Siddharth Shah @siddharth05h4h@librem.one

Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Librem_Social #climatechange #climatecrisis

'Alexa, are you invading my privacy?' – the dark side of our voice assistants

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/09/alexa-are-you-invading-my-privacy-the-dark-side-of-our-voice-assistants?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Librem_Social #privacy #security

Gonna go off the Fediverse (and other social media and whatnot) starting at sundown for Yom Kippur. Be back online a day later.

Got two short episodes scheduled to release while I'm away. Nothing crazy. Just some fun stuff.

Wish me luck wrangling the kids. :)

When the New York Times asked what individuals can do to take back control of their data, ProtonMail was one of the first responses. ProtonMail frees you from spying and the misuse of your data. https://nyti.ms/2pMrjEG

October is #CyberSecurityMonth. Read our email security guide to keep your emails safe from hackers: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/email-security-guide-online/ 😎
#CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth

mr.robot is out?? there goes my productivity #mrRobot

“Out in the wider world, anonymity is no longer guaranteed. Facial recognition gives police and companies the means of identifying and tracking people of interest, while others are free to go about their business. The real question is: who gets that privilege?”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/05/facial-recognition-technology-hurtling-towards-surveillance-state

#Purism #Librem5 #Librem5Aspen

Yes, we know you're excited; Yes, you can see the anodized chassis we got into this Aspen batch; Yes, we are asking you to be patient as we incrementally ship through tens of thousands of Librem 5 phones over the next handful of months; Yes, you will get yours. Yes, you will be impressed. @purism #librem5

“Seventeen dollars for a smartphone sounds like a great deal, especially for people living in poverty who can barely afford rent. But there’s a problem: low-cost smartphones are privacy nightmares.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90408472/cheap-smartphones-have-a-disturbing-secret

Hi Fediverse 👋

let me sum up the situation around #switchingsocial

Around September 20th, the original (anonymous) author of switching.social shut down its website and all related Social Media accounts, including mastodon 🤔

This info reached me (@tobias ) the next day via my German version @swisode .

As there hasn't been any sign of life since then, I restored the website and created this new account. Right now I'm out of spare time to work on it, but that'll change in a few weeks 🙂

A belated introduction to Small Technology Foundation – @laura

“About a month ago, Aral and I launched Small Technology Foundation. In the frenzied rush to get the site up, and general life chaos that has overwhelmed me since, I’d not managed to write about it until now.”

https://laurakalbag.com/a-belated-introduction-to-small-technology-foundation/

Tutorial: Developing Your First Librem 5 App. Hello World :) https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Apps/Tutorials/First_Application/index.html #Purism #Librem5 #GNOME #Python #Linux #mobiledev #mobileapp #mobileappdevelopment

“For decades, the overriding objective of American business and government has been to remove friction from the tracking system, by linking networks, by speeding connections, by eliminating barriers. But friction is the only thing that has ever made privacy, let alone obscurity, possible. If there’s no friction, if we can all be profiled instantly and intimately, then there’s nothing to stop any of our neighbors from being targeted…”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/ice-surveillance-deportation.html

Everyone has a story. #pixelfed

Ephemeral posts aka stories will be huge for the fediverse. #pixelfedszn

ProtonMail Version 4.0 is the launchpad for ProtonCalendar, ProtonDrive, and even more privacy tools. Watch this video to meet the team who's building it. (Open beta coming soon!) https://youtu.be/MI7hi2nVsQE

Our app’s reviews are not reviews of me. Our app’s reviews are not reviews of me. Our app’s reviews are not reviews of me.

If I keep telling myself this, maybe reading and replying to reviews will stop making me feel so anxious…

The Librem 5 connecting to WiFi and off to a meeting. Look at all those HTML5 apps :) #Purism #Librem5 #Librem5Aspen #Linux #smartphone