Librem 5 Keyboard Improvements Purism

Mar 192020
 

Smartphones haven’t really needed a full computer keyboard, until now. We are turning the Linux desktop ecosystem into a convergent one. In order to access desktop applications, our keyboard has to feel good on the small screen, as well as expose common desktop keystrokes. Terminal use While you can comfortably use the GUI in PureOS, the terminal is fully empowered. Giving you all your favorite GNU commands, anything missing is likely an install command away.…

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RCV Ballot Measure Approved for Alaska’s November Ballot What’s New – Fairvote

Mar 192020
 

Alaskan voters will get the chance to adopt statewide ranked choice voting (RCV) after the state’s Division of Elections certified a three-pronged ballot measure submitted by Alaskans for Better Elections, a bipartisan advocacy group. The ballot measure, officially certified on March 9, was filed with 41,068 signatures (36,006 deemed valid)—far more than the 28,501 valid signatures required by state law. The measure would replace partisan primaries with open top-four primaries for statewide and congressional offices and establish…

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Yesterday’s Elections Were a Disgrace Jacobin

Mar 192020
 

On Tuesday, despite urgent pleas from public health experts for postponement of the balloting, voters reported being forced into unsanitary environments and jumping through arduous hoops to vote. The culprit was the party that believes in science and voting rights. Poll worker Jeremy Block, center, directs 88-year-old Mort Winsberg to a voting booth in Leon County, Florida, precinct 5105, during the Florida primary on March 17, 2020 in Tallahassee. Mark Wallheiser / Getty Joe Biden’s…

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Conservative Worries Relief Checks Would Discourage Americans From Providing For Selves By Killing Him And Taking His Property The Onion

Mar 192020
 

NEW HAVEN, CT—Speaking out against proposals to provide federal assistance to Americans hardest hit by the pandemic-fueled economic downturn, local conservative Mark Garrett expressed worry Wednesday that relief checks would discourage citizens from learning to provide for themselves by killing him and taking his…Read more…

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Illinois Used Nearly 50 Facilities for Low-Income Seniors in Chicago as Polling Locations on Tuesday The Intercept

Mar 192020
 

In order to push forward with in-person elections on Tuesday, local election officials across Illinois relocated hundreds of polling locations due to concerns about exposing particularly vulnerable populations to the novel coronavirus. Guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ahead of the election were particularly stark.  “If you are an older person, stay home and away from other people,” the latest guidelines read. “If you are a person with a serious underlying health condition…

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Enough is Enough—Let it Expire Deeplinks

Mar 192020
 

On March 15, 2020, Section 215—a provision of FISA with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired. That provision, along with two other provisions of FISA, lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of FISA reforms. Late last week, before the law expired, the House of Representatives passed the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act, which would have extended Section 215 for three more years, along with some modest reforms.  After…

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The Coronavirus Is Killing Iranians. So Are Trump’s Brutal Sanctions. The Intercept

Mar 182020
 

A woman mourns during a funeral held at Beheshte Masoumeh Cemetery for the victims of the new coronavirus in Qom, Iran, on March 17, 2020. Photo: Fatemah Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The U.S. government is run by sociopaths. How else to explain the Trump administration’s callous disregard for the lives of ordinary Iranians in the midst of this global coronavirus crisis? How else to make sense of U.S. officials doubling down in their support…

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What Cities Are Doing to Stall Evictions and Foreclosures CityLab | All Articles

Mar 182020
 

On Monday afternoon, the Bay Area became the first region in the U.S. to institute a shelter in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19, barring visits to restaurants or bars or the hair salon, having friends over, and taking unnecessary public transit trips. The restriction made another recent San Francisco measure all-the-more urgent: keeping people housed while they deal with the cascading economic toll of such an emergency.As other cities consider escalating their own…

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5 States Have Postponed Their Primaries Because Of The Coronavirus Features – FiveThirtyEight

Mar 182020
 

To slow the spread of the new coronavirus, virtually all aspects of public life are being scaled back, including the democratic process itself. In an extraordinary move, Ohio on Monday delayed its primary election, previously scheduled for today. Yesterday afternoon, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine directed the filing of a lawsuit to postpone the primary to prevent voters and poll workers from being exposed to the coronavirus. Initially, a judge ruled that it was too late…

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Congress Allocates $2 Trillion To Bail Out Struggling Bailout Industry The Onion

Mar 182020
 

WASHINGTON—In order to alleviate the heavy damage the crucial financial sector is facing in the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak, the United States Congress announced Tuesday that they would be allocating $2 trillion in order to bail out the struggling bailout industry. “The bailout industry is on the brink of…Read more…

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Amazon’s Supply Chain Is Breaking and Small Businesses Are Screwed Motherboard

Mar 182020
 

Amazon and the global supply chain are faltering under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s largest retailer announced Tuesday morning that it is suspending all shipments of non-essential products to its warehouses, a move that may help people ordering things like toilet paper and food but will singlehandedly destroy thousands of independent businesses that have come to rely on Amazon’s monolithic platform. “We are seeing increased online shopping, and as a result some…

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Inside the model that may be making US, UK rethink coronavirus control Ars Technica

Mar 182020
 

Enlarge / WUHAN, Feb. 5, 2020—Patients infected with the novel coronavirus are seen at a makeshift hospital converted from an exhibition center in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province. Containment methods like this can help countries get the pandemic under control. (credit: Getty | Xinhua News Agency) On Monday, the COVID-19 Response Team at Imperial College London released a report that describes its efforts to create a model of how various control efforts could alter the…

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San Francisco’s shelter-in-place order does not apply to gig workers TechCrunch

Mar 172020
 

Earlier today, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a shelter-in-place order in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. The order legally requires people to stay home as much as possible unless it’s essential that they leave to do things like go to the grocery store, buy gas or go to the pharmacy. So, no more going out to restaurants, gyms or nightclubs. Residents can, however, still order food for delivery from restaurants, as…

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CDC Tells Morticians to Livestream Funerals Motherboard

Mar 172020
 

Even in grief, the rules of hand hygiene and social isolation apply. That’s what thousands of funeral directors learned Monday when they joined a Facebook livestream to hear firsthand from the U.S. Centers for Disease, Control, and Prevention how coronavirus will change how Americans die and are buried. The new disease, which has killed more than 6,500 people worldwide since it emerged in China in late 2019, has put an end to social gatherings around…

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FSF Blogs: LibrePlanet 2020 online: Second day of the conference closes on a high note Planet GNU

Mar 172020
 

This followed on the heels of the previous day’s presentation of the Free Software Awards to Let’s Encrypt, Jim Meyering, and Clarissa Lima Borges, along with Free Software Foundation (FSF) executive director John Sullivan’s announcement of a new FSF-sponsored working group to document and address the problem of proprietary communication tools. Just like the first day, the FSF coordinated with remote speakers and viewers from around the world via a fully free streaming setup which,…

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