PublicLewdness @publiclewdness@gameliberty.club

The Threat Beneath: Hidden In-Chip Operating Systems

Modern CPUs from Intel and AMD ship with undocumented, embedded operating systems (Intel ME, AMD PSP) that run below your OS—at ring -3—with full system access and zero user control.

The Alternative?

Librem 5 Phone running PureOS, a Debian-based, fully auditable Linux OS, built for security from the silicon up.

✔️ No Intel ME or AMD PSP
✔️ No telemetry, tracking, or backdoors

Read more at Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating-systems-in-chips-vs-secure-auditable-oses-a-cybersecurity-comparison/

I had a need to upload a video. A requirement was that the file size be 20MB or less.

The video I took was 50MB. I used this ffmpeg command to keep the same video content and duration, but reduce the file size to about 18MB. Perfect!

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium -movflags +faststart -c:a aac -b:a 128k output.mp4

#ffmpeg #linux #video

More reason to keep publishing on alternatives. For RetroEdge, we use our own #peertube server.

Video by Kenny (Mental Outlaw):

https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/youtube-considers-this-software-harmful:5

It is our pleasure to announce our Dasharo Developer vPub 0xF guest @hughsie with whom we will discuss topics related to fwupd and LVFS. If you would like to get live access to this talk or join the Q&A session, please grab a free ticket using the following link:

https://events.dasharo.com/event/5/dasharo-user-group-dug-10-and-dasharo-developers-vpub-0xf

Looking to simplify container automation on FreeBSD? BastilleBSD gives you one CLI to build, manage, and destroy jails — clean and declarative. #BastilleBSD #automation

📱 Switzerland is thinking about a drastic tightening of its surveillance law! 

With the BÜPF revision, email providers could be forced to supply metadata to authorities in real time. Particularly affected: services that previously advertised strict data protection. End-to-end encryption remains protected, but your IP addresses, recipient data and locations would be monitored. 

Learn more about this worrying development: https://mailbox.org/en/post/buepf-revision-2025-en

#DataProtection #Surveillance #Switzerland

Seventy-five years later, we’re red-penciling the warnings instead of heeding them.

https://reclaimthenet.org/orwells-1984-gets-a-trigger-warning

The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and #LibreOffice: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/11/the-end-of-windows-10/ @Endof10 #foss #OpenSource

Our peertube channel is at:

https://video.retroedge.tech/c/retroedgetech/videos?s=1

#peertube #video

Michał Żygowski (aka miczyg) is returning with bleeding-edge topics, and we are all looking forward to what his 🧙🪄 skills will bring to the future of Dasharo. Want to know where open-source firmware for AMD platforms is going? Is OpenSIL a real thing that can be used outside of server PoCs? Tune in on Thursday, grab your free ticket:

https://events.dasharo.com/event/5/dasharo-user-group-dug-10-and-dasharo-developers-vpub-0xf

France Moves to Classify X as an Adult Site Amid Digital ID Crackdown

https://reclaimthenet.org/france-moves-to-classify-x-as-an-adult-site-digital-id

🚀 Rocky Linux 10 is officially here!

With support for RISC-V, updated toolchains, modern defaults like Wayland + RDP, and the latest dev stacks, it's ready to power your next generation of systems.

Learn more and get started: https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-10-0-ga-release

#RockyLinux10 #Migrate2Rocky #EnterpriseLinux

France’s treatment of Durov reads less like justice and more like a warning to platforms that won’t play censor...

https://reclaimthenet.org/telegram-founder-durov-challenges-france-legal-case-secrecy

A #ThankGNU! to Dario Armani and David Klann for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedogm and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

🎬 Final touches before Dasharo User Group #10! Here’s a behind-the-scenes sneak peek in OBS Studio as we are getting ready to go live.
🗓️ Join us on Thursday, June 12 at 6 PM!
https://events.dasharo.com/event/5/dasharo-user-group-10

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thank you to Yuta Urano for assigning your copyright to the FSF! More at: https://u.fsf.org/463 #Emacs #CopyrightAssignments

The spring #Bulletin will be hitting mailboxes worldwide in just a few weeks! You can catch up (or re-read) older issues here: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin

Improved in v0.14.20250420: bastille setup automates PF, loopback, VNET, ZFS/UFS in one command. One-time config simplifies initial setup. #FreeBSD #BastilleBSD

Create colour wheels in #LibreOffice Calc, to make "doughnut" charts for representing data: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/12/create-a-colour-wheel-in-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource