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
Announcing the Purism Librem Mini https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini/ Small form-factor mini-PC that puts freedom, privacy and security first.
8th gen quad-core i7 processor, up to 64 GB of DDR4 memory.
With #PureOS, #PureBoot (coreboot +Heads) and #Librem Key support.
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/
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
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/
Something I was proud that we did at Linux Journal was support customer privacy to the point we rejected the giant ecosystem of ad trackers dominating the industry.
It is hard (and costly) to do and I'm pleased to see The Markup take a similar stand:
https://themarkup.org/2020/02/25/president-letter-nabiha-syed
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