Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

With so many relying on video conferencing at home, it's more important than ever to disable your camera w/ a hardware kill switch when you aren't using it. If your laptop doesn't have one, cover up the camera when your call is over. #privacy https://puri.sm/learn/hardware-kill-switches/

There are many remote work guides out there, but most describe proprietary tools w/ vendor lock-in. @purism has not only been a remote workforce since the beginning, we've done it ourselves with FOSS tools. This article describes how: https://puri.sm/posts/our-essential-list-of-free-software-for-remote-work/

The thing about shaving with safety razors and $0.10 blades is you order 100 at a time. Just checked my stock and at 2 weeks/blade I'm good for 2+ years before I have to sharpen my straight razor. #lockdown

I can't go any other place, when I think of COVID I don't touch my face.

My beer fermentation fridge broke and while shopping online for a replacement, I didn't expect to see panic buying of small chest freezers in the Bay Area...

One thing I was missing in my disaster preparedness kit was a keg full of homebrewed beer, so I just ordered ingredients to brew a Märzen actually *in* March for once!

Based on my INBOX, it looks like the opportunists are already taking advantage of the pandemic to market their wares.

I was able to install @micahflee 's dangerzone package on my #Librem5 and w/ some QT tweaks the main screen fits (other screens need more work). It uses an amd64 Docker image so I need an arm64 image to actually clean docs, but it was nice that I got as far as I did without much effort.

A: WHO announced Covid-19 is a pandemic
C: That's what I want to find out
A: I say the pandemic was announced by WHO
C: You mean you don't know?
A: Well I should
C: Then who announced it?
A: Yes

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/covid-19-is-a-pandemic-who-declares/

Now that so many places have been forced to build and use the telecommuting infrastructure/practices you must have to make it a success, I wonder how many will finally see the benefits and shift to it long-term.

In retrospect, this Heads talk is probably the driest presentation I've ever given. Sorry about that folks, next one will be better.

I just realized that #SCALE18x marks the 10th year I've attended and spoken at SCALE. My first presentation was an Introduction to Forensics talk at SCALE8x.

It looks like the latest #Librem5 kernel update reduced active power consumption by another 100-140mA based on my own measurements. I hear there are a lot more improvements in the pipeline once we switch from 5.3 to the 5.6 kernel.

Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich #privacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/technology/clearview-investors.html

If you are going to #SCALE18x this weekend check out my talk on Saturday at 15:00 titled "Heads: Tamper-evident Firmware with User-controlled Keys" #infosec https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/18x/presentations/heads-tamper-evident-firmware-user-controlled-keys

While The Invisible Man looks interesting, I can't stomach watching Elisabeth Moss get abused any more. I stopped watching the 2nd season of Handmaid's Tale for the same reason.

I saw a Sonic truck up the block completing the fiber endpoint that they ran past my house last weekend. I was so excited I went up to give them some praise and see if they wanted coffee or anything. #gigfiber #itshappening

The latest changes to hit the #Librem5 staging repo have dramatically increased my quality of life. First, Chatty now can use the haptic motor so I get vibration notifications w/ messages. Second, the top menu bar now features quick access to more settings.

Apparently when you move a registered Google Fi SIM to a new phone w/o re-registering it w/ the Fi app, incoming SMS have 16 random chars appended to the end. I assume registration causes local apps to hide the text. I wonder what Google is using those strings for?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/5k3h9t/texts_ending_with_tilde_and_random_letters/