The long-awaited—and let’s face it, really late—Librem 5 Linux smartphone was shipping as of five days ago. This is the so-called Evergreen batch, meaning the biggest bugs are supposed to be gone and the thing is now in mass production. $799.

Press release

Hint to journos: this is big news. It’s shocking that nobody covered the story. It’s a true privacy-respecting alternative to Android and Apple!

puri.sm/posts/librem-5…
What is this wizardry?

No, not magic. Just what happens when your phone runs a real computer operating system instead of a walled garden that deliberately makes communication with your work machine hard.

Imagine running all the apps that run on your desktop PC right on your phone. No, not mobile versions. The *same apps* because it uses the same operating system!

This is how iPhone and Android should have been from the beginning.

puri.sm/posts/mobile-d…
BTW, no, @Puri_sm isnt paying me for this. But I wouldn’t say “no” to a phone by way of saying “thank you”!

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24 Nov
...but it's because of a virus that poses an unprecedented level of danger, because of easy travel...and health bureaucrats say so. That's why travel is restricted and the health bureaucrats (and the governors etc. who employ them) now function as dictators.

Strictly temporary.
We're just slowing the spread. That's why we wear masks and follow curfews. It won't stop it, but yes, it will slow the spread.

And sure, it can be expected to blow up into a dark winter which will cause mass extended lockdowns everywhere, but that will be reasonable too.
Everything will go back to normal after the vaccine is here. Well, you'll need regular vaccines, because this virus doesn't respond the way vaccines normally do. We've known that since we didn't have a vaccine. Come on, keep up.

But actually...
Read 9 tweets
22 Nov
Gmail and other big email services spy on you; is email censorship next?

Don't let them. Host your own email. My PERMANENT address is larry @ sanger.io. Cool, no?

How? Don't worry. It's not that hard! You can do this too. See below.

larrysanger.org/2020/11/how-to…
I can't prove that any significant amount of email censorship is happening today, by the way. I doubt there is much, at least not in the U.S. But is there a desire for it? Is it on the horizon? You bet.

There are worries out there. For example:
survivalistboards.com/threads/email-…
MailChimp is not above censoring what emails can be sent.

spectator.org/mailchimp-cens…
Read 4 tweets
20 Nov
Ugh. The Ohio House voted 58-30 to limit DeWine's authority to impose a new lockdown. This is bad news because it's just short of what was needed to override DeWine's inevitable veto.

This means that we might well have another lockdown.

beaconjournal.com/story/news/pol…
So, Gov. @MikeDeWine, are you really going to shut down (and inevitably kill many) state businesses over the will of an overwhelming majority of the people and their reps?

Doesn't that constitute tyranny, especially when you aren't even negotiating with legislators?

Bully.
Someone kindly pointed out to me my mistake. I thought 98 votes were accounted for. No. 88 votes were accounted for, meaning 11 people didn't vote. D'oh!

58/88 = 65.9%

That's well over the 3/5 majority needed to be veto-proof. Looks like we win after all!
Read 4 tweets
19 Nov
🚨 OHIOANS! 🚨
Please urge your #OHIO STATE HOUSE REP to vote FOR SB 311. The Senate passed it with a veto-proof vote (20-13). The House must do the same!

Call NOW. The vote is this afternoon. Crash their phone system! Find your rep's phone number here: ohiohouse.gov/members/distri…
Share this @ your representative.

Hi Rep. @realJeffLaRe—me again. Hoping you vote the right way this afternoon. Enough is enough with the out-of-control technocracy, I say. Back to government by our elected representatives!
Notice, there are 99 reps in the House.
61 of them are Republicans, 38 are Democrats:
ballotpedia.org/Ohio_House_of_…
It requires 60 votes in the Ohio House to override the governor's veto:
ballotpedia.org/Veto_overrides…

This will be a nail-biter.
Read 5 tweets
19 Nov
To #Ohio Gov. @MikeDeWine: I'm Dr. Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder. I'm an Ohioan.

1/ I'm beyond being polite. I demand that you clarify the precise conditions under which all our freedoms will be restored. It's sickening I must ask this.

When will we be free again?

Answer!
2/ The removal of *basic civil rights* without adequate explanation or any indication of when it will end is tyrannical.

Are death rates increasing? No. The number of "confirmed" cases is, but the death rate is doing a random walk around levels reached last May.
3/ I'm not denying there is a deadly virus, that it is an epidemic, or that it is growing right now.

I am denying that it warrants silence on protecting our basic civil rights and liberties as Americans. I repudiate the notion of a "new normal." Why the silence? Clarify!
Read 11 tweets
19 Nov
1/ We're undergoing the Great Reset. We're about to "Build Back Better," says Klaus Schwab. Watch!


Sure, I'm willing to entertain the other explanation of the insane lockdowns, masking, movement restrictions, mandatory vaccine threats, etc., but...
2/ ...no one is making that case persuasively. How is it supposed to work? That *all* of these global elites just magically happened to find themselves on the same page, pushing for a program in which they say the same things, do the same things, and restrict the same liberties?
3/ Utter nonsense. No. Our leaders at the national and regional levels are obviously coordinating among themselves. I mean, it's not a conspiracy theory for an obvious reason: they're not doing it secretly!

It would be nice if we could believe Covid-19 were *that* devastating.
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