Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
@jameshjacksonjr Missed opportunity to call it "Save Face"...
@lunduke Your three-year-old was the best! But I very much respect your not putting videos of them up, I treat images of my kid the same way.
@ajmartinez Yeah, in the case that you would need a proprietary driver, you could pull it from *Debian* non-free (PureOS doesn't have a non-free repo) but it sounds like you will be fine for your NICs.
I just keep imagining the epic sword battle between Google Reader and Orkut... In the end the life force of all Google products end up feeding Search, the only immortal.
What if the real Highlanders are Google Product Managers? #therecanbeonlyone
@ajmartinez The main challenge may be if those devices have hardware that requires proprietary drivers (wifi or nic in particular) as PureOS only contains free software.
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Call for stories: Ever wanted to tweak software embedded in a product you own, but found yourself stymied by digital locks? We want to hear from you! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/tell-us-how-you-want-modify-and-repair-devices-your-life
I took a nice break over the summer and did some light reading, but it's time to dive in to Volume II.
Update: I just trimmed this to shape it and remove the neck beard and it's not too bad. I may just let it fill in a bit and see what that looks like...
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New episode out! @katherined @doc and @kyle talk about facial recognition and surveillance technology in the hands of individuals, and how that affects the balance of power. https://reality2cast.com/46 #FacialRecognition #privacy #Surveillance #technology #AI #podcast
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I was inspired to expand this into a full article to give myself a bit more space to talk about the issues:
https://puri.sm/posts/the-general-purpose-computer-in-your-pocket/
I was planning to grow out some stubble as part of my Halloween pirate costume. My son informed me (a bit too late) that he would prefer it be a full beard, so I'm going as Sparsebeard.
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❌ NSA analysts spied on significant others.
❌ Ring employees were caught looking at off-limits footage.
❌ Verkada staff use their own facial recognition tech to harass other employees.
Abuse of dangerous tech often starts with the people who build it. https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdyqm/surveillance-startup-used-own-cameras-to-harass-coworkers
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@davidrevoy Depends on your form factor I suppose, and whether Librem Mini works or whether you need to slot full-size PCI cards, etc.
@davidrevoy I have some (biased) ideas!
Microsoft got in antitrust trouble for bundling IE for free w/ Windows to compete with Netscape.
Now imagine Microsoft controlled whether Netscape could be installed or updated on Windows, and blocked them, and you are closer to the current situation with phones.
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
