Siddharth Shah @siddharth05h4h@librem.one

Massive corporations do not have your interests at heart. No matter what they tell you about privacy, security, etc., you as an individual do not matter to them and they will bow to other interests first. Remember this in 2020, and support independent open source projects.

“This [(Spotify Unwrapped)] is the steady wearing down of defenses, the slow transformation of corporate creepiness into cultural complacency, that allows rampant high-tech surveillance to progress.”

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2019/12/06/who-listens-to-the-listeners/

Aren't Instagram influencers just Ads in human form?

Next time you complain about fee hikes to Nirmala tai and not Mota bhai. She will at least speak the truth and say "who goes to college in India, I send my kids to the US."

‪Yeah, baby!‬

‪The Lunduke Show has overtaken minutephysics to become the #3 channel on LBRY!

‪#1, here I come!

Linux Thursday cometh!

Got questions? Are they good and Linux-y (or at least a little Open Source-y)?

Ask 'em! Right here! Right now! Shazam!

"These owners can choose to share some, all, or none of their footage with police; police do not need a warrant in order to request camera footage from residents....when camera owners are "uncooperative or unavailable," officers are instructed to contact Ring and request that the captured video be preserved." #privacy

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjw9e8/inside-rings-quest-to-become-law-enforcements-best-friend

Hooray there's one less blob 🎉 coreboot 4.11: Leaving No Librem Behind https://puri.sm/posts/coreboot-4-11-leaving-no-librem-behind/ #coreboot #pureboot #qubes

The Purism team is expanding. We're looking for a talented Growth Marketer and a Web Designer with a passion for open source, open hardware, privacy and security https://puri.sm/jobs/

elementary OS 5.1 Hera is here with a brand new first-run experience, Flatpak support, accessibility and System Settings improvements, app updates, and the latest hardware support. Existing users of Juno, run your updates to get it. Read all about it: https://blog.elementary.io/introducing-elementary-os-5-1-hera/

#Modi blunders till date, in reverse order :
10. Hiding water crises
9. Fudging GDP data
8. Neglecting trade deficit
7. Ignoring unemployment
6. Bad mgt on Farmers suicides
5. Bad GST implementation
4. NPA mismanagement
3. Demonetization
2. Kashmir
1. NRC

#GoBackModi

Privacy and freedom online are your rights and the rights of everyone online. Help us make Tor stronger and scale it to support all who need it. #GivingTuesday https://blog.torproject.org/giving-tuesday-support-tech-freedom-and-human-rights
Donate now, and Mozilla will match your donation: https://torproject.org/donate/donate-tbi-md

We promised to publish the hardware schematics when the #Librem5 shipped and we delivered: Hardware Schematics and X-ray Scans for Librem 5 Birch https://puri.sm/posts/a-different-kind-of-transparency/ #OpenHardware #Linux

Black Friday deal: now through forever, get elementary OS for any price you want! Exclusively at http://elementary.io 😉

Can’t write anything without it turning into an overdramatic existential crisis. Is that redundant? Why am I even writing this? Who am I to write this? Whyyyyyy?

So Europe ran out of IPv4 addresses this week: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/the-ripe-ncc-has-run-out-of-ipv4-addresses