encryption is the only positive action left to discuss when we sit around the dinner table and casually ponder how to hide from the forces that hide from us

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

Note to myself: if you play with sound-themes on your #Librem5 (and probably any other #MobileLinux device) and you seem to be stuck with the default sound theme (freedesktop) then delete ~/.cache/event-sound-cache.tdb* and restart #feedbackd.

Thanks to @agx@librem.one for helping me on matrix:community-librem5 and for the great software!

After the release party yesterday for #flohmarkts beta 0.2.0 - first version tagged ever - we cleared out a last issue to make the beta release available for #yunohost. You'll find the yunohost soon in the app catalog - hopefully with the antifeature for alpha stage gone.

Actually the yunohost version is one step ahead of the official beta .

The remarkable questions here concern the facts that our lives are rendered as behavioral data in the first place; that ignorance is a condition of this ubiquitous rendition; that decision rights vanish before one even knows that there is a decision to make; that there are consequences to this diminishment of rights that we can neither see nor foretell; that there is no exit, no voice, and no loyalty, only helplessness, resignation, and psychic numbing

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

Predictions about our behavior are Google’s products, and they are sold to its actual customers but not to us. We are the means to others’ ends

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

We are no longer the subjects of value realization. Nor are we, as some have insisted, the “product” of Google’s sales. Instead, we are the objects from which raw materials are extracted and expropriated for Google’s prediction factories

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

Hm, does someone know a #sip client that works from the #cli on #arm64 with 1und1.de #voip?

I tried

• linphonec, but didn't get it to register on my arm64 debian installation
• I like baresip, but I couldn't configure it to register to register with 1und1.de
• sipsimpleclient.org - worked somehow on my desktop, but didn't get it installed on arm64

It doesn't need to be fancy, I'm just looking for a simple tool to let a phone ring. No need to connect nor for audio transmission.

At first those raw materials were simply “found,” a by-product of users’ search actions. Later those assets were hunted aggressively and procured largely through surveillance

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

Google had discovered a way to translate its nonmarket interactions with users into surplus raw material for the fabrication of products aimed at genuine market transactions with its real customers: advertisers

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

This new market form declares that serving the genuine needs of people is less lucrative, and therefore less important, than selling predictions of their behavior. Google discovered that we are less valuable than others’ bets on our future behavior

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

Receiving SMS plays a long tune on my #Librem5. For a few persons I'd like to have this tune played also if they send me a message using #matrix.

A problem is that the #fractal flatpak does not use #feedbackd yet to signal new messages and on #PureOS #Byzantium there's no way to define different sounds for different notification events.

So I started testing a small script to read notifications and trigger feedback for messages coming from an account containing some string:

#!/usr/bin/python3

import gi
import time
gi.require_version('Lfb', '0.0')
from gi.repository import Lfb
from gi.repository import GLib
import dbus
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop

def print_notification(bus, message):
    keys = ["app_name", "replaces_id", "app_icon", "summary",
          "body", "actions", "hints", "expire_timeout"]
    args = message.get_args_list()
    if len(args) == 8:
        notification = dict([(keys[i], args[i]) for i in range(8)])
        if "account_i_want_to_be_notified_for_like_it_would_be_sms" in notification["summary"]:
            print( notification["summary"], ': ', notification["body"] )
            event.trigger_feedback()

Lfb.init('org.sigxcpu.lfbexample')
event = Lfb.Event.new('message-new-sms')
loop = DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
session_bus.add_match_string("type='method_call',interface='org.freedesktop.Notifications',member='Notify',eavesdrop=true")
session_bus.add_message_filter(print_notification)

GLib.MainLoop().run()

Problem: using calendar on my #Librem5 running #PureOS Byzantiu once in a while I can't add new appointments anymore and the calendar doesn't sync with my #nextcloud.

A simple goa-daemon --replace solved the problem when it occured. I automated this reading the error shown in the journal when the problem starts.

I made a workaround to monitor and replace the goa-daemon:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/gnome-online-accounts-connection-to-nextcloud-stops-working/20051/5?u=chrichri

Just ordered a #TShirt to support the #OSHWA Open Source Hardware Association.

Some time ago I wrote I would love to buy some nice #TShirts to support organizations I like - if they are not black.

Well, the 'not black' part seems to be hard.

If you've got an URL to order a support T-Shirt for some good cause I'd be happy to read about it - preferably if it is colourful or at least not black .