Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Troll the NSA

On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 11:32 -0400, Andrew Hills wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:20:27 -0400 Ted Smith wrote: > > Google seems to have approximated this with their Ingress game. It > > leads to people sitting in cars outside landmarks on their phones for > > long period

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Troll the NSA

On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 21:42 +0530, A. Mani wrote: > > http://trollthensa.com/ > But how we do this in a natural, easy way that is minimalistic and > integrates well with the daily lives of people? > That is a difficult problem. Google seems to have approximated this with their Ingress game. It le

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] PRISM action center

This section is currently recommending Thunderbird and GPG, but your comments about email providers are still relevant. The site is probably assuming that people won't want to change their email address. On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 19:23 -0600, "Carlos Solís" wrote: > * Email: Currently none > > The clo

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] PRISM action center

This is bad advice -- Tor Browser includes patches for anonymity leaks that aren't fixed in mainline Firefox (and thus in IceCat). Using IceCat with Tor will be insecure. It seems possible to apply the same patches used to create GNU IceCat to the Tor Browser, or apply the Tor Browser patches to G

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Linux.com promoting Google Glass?

Trimming a good deal of context for brevity. On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 19:13 +0200, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote: > I do not accept the premise that from now on I should be an "active defender" > if I wish to preserve my privacy! Similarly as I would not accept that for > example I should be an "ac

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Linux.com promoting Google Glass?

On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 19:20 +0200, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote: > Dnia sobota, 25 maja 2013 o 19:13:59 Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak napisał(a): > > > > Indeed, and there never will be a technical solution to a social > > > > problem, especially one as complicated as the > > > > privacy/security/person

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Linux.com promoting Google Glass?

On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 13:55 +0200, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote: > > The only implication is that now individuals have an easy way > > to essentially tape a long-running camera to their face. People have > > been doing that for a long time, and your public life has been > > constantly surveilled f

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Linux.com promoting Google Glass? (was: Re: libreplanet-discuss Digest, Vol 41, Issue 14)

On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 23:31 -0400, Ricky Mujica wrote: > > (quote from Ted Smith ) > > The best social solution for this problem is to attack centralized > > surveillance, since it seems much more harmful overall than > > decentralized surveillance. I can't

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Linux.com promoting Google Glass?

On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 19:16 +0200, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote: > Hi there, > > I find this... disconcerting: > http://www.linux.com/news/friday-funnies/the-iron-penguin-part-2 > > I understand that Google Glass is a Linux-based device that makes rounds in > the press and seems to be a very...

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Ethical non-DRM uses of EME

How would that be possible? A libre plugin could just be modified to dump the unencrypted stream to disk, rendering the entire system useless. (Not to say this is impossible in the non-free case, but it's obviously easier in the libre case.) On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 10:52 -0500, David Loyall wrote:

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Ubuntu Malware

On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 06:53 +, arthur_tor...@comcast.net wrote: > Thus if one is using Kubuntu, or even regular Ubuntu with some other > window manager than Unity, then it won't be spying on you? Correct. (AFAIK.) -- Sent from Ubuntu

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Ubuntu malware: what to do?

pyware-what-to-do > > > > I made a French translation here: > > http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2012/12/08/ubuntu-spyware-wh > > at-to-do > > > > Cheers, > > > > Fabian Rodriguez > > http://fsf.magicfab.ca > Ted Smith Sent from Ubuntu Sent from Ubuntu

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Hosting/Cloud_Services

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 13:10 -0500, librepla...@lewman.us wrote: > If there is free software available on which I can run on my own free > hardware, then the cloud provider is not free. If the cloud provider > allows you to join their cloud using the exact same free software as > they do, then perha

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] help with FSF incompatible but community oriented licence(s)

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 22:50 +0100, Ramana Kumar wrote: > > Everyone else, write specific ways to realise his wishes and/or > specific inaccuracies in his assumptions or faults of reasoning > therefrom. It goes against the mission of this mailing list as an FSF project to help anyone find a licen

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] help with FSF incompatible but community oriented licence(s)

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 17:33 -0400, Patrick wrote: > Hi Mark, Hi Ted > > Again this is your with us or against us. Regardless of the licence, if > the code ships with source code am I not somewhere up the ladder from > closed source, am I not? No, you aren't. "Free software" is a term defined he

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] help with FSF incompatible but community oriented licence(s)

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 17:13 -0400, Patrick wrote: > "This is not a "betrayal of charitable efforts." This is the free > software culture working as intended." > > ask the GIMP developers then: > > "IMPORTANT: GIMP AND OPENSOURCE SCAM ON *EBAY*! >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] help with FSF incompatible but community oriented licence(s)

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 16:24 -0400, Patrick wrote: > > If I offer two streams what's to stop the business from using the > non-commercial version? > > > > Most businesses will not like the idea of selling or modifying gpl > > software so they'll be open to paying for a different license to be >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] help with FSF incompatible but community oriented licence(s)

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 16:29 -0400, Patrick wrote: > On 12-10-03 01:51 PM, Jason Self wrote: > > Patrick said: > > > >> Parents of autistic kids are already under > >> enormous stress and most won't end up knowing there was a free as in > >> beer alternative. parisites will swoop in an screw over th

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] help with FSF incompatible but community oriented licence(s)

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 16:33 -0400, Patrick wrote: > Please > help me find another licence that will help me to help people. > > This is an FSF mailing list. You will not find anyone to help you find a non-free license to use. -- Sent from Ubuntu signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Alternatives to closed, non-free webmail services?

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 23:52 +0200, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > > So talking about the way to reach more freedom is off-topic here at > fsf/libreplanet? The problem is the subjectivity inherent in a word like "freedom." As a radical feminist/anarchist, I could forward a bunch of stuff to this li

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Alternatives to closed, non-free webmail services?

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 13:16 -0600, Patrick Anderson wrote: > > I need your help and the help of others that understand Freedom to > design this new way of organizing so we can finally bring ourselves > out from under the thumbs of the current owners. What would you have us do? Please be specifi

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Services

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 13:06 -0600, Patrick Anderson wrote: > Free Services require we share hardware ownership. What specific physical next step do you propose towards this goal? -- Sent from Ubuntu signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gaming Collective: Hosted server

On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 15:48 -0600, Patrick Anderson wrote: > Rudolf wrote: > > Also are there any legal problems with this? > > Like who owns the space? Can we assign the > > server to the fsf or the collective to maintain > > as long as the costs are covered? > > I am very interested in hashing-o

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Please support my friend's free culture film, "Tejid@s Junt@s", a documentary about workers organizing to turn a sweatshop into a union-shop!

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 14:30 -0700, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > Hey all, > > My friend Will Delphia has been involved with the Alta Gracia project and > made this free culture film (CC-BY-SA) documenting the struggle of workers > in a sweatshop organizing a union. This is misleading -- Alta Gracia w

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Vertically Integrated Permaculture Mosaic

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 15:48 -0400, Rudolf wrote: > Feels like this is outside the scope of libreplanet discuss, or at least > its a long term goal? I like the sounds of it though. Yeah, I fail to see the relevance of this to an FSF activism list. -- Sent from Ubuntu signature.asc Description:

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Network Services [was: Tackling Network Effect]

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:11 -0600, Patrick Anderson wrote: > > This language is both ageist and sexist. > > Sorry, I meant non-guru. Non-gurus use BitTorrent on a regular basis. BitTorrent is a great example of a peer-to-peer network that is very useful and needs port forwarding. Virtually all bi

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Network Services [was: Tackling Network Effect]

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 09:43 -0600, Patrick Anderson wrote: > Grandma This language is both ageist and sexist. To quote Daniel Kahn Gilmore from the freedombox list (ironically): > Can we please stop using "grandma" as the canonical non-technical user? > The gender and age prejudice implicit in

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Problems with Jitsi

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 07:06 -0400, and...@lewman.com wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:02:41 -0500 > Anthony Papillion wrote: > > A few days ago, I read on the RiseUp site that they don't recommend > > Jitsi because of some 'issues' with it. While they don't go into what > > those issues are, it see

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Skype Replacement?

On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 12:00 +0200, cryp...@nym.hush.com wrote: > Ramana, > > I had a quit similar issue in a different settings. In our case we > were looking for a solution for conf-call in a personal context (so > the financial question was also important) and we need something > stable and easy

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] New GNU

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 09:34 -0600, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 8 May 2012 06:57, Richard Stallman wrote: > >It is behavior that social movements > >seek to change, not blah blah about 'values.' > > > > I disagree. We need to change both, as every social movement does. > > > > We can influe

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Best E-reader to buy

On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 12:30 +0200, Dirk wrote: > I own a Thinkpad t61 14", but it isn't very pleasant to sit on the bench > and read a book with it... I think the advantages of a ereader or tablet > are pretty obvious. Also, are those glasses for digital reading really > an improvement, and is t

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Pixen Alternative for Linux

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 22:25 +0200, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva wrote: > On 09/06/2011 10:01 PM, Ted Smith wrote: > > Further, in future releases of Ubuntu, installing linux-libre won't be > > necessary, since the free variant of linux will be inherited from > > Debian.

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Pixen Alternative for Linux

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 20:45 +0200, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Il giorno martedì 06/09/2011 13:58:35 CEST > Ted Smith ha scritto: > > > Ubuntu can be configured to install only free software, and you can > > install linux-libre, which makes it as free as Debian is, as far

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Best E-reader to buy

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 12:36 +0200, Dirk wrote: > Hi, > > Ok, Kindle is bad, Hook is evil. But what are the alternatives when one > searches for a usable e-reader device? > > > Regards, > > ~D One solution that hasn't been offered yet is to just use a regular computer. I read ebooks on my lap

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Pixen Alternative for Linux

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 19:44 +0200, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Il giorno martedì 06/09/2011 19:16:49 CEST > Daniel Martí ha scritto: > > > Would you say the same to someone using Debian? > > This seems quite off-topic... > > Anyway: yes, i would. > > At the same time, despite Debian is not in

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] A new distrbution of Free Software for WIndows

On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 19:54 +0300, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Hi Fellow Free Software Activists ! > General questions: > 1. Will you be interested in such a project ? > 2. Are you seeing the value of educating Windows crowd the values of > Free Software ? > 3. Will you help me to market it, upon com

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Anyone Out There?

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 03:57 -0700, Joel Kahn wrote: > I just joined this list yesterday, and I haven't > seen any postings yet. Would any of you care to > put something up so that I know I'm actually > communicating with some humans? Thanks in advance. > > Joel Kahn > This list doesn't get much