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You may remember our last post on ChromeOS overtaking the desktop Linux market. I posed the question, how can we take some of the market share back and replace ChromeOS with Linux?
Now the Chultrabook project offers a way to flash your Chromebook's firmware with Coreboot so you can install different operating systems. But be warned, this is not a simple process, some Chromebooks are not supported, and some things may not work properly after the conversion - please read the guide in full. I think its some of the best documentation I've seen.
When installing Linux the following distros are recommended:
Arch Linux
Fedora
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Pop!_OS
Debian 12 (Bookworm)
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Replace your Chromebook's operating system with one that respects you.
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⚡️ChromeOS Has More Than Half of The Desktop OS Linux Market
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I was reading this opinion piece on TheRegister today where the author makes the point that ChromeOS has 4.15% of the market while Linux has 3.08%, and that is something that should…
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I was reading this opinion piece on TheRegister today where the author makes the point that ChromeOS has 4.15% of the market while Linux has 3.08%, and that is something that should…
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Robert F Kennedy Jr. Sues Google and YouTube Over Constant Censorship
Kennedy uses the findings of collusion between the government and Big Tech to allege First Amendment violations.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., prominent Democratic presidential hopeful, is taking YouTube, and its parent company Google, to court. The lawsuit filed Wednesday pertains to alleged violations of Kennedy’s First Amendment rights, as he contends his speeches and interviews were expunged inappropriately from the platform. As the presidential primary elections loom, Kennedy boldly predicts this tactic of stifling discourse will persist.
We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here.
Highlighting this act of censorship includes Kennedy’s speech at Saint Anselm College, as well as his interviews with Jordan Peterson and Mike Tyson. The lawsuit argues these content removals are a blatant disregard for his constitutional rights and echo a worrying trend of suppression across the breadth of the campaign.
A focal point in Kennedy’s legal argument centers on an allegation of government overreach. Kennedy’s filing condemns the Biden administration for orchestrating what he views as a thorough attempt to silence dissenting voices. It clearly states, “this complaint concerns the freedom of speech and the extraordinary steps the United States government has taken under the leadership of Joe Biden to silence people it does not want Americans to hear.” Furthermore, it underscores that Kennedy is far from the only casualty in this censorship campaign, but his case stands out given his ongoing challenge to President Biden for the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket.
SOURCE: ReclaimTheNet
Kennedy uses the findings of collusion between the government and Big Tech to allege First Amendment violations.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., prominent Democratic presidential hopeful, is taking YouTube, and its parent company Google, to court. The lawsuit filed Wednesday pertains to alleged violations of Kennedy’s First Amendment rights, as he contends his speeches and interviews were expunged inappropriately from the platform. As the presidential primary elections loom, Kennedy boldly predicts this tactic of stifling discourse will persist.
We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here.
Highlighting this act of censorship includes Kennedy’s speech at Saint Anselm College, as well as his interviews with Jordan Peterson and Mike Tyson. The lawsuit argues these content removals are a blatant disregard for his constitutional rights and echo a worrying trend of suppression across the breadth of the campaign.
A focal point in Kennedy’s legal argument centers on an allegation of government overreach. Kennedy’s filing condemns the Biden administration for orchestrating what he views as a thorough attempt to silence dissenting voices. It clearly states, “this complaint concerns the freedom of speech and the extraordinary steps the United States government has taken under the leadership of Joe Biden to silence people it does not want Americans to hear.” Furthermore, it underscores that Kennedy is far from the only casualty in this censorship campaign, but his case stands out given his ongoing challenge to President Biden for the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket.
SOURCE: ReclaimTheNet
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⚡️EMR: Scientific Studies and Resistance - How Many Studies Will It Take?
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How many studies do we need to take EMR seriously? Bill Cadwallader & Ramiro discuss 5,000+ peer-reviewed studies on the health risks of prolonged EMR exposure.
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How many studies do we need to take EMR seriously? Bill Cadwallader & Ramiro discuss 5,000+ peer-reviewed studies on the health risks of prolonged EMR exposure.
Watch the full interview: https://tbot.life/ur0wo
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A team of security researchers at TU Berlin college announced a new attack on Tesla's AMD based infotainment systems, which allows them to run arbitrary software on the vehicle, gains root access to the car, and unlocks software-locked paid features.
The team says the jailbreak is unpatchable, it uses a voltage fault injection attack against AMD's Secure Processor.
They will present their findings and process at the Blackhat USA 2023 Conference next week.
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If you're a developer, you may have heard of the Vim text editor, a legendary piece of software that improved on the original vi editor distributed in Unix systems. Released in 1991 and still maintained today, vim is used by millions and remains one of the most popular text editors of all time.
Vim's creator Bram Moolenaar has passed away at 62. His family announced (Google Groups link) his passing on August 5th:
It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2023.
Bram was suffering from a medical condition that progressed quickly over the last few weeks.
Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of the VIM community that you are all part of.
Bram was also the creator of the 'charityware' concept, where people could only vote on software features if they donated to a charity of the developer's choice.
Check out Bram's personal website to get a feel for who he was.
Rest in peace Bram, and thank you for your service to all of us!
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You may know about web crawlers or web robots, which can be used to index web pages for search engines and scrape data for individuals and platforms like ChatGPT.
You can 'disallow' crawlers from scraping your site (provided they'll listen) by updating your site's robots.txt
To add GPTBot to that list, add the following to robots.txt
User-agent: GPTBotFrom Open AI's documentation
Disallow: /
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What Is A Robots.txt File? Best Practices For Robot.txt Syntax
Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl & index pages on their website. The robots.txt file is part of the robots exclusion protocol (REP), a group of web standards that regulate how robots…
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You'd expect to make human connections on a dating app, but AI is being driven forward to 'assist' us:
- Match gave an update on a recent earnings call, Match owns dating apps Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge
- Several new AI features were announced
- They are testing AI scanning and recommendation for your 'best picture', to take the stress out of picking one
- They've already been using AI on the backend
- In a survey, half of single men would consider using a chatbot to talk to matches, and 51% of women said they would use it to have multiple conversations
I bet the next thing we see is an 'dating assistant' AI that'll help you write messages, eventually it'll be AIs talking to other AI's. This directly contributes to the 'feebleness' from using technology and AI, we're literally unable to express ourselves.
Anyways - PSA that dating apps are moving in the direction of automated AI scanning for user's photos.
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The Survival Podcast w/ Jack Spirko: How Apps Sell Data
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Ramiro talks about the hidden trackers and analytics libraries inside an average app on popular app stores. These analytics are aggregated by data brokers and then sold off.
He points to alternative app stores while highlighting the article Phones: Who Can We Call On? on the official TBOT website: https://takebackourtech.org/phones-who-can-we-call-on/
Watch the full interview: https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/ramiro-romani/
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Ramiro talks about the hidden trackers and analytics libraries inside an average app on popular app stores. These analytics are aggregated by data brokers and then sold off.
He points to alternative app stores while highlighting the article Phones: Who Can We Call On? on the official TBOT website: https://takebackourtech.org/phones-who-can-we-call-on/
Watch the full interview: https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/ramiro-romani/
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PayPal Becomes First Major Fintech to Launch Dollar-Backed Stablecoin
Payments giant PayPal said on Monday it has launched a U.S. dollar stablecoin, becoming the first major financial technology firm to embrace digital currencies for payments and transfers.
While stablecoins - crypto tokens whose monetary value is pegged to a stable asset to protect from wild volatility - have been around for years now, they are yet to successfully make headway into the mainstream consumer payments ecosystem.
... Prior attempts by major mainstream companies to launch stablecoins have met fierce opposition from financial regulators and policymakers. Meta's, then Facebook, 2019 plans to launch a stablecoin, Libra, were foiled after regulators raised fears it could upset global financial stability.
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Payments giant PayPal said on Monday it has launched a U.S. dollar stablecoin, becoming the first major financial technology firm to embrace digital currencies for payments and transfers.
While stablecoins - crypto tokens whose monetary value is pegged to a stable asset to protect from wild volatility - have been around for years now, they are yet to successfully make headway into the mainstream consumer payments ecosystem.
... Prior attempts by major mainstream companies to launch stablecoins have met fierce opposition from financial regulators and policymakers. Meta's, then Facebook, 2019 plans to launch a stablecoin, Libra, were foiled after regulators raised fears it could upset global financial stability.
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I've touched down at the Extraordinary Technology Conference! Feels good to be around the frontier of science and healing technology for the benefit of humanity.
I'll be conducting interviews and working on content for new videos while i'm here, expect some cool posts over the week.
Blessing,
Ramiro
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Brave's new search API will give you auto generated text from search results, this article outlines observartions around the service including outputting copyrighted text, and providing no way to reject Brave's web crawlers.
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An important legal case between Epic Games (creator of Fortnite) and Apple has taken a surprising turn. Epic Games had sued apple for disallowing other apps to link to payment methods outside of Apple's ecosystem. Apple forces any transactions on iOS through its In App Purchases service where it retains up to 30% cut.
Thinking about iOS's 58% market share in the United States and worldwide, this rule has a huge impact to both developers and users. Popular Nostr client Damus, recently neuterered the crypto tipping feature on their app (although I heard there's a workaround).
A judge ruled that Apple had violated California's Unfair Competition Law, but now that ruling has been given a stay - which puts a hold on that ruling and gives Apple 90 days to put in a petition.
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Supreme Court says Apple can keep its App Store payment rules for now
The delay will let Apple petition for an appeal.
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Breezy Weather is a weather app with a strong focus on design, with a simple, clean UX, smooth animations, and Material Design all over, plus lots of customizability.
Some very cool features include:
- Forecasts up to 16 days
- Air quality, allergen, ephermeris
- Realtime weather conditions
- Multiple weather sources (more than i've ever seen!)
🌤 Check it out
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GitHub - breezy-weather/breezy-weather: A feature-rich weather app with good visualizations and more than 50 sources.
A feature-rich weather app with good visualizations and more than 50 sources. - breezy-weather/breezy-weather
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nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE is a useful tool for debugging and learning about Bluetooth Low Energy apps.
The nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE allows near real-time display of Bluetooth LE packets. This helps the developer to identify and fix issues by allowing a view of what is happening on-air.
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Activist and academic groups in Mexico have spoken out against US and Candian claims that GMO corn is safe, sharing that the harm to the human body has been suppressed, much like Tobacco and that GMO corn furthers the endangerment of native plants and traditional cultivation.
Anthropological evidence shows that corn, squash and bean cultivation dates as far back as 10,000 years in Mexico. Over the millennia, Mesoamerican peoples associated these crops with a “sacred world view that survives to this day” both in religious and sociocultural structures.
A colloquial expression of corn “jiloteando,” referring to when young, tender ears begin to sprout silk, for example, comes from Xilonen, one of several Aztec gods based on the various stages of the plant’s growth.
“We are a country that has enjoyed the benefits of maize for centuries,” he said. “And it would be unforgivable if, whether through ignorance or apathy, we were to degrade our food by allowing the cultivation that vegetal Frankenstein that the transnational vandals insist on offering us.”
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📋 Their discounts for your personal details
We reveal the alarming truth about surveillance supermarkets & "loyalty" card schemes.
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📋 Their discounts for your personal details
We reveal the alarming truth about surveillance supermarkets & "loyalty" card schemes.
WATCH: https://youtu.be/EG6DaZC0GC0
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Supermarkets are using loyalty cards to amass vast amounts of detailed information on customers. Retailers can use this data to push special…
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⚡️EMR: A Conversation That Can Save a Life - Industry Obsession With Wireless and the Dangers to Children
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Ramiro and Bill Cadwallader get into our society's fixation with wireless tech and its dangers to children. They discuss wireless pacifiers, diapers and Bluetooth devices emitting 100k μW/m²!
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Ramiro and Bill Cadwallader get into our society's fixation with wireless tech and its dangers to children. They discuss wireless pacifiers, diapers and Bluetooth devices emitting 100k μW/m²!
Watch the full interview: https://tbot.life/ur0wo
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An interesting editorial by Thom Holwerda points out the current state of browsers on Linux. Linux gets treated like a second class citizen when it comes to browser support, especially in Firefox's case where Firefox is offered as the default browser for most distributions of Linux.
And Linux orgs that develop browser such as KDE and GNOME rely on big tech browser engines.
In an ideal world, the major stakeholders of the Linux desktop – KDE, GNOME, the various major distributions – would get together and seriously consider a plan of action. The best possible solution, in my view, would be to fork one of the major browser engines (or pick one and significantly invest in it), and modify this engine and tailor it specifically for the Linux desktop. Stop living off the scraps and leftovers thrown across the fence from Windows and macOS browser makers, and focus entirely on making a browser engine that is optimised fully for Linux, its graphics stack, and its desktops. Have the major stakeholders work together on a Linux-first – or even Linux-only – browser engine, leaving the graphical front-end to the various toolkits and desktop environments.
... Linux needs a browser engine that is independent of Google (and Apple), and takes Linux seriously as a platform.
https://www.osnews.com/story/136653/desktop-linux-has-a-firefox-problem/
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Creepy new article from WSJ:
The AI Nanny in Your Baby’s Future
Sophisticated artificial-intelligence helpers will relieve parents’ burdens and give babies and toddlers the back-and-forth stimulation they need. But will there be a developmental cost?
https://archive.is/HRngU
The AI Nanny in Your Baby’s Future
Sophisticated artificial-intelligence helpers will relieve parents’ burdens and give babies and toddlers the back-and-forth stimulation they need. But will there be a developmental cost?
https://archive.is/HRngU
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A follow up to the previous article, where are the independent browser engines?
Building a browser engine is no easy task, but the SerenityOS dev team is currently building the Ladybird browser. It uses the custom made LibWeb browser engine and LibJS JavaScript engine.
It passes the Acid3 standards test meaning it can support basic browser functionality & styling. Although still in early development, you may want to try it out and participate in the development.
https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/
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Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
This post describes the Ladybird browser, based on the LibWeb and LibJS engines from SerenityOS.
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Telegram Masterclass: Managing Data Storage
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Keep your Telegram account running smoothly! 🚀 Regularly clear cache and manage storage use to avoid lag.
Watch more for free: https://learn.abovephone.com/course/telegram-masterclass/
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Keep your Telegram account running smoothly! 🚀 Regularly clear cache and manage storage use to avoid lag.
Watch more for free: https://learn.abovephone.com/course/telegram-masterclass/
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