obi 🍍 @obi@qoto.org
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- Swiss Army Knife, Flashlight, Refractometer
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- Personally responsible for bringing the 2 cheeseburger meal back to McDonald's
pronounced (Obi) oh-bye. I like logic.
Joined Mar 2020
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#Google is using its services to create face templates and "voiceprints" of children through a program in which the search giant provides school districts across the country with Chromebooks and free access to G Suite for Education apps.
Two children sue Google for allegedly collecting students' biometric data - CNET
https://www.cnet.com/news/two-children-sue-google-for-allegedly-collecting-students-biometric-data/
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When the government demands new high-tech surveillance powers, we have three questions: Has the government shown it would be effective? Would it do too much harm to our freedoms? Are there sufficient guardrails? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/how-eff-evaluates-government-demands-new-surveillance-powers
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Isn’t that ‘Medicare for all’? Trump administration rolls out interesting plan for funding Covid-19 treatments in US
The Trump administration has said it intends to pay providers treating coronavirus patients at ‘Medicare rates’ and prohibit additional billing – in effect, testing a flagship progressive proposal for nationalized healthcare. Read Full Article at RT.com
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https://www.rt.com/usa/484942-trump-coronavirus-medicare-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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To anyone who hasn't been outside in a while: it's the same
What are your some of your favorite things that you use daily, that aren't electronic?
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Starting today, you can now preorder the PinePhone UBports Community Edition: a production model #PinePhone preloaded with UBports (Ubuntu Touch), with a custom backplate to match!
PINE64 Store Link: https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-community-edition-ubports-limited-edition-linux-smartphone
UBports blog post: https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/pinephone-ubports-community-edition-pre-orders-are-open-271
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in the future, basically all websites will be full of unblockable ads and/or implemented entirely in ultra-fucked webassembly/opengl, and the tech-savvy will browse the web entirely through cat & mouse proxy servers running headless browsers to OCR the inaccessible content back into old-fashioned normal HTML and illegally redistribute it through peer-to-peer networks
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In partnership with our friends at @kde we are thrilled to be embarking on this new endeavor. The configurability of GNOME paired with the simplicity of KDE - all rolled into a single package. Introducing KNOME, built using QTK3 and Kutter.
@freemo Also, thanks for everything here. Amazing features in your instance.
@freemo How do you pronounce Qoto? In my head, to sounds like ko-toe.
Hi, my name is Aaron, my friends call me Obi (oh-bye). I have been on Mastondon since April 17th off and on, but recently it's been a lot of on. The more I use Mastodon, the more I'm realizing the importance of picking the right instance, so I have been signing up for a lot more of them, which brought me here. I've noticed that on most of my other instances, the topic that most people are tooting about are Social Justice, and LGBTQA+ rights etc. I just have no interest in such topics, so that's what brought me here.
My interests are really around science, encryption/privacy, person freedoms, and most importantly logical conversation. During my search for the right instance, I have had a few failures, as what looked like something good for me, ended up back to the same old discussions in those areas that I just have no interest. But a few days ago, I found this instance, and it seems like it could be a good fit for me, so I am giving it a try.
I don't usually do these introductions, but here is some background on me I guess. I was a golf professional for almost 2 decades, then when my daughter was born, I decided it was time for a switch from the 85-100 weeks, and spend some time with family. I then moved on to data management for a company in the health care industry. Working from home got old, so after 5 years I decided to move on. Currently I am employed by a company in the Energy sector, in my small town that has been here for decades. My grandfather worked there until he retired, and my father is currently working there and will be retiring soon. My job deals with Hazardous Wastes.
My free time is spent doing a lot of hiking, some camping, and a lot of tinkering with GNU+Linux OSes, and encryption software.
That's it for me, stop by and say hello, and maybe give me some info on the feel of this instance, and what everyone is usually talking about. Thanks.
- Reading
- Science Fiction, Science, Physics.
- Likes
- Hiking, Amateur Radio, GNU+Linux, Encryption, Reading
- Tools
- Swiss Army Knife, Flashlight, Refractometer
- Hero
- Personally responsible for bringing the 2 cheeseburger meal back to McDonald's
pronounced (Obi) oh-bye. I like logic.
Joined Mar 2020
