Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Troll the NSA

2013-06-12 Thread Gustavo C. M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, that's cool, but I believe this is a bit tougher: NSA slapped with $20 billion class-action suit 'The time has come for we the people to reclaim control of our nation' http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/nsa-slapped-with-20-billion-class-action-suit/ "T

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Libre Mobile

2013-06-12 Thread Jason Self
Patrick Anderson wrote .. > Here's a beautiful attempt to cobble something together with > off-the-shelf parts. If only it didn't also contain proprietary software. (Referencing the Quectel Wireless M10 "solution" in the Arduino GSM Shield.)

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Libre Mobile

2013-06-12 Thread Patrick Anderson
Here's a beautiful attempt to cobble something together with off-the-shelf parts. David Mellis - DIY Phone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sju_rtH5UY4 and https://github.com/damellis/cellphone2­ Combined with the work by http://TheFNF.org we are moving toward more user-owned communication and so

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Troll the NSA

2013-06-12 Thread Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak
Dnia środa, 12 czerwca 2013 o 10:53:16 Yogesh Girikumar napisał(a): > FYI.. > > http://trollthensa.com/ It would work much better if everybody wrote their own message/script with these keywords. This letter is probably already on the whitelist. ;) -- Pozdrawiam Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Fundacj

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Libre Mobile

2013-06-12 Thread Ronaldo Nascimento
Getting rid of a java based phone would be nice, lets say the default lang is python or ruby? I suppose I should throw in erlang too as its related to telecoms. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Joel Kahn wrote: > As I looked over the Replicant project, I noticed that > all of the candidate devi

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Libre Mobile

2013-06-12 Thread Nicolás Reynolds
Joel Kahn writes: > As I looked over the Replicant project, I noticed that > all of the candidate devices mentioned had some kind of > limitations due to the hardware involved. None of them > could become totally Libre. maybe the neo freerunner? i'm not sure if the hardware is entirely free tho

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Libre Mobile [OT]

2013-06-12 Thread Harry Prevor
I am so sorry if 50 nearly identical mails just got sent to the list on my behalf -- I first tried to send this mail with a new installation of Claws Mail. I clicked "Send" just once, but after a few minutes the send failed, with this in the network log: * Connecting to SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Libre Mobile

2013-06-12 Thread Harry Prevor
I hate to break it to you guys, but considering we don't even have a 100% free *computer* yet, we're still a far way away from being able to say a phone is completely free. In fact, I'll go ahead and claim that it's impossible to achieve simply based upon the fact that nobody has done it yet. I'd l

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Libre Mobile

2013-06-12 Thread Jason Self
Joel Kahn asked: > Would it be possible to construct ... a 100% Libre phone Using the FSF's certification criteria [0], which is what we should strive for, no. The blocker appears to be the GSM radio. There is a project OsmocomBB [1] to develop free software for that though. Beyond that, it does s

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Libre Mobile

2013-06-12 Thread Patrick Anderson
We, the users, pay all the costs of production, and even more when we pay profit. So as large groups, we can afford to buy, own and control the farms and factories and networks and mines and wells and refineries and all the means of production. Once we realize this we will start organizing to buy

[libreplanet-discuss] Libre Mobile

2013-06-12 Thread Joel Kahn
As I looked over the Replicant project, I noticed that all of the candidate devices mentioned had some kind of limitations due to the hardware involved. None of them could become totally Libre. Would it be possible to construct, from component parts, a 100% Libre phone that could work reliably ove

[libreplanet-discuss] Troll the NSA

2013-06-12 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
FYI.. http://trollthensa.com/ -- Y