Farewell. Over Out.
Responding to jxself and quidam,
I do present evidence of what I say. Since that, (1) I left a link to a
previous post of mine, where I point people to one of the EFF's own subpages,
that states who is funding them - which, among others, includes an individual
well known for only funding
And, jxself,
I resent you telling me to read such an insulting webcomic, that distorts
one's right to Freedom of Speech within previously accepted rules, that don't
include the right to silence a person for saying things that some other
people don't like.
Having recently posted a response, to someone who asked for thoughts about a
recent piece of news - and, being that response of mine an important fact
concerning that same news, that I thought I should warn people about - I was
surprised to see today that that same response of mine was
I guess not.
Thank you for your answers, davidnotcoulthard and ssdclickofdeath.
I'm an experienced eBay, and the likes, user. And, there's a Portuguese
version of OLX in which a lot of people sell computers, that unfortunately
uses Java to post ads. But, the desktop computer that I still
If that's for me, and a question about the price...
I'm thinking on selling it as close as possible to 150€ (since that it has
a new hard drive and memory).
And, concerning Bitcoin forums,
Thank you for your suggestion. But, besides Freedom, I care a lot about
Privacy also. So, I won't
The EFF is a fake organization controlled by the establishment itself.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/linux-voice-asking-community-where-should-50-their-profits-go#comment-45972
So, I wouldn't trust what it says about the best way to evade surveillance
from that same establishment.
Free
Hi everyone.
I recently was able to restore a laptop computer, using only components that
run totally free software - and, can now decently run Trisquel on a good
computer. But, for several reasons, I'm thinking on selling this laptop, and
doing the same on a desktop, instead.
So,
Protests and petitions won't get you anywhere.
The solutions are, either (1) to get rid of your government, or - if you're
in favour of one - (2) to install a new government.
(The US government and the corporations behind it - that control both major
political parties - don't care about
But, don't take the word of an experienced Western activist - and, of someone
who already knows (very well) who is he fighting against...
Sign all the petitions you want, and watch the results...
(They're all going strait to a drawer/archive, or computer folder.)
The US government doesn't use the Tor network for encrypted
communications...
It uses its own separate networks, including Skynet-type of satellite ones,
who are not open to civilian use.
The Tor network is something only used by people who think they're going to
escape the US or some
Julian never stated that OS [Debian] in the video interview
Lie.
Debian is specifically mentioned, at 21m and 47s in the interview, in a
segment that can start at the following time mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFFTYRWB0Tk#t=21m21s
Concerning the validity of the title of the
Jacob Appelbaum... :) haha
The present-day developer of a program created, and that is still financed,
by the US government. :)
(https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-use-tor-trisquel#comment-26792)
If there's any Free Software program here, that is actually owned by the
NSA, and the likes,
Not true.
The people at WikiLeaks are denying that it was one of them who stated what
is said in the title of that article - and, they're not necessarily refuting
that author's /interpretation/ of the facts (which, as I stated below -
Well, ignoring that accusation made to myself, from someone who's profile
reveals nothing about him or herself...
So do the people who plant bugdoors in OpenSSL, and similar software, are
great supporters for open source and strong encryption...
Infowars has certainly done much more than
Concerning bugs,
I know that bugs are a usual occurrence, when writing computer code. And,
even more, when we're talking about complex programs - as most programs,
nowadays, increasingly are.
If the bugs that are discovered in specific security features and programs,
are there on
You're not a reputable source. :/
(And, Al Gore is a sexual predator -
http://www.flynews.com/2010/07/01/police-reopen-al-gore-rape-investigation-on-masseuse-molly-haggerty.html
- and a hypocrite - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6401489.stm...)
I don't know anything about that journalist, besides what I read in that
And, I'm not even going to waste my time debunking you, so here:
If you want to use BOINC for the climateprediction.net project (like I did,
some years ago - and, that was probably the reason why my previous
motherboard didn't last long) forget about it... The whole climate change
story, due to human behaviour (I later learned) it's a huge hoax.
Actually, I do include Debian among those non-profit organizations with a
pro-Free Software policy...
Since, I can understand the (practical) need for a proprietary repository,
for those people who really need to use non-free programs. And, I think it's
better to have one such repository
When I mentioned smaller distros, I meant the *small* ones, that are
maintained by half-a-dozen people, or so - who reveal very little about
themselves.
And, what I meant, overall, was that:
- I don't trust such small distributions.
- And, concerning the big ones, I don't trust the ones
:)
I don't necessarily have to know someone personally, in order to trust him,
or her. I just have to know him, or her, well enough - as I would, if I had
the opportunity to relate with such a person. (1)
And, alternatively, one can reveal (very much) about one's true nature, just
by the
Google is a front for the CIA/NSA.
(http://www.infowars.com/group-calls-for-hearings-into-googles-ties-to-cia-and-nsa/)
And, it repeatedly censors people who use their services - including myself.
(http://blackfernando.blogspot.pt/2013/03/como-o-youtube-censura-os-meus.html)
The reason why
I talked about the number of people who maintain a distribution...
And, there are a lot of people involved in Trisquel, besides the person
responsible for the software itself.
There are many libraries and programs which also have only one person
responsible for them, in its origin. And, I
Do the big corporate entities, in control of the US government, have an
interest in infiltrating and subverting every Free Software-related
organization? (Most definitely, they do.)
Does the US government have a habit of infiltrating and sabotaging
organizations opposed to the corporate
From what I know (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS), React OS is more of
a Windows NT clone, than a clone of Windows XP. (Although the project started
with a previous version of Windows in mind.)
It's still considered to be in an alpha stage. So, several bugs are
expected. But, it's
Ah! Great.
Thanks for sharing.
Having been sick, I missed that edition of The Alex Jones Show.
For those of you who don't know it, this radio show currently has *3 million
listeners*, every day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9laOjPe30J0). And, also
a world-wide freedom-loving audience.
...and others... (to describe Snowden's actions and its purposes)
http://tarpley.net/2013/08/13/snowden-helped-susan-rice-sabotage-obama-putin-summit/
http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-799-questioning-the-snowden-story-with-kevin-ryan/
As someone who listens (a lot) to what both authors have to say, and that
knows their ideals very well, I can say that, that is pretty much it. :)
The interview's introduction says it all...
I've made a small donation last night.
It's: much better than to order a t-shirt that I won't use (I'm not much a
fan of letting strange people know my personal tastes, any more); a way to
save a lot of money, that I would spend on an international delivery; and a
way for the Linterna
And, when speaking of rogue states and criminal crackers, you can put the
US and EU (a.k.a. Western) governments, and their agencies, on top of the
list.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/intel-ceo-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-whether-nsa-can-access-processors.html
(One most interesting paragraph, from the text, relating to Free Software:)
In December, developers of the FreeBSD operating system noted that they
could no longer trust[*] Intel and
You're welcome.
And, just to be clear...
The Arab Spring phenomenon, as I said, was started by the West. But, that
doesn't necessarily mean that the West had its hands behind *every one* of
the different uprisings.
Being the best example of one that was not planned by Western interests
I agree with Stallman, that more Freedom is always a good thing.
Yet, the interviewer is right, when she says that Libya is worst off now,
than it was before, with Qaddafi.
For those of you who don't know it, Libya had the greatest quality of life in
the whole continent.
(By the way, for those of you who don't know it...)
RT is the international (English language) TV news channel that has more
viewers on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=726l20Uo3fs)
(Which means that, at least on the Internet, this kind of interviews - good
or bad, and there were
The origin of the video posted on the (well-known and respected) Voltaire
Network web site is unknown. But, all the other information that I've
presented was produced by independent journalists and even a former(?) MI5
officer.
So, with all due respect, it is your claim that all of that
Got it.
It's true that RT often tries to denounce/expose some of the real reasons
behind what appear to be spontaneous revolutions. But, that's not because
they are against this or that particular intervention.
From what I've (much) seen from them, the perspective/point-of-view that they
That's what I'm talking about, when I say that it's a bad interview... :)
eheh
I guess the problem is that, both this more recent interviewer and the one
that I said that made one the worst interviews I've seen being made to
Stallman (http://rt.com/shows/spotlight/richard-stallman/), are
Another bad interview made by this channel, unfortunately...
RT is great. And, so is Stallman.
And, I'm a big fan of both.
But, for some reason, when the two are mixed, the results are not very
good... :|
If anyone wants to check out also one of the worst interviews that were made
to
Blogger network
(http://blackfernando.blogspot.pt/2012/09/fernando-negro-spam.html) by
someone who can, clearly, read Portuguese. And, have had also comments of
mine, in English, deleted on YouTube.
(http://blackfernando.blogspot.pt/2013/03/como-o-youtube-censura-os-meus.html)
More than
No...
Abolish the NSA and the likes, and create a Free Hardware movement.
That's the way to solve the problem.
Everyone notice how the company suspected of selling chips with spy
technology (that is also the leading one, in terms of information technology)
is called Intel...
(http://www.prisonplanet.com/secret-3g-intel-chip-gives-snoops-backdoor-pc-access.html)
In day-to-day English language usage,
Yes.
I was talking about the reason for choosing such a term for the company's
name - and, not the exact meaning of the term. Which I said it wasn't that,
exactly - but, that it was chosen to mean something like that.
(Infinity, omniscience and no limits are obvious unreachable
Confirming that the United States' spy agencies do use hardware that
establishes radio links to someone's computer, without their knowledge, in
order to gain access to it, The New York Times published yesterday an
article denouncing some of this capabilities.
All of us already know that, for proprietary (/closed source) software,
there's no way of knowing if the interfaces that we're using are telling us
the truth, or not. And that, from what has been discovered, a good amount of
the privacy agreements, that big corporations present to people who
But, one thing I forgot to say, is that,
The situation in Europe is, nevertheless, not as bad as in the US - in terms
of /physical/ police state (with troops patrolling the streets, and FEMA
camps waiting to be populated).
The European concentration camps ending up being the cities and
Hello again.
One of my best sources, when I was a citizen journalist, was a NGO called
Statewatch - http://www.statewatch.org/ - that pays attention to all the
most worrying laws (in terms of loss of freedoms and civil liberties, and
also loss of independence by the various European
(Just a foot note, to clear something that I said above...)
KGB is used, in Russian intelligence circles, as a generic term to
designate both the former KGB (properly said) and the new FSB.
The term KGB is preferred, by the more patriotic agents, because the FSB
term was created, after the
I said yesterday that I didn't know where to start from, in order to explain
this... But, I remembered today a few things that might help those who want
to, better realize what kind of world they're living in - and start thinking
about what they're going to do about this...
(This will just
40 euros are, actually, more equivalent to almost 55 dollars, these days...
(But, I don't know at which prices are Kobo readers sold in North America.)
And, it's like Michał says...
The screens of e-book readers are horrible for any other use, other than to
read e-books.
If what you want
There are all kinds of different tablets, with different price ranges...
Tablets are essentially, smartphones, without the phone part, for the cheap
models. And, I guess, small computers, of a type similar to netbooks and
notebooks, for the expensive ones. (But, with touch screens, instead
(You'll find part of this information in one of the links that I left here.
But, for the last time - and, to be sure that everyone living in the US is
aware of this...)
For those of you who don't like the way in which some talk show radio hosts
warn people about this kind of immensely
(I already mentioned this, in here, a few days ago, in a comment - but,
because I know a lot of people who come here use Android devices and because
I think it's something important enough to create a topic of its own, to make
sure that everyone knows about this, here it goes the hyperlink,
Well, I've got bad news for everyone...
Such type of immensely powerful artificial intelligence software, that you
fear, used to access computers everywhere, and in the hands of future
dictators, already exists... And, is already being used...
Ever wondered how is the global ATM machines
(I'm sorry for another repost of a comment I've made elsewhere... But, as the
previous one that I did, I think this is just something too important to be
left, in here, only as comment, hidden somewhere...)
In case it has escaped the attention of anyone else, not reading such series
of
I've decided that this information was important enough to create a new
thread, of its own, about it - so, I think that the best thing to do, in case
anyone wants to comment about the software that I've just mentioned, is to do
it in the recently created thread about it...
(Thank you.)
Well, I'm very glad to know that. I didn't know it was possible to only use
Free Software, on an e-book reader, before. (And don't remember that being
said in the previous threads, that I read, in here.)
Concerning this option that I linked to, I only know what was said in that
forum,
Yes, it turns the e-book reader into a tablet running Debian.
But, the main interest of doing so, from my point of view, is not to start
using the e-book reader as a tablet. But, to free your e-book reader of
proprietary software, so that you can read your e-books without having to
worry
No. Unfortunately, I don't...
No one has ever lived long enough to be able to call too much attention to
this. :|
I know that there is one more book about it, that is sold by the same editor
that sells Estulin's book -
http://trineday.com/paypal_store/product_pages/Last_Circle/index.html
The people behind this are not poorly managing the world. They can't
control /everything/, yes. But, they know what they're doing, in terms of
economics...
They're destroying our Western economies, /on purpose/, so that they can keep
what's left of - increasingly scarce, and precious -
And, as for immediately eliminating the people who know about this, there's
no need for that...
This kind of information doesn't spread that fast. Since, most people in the
US (and all over the West), from what I know, don't even read books - or
research about serious stuff, on the
From my experience...
First of all,
The best thing to do, is to uninstall the gnash plug-in (that, most of the
times, is too slow, or doesn't seem to work(?))...
And, then... For most YouTube videos, you can either:
- wait for the new HTML5 alternative to be loaded, automatically, once a
(Rather than revive several old threads, where people were asking, in here,
if this was possible...)
I'm just making this post to warn everyone that, as far as I can understand,
it's now already possible to have an e-book reader running only Free
Software.
There was a Polish hacker who
I was expecting someone to bring that up, in here, again...
(https://trisquel.info/en/forum/ot-mobile-telephony-survey#comment-44935)
The Free Software Foundation is financed by big corporations because they,
too, use Free Software. And are, therefore - by the logic on which Free
Software
I think that the number of people who use, and value, Free Software is enough
for it to be a bad idea not to worry about their public image before such
people - and, not only those. Since, other people would notice such indecency
and might start questioning such corporations' values.
Not
The EFF is a /fake/ organization, mounted by the establishment, in order to
control the critiques that are made to the ongoing loss of our (electronic)
civil liberties.
Take a look at who's funding them: https://www.eff.org/about (Check its
Annual Reports.)
It's foundations like the
Yes, that's one of the terms. Usually, more used for the fake (controlled)
alternative media.
(https://web.archive.org/web/20110721004258/http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html)
One other term, is controlled oposition. And, it's a very much used
stratagem, already publicly
Responding to several posts above...
Winamp doesn't need to be ported to GNU/Linux... It's basic functionalities
are already made by other programs, like Audacious - which is a
fork/evolution of XMMS, that was intended to do the same things as Winamp.
(I know this quite well, because I've
Or, after reading a bit about Winamp and its evolution... I guess it can,
now, do more things than it did...
Nevertheless, being a Windows program, as I said: Who cares?
Let us promote creativity - while, at the same time, promoting freedom - in
software, and stimulate the creation of new,
Unfortunately, this card that I'm now using has a bad 3D performance... :\
(I've discovered that it's a lowest budget GPU from it's lineup -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_7_Series#GeForce_7100_GS)
So, I think I'm going to keep my previous one - for if I want to play 3D
games on this
Correction:
Enemy Territory is not a good game to go along with Trisquel, since it's a
game that recommends the non-free software (and spyware) PunkBuster.
Enemy Territory: Legacy (http://www.etlegacy.com/) - which is an fork from
(/evolution of) the original code of ET, and which claims
(For anyone who might still read this thread...)
I managed to solve my problem, by buying a 15 € (manufacturer
refurbished) ASUS card - that, like a previous GIGABYTE card, that I had
(that was the one which overheated my computer, after all, and not an ASUS
card, as I thought), can run
I can't find the piece of news now... But, there was a hacker who discovered
that the record of every key pressed in Android-running devices' virtual
keyboards was sent to somewhere, through a functionality that people were not
aware of. (Which is - to me, at least - an absolute no surprise,
I can't find the piece of news now...
Found it:
http://gizmodo.com/5863849/your-android-phone-is-secretly-recording-everything-you-do
I've found the news report, that I mentioned, a few minutes after I made my
first post - and, I've left it here, above, while you were writing your
answer... :)
The web page has even a video demonstrating the functionality in question.
As for my choices, in terms of privacy...
I trust the
Be sure to check eBay - and such markets, and stores, which also sell
refurbished and used cards.
I'm now in the process of solving the fact that I couldn't run the nouveau
(free) graphics driver on my main computer, by having bought a 15 €
manufacturer refurbished card, on a Portuguese
From the section funding of The Interphone Study web page:
The UICC received funds for this purpose from the Mobile Manufacturers Forum
(MMF) and Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA).
--- http://interphone.iarc.fr/interphone_funding.php
(You can read the rest of the web page, for the
(Don't just trust every binary program that is given to you. Try checking
their sources codes, once in a while...)
And, still... Concerning a scientific falsehood, that I mentioned (and that,
still today, continues to be propagated), this is another good example of a
group of people who actually *checked* what they were being told, and that
found it to be untrue - and, also a very good example of how
It's not hate.
It's, most probably, a disruption tactic - used to try to divert people from
what is being said, in order to sabotage discussions that are counter to the
interests of the establishment.
I'm used to this kind of ad hominem attacks, provocations, and also unbased
attempts to
(The article in question is a repost of a Natural News article. But, you
can put them in the same bag as the Infowars articles, if you want to. Since,
the editor of Natural News is also a volunteer in the Infowars team.)
The people at Infowars may, occasionally, make mistakes (like any other
Yep. And, if you want something really creepy, take a look at what the
founder and leader of the project is wearing... http://cyngn.com/ (A Google
Glass.) (Transhumanism, here we go... -
http://www.danielestulin.com/2012/11/01/the-future-is-now-transhumanism/)
Notice also how one of the
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/11/14/2128211/cyanogenmod-domain-hijacked
Cynical Facebook-style publicity for the project, is what it seems to me...
:)
And, not minding the meaning of the word Android - which is how the people
at Google/CIA/NSA[1] see the rest of us[2]...
Cyanogen is a toxic substance (i.e. a poison).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanogen
So, I advise you all to keep away from it... :)
---
1.
(If you're talking to someone who's not even sensitive enough to have - or
worry about - philosophical principles...)
You can always point to the fact that proprietary software - and operating
systems - can always contain *spyware*... (And that, there's no way of ever
knowing that...)
And, mind the transhumanist (Wow. Merging with machines and computers is
'cool'.) agenda, that is beginning to be revealed...
(http://www.danielestulin.com/2012/11/01/the-future-is-now-transhumanism/)
So, you can put stories like the one in the recent movie Elysium in the
same bag as
(https://trisquel.info/en/forum/chrome-os#comment-33746)
Sounds like you're gonna suffer from a nervous breakdown, pretty soon (if you
say that you seriously work with computers, and this is how you react to
computer problems)...
One should always make backups of one's files, everytime one installs a new
OS. (Be it in parallel with another OS,
Even if you used a first generation (brick) cell phone, you would be
traceable...
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/phone-without-gps#comment-42705
Yes. Concerning the computer that you have connected, with an ethernet cable,
to a permanently powered up modem, I guess that, not being a modem integrally
built into the motherboard, and one that was purchased separately, it reduces
the risk of the computer being woken up remotely. (And,
(Exactly the same type of things that I write about. And, the kind of things
that I know that get people, all over the World, under more heavy
surveillance...) :)
I tried to make this stand out, a bit, but I guess I should take the
opportunity to make it clearer...
The computers that I
And, for those of you who may doubt, as to whether there is cause for
concern, or not...
People who expose information that is damaging to the establishment are,
indeed, being surveilled,
http://www.naturalnews.com/040492_GMO_activists_Monsanto_blackwater.html
and, are having their
I've seen it happen with a Celeron 433 MHz Toshiba laptop (that I had, more
than 10 years ago), with the dial-up Internet cable connected to it, where
the computer simply turned on, on its own, in the middle of the night, some
time after having been completely shut down.
And, I've seen it
Yes.
I can confirm that a SCSI something type of error, in Brasero, is due to a
ruined DVD you are trying to use.
It recently happened to me, also, with a DVD-RW, that started giving me such
error, on two different computers, with two different versions of GNU/Linux,
while another
I don't know much about the details... But, I remember reading, some years
ago, that the SSL type of communications used, at the time, could be
(relatively) easily hacked.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/ssl-broken-hackers-create-rogue-ca-certificate-using-md5-collisions/2339
And, also
Thanks for the links.
(Although I try to concentrate myself on serious political activism, on my
free time...) I also like some good gaming, once in a while. And, the
shoot-them-up style of games, are the ones that I stil find enjoyable to
play. Although, the team play ones, are the ones
Informing myself about XMPP and SIP, indeed, I already suspected that other
Free Software programs also used open protocols...
And, yes. Now that MagicFab mentioned WebRTC, I remember reading something
about an implementation, that was planned, to incorporate video conferencing
into
This is great news.
The inability of the present free alternative, Gnash, to play flash videos as
well as the proprietary plug-in is the biggest weakeness I can see in the
free distros...
Since that, the difference in performance is quite significant - at least, in
older computers.
And
And, responding to the questioned posed in the initial post...
I don't know what I was using in such experiments. But, I remembered that,
when I tried another free distro, about a year ago, I could already choose on
YouTube to use the experimental HTML5, and the quality of videos was quite
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