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Well, it took a while but my petition to keep strong encryption without backdoors legal in th EU is now open for supporters!

Please feel free to support it and or boost/promte it

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/1222%252F2020/html/Keep%2BEncryption

Even if you accept that bizarre premise, remember: this isn't an editorial process, it's a surveillance system. It's one thing for a school librarian to make decisions about which books to shelve, but this doesn't require them to spy on everything every kid tries to read.

For censorware companies to block your kids' data-requests, they have to intercept and examine them. Censorware is spyware. Given that, it's worth asking, "Who are we allowing to spy on our kids?

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Getting ready for #PineTalk (@talkpine)
#shotonpinephone
#megapixels

Before BASIC ... There was #Fortran

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-old-programming-language-is-suddenly-hot-again-but-its-future-is-still-far-from-certain/

In our latest newsletter :
- Discover our 2021 roadmap!
- We have published a list of what we found about Google data collection on Android
- This is the 1st anniversary of our partnership with Fairphone!
Read more in 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇮🇹
#degoogled #smartphones
https://e.foundation/leaving-apple-google-2021-roadmap-facts-about-google-data-collection-and-celebrating-partnership-with-fairphone/

The May 2021 issue of the Free Software Supporter is live! https://u.fsf.org/3bl Get a whole month's free software news delivered hot and fresh to your inbox at the start of every month by signing up here: https://u.fsf.org/1ac

"I tracked my kid with Apple #AirTag to test its #privacy features"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/tech/airtags-apple-privacy-concerns/index.html

Learn Engineering Concepts With Some Cool Animations https://hackaday.com/2021/05/05/learn-engineering-concepts-with-some-cool-animations/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1390124495604756487

5 Things You Need to Know about #LoRaWAN Gateways (2020)

https://tech-journal.semtech.com/expert-series-5-things-you-need-to-know-about-lorawan-based-gateways

The forty-fourth edition of my weekly collection of #LinuxPhone news (@PINE64 #PinePhone, @purism #Librem5 and such), #LinBits, is out!

https://linmob.net/linbits43-weekly-linux-phone-news-week17/

Further delays with #Librem5 shipping, a notable improvement for using Desktop Apps on #LinuxPhones, and more!

Do you need a DNS server without censorship and for privacy?

@digitalcourage runs a DNS server located in Germany that doesn't log normal user requests:

👉 46.182.19.48
👉 2a02: 2970: 1002: 0: 5054: 8aff: fe12: db49
👉 Encrypted requests DNS-over-TLS

https://digitalcourage.de/support/zensurfreier-dns-server (German)

Young Burmese activists are broadcasting anti-coup messages on pirate radio
"This is revolution radio."

'they dismantled the equipment, each person taking a different piece by a different route to another safe location where they store it. Security is tight. They never broadcast from the same place twice, and the group use aliases, even among themselves. This is Federal FM Radio, live on 90.2 MHz. '

https://restofworld.org/2021/young-burmese-activists-are-broadcasting-anti-coup-messages-on-pirate-radio/

#myanmar #radio #revolution #lowtech

New App Menu Survey! 5-10 minutes of your time https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2021/05/01/new-app-menu-survey/ #announcements