It's been one week since the grocery
Still out of pasta sauce and wipes and TP
Five days since I saw Fauci, saying
Keep social distance, not enough testing
Three days since a shave and groom
I disable my camera when I talk with Zoom
Yesterday, someone coughed on me
So it'll still be two weeks `til I'm out of quarantine
What things are you #3dprinting to keep your kids occupied while on lockdown? My son's current favorite is this robot (we're printing a multi-colored army of them). https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2887306
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
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
Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.