Sebastian Scott @systunknown@librem.one

Weekly Tech News - Oct 15, 2019

News Stories: Linus Torvalds, Microsoft, Internet Archive, DOS games, Google Stadia, Twitter, Xbox, Blizzard, & China.

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The new anti facial recognition outift.

Librem 5 Aspen Batch – Photo and Video Gallery https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-aspen-batch-photo-and-video-update/ #Purism #Librem5 #Linux

Holy smokes.

LibreOffice runs on the Librem 5!

AND IT WORKS.

Saving files, opening files, typing... the UI is a bit cramped (it's a desktop app on a phone)... but hot-diggity! It works!

Delighted to see that #DeleteFacebook is becoming a thing once again

Connected ring, voice assistant, connected microwave... We can start worrying about privacy everywhere.

#PrivacyMatters

https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/amazon-echo-products-frames-ring-creepiness.html

Giving users the power to moderate their own feeds is the key. Centralized moderation will always be flawed--a company can never represent your sensitivities as well as you and your peers (and will likely bow to outside pressure to censor, whether it's China or groups of users).
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35yke/tech-companies-didnt-plan-for-chinese-censorship

This quote has never been so relevant than today.
Thanks Snowden.

#PrivacyAware #Privacy #SwitchToQwant