Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

California Officials Announce California Privacy Protection Agency Board Appointments: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/03/17/california-officials-announce-california-privacy-protection-agency-board-appointments/

@jlcrawf I believe some teams who are on call do still pass around a literal pager to whomever is on call, but that's obviously not the norm now. However it still is relatively common to refer to the device waking you up as your "pager" and being on call as having "pager duty" (where PagerDuty got its name after all).

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray my pager does not beep
If servers crash before I wake
I pray it will not escalate

Apparently there is an even larger orange that isn't ripe yet. I will follow up later with pictures when we pick that one.

If this orange were the Sun, this dime would be Jupiter.

The first picture doesn't really capture the scale of this orange, but how about the fact that it can wear an N95 mask.

We just picked a massive navel orange from our tree today. Normal-sized meyer lemon and quarter for scale.

@yaelwrites Time to follow more accounts!

@pj@bitcoinhackers.org I haven't seen much that is focused on outgoing connections and provides an active, running UI w/ pop-ups that respond in real time to new outbound connections. Most take a server mentality and focus in inbound connections, which is less of a concern for desktop environments.

Oh also I forgot to mention what opensnitch was. It's similar to Little Snitch on Macs, but for Linux. It tracks outgoing network connections and throws up prompts so you can allow/deny them. https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/

The recent opensnitch packages seem to run well and fit on the Librem 5! Good use of scroll bars and other UI elements.

Old and Busted: "If you aren't paying for something, you are the product."

New Hotness: "You are the product."

Check out my post about companies across industries who double dip by collecting and selling data on their paying customers. ⁨#privacy

https://social.librem.one/@purism/105877195253681981

@luis_de_sousa @purism We have a number of folks who use their Librem 5 with a simple USB-C dock and monitor/keyboard/mouse. If you work from a desk for the most part it would probably be the most convenient approach. I just do a lot of work from my couch so a laptop form-factor is more convenient for me.

The year is 2060. A bored teenager sits quietly while grandpa shows off his vast cryptocurrency and NFT collection. Grandpa proudly gives him a dogecoin. "Hold on to this! It will be valuable one day..." "Sure thing grandpa..."

It turns out that software is "curl | sh" all the way down: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/more-top-tier-companies-targeted-by-new-type-of-potentially-serious-attack/

3. I work from home, but if I commuted (and the Librem 5 could replace my work laptop) I wouldn't need to commute w/ a laptop *or* a dock. Hubs and laptop docks are cheap enough I could leave one at home and one at work. Any work in transit I could handle directly from the phone.

2. Keeping a laptop w/ you at all times when traveling is a pain. It's easy to keep a phone w/ you. When I travel again, I can safely leave my laptop dock behind in a hotel room. If someone steals it while it's unattended I'm also out much less money than with a laptop.