Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Update: looks like Apple's notary service doesn't send app hashes, it sends info about the *developer* certificate. So they know who wrote the app, not *necessarily* which app it is. If they block an app it would apply to all apps signed by the same cert.

https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/

It's worth noting that the lawsuit here isn't about the fact that Google collects all this data, but that it does it using metered cellular data.

"The device, stationary, with all apps closed, transferred data to Google about 16 times an hour, or about 389 times in 24 hours. Assuming even half of that data is outgoing, Google would receive about 4.4MB per day or 130MB per month..." #privacy https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_allowance/

"Hackers intuitively understand something many computer users don’t--ownership is not about possession, it’s about control...The illusion that Apple users have control over their computers was briefly disturbed this week..." https://puri.sm/posts/apple-users-got-owned/

@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.

I took a nice break over the summer and did some light reading, but it's time to dive in to Volume II.

Sparsebeard the pirate!

Check out the Halloween surprise I found underneath my sawhorse!

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...

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.