Leetaur @leetaur@librem.one

Apple's testimony today describes their future for computing. In the name of security, Apple wants to vet (and get a cut from) all software installed on all Macs, not just iPhones. This has always been the plan, but it takes time to boil the frog that is traditional computers.

1) Combined share of total US wealth held by everybody except the richest 10%, 1990-2020.

2) The share of US wealth held by *just* the top 1%, 1990-2020.

What it means: 10% of Americans control *70%* of national wealth. And the top 1% own more than the bottom 90% COMBINED. https://t.co/zItaLszuJc

Amazon Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen: one in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of Ring cameras without a warrant: https://u.fsf.org/3cq

Now that cars have become rolling smartphones, it's been pretty disappointing to see them copy some of the worst practices from the smartphone world. I wrote an article that talks about some of those problems. [CW: Tesla negativity] https://puri.sm/posts/locked-in-a-remote-control-car/

The Free Software Foundation and Defective by Design are on Mastodon! Visit us at https://hostux.social/@fsf and https://hostux.social/@endDRM.

Familiar with Swift, UIKit, and know your way around XCode? Want to help advance the state of #XMPP on #iOS? 📱 We're looking for developers to help bring our iOS app over the finish line! 🏁

This will be a paid short-term project producing FLOSS. DM or email matthew@snikket.org if you're interested.

Not an iOS dev? That's okay, boosts appreciated too! 🙂

Videos from #LibrePlanet 2021 are now live! https://u.fsf.org/3bn Watch them on our Peertube page at https://framatube.org/accounts/fsf/ or on GNU MediaGoblin at https://media.libreplanet.org/.

"The month of April saw more advances on the software side, in particular where software integrates with the Librem 5 hardware. Check out our progress in camera, location services, and VoLTE support as well as an update on Librem 5 supply chain and the start of Librem 5 USA production”
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-news-summary-april-2021/

New RYF certification! The ThinkPenguin, Inc. Free Software Wireless-N Mini Router v3 (TPE-R1300) is now certified to Respect Your Freedom. Read more about the new certification: https://u.fsf.org/3bk and learn more about RYF at https://ryf.fsf.org/.

Every manufacturer has a supply chain, and the electronics supply chain has seen unprecedented disruption over the past year that will extend into 2022. -
In this post Purism CEO Todd Weaver explains how the current electronics supply chain disruption will affect Purism in the coming year:
https://puri.sm/posts/the-ball-and-supply-chain/