Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

I attached a USB-C hub to my laptop dock using a flattened IKEA bracket and some 3M tape. Now I can easily use it and see both screens from my lap. A bit hacky but it works.

I was *this* close to writing up a parody of Britney Spears's "Toxic" covering today's news story about heavy metals discovered in baby food. I restrained myself this time as it seemed like it might be in bad taste.

Chromium accounted for 60 *billion* DNS queries per day and a code change resulted in a 41% drop in global root DNS server traffic: https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/chromium_cleanup_drops_dns_traffic/

I started using my Librem 5 with a laptop dock yesterday and wow this is game changing. I'm going to use this setup instead of my personal laptop for a month. I could *almost* replace my work laptop too.

They're gettin' jacked, I'm breakin' myself
I can't believe they takin' hedge funds' wealth
They took their rings, they took their Rolex
I looked at the Reddit, said $AG's next

Sixteen shorted stocks in portfolio
Reddit is about to make some hedge funds turn cold
Now they beggin' Janet Yellen it's a tad bit late
Hedge funds and SEC couldn't regulate

It was a clear black night, a clear white moon
Hedge funds was on Wall Street tryin' to consume
Some bets for the eve all made within my phone
Scrolling Robinhood, chillin all alone

Just hit the bad side of the SEC
On a mission tryin' to buy some $GME
Seen my app full of stocks, ain't no need to freak
All those suits know what's up with AMC

Chinese govt. probes backdoor infection: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/anal-swab-china-coronavirus/2021/01/27/cc284f56-6054-11eb-a177-7765f29a9524_story.html

Coming soon to a Librem 5 near you: support for the internal OpenPGP smart card reader.

Is the problem that the govt. is buying location data w/o a warrant, or that data brokers can collect and sell it to begin with? We have to change the incentives driving the whole mobile app economy. This is something I wrote about in this article: https://puri.sm/posts/mobile-app-stores-and-the-power-of-incentives/

Posting from the Tootle Mastodon client which just made it into the Librem 5 PureOS staging repo today!

Librem 5 users using the standard amber repo should see it in a few days.

8. I don't know precisely when it started, but I realized today that at some point during the weekend I stopped looking at my watch all the time for notifications that weren't there. I think I beat the habit.

My theory on why fraction math is so stressed in US schools is because of Imperial measurements. The only time I perform math on fractions as an adult is when dealing with inches or cups.

Ad tech companies find the ability to track individual people around the Internet incredibly valuable. That's why they won't stop intrusive data collection:

"Facebook promised to bid on at least 90 percent of auctions when it could identify the end user" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-facebook-ad-deal-antitrust.html

That old book smell...

Modern cloud platforms are essentially giant proprietary server OSes, so is Parler's difficulty in coming back online due to finding hosting, or is it due to using so many proprietary AWS features, switching providers is like porting server software from Solaris to Windows NT?

7. Day Three. Still looking for phantom notifications on my watch, but I'm catching and stopping myself more often than not. The tell is when you look away from your watch without knowing the time. It's nice not having to charge my watch every night.

6. I would use my smart watch timer app for my coffee, so I replaced it with a kitchen timer clipped to my French Press.