Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Chinese govt. probes backdoor infection: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/anal-swab-china-coronavirus/2021/01/27/cc284f56-6054-11eb-a177-7765f29a9524_story.html

Coming soon to a Librem 5 near you: support for the internal OpenPGP smart card reader.

@vincent It's just a deb we added to PureOS.

Is the problem that the govt. is buying location data w/o a warrant, or that data brokers can collect and sell it to begin with? We have to change the incentives driving the whole mobile app economy. This is something I wrote about in this article: https://puri.sm/posts/mobile-app-stores-and-the-power-of-incentives/

@archit3ct https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle

Posting from the Tootle Mastodon client which just made it into the Librem 5 PureOS staging repo today!

Librem 5 users using the standard amber repo should see it in a few days.

8. I don't know precisely when it started, but I realized today that at some point during the weekend I stopped looking at my watch all the time for notifications that weren't there. I think I beat the habit.

My theory on why fraction math is so stressed in US schools is because of Imperial measurements. The only time I perform math on fractions as an adult is when dealing with inches or cups.

Ad tech companies find the ability to track individual people around the Internet incredibly valuable. That's why they won't stop intrusive data collection:

"Facebook promised to bid on at least 90 percent of auctions when it could identify the end user" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-facebook-ad-deal-antitrust.html

That old book smell...

@ruff @purism They share (and this is what I tried to highlight in the post) a patronizing mentality: that users are children that can't be trusted to have any control, and that IT/infosec/vendor needs to anchor all trust and take control away.

They believe the less control the user has, the more secure the system. It's also conveniently "easy mode" if you are in infosec/IT to just lock the user inside a prison. It's much harder to design security *with* end-user control.

Modern cloud platforms are essentially giant proprietary server OSes, so is Parler's difficulty in coming back online due to finding hosting, or is it due to using so many proprietary AWS features, switching providers is like porting server software from Solaris to Windows NT?

@sbeebe Four minutes, which I think is considered the standard time by many people.

7. Day Three. Still looking for phantom notifications on my watch, but I'm catching and stopping myself more often than not. The tell is when you look away from your watch without knowing the time. It's nice not having to charge my watch every night.

@ajmartinez Ya I've been charging my phone in another room for awhile (except for fire season when I wanted evac alerts to wake me up). But of course the watch charges on my nightstand and it will vibrate with certain types of notifications.

6. I would use my smart watch timer app for my coffee, so I replaced it with a kitchen timer clipped to my French Press.

5. This first day with an analog watch has already revealed to me just how much a smart watch has created subconscious, compulsive habits. It's unnerving to see tech rewire your brain like that.

4. I find myself looking at my wrist in the dark, even though this watch doesn't have a backlight.