Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

I was interviewed about supply chain security (around 15 min mark) in a longer CNBC feature about manufacturing phones in the USA. In short, it's less about trust concerns with any particular country/govt., and more about reducing the links in the supply chain to reduce the opportunities to tamper with hardware.

Our Made-in-USA-electronics Librem 5 USA phone also got a number of shout-outs. Pretty neat!

https://youtu.be/YdbA7Z8Ae4w #security #supplychain #infosec #manufacturing

@gardiner_bryant I was digging it before, but now that pretty much everyone I want to follow is now posting here instead it's amazing.

@timmgleason I suspect (or at least hope) that people that are new here will grow to understand and respect what it means to post into someone's chronological timeline. The incentives are different here, and attention is finite. I think people who demand *too* much daily attention from their followers will find their audience shrink over time.

@timmgleason If someone posts an *infrequent* firehose I suppose it just depends on how disruptive that is to the rest of your reading.

I have unfollowed people I like very much because their *constant* firehose overwhelmed the rest of my timeline. I still see highlights boosted by others though so I don't miss out completely.

One sign is when I find myself skimming/skipping a lot of posts/boosts from the same person. When I find I'm doing it a lot, I question whether it's time to prune.

I think everyone recognizes just how bad algorithms can be at predicting your interests. Relying on algorithms so you don't miss out on something means you do miss out on a lot of posts from people you do follow. I always wondered just how many posts on Twitter my followers actually saw.

Ultimately, the only one who knows what I want to see on my own timeline is me, and even then my tastes/interests change. My timeline is an information garden I tend to, weeding, pruning, and planting.

I've been on a chronological timeline both here and on Twitter for a few years. Here is how I manage it:

I don't follow lightly. Following means I want to see all your posts. I read each post.

I filter. When ppl fill up my whole timeline with streams of posts too often, I either filter boosts or unfollow. It's nothing personal.

What about trending? Easy to tell what's trending because people w/ shared interests who I follow post/boost about the topic. If not, I follow someone new who does.

Now that I'm really cranking through this project, I had the fleeting thought "wow maybe it *would* be profitable to sell these" until I did the math. It will take 8 hours to weave the fabric and another 12 to finish it (tying fringe, washing, ironing) and sew it into a tote. I realized if I sold them for $350 I'd cover material costs and pay myself a $15/hr minimum wage.

So if you are wondering why I'm not opening up an Etsy store or something, that's why. #weaving

@micahflee Yeah the formatting macros across all publishers tend to push the limits of word processing software. Formatting always slows me down so I separate writing from formatting.

All of my books were actually written in vim. I'd put basic markup in the document if it made sense (first html then later on markdown), then after I felt I had a good first draft of a chapter, only then would I import into the publisher's template and format it. #writing

While I didn't get to weave as much as I wanted this weekend, I was still able to get halfway through the fabric for the new tote. Here's the progress after 4 hours. #weaving

@dsearls Just go to the person's profile in the same browser or app you use your account from and you should see a follow button. Or click on the search icon and search for @username@hostname.domain and clicking on them in the results will also bring up their profile.

@micahflee My biggest concern with importing over design elements like this is that so much over there (like you say) is about driving engagement, not health or happiness of people using the product.

It turns out that hateful, controversial, negative and misinformed posts are great at not just driving engagement (from people who both agree and disagree with those posts) but as a result also end up trending and then getting even more eyeballs. Great for business, not for health.

@wendynather Welcome!

I'm getting faster! With this new project I really got into a nice rhythm. As a result after two hours of work (30 mins of that to tie the warp back on) I went from a loose warp to about 7 inches of fabric. #weaving

Now that the 2nd tote is finished, what's next? I have other gifts I need to weave for the holidays, but I can't start them yet! It took almost 9 hours to measure warp and dress the loom for this project, so to save time overall I put enough warp on to weave at least 3 totes back-to-back.

The problem is, I can't use the loom for other holiday projects until I weave another tote! Fortunately this next tote has already been commissioned by my local yarn store! Busy time around here. #weaving

@katemason Thank you so much!

@kop316 Congratulations!

@f1337 I'll see about setting up a Matrix chat for you Monday with some folks on the team to share your progress and findings.

@f1337 Not at all! We'd welcome the help!