Paulidential Alert @pauloppenheim@xoxo.zone

Today I learned that USB-C MacBooks can sometimes send 20V to a 5V USB-C Yubikey, releasing the magic smoke from inside. 🔥

#F-Droid is an open source ethical alternative to Google Play, and can be installed on most Android devices.

Unlike commercial app stores, apps on F-Droid are free, open source and privacy-friendly.

You can find out more at:

https://f-droid.org/

If you have any questions, you can follow their official account on here at:

@fdroidorg

#AlternativesAtoZ #Fdroid #DeleteGoogle #AppStores

There's been some progress in producing actual free software builds of the Android SDK. We'll need some help tp bring it over the finish line: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/call-for-help-making-free-software-builds-of-the-android-sdk/4685
#foss #fdroid #android

Want to work for the /e/ project?
=> I'm recruiting a sysadmin/devops 👨‍🦰👩‍🦰💻👾💪
Remote is OK.
gael@e.email or PM me
#sysadmin #devops #jobs #jobopportunity
#mydataismydata #privacy #opensource
https://e.foundation

Hey U.S. citizens who have congressional representation, a request:

Please go vote today! Then next week, call your congressional representatives and tell them the 660,000 people in DC and 3.3 million people in Puerto Rico pay full taxes, are full citizens, yet don't have the congressional representation of the 530,000 people of Wyoming, and maybe systematic disenfranchisement (of a majority African-American and a majority Hispanic area) isn't OK anymore.

Thx in advance,

The disenfranchised.

Tfw you see someone struggling, you want to help by replying something positive or pragmatic about the situation / path to help, but you just end up doing 495 drafts of a reply to finally give up 20 min later

Dear @tim_cook - you probably won't read it, especially on Mastodon ^^, but I wrote an open letter to you, regarding your recent statements on user's data privacy and Apple. #mydataisMYdata /e/Foundation
https://medium.com/@gael_duval/an-open-letter-to-tim-cook-from-e-founder-14ae6c7d1f6f

As predicted by many commentators, #CambridgeAnalytica is going to escape punishment because all the people involved simply formed a new (but legally separate) company:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-24/-houdini-act-looms-at-cambridge-analytica-as-everyone-vanishes

By going after companies and not people, it is very difficult to enforce privacy laws.

This is a familiar pattern that commercial con artists use: run up liabilities with one company, then transfer assets to a new company. If they get caught, they simply do it again, and it's legal.

#DeleteFacebook

The President is now openly a nationalist. The stakes in this election are sky high. It’s not arbitrary. It’s not academic. Lives, and all of our futures, are at stake. https://werd.io/2018/we-fought-wars-to-stop-nationalists-now-the-president-is

RT @sailorsocialist@twitter.com: Helping adults learn to not call the police with an image commonly used for kindergartners is incredibly my brand

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sailorsocialist/status/1024295178260164608

Saying pollution can be stopped not by industries generating it but by individuals not using cars or plastic or intensively farmed foods is like saying world war 1 could've been stopped if all the infantry stopped shooting each other. Yeah you're technically right but entirely missing the point that the systems of society are causing people to do this in the first place

hi jorts boost this so my old lurkers can find me