Dear peeps,

Are you tired of spam in our groups? I am too. 🥱

This year you might have noticed a huge increase in spam operations that target groups in the Freedom Cell Network and related groups. The spammers can use our Telegram group directories (listed on sites and other channels), and make their own lists, which allows bots to join constantly and cycle through all the groups.

This morning we have tested out a solution that will allow us to ban spammers across all of our groups. We call this a federation, and any group chat in the federation will automatically ban spammers who have been identified by the federation.

I am currently writing an article to help group admins set up their bots and join the federation. It should be released later today.

We want this functionality to reduce the amount of spam in our groups, the federation banlist will not be used to censor discussion. Individual groups can still ban members from their chats based on their own rules!

Thanks for co-creating this digital space with us, and I am looking forward to the connections we'll all make in 2022.

With love ❤️,
Ramiro of The Freedom Cell Network & Take Back Our Tech

The Nomadic Digitalia: Meditations on Creating the Future - Sterlin Lujan (The Greater Reset 3: Integration)

On January 27, 2022, Sterlin Lujan spoke at The Greater Reset 3: Integration, on Day 2: Agorism & Parallel Networks.

Crypto-anarchist, author, futurist, and public speaker — Sterlin Lujan travels the world giving talks at liberty and blockchain conferences. Sterlin works as the chief risk officer with Cryptospace, a revolutionary cryptocurrency exchange and trading desk. He is the author of the book, Dignity & Decency: Rhapdsodic Musings of a Modern Anarchist. Sterlin is former communications ambassador for bitcoin dot com

Odysee (Video): https://odysee.com/@TheGreaterReset:4/SterlinTGR3:8

Pinecast (Audio): https://pinecast.com/listen/83b43f18-e643-4627-9490-3324feab2674.mp3

Announcing the first release of the Pirate Stick ISO

What is it? Go to the website (https://piratebox.info/pirate_stick/) and read all about it. Turn almost any computer into a standalone Pirate Box IPFS server / node including mesh & other communications software.

There are 2 documents I am putting out there with the essentials to get started making your own Pirate Stick.

I will be selling 120GB & 250GB USB3 SSD drives preloaded with this at the gatherings I attend this year.

For more info about the Pirate Stick visit my discord server: https://discord.gg/YMPaMaRk27 or the website: https://piratebox.info/pirate_stick/ to get all the essential information.

Freedom Cells Anti Spam Federation Has Launched

The new Freedom Cells Anti Spam Federation is active. All Freedom Cell groups & interested admins are invited to setup @rSophieBot to their groups and join the federation.

Read the following article from #TBOT for detailed instructions on how to setup your group's bot and learn basic management commands. Join the #TBOT email list for more content!

https://takebackourtech.org/freedom-cell-anti-spam-federation/

You can also read the Sophie Bot Documentation

After adding the bot you can use the following commands:

/start

/fjoin 650bfca7-626c-41b5-9225-e32ff59fab13

That will get your group added to the federation, any spammers identified and previously banned by the federation will not be able to join your group.

Keep in mind, you will not be able to ban users on behalf of the federation unless you are an admin.

IMPORTANT: This federation is used only to ban spammers, not censor discussion.

If you run a Freedom Cell Network Telegram group and want to help ban spammers on behalf of the Federation then please request to join the following group.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/+n_KSwCy20_hjMTk5

@SaveAlexandria

Download it all for offline

Channel:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/SaveAlexandria

Group:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/joinchat/KmE90u2s0v8xZTNk

Libgen mirrors:
https://libgen.fun (IPFS)

libgen.lc
libgen.gs
libgen.is
⚠No https for these 3 libgen mirrors

Z-library mirrors
https://1lib.in
https://b-ok.org
https://de1lib.org (German)
https://1lib.fr (French)
zlibraryexau2g3p.onion (registration needed)

Telegram bot to search and download books from libgen: @libgen_scihub_bot

Channels with books:
@PrepperCollectiveIndex
@PrepperCollective
@offgriddownload
@Appleseed1A

@RevToolboxRedux
@SeditionistMaterials

Friends,

Miriam and I have completed our first 3 tour stops on the Mexico Activation Tour and are excited for the remaining 12 events across this beautiful land.

This version of the Activation Tour message is (obviously) a little different as we are in a different country. What I am focusing on is a 2 part message:

1. To the expats - stop living like you are on permanent vacation! Get connected to the locals! Learn Spanish! Don't assume the Technocracy wont or cant spread to Mexico.

The reason I say this is because lots of folks from Western nations have come here in the last 2 years, but make no effort to get connected to the locals to build the relationships and network that is so important in Mexico. This is largely because some of these folks can afford to pick up and move again if they don't like the COVID policies or if things get worse. Most Mexicans don't have that ability.

2. The 2nd part of the message is aimed at Mexicans. We want to help them understand why so many foreigners are flooding into Mexico these last 2 years. We want them to see that people in "1st World Nations" are attempting to get away from creeping Technocracy. The goal is to help the Mexicans see that there are attempts to bring the Technocracy here to Mexico and it will happen if people are not skeptical about technology.

I am excited about the potential to connect more deeply with these two groups and help bridge the gap between the two that exists in some parts of the country.

If you know Mexican friends and family that would benefit from this message please let them know. If you know expats in Mexico who would benefit please let them know.

Thanks for the support!

this message needs to get out and I am glad we have you, Miriam, and the Activation Tour team to spread the message in multiple languages!

on my side, i am putting together a private translation service that people can use on their phones so they can continue to spread this message even if their spanish isn't good enough to speak it

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/derrick-broze-interview-impending-future-social-credit-social-impact-investing-digital-ids/
Derrick Broze Interview - Impending Future Of Social Credit, Social Impact Investing & Digital IDs
Derrick Broze Interview - Impending Future Of Social Credit, Social Impact Investing & Digital IDs https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/derrick-broze-interview-impending-future-social-credit-social-impact-investing-digital-ids/ #Interviews #DerrickBroze #DigitalID #SocialCredit #SocialImpactInvesting

Today I revised the mission statement / overview of #TBOT. What do you think?

Take Back Our Tech (#TBOT) was founded in 2021. We see technology as an extension of human consciousness, an important tool that can be used for good.

Unfortunately technology and its users (us) are under threat of being surveilled and controlled by malicious forces. 90% of the current population rely on abusive software services and companies to communicate who then analyze, monetize, and sterilize our thoughts, words, and ideas.

Take Back Our Tech is here to help. We are an educational movement & community.

Together we'll learn about friendly technology and how to use it effectively across many areas. Desktop, web, mobile, hardware, communications, and much more!

When we are successful at connecting aware users with friendly developers, technologists, and companies it creates an ecosystem in which technology can be used as a force for good.

When this ecosystem grows large enough, it will starve out abusive organizations and their attempts to surveil and control their users.

This leaves us to create a better world where our digital exchange and actions are in alignment with how we choose to live, upholding individual freedom, peace, and collaboration.

We've taken care to design the site so that it uses completely self-hosted solutions, and doesn't leak our readers' information. You may sign up to our newsletter anonymously, and all the content will be free forever.

We post our content on alternative media platforms, such as Telegram, Odysee, Minds, and Hive, please follow us using the links below.

Official Site:
https://takebackourtech.org
Telegram Channel: https://news.1rj.ru/str/takebackourtech
Telegram Chat: https://news.1rj.ru/str/takebackourtech_chat
Private Social Network: https://connect.takebackourtech.org/
Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@takebackourtech:f
Hive Channel: https://peakd.com/@takebackourtech
Flote Channel: https://flote.app/user/TakeBackOurTech

Our connection is sacred,
#TakeBackOurTech

@neo_network

I've been researching more about detoxification & nutrition, and finding ways to change up my favorite foods/drinks.

Instead of having dairy & processed sugar in a coffee drink this morning, I had:

- Black Tea
- Coconut Crystals Sugar
- Macadamia Milk
- A bit of Ghee for richness

Its quite good! I'm going to play around with a few different non-dairy milks to find the one I really like.

I wanna know, how are you changing up your lifestyle?

#TBOT Daily Challenge 🤖

Send these #TBOT articles to your friends who are still being spied on by macOS & Windows machines. 👀

THEN, Help them install Linux ❤️

Why its better: https://takebackourtech.org/leap-to-linux/

How to install (we recommend Linux Mint at this time): https://takebackourtech.org/installing-linux-from-scratch/

Nowadays instead of searching things on Google Maps, I use FacilMaps (built ontop of Open Street Maps)

Currently doing an international shipping analysis for Above Phone.

https://facilmap.org

What Search Engine Should I Use: You Don't Really Have To Choose

Many people are now talking about moving search engines now that DuckDuckGo is censoring Russian sites.

The obvious choice (for me) is a meta-search engine like Searx. This is because you can configure it to search whatever search engine you want. Here's a screenshot of the Above Privacy Suite Searx Instance being configured. Your chosen search engine other options all get saved locally!

There are a bunch of public Searx instances available as well:

https://searx.space/

And lastly, there's a browser extension that'll redirect searches to a randomized Searx instance (makes it harder to tie you to one instance):

https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

Reprogram Your Destiny: Tech Strategy for Parallel Systems - Ramiro Romani (The Greater Reset 3: Integration)

On January 29, 2022, Ramiro Romani spoke at The Greater Reset 3: Integration on Day 4: Take Back Our Tech.

Ramiro Romani is a technologist, activist, educator, and entrepreneur who dropped his corporate career to work on meaningful social movements. He is a core member of the Freedom Cell Network, and co-producer of The Greater Reset. He’s helped grow both of these movements to tens and thousands of people while protecting the privacy of their users. Since then he has began educating and assisting others through his own projects. #TakeBackOurTech is an educational initiative that releases free content on how individuals can increase their privacy and security by using friendly technologies. He’s also launched his own company, Above Agency which recently released Above Phone – a complete privacy phone solution that combines secure hardware, open-source operating systems, and cutting-edge privacy services.

Odysee (video): https://odysee.com/@TheGreaterReset:4/RamiroRomaniTGR3:c

Pinecast (Audio): https://the-greater-reset-activation.pinecast.co/episode/71817c95/reprogram-your-destiny-tech-strategy-for-parallel-systems-ramiro-romani-the-greater-reset-3-integration-

This why we started an anti-spam federation. 43 groups have joined already, with 150 spammers banned between them!

Send this to a group you know is bogged down with spam:

https://takebackourtech.org/freedom-cell-anti-spam-federation/

1. Add @rSophieBot as an admin
2. Use the /start command in group
3. Join the federation

/fjoin 650bfca7-626c-41b5-9225-e32ff59fab13

Finally - after half-dozen attempts, clean sweep/wipe, install/reinstall, I got Linux Mint running on the Lenovo laptop. It''s a thin & light model so will be using that on the road.

I got the HP workhorse laptop working 2 weeks earlier, and it will stay on the desktop

#TBOT #TakeBackOurTech #LinuxMint #NoMSWin

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/

- no opt-in, only opt-out
- opt-out only after installation, when tracking already happend
- Telemetry of Firefox is worse than chrome because in Chrome it's an opt-in, while in Firefox it's an opt-out; average users won't opt-out anyway

Great work Mozilla, thats how you violate the GDPR 😁

@no_firefox

#liarfox #firefox #mozilla #telemetry

Working with USBs In The Field
https://takebackourtech.org
Telegram Channel: @takebackourtech

Hey fam! Long time no see, I've been on-site at a construction project for the past week and will be for the next 3 weeks. What are we building?

A hemp house! 🏡

I'm there to record the entire process from start to finish which will eventually be released as a course. I'm using a DSLR camera and capturing plenty of footage, leading up to 40GBs of data a day.

I needed to use USBs to share the footage with my team in the field, not all of whom were using Linux!

Here are some lessons that were refreshed for me when working with USBs:

- Many USBs use a FAT32 filesystem by default, which works across all OSs, but cannot store files larger than 4 GB. (good luck copying large video files)

- There is no file system that covers all OS platforms while still having large file sizes (chart), but the closest would be NTFS, which Windows & Linux can read natively, and macOS can read with use of with ntfs-3g

- You can use GParted to format a drive's partition to a new file system, allowing you to have a cross-compatible USB.

- Lastly, it became painful to copy over files to USB due to the slow write speeds, it was a good reminder that USBs will not even come close to having the write speeds of external HDDs or SSDs.

I hope you use these lessons to setup your external storage before going out into the field, so you can be ready to exchange energy in the form of data!

~ Our connection is sacred

Hey 🐝 devs! Beechat Gateway test network is up and live!

Beechat Gateway will allow your radio messages to reach other continents over Internet connected anonymous Gateways that take your radio signal and broadcast it over Kademlia.

To install:
Head on over to the Gateway Repo (https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/BeechatGateway). Download the repo as a .zip file.
The install.sh file in the main folder will install Kademlia and Lokinet. (Tested on Ubuntu and Debian)

To run a Gateway node:
Make sure Lokinet is up and running. Then, navigate to /support_node and run node.py within your terminal.

mr.penguin: The exFAT file system is supported out of the box in any distribution with a 5.4 or newer kernel which included Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Linux Mint 20, Trisquel 10, Arch, Manjaro, and other rolling release distributions, but also Fedora 32+, among many other distributions and releases. Most distributions should basically have support out of the box at this point.