Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

I have way too much fun comparing hardware and software supply chain security to food supply chain security: https://puri.sm/posts/from-fab-to-table-librem-5-usa-supply-chain-security/

Signal is one of the last things I use my old Android phone for. I've been trying out the latest axolotl Signal client on my #Librem5 and while it isn't feature complete and it's an Electron app, it's functional enough for the basic chatting I do that I don't need to go back.

The key to making good coffee is consistency. Perform the same steps in the same order the same way every time. Not for flavor, but so you can make coffee before you've had coffee.

Before and during WW1 nations attempted to ban weapons that were too frightening or that gave one side an advantage, including dropping bombs from planes/blimps, firing from subs while underwater, and chemical weapons. Didn't work. https://www.businessinsider.com/killer-drone-hunted-down-human-target-without-being-told-un-2021-5

That scene in The Dark Knight where Batman turns everyone's cellphones into a massive surveillance network, was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a project roadmap.

The finished product.

Every year or two around St. Patrick's Day I buy some extra corned beef when it's on sale and then later on I turn it into pastrami. It's a simple process: add a pepper and coriander rub, smoke it like any other brisket, and a few hours later you got pastrami.

It's been two weeks since my second vaccination, so we celebrated our immunity by eating *inside* a restaurant for the first time in a long time. It was weird but also amazing.

Something about this Epic lawsuit is causing some Apple users to notice the pot of water they are bathing in is getting hot.

Couldn't have said it better myself: "Apple says it's protecting our security and privacy, but it has become clear that locking down our iPhones is also about controlling us so Apple can make more money." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/27/apple-iphone-monopoly/

You sometimes hear people say Linux (and by extension Open Source) "won" because of how ubiquitous it is in Android phones and IoT devices.

Yet today's release of Google's new OS Fuchsia on Nest devices points to a future where Linux is left behind. This is a future where the dominant OSes on devices are Fuchsia, iOS, and Windows.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/google-launches-its-third-major-operating-system-fuchsia/

I remember when it seemed like the open chat standard XMPP "won" 15 years ago when Google Talk adopted it. It seemed like maybe the bad old days of proprietary chat protocols were over.

Google of course abandoned XMPP and later 5 or so other chat protocols. Today the messaging world is a mess of proprietary protocols and networks all reinventing the same wheels.