Leetaur @leetaur@librem.one

We thought our classic gnu design might need a little freshening up, and since our office just acquired a Wacom tablet and took an Inkscape class together, we tinkered a little with it. What do you think of this rough draft? https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1239933

Looking out over the Cape of Good Hope, in Cape Town, South Africa, December 2015. 🇿🇦

#travel #photo #sea #capetown #southafrica

AT&T not only failed to obtain its customers’ express consent to sell their locational data—it created an active marketplace that trades on its customers’ real-time locations. And the number of third parties with access is staggering: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43z3dn/hundreds-bounty-hunters-att-tmobile-sprint-customer-location-data-years

Consent Matters: When Tech Shares Your Secrets Without Your Permission

https://puri.sm/posts/consent-matters-when-tech-shares-your-secrets-without-your-permission/

Apple brags about its privacy bona fides, but hasn't endorsed, and at times has opposed, strong privacy legislation. If it's going use privacy to lure in more buyers, it has an obligation to its customers to live up to its promises, says EFF's @imck82. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/15/apple-preaches-privacy-lawmakers-want-talk-turn-action/

Runs on Librem 5, Day 25 - Image Viewer (Eye of GNOME)

ArchiveOrg: https://archive.org/details/librem5day025eyeofgnome

YouTube: https://youtu.be/tipEr4KD6Ag

You're throwing a ball around with your dog and he's loving it. Then, he stops dead still. He takes a quick sniff and looks up at you and says "I'm not supposed to do this, but you need to get inside right now". He looks off into the distance, "They're coming".
#writingprompts #writing

Runs on Librem 5, Day 24 - July Librem 5 Update

ArchiveOrg: https://archive.org/details/librem5day024julyupdate

YouTube: https://youtu.be/u5hISNi_Jws

Runs on Librem 5, Day 23 - GNOME Disk Utility

ArchiveOrg: https://archive.org/details/librem5day023gnomedisks

YouTube: https://youtu.be/IipYuoXHFyc

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In court, Facebook blames users for destroying their own right to privacy https://interc.pt/2KjCnCh by @samfbiddle #privacy #libremone

For a lot of people, quitting Facebook is simply not an option, says EFF's @jenuhhveev. But there are still steps you can take to minimize your privacy and security risks. https://www.fastcompany.com/90368826/you-dont-have-to-quit-facebook-to-manage-your-relationship-with-it

Sometimes I live in a world of technological wonder. We have voice recognition, music streaming, computer games, text messaging...

And sometimes I just want to stab the printer with my scissors because it JUST WON'T PRINT.

If I'd ever write my own shell, I'd do it in Go and call it 'gosh', with the accompanying side-project 'oh-my-gosh'.

Just kidding. There's already elvish, a shell written in #golang - and it's pretty marvelous, if I may say so myself. You should check it out:

https://elv.sh/

First the Internet gave us access to everything. Then it gave everything access to us.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. —C.S. Lewis

Librem 5 Smartphone -- July Update.

So much amazing stuff going on. Including Calls, Messages, Web, Contacts, Settings, and more.

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-july-update/

Yesterday, I dreamed that iPad icons were changed into circles and dream-me scrambled to find a wallpaper that created a better composition behind the round icons.

...There's probably something wrong with me.

Runs on Librem 5, Day 21 - Music Player (Lollypop)

https://youtu.be/k3kK4M26CZA