@fsf Lists the Librem 5 in its Giving Guide https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ethical-tech-giving-guide-freedom-is-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving The Purism Librem 5 cell phone is another exciting addition to the Giving Guide this year: we're giving it a tentative recommendation because the company has publicly committed to doing the right things for prioritizing user freedom and privacy. We also have evaluated and endorsed the operating system that the Librem 5 will run, the fully free PureOS, and the phone is designed for maximum privacy, security, and user freedom.
The first Librem 5's are starting to arrive 😀 This is the first batch that is shipping to customers - the Birch batch.
Below, linked from reddit, is the first public report that I know of where a customer received his/her Librem 5.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/e2mqgb/i_have_my_librem_5_ama/
We are delighted to share that early yesterday we shipped the first #Librem5 Birch devices to backers https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-birch-shipping-announcement/
Instead of an awkward Thanksgiving conversation about politics, spend that time using our SSD guide to improve your family's online security. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/safest-conversation-youll-have-holiday
Today’s near-constant encroachments on religious liberty challenge the very notion of justice, says @ccpecknold https://catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2019/11/26/as-secularism-advances-law-itself-is-in-the-dock/ …
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#Catholic #CCP
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We contributed 20 patches and 23 Reviewed-by or Tested-by tags towards #Linux 5.4 https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-contributions-to-linux-5-4/
Including: improvements to the Librem 5 devkit’s IMU and panel drivers, preparation for a mainline display stack and Librem 5 bug fixes #Purism #Librem5 #OpenSource
#Twitter is a vile hate machine. #Lunduke
https://lbry.tv/@Lunduke:e/twitter-is-a-vile-hate-machine:4
This is an interesting video by Bryan Lunduke. I am not on Twitter now, though I was once upon a time.
One point he makes, that people you know, who are nice, kind people, jumps onto Twitter and then acts like hateful jerks, is kind of a strange phenomena. Bryan also talks about how addictive Twitter, and #Facebook, are.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s beatification date revealed https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/11/19/venerable-fulton-sheen-to-be-beatified-in-december/ …
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#Catholic #Archbishop
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If you insist on using smart assistants, keep your recordings as private as possible. https://www.wired.com/story/keep-siri-alexa-google-assistant-recordings-private/
Have you been looking for any easy way to explain the harms of face recognition to friends and family? This video should be your first stop: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/facial-recognition-police.html?rref=collection%2Fseriescollection%2Fnew-york-times-privacy-project&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
Who should have the final say over what you see online?
You.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/eff-urges-congress-not-dismantle-section-230
The illogic of the "paradox of tolerance" argument is mindblowing. If we are not prepared to tolerate the intolerant, then we are fundamentally incapable of defending a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, because we *are* the intolerant, we are the people a tolerant society needs defending against. Classic example, it is on the basis of the "paradox of tolerance" that so many atheists justify their islamophobia.
This article about Google's project to store and analyze millions of Americans' health care data confirms my suspicions about the Fitbit acquisition.
Many people who don't care about mass data collection because "I've got nothing to hide" change their tune when it's health care data. #privacy
Linux Foundation bans person for "Tone Policing."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/31469894
Full article (just the facts, no opinion) and video reaction (with opinion) for free at the link.
Web 2.0 Was Hijacked and Broken By Big Tech. Privacy Pioneering Are Building a Better Web 3.0
On one hand, tech companies violate our #privacy, capture massive amounts of data without consent, and process and categorize it w/ ruthless efficiency to ever-more-precisely target us with ads.
On the other hand, AARP keeps trying to sell my deceased dad life insurance.
A lot of uncommon questions asked by Computer America on yesterday's show, 60 minutes that went remarkably fast (for me): Direct:
https://computeramerica.com/2019/11/04/librem-5/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWafIp2gCMM
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https://www.spreaker.com/user/computeramerica/librem-5-privacy-digital-rights-and-more
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-computer-america-28269706/episode/librem-5-privacy-digital-rights-and-52160556/
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