Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Am I the only one that's been using each country's (and in the US, also each state's) public health, economic, and social response to COVID-19 as a model to judge their overall competence and culture?

I finally put up our house numbers yesterday. But I chipped the paint behind them and noticed sun-cracked paint all along the front. So today I scraped and repainted the front of the house. #yakshave #tired

Many people either don't know how masks work, or don't care. I observe so many masks below noses or even hanging from chins. Unless this makes it mandatory to wear masks *correctly* I don't know if it will have the hoped-for impact. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-18/california-mandatory-face-masks-statewide-order-coronavirus-gavin-newsom

I'm testing a Librem Mini and comparing it to my SBC home servers (RPi4 and Odroid XU4). All have gig interfaces, but downloading an iso over my gigabit Internet shows massive differences: Mini (~107MByte/s), the others (25MByte/s).

Much respect to hairdressers. After studying an hour or two of tutorials I spent about two hours cutting my son's hair only to end up with a Dumb-and-Dumber-esque bowl cut. #bangsarehard #humility

Last week I was a guest on FLOSSWeekly where I talked about @purism, balancing security with freedom, the Librem 5, and culture clashes in #FLOSS. Check it out: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/581?autostart=false

I've joked about printing in Linux for 20 years, but I just got a portable printer for #vanlife (Canon Pixma iP110) and it was literally plug and play. I connected printer USB to my laptop, it auto-detected/configured it, and prompted to print a test page which worked perfectly.

The announcement that the DEA was authorized to conduct covert surveillance on protestors got me thinking about how one could protect oneself against that kind of mass surveillance. In this post I give a quick overview of Stingray technology, the implications of its use at a protest, how aerial stingrays (“dirtboxes”) extends its mass-surveillance capabilities, and how the Librem 5’s hardware kill switches give you control over where, when and how you are surveilled.

https://puri.sm/posts/taking-the-sting-out-of-stingray/

Only earlier today I was defending DNS against claims that network problems are always DNS's fault, and now Amazon is down apparently due to DNS. #igiveup

"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/

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