Roscoe Ellis @roscoeellis@fosstodon.org

I just heard a soccer mom say she is going to build her own website so she can get off of Facebook. If this sentiment has moved all the way into the soccer mom realm, Facebook is in trouble.

I wrote some thoughts and tips about ProtonVPN and Linux in my blog.

https://mateuaguilo.com/privacy/2020/10/14/connect-vpn-whent-computer-boots

🔥 PINE64 to launch PineCom, a cheaper, modem-free PinePhone-like PDA

https://tuxphones.com/pine64-pinecom-launch-cheaper-linux-pda/ #linux #pinecom

Do we *ever* stop working on our personal websites? - https://rusingh.com/

If you have done so, let me know how. I'd love to know.

Linux in real life

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/41CJXYKjBAU/eric-s-raymond-is-microsoft-switching-to-a-linux-kernel-that-emulates-windows

I like this. A CSS library designed to work with plain HTML tags (no classes). It's like HTML pre-CSS, but more attractive :) https://igoradamenko.github.io/awsm.css/index.html

Lenovo To Sell ThinkPad X1 And Nearly 30 Other PCs With
@ubuntu Preloaded. GLOBALLY!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/09/23/lenovo-to-sell-thinkpad-x1--and-nearly-30-other-pcs-with-ubuntu-preloaded/

https://twitter.com/Bob_Dobbs/status/1308427539614924807

"...with extensions, Standard Notes becomes one of the best services I've used."

I just published a new article!

Read the article: https://setofprinciples.com/standard-notes-computerized-notebook

#Privacy #StandardNotes

This was really a good read.. https://fossbytes.com/linux-mint-founder-interview-clem-lefebvre/

Sharing an Open Source app to check your activity

https://activitywatch.net/

New article about Graphene OS and my privacy journey.

"...back then I didn’t want to “sacrifice” everything Google was offering me, because I didn’t know what the currency of the payment was, my data."

Read my newest article: https://setofprinciples.com/graphene-os-is-better-than-googled-android-a-plan-to-make-privacy-more

#grapheneos #privacy #smartphone

#covid19 #FridayFreedom
We all have heard the Pro one-sided media encouraging the masquerade.

There are two sides to every mask, so to speak.

Here is an interesting article by Patrick Fagan on the Cons of wearing a mask.

Have you heard of Menticide?

https://thecritic.co.uk/face-masks-make-you-stupid/

Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel (i.e., Dr. Beak), a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, circa 1656 (Public Domain)