Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Every time I work with Fedora's anaconda installer, Baby Got Back goes through my head. Every. Time.

If I were still writing for Linux Journal (or had an equivalent outlet today), I'd write a long form piece on why years ago, after a successful career as a sysadmin, I pivoted my career over to security. https://s.usenix.org/acton/media/2452/lisa-community-announcement

@ajmartinez Pun always intended.

Amazon will pay you $10 to join their palm pilot. You really have to hand it to them... #privacy
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/02/amazon-credit-palm-biometrics/

Sending some love out to https://covid.com in what must have been a really tough year and a half.

@ajmartinez Possibly. I don't know the details except that we are continue to work on it. These keyboard features ended up being a lower priority than some of the power management stuff that took precedence, but now it looks like we are getting to it.

@ajmartinez Insert support is coming: https://source.puri.sm/firmware/librem-ec/-/commit/037613658dd880e267901dc774ea78d01ee92306

@dncn I also recently came back to RSS because Feeds is now adaptive so it works on my Librem 5. The mobile form factor has always made the most sense, for me, to consume news, but I had always been reluctant to set up news feeds on Android because I didn't want it tracking me. It's so nice to use RSS again.

I wrote apps last Tuesday
For my child named Susie
Parent control for all the kids around
We started to make some money
Then they Sherlocked me it's not funny
They wrote Screen Time and then they took us down

We have to jailbreak now, we have to jailbreak now
I told Apple right to its face
We didn't like to see this place
We have to jailbreak now

He wrote a game for poker
Pinochle, Whist and Euchre
But that Fortnite was his greatest game
Now he's downtown in court
Debating about his port
The judge done said that Apple's doing fine

He has to jailbreak now, he has to jailbreak now
I told him once or twice
That those app store rules aren't fair or nice
He has to jailbreak now

(With respect and apologies to the late, great Jimmie Rodgers)

I had a friend named Developer Jess
Who used to code for iOS
He thought he was the smartest guy in town
But I found out last Monday
His app got locked out Sunday
Compete with Apple and they'll take you down

He has to jailbreak now, he has to jailbreak now
I told him once or twice
That those app store rules aren't fair or nice
He has to jailbreak now

I really enjoyed chatting with @saronyitbarek and @joshpuetz for the #DevNews podcast this week. We talked about phone security, Freedom Phone, app store duopoly, and why I think modern phones are more like a nursing home than a walled garden. https://dev.to/devteam/activision-blizzard-discrimination-and-harassment-suit-the-incredible-gail-com-more-on-devnews-53j0

USB-C negotiation is like meeting a friend you don't know too well, and you awkwardly try to figure out whether to hug, shake hands, or fist bump, and just end up waving at each other.

@PINE64 Ugh, so sorry to hear that. If hardware wasn't already hard enough right now, the current state of shipping makes it a nightmare.

@yaelwrites Welcome back!

Razor update: this Stahly is now my favorite razor even over my vintage Fat Boy and my unbranded German travel razor. Consistently smooth shaves every time.