We moved libhandy from Purism's infra to GNOME's infra! Learn more here: https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2020/05/22/handy-1-alpha-1-migrating-to-gnome.html.
Repo: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libhandy
Doc: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy
Contact-tracing app caught sharing location data with Foursquare
https://mashable.com/article/care19-north-dakota-contact-tracing-app-sharing-location-data-foursquare/ #privacy #security #purism #librem5
With Twitter and now Facebook legitimizing permanent remote work I suspect we'll see others follow suit with a strong impact on Bay Area economics. So much highly-paid talent only moved here because a tech job required it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/21/facebook-permanent-remote-work/
I can't believe it's already been six months since we announced our anti-interdiction services! This service has been full of surprises and in this post I talk about some of the things I've learned while painting laptops with glitter nail polish.
https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-update-six-month-retrospective/
#phosh 0.3.0 is out: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/tags/v0.3.0
Notifications can be persistent now thanks to zbrown, screen blanking/locking and haptic feedback are improved as is #i18n.
Interesting #privacy conflict: some governments and health officials are upset with Google and Apple because they won't share the location data their contract tracing apps collect. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/15/app-apple-google-virus/
Following #COVID-19 medical advice is a partisan issue in the US now. The virus is non-partisan, but if one party engages in riskier behavior resulting in more deaths among its members, recent elections have been close enough that it could impact the outcome in November.
@kyle This is one of my favorite things about the Librem 5 and is why I'm so excited to get one! :)
To the best of our knowledge, the #Librem5 is the only smartphone around with a OpenPGP smart card reader. In this post I talk about why that's such a big deal: https://puri.sm/posts/your-own-personal-enclave-the-smart-card-reader-on-the-librem-5/
Surveillance vendor NSO Group pitched hacking tools to US police forces that would "turn your target's smartphone into an intelligence gold mine" #privacy #infosec https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8899nz/nso-group-pitched-phone-hacking-tech-american-police
It doesn't have to be this way. Messaging isn't complicated. We solved this more than a decade ago. You have five incompatible messaging apps on your phone because greed drives companies to ignore compatibility and optimize for vendor lock-in. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lessons-vendor-lock-messaging
Internet messaging is so broken that FB alone owns 3 incompatible apps. Google has *6*, not counting the ones they canceled: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/google-unifies-messenger-teams-plans-more-coherent-vision/
How many more cloud-connected devices have to turn into bricks before people realize they don't own the hardware, they only rent it? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/wink-smart-hub-users-get-one-weeks-notice-to-pay-up-or-lose-access/
Update: I'm 400 pages in and it's quite the page turner! I never heard people say that about War and Peace, so either most read it when they are too young to appreciate it, or all the Gibbon and Durant has changed my threshold for "page turner" #whynotboth #itsreallygoodtho
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