Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

"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.

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. #parenting

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. #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/proposed-bill-would-ban-microtargeting-of-political-advertisements/

@keverets dry hops go in, in a week so they are still in the freezer.

@keverets You're half right: double IPA

I'll give you one guess what I'm #homebrewing today. #hops

It's fun to be a dad, you get to give your kid the toys you wish you got on your own birthday.

I recently sat down with Brent Gervais for his Brunch with Brent show. We covered topics ranging from my history with @linuxjournal and @purism, safety razors, how #FOSS ideals shape how I approach #infosec, and the current culture clash in the Linux community.

https://extras.show/73

With Twitter and now Facebook legitimizing permanent remote work I suspect we'll see others follow suit with a strong impact on Bay Area economics. So much highly-paid talent only moved here because a tech job required it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/21/facebook-permanent-remote-work/

@aral The interesting thing about this is that people seem to understand that it's manipulation and get upset when the same data collected through the same means is used for other types of manipulation (Cambridge Analytica) yet treat manipulation to buy things with a shrug.

I can't believe it's already been six months since we announced our anti-interdiction services! This service has been full of surprises and in this post I talk about some of the things I've learned while painting laptops with glitter nail polish.
https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-update-six-month-retrospective/

Interesting #privacy conflict: some governments and health officials are upset with Google and Apple because they won't share the location data their contract tracing apps collect. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/15/app-apple-google-virus/

So please be careful out there, whatever your politics.

Following #COVID-19 medical advice is a partisan issue in the US now. The virus is non-partisan, but if one party engages in riskier behavior resulting in more deaths among its members, recent elections have been close enough that it could impact the outcome in November.

@twrightsman From a GPG smart card perspective it should be identical. The main difference you'd see is that a lot of USB security tokens (including the Librem Key) also have a separate chip and flash storage and perform other security features (2FA, password vault, U2F etc) instead of *just* traditional smart card functions.