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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.

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!

Announcing the Purism Librem Mini 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 , (coreboot +Heads) and Key support.

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 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

arstechnica.com/science/2020/0

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.

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

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It looks like the latest 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.

If you are going to this weekend check out my talk on Saturday at 15:00 titled "Heads: Tamper-evident Firmware with User-controlled Keys" socallinuxexpo.org/scale/18x/p

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.

The latest changes to hit the 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?

reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comment

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:

themarkup.org/2020/02/25/presi

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