede.

Bill aims to ban microtargeting of political ads. I'd argue the same reasoning to ban targeted manipulation for political ads should apply to *all* ads. The Internet (and society) would be much healither w/o microtargeting. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

That's how the Librem 5 performs with all the GPU acceleration in place :) @purism

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