Marc Madness @marcmadness@librem.one

Technology as it Should Be

"The power of control by Big-Tech in the app store is but a small example of exploitation of our digital lives. If you don’t control the software, the companies who wrote that software control you. You become a digital prisoner."

https://puri.sm/posts/technology-as-it-should-be/

#freedom #privacy #security

Librem 5 Visual Walkthrough

"With the Mass-produced Evergreen phone now starting to ship, we put together a video walkthrough of the launch software as well as an overview of the final hardware."

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-visual-walkthrough/

#librem5 #privacy #freedom

This is a really significant improvement bringing the #PinePhone one step closer to being daily-driver ready. Alongside battery life improvements, 60hz responsive LCD and touch panel, stable BT and functional convergence docking - we're getting there.
Bravo to all developers!

https://twitter.com/ManjaroLinux/status/1327614609826648066

The trouble users had yesterday launching apps on #macOS isn't just a technical problem, but a moral one. Operating systems should service their users, not phone home to a corporation to see if they're "permitted" to run the program. #Apple

The General Purpose Computer In Your Pocket

https://puri.sm/posts/the-general-purpose-computer-in-your-pocket/

"One of the neatest tricks Big Tech ever pulled was convincing people that phones weren’t general-purpose computers and should have different rules than laptops or desktops. These rules conveniently give the vendor more control so that you don’t own a smartphone so much as you rent it."

#privacy #software #freedom

A new #stable update is out for #ManjaroARM.

It includes some nice stuff like:
Firefox 82
KDE Plasma 5.20.1
Most Uboot packages updated to 2020.10

See the announcement here:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable-update-2020-10-27-kde-plasma-firefox-uboots-and-kernels/34281

How can the decentralized web help keep big tech in check? EFF’s @mala takes us from the Roman Empire to a positive future of the Net in this ten minute lightning talk.
https://youtu.be/JtX-tlE1cok?t=87m50s

Holy shit. 14-21% of Apple's annual profits comes from Google paying them to be iOS' default search engine https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html

Teaching users how to create strong passwords is more complicated than telling them to use a certain number of characters–it requires showing how predictability affects the strength of the password. Check out our passwords lesson plan to learn more. https://sec.eff.org/topics/passwords

A Librem 5 Video Made on a Librem 5

"Ultimately the Librem 5 phone lets you take your regular workflow with you while also keeping you in contact with your friends and family."

https://puri.sm/posts/a-librem-5-video-made-on-a-librem-5/

#librem5 #privacy #convergence

"One of the hopes for the early Internet was that this new technology could help ordinary people rebalance the scales of power. That potential still exists, and we see it in everything." - EFF's Executive Director Cindy Cohn https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1316910770253418502

Whether it's #bossware, #stalkerware, #DRM, or printer ink, we've got your back. As the @IETF's #RFC8890 says, "The Internet is for End-Users" (that's you!) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/we-fight-users

Wow ProtonMail couldn't ship security updates for a whole month because Apple was blackmailing them into giving a cut of their subscription revenue https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/8/21506995/apple-forced-in-app-purchase-protonmail-ceo-wordpress-iap