Nick @nickh@librem.one

The announcement that the DEA was authorized to conduct covert surveillance on protestors got me thinking about how one could protect oneself against that kind of mass surveillance. In this post I give a quick overview of Stingray technology, the implications of its use at a protest, how aerial stingrays (“dirtboxes”) extends its mass-surveillance capabilities, and how the Librem 5’s hardware kill switches give you control over where, when and how you are surveilled.

https://puri.sm/posts/taking-the-sting-out-of-stingray/

Organizing friends, neighbors, allies, classmates, or colleagues to defend digital rights in your community? We can help. https://www.eff.org/EFA-FAQ

A two-line change to /use/share/gpodder/UI/gtk/gpodder.ui to change two horizontal panes to vertical ones was all it took to make it fit perfectly on the #Librem5 screen. I love #FOSS.

1. Buy medication I never have bought or even searched for before at local pharmacy w/ credit card
2. Go to car, decide to test #Librem5 cellular by visiting my account on mobile.twitter.com
3. Immediately see ad for type of medication I bought!

No location tracking possible on this Librem 5 (used browser, not native twitter app), so either a crazy coincidence, or near-real-time reporting between CVS and #adtech w/ linking between my name, card, and twitter account.

Community Translations: L10n Strings for #SailfishOS 3.2.1

#Jolla is ready for a translation round for the upcoming 3.2.1 release.
The next community translation round has about 120 strings to be translated depending on the language. Jolla kindly asks the translate community to help by the end of Sunday, 24th November.

Official post on TJC: https://together.jolla.com/question/216903/official-announcement-l10n-strings-for-321/

Supplying the Demand - An update on Librem 5 shipping https://puri.sm/posts/supplying-the-demand/ #Purism #Librem5

@purism Nicole and I (taking the photo) on a little Librem 5 Birch fabrication trip...

Mass surveillance around the world is growing. We have to fight for our right to privacy and freedom of speech! Here we explain how any backdoor would lessen security for all of us: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk

Would you replace your existing internet provider with a community-based ISP, assuming that you'd (at the very least) keep the same speed? If so/not, why?

Boosts+

This is the PineTime. A companion for your Linux smartphone, and new side-project of ours. More news coming in the future...

(If you have experience with FreeRTOS or mbed, and are interested, please get in touch!)

Lucas' #etnaviv softpin work landed in #linux-next :
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=ae4530062620561d24683b1bd3438b8397693429

This paves the way for gc7000 mainline mesa GPU support: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/1559

Great news for the #librem5 !

Released phosh 0.0.4 - about the the release with the most changes: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/tags/v0.0.4 - thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

@purism @gnome #gtk #wayland

Librem 5 shipping starting 24 September 2019 https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/ #purism #linux #linuxphone #linuxmobile #gnome