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
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
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Forwarded from LocoE (PhilNomad)
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
I got the HP workhorse laptop working 2 weeks earlier, and it will stay on the desktop
#TBOT #TakeBackOurTech #LinuxMint #NoMSWin
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Forwarded from NoGoolag
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
- 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
ghacks.net
Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.
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
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
Take Back Our Tech
Let's use technology that doesn't use us. We publish regular in-depth series about friendly & effective technology, and how it could change our lives.
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Forwarded from Beechat Network APKs & development
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.
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.
GitHub
GitHub - BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/BeechatGateway: Flask-based Peer-to-Peer TCP socket chat utilising Post Quantum Cryptography
Flask-based Peer-to-Peer TCP socket chat utilising Post Quantum Cryptography - BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/BeechatGateway
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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.
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Forwarded from Brian
Thanks for all the work you do on the tech end, everyone has an important role. I'm not a techie, but have been able to really transform by moving to above phone, linux, and get off google services all in just a few months with help of you, your team, and #TBOT website. It's allowing me to focus on spreading my passions in non tech things like teaching different mindfullness and meditation practices to others and learning more about plant identification, foraging, permaculture, and food. Love, Brian.
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Here's some photos of the hemp house build this week. Going into this I never thought i could build my own house, now I know its possible with revolutionary building technologies like hempcrete!
I'll be writing up a synopsis of my experiences soon!
I'll be writing up a synopsis of my experiences soon!
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Let's connect in real life!?
Catch me at FloteFest end of April / early May!
I'll be giving a refined version of my TGRIII talk and previews of new content (organic technologies, crypto strats) in store for TBOT.
Of course I'll have units of Above Phone for sale, first edition #TBOT T-Shirts, and free hugs for you ❤️
Catch me at FloteFest end of April / early May!
I'll be giving a refined version of my TGRIII talk and previews of new content (organic technologies, crypto strats) in store for TBOT.
Of course I'll have units of Above Phone for sale, first edition #TBOT T-Shirts, and free hugs for you ❤️
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Forwarded from Thomas Freedman
I know you're very busy, but hoping you will do me a solid and get these pinned for me today if you run any IPFS nodes. Going live later today with store and products. T H A N K Y O U S I R !
Ok, I have got the final release images ready, uploaded and pinned on IPFS. Please pin them as soon as you can. I will be updating the websites next and announcing later today. I was hoping to have a day prior to announce to get maximum pins on as many sites as I could, but that would require announcing tomorrow and I'm already 2 days past when I wanted to get this done.
pStickRC2-20220403_2343.iso:
Ok, I have got the final release images ready, uploaded and pinned on IPFS. Please pin them as soon as you can. I will be updating the websites next and announcing later today. I was hoping to have a day prior to announce to get maximum pins on as many sites as I could, but that would require announcing tomorrow and I'm already 2 days past when I wanted to get this done.
pStickRC2-20220403_2343.iso:
QmbSqc9GB5XrGTM6yHx4hheWgEXk45C1MWu57gnhhAjDWK
sha256 verification: 013297cb56a544be3bd8b26bcfc2a62e1ab480de41c5668089bfca8a33a1d599
pBoxRC3-20220405_0143.zipQmeYanrbTbPD67wo6AJZGMY3JokmPJAgwDuqnmNJEM3T1t
sha256 verification: 49466c6f2dc4cbdddf1e74aa05b6c93f8f4c6f22418f623181fdea08f4b3d95eForwarded from Thomas Freedman
Also, please pin my IPFS website:
/ipns/k51qzi5uqu5dmdr312hi2slkfhc2e4dxbm55inrhdqkr0z8ly51evcyrj8tr1k
That is essentially the same content now published on https://piratebox.info/ (well, except for the footer)
/ipns/k51qzi5uqu5dmdr312hi2slkfhc2e4dxbm55inrhdqkr0z8ly51evcyrj8tr1k
That is essentially the same content now published on https://piratebox.info/ (well, except for the footer)
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Lets get some support for our IPFS creators by pinning his sites!
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Forwarded from G3 News
Nigeria Ties All Sim Cards to National ID System
Nigerians whose SIM cards are not linked to their National Identity Number (NIN), a mandatory digital ID system, won’t be able to make phone calls, starting this week. The partial block is a tone down from the previous threat of a total block.
The National Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) released a joint statement saying they were not going to postpone the deadline again. Initially, the deadline was December 31, 2020; it has been postponed ten times since then, with the latest postponed deadline being March 31, 2022.
“Outgoing calls will subsequently be barred for telephone lines that have not complied with the NIN-SIM linkage Policy from the 4th of April, 2022. Subscribers of such lines are hereby advised to link their SIMs to their NINs before the Telcos can lift the restriction on their lines.
“Affected individuals are hereby advised to register for their NINs at designated centers and thereafter link the NINs to their SIMs through the channels provided by NIMC and the Telcos, including the NIMC mobile App.”
➨ reclaimthenet.org/nigeria-ties-all-sim-cards-to-national-id-system
Join:👇
@G3News
Nigerians whose SIM cards are not linked to their National Identity Number (NIN), a mandatory digital ID system, won’t be able to make phone calls, starting this week. The partial block is a tone down from the previous threat of a total block.
The National Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) released a joint statement saying they were not going to postpone the deadline again. Initially, the deadline was December 31, 2020; it has been postponed ten times since then, with the latest postponed deadline being March 31, 2022.
“Outgoing calls will subsequently be barred for telephone lines that have not complied with the NIN-SIM linkage Policy from the 4th of April, 2022. Subscribers of such lines are hereby advised to link their SIMs to their NINs before the Telcos can lift the restriction on their lines.
“Affected individuals are hereby advised to register for their NINs at designated centers and thereafter link the NINs to their SIMs through the channels provided by NIMC and the Telcos, including the NIMC mobile App.”
➨ reclaimthenet.org/nigeria-ties-all-sim-cards-to-national-id-system
Join:👇
@G3News
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Apple is Still Tracking You Without Consent
https://sneak.berlin/20220409/apple-is-still-tracking-you-without-consent/
In the current version of macOS, Monterey, on every system update on a system containing an M1 chip, such as all the new shiny/fast ARM (“Apple Silicon”) macs, the update process phones home to Apple to obtain a special boot signature, known in Apple jargon as a “ticket”.
It does this in a totally unencrypted fashion, over standard plaintext port 80 HTTP (the exact same protocol they banned for use by third party app developers in the App Store when transmitting private data like unique identifiers that serve as PII) to the host gs.apple.com. The HTTP request includes unchangable hardware unique identifiers (chip serial numbers known as ECIDs) that function as a supercookie, and it is visible to your local LAN, your ISP (or hotel or coffee shop), anyone monitoring the network backbones, and of course Apple.
This permits anyone listening to see the approximate location of the device, even if they are not proximate to it, because they can observe the client IP (which is equivalent to approximately city-level geolocation) and the serial number of the device.
https://sneak.berlin/20220409/apple-is-still-tracking-you-without-consent/
In the current version of macOS, Monterey, on every system update on a system containing an M1 chip, such as all the new shiny/fast ARM (“Apple Silicon”) macs, the update process phones home to Apple to obtain a special boot signature, known in Apple jargon as a “ticket”.
It does this in a totally unencrypted fashion, over standard plaintext port 80 HTTP (the exact same protocol they banned for use by third party app developers in the App Store when transmitting private data like unique identifiers that serve as PII) to the host gs.apple.com. The HTTP request includes unchangable hardware unique identifiers (chip serial numbers known as ECIDs) that function as a supercookie, and it is visible to your local LAN, your ISP (or hotel or coffee shop), anyone monitoring the network backbones, and of course Apple.
This permits anyone listening to see the approximate location of the device, even if they are not proximate to it, because they can observe the client IP (which is equivalent to approximately city-level geolocation) and the serial number of the device.
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Forwarded from G3 News
Western Dissent From U.S.-NATO Policy on Ukraine is Small, Yet the Censorship Campaign is Extreme
If one wishes to be exposed to news, information or perspective that contravenes the prevailing US/NATO view on the war in Ukraine, a rigorous search is required. And there is no guarantee that search will succeed. That is because the state/corporate censorship regime that has been imposed in the West with regard to this war is stunningly aggressive, rapid and comprehensive.
On a virtually daily basis, any off-key news agency, independent platform or individual citizen is liable to be banished from the internet. In early March, barely a week after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the twenty-seven nation European Union—citing "disinformation” and “public order and security”—officially banned the Russian state-news outlets RT and Sputnik from being heard anywhere in Europe. In what Reuters called “an unprecedented move,” all television and online platforms were barred by force of law from airing content from those two outlets. Even prior to that censorship order from the state, Facebook and Google were already banning those outlets, and Twitter immediately announced they would as well, in compliance with the new EU law.
But what was “unprecedented” just six weeks ago has now become commonplace, even normalized. Any platform devoted to offering inconvenient-to-NATO news or alternative perspectives is guaranteed a very short lifespan.
Less than two weeks after the EU's decree, Google announced that it was voluntarily banning all Russian-affiliated media worldwide, meaning Americans and all other non-Europeans were now blocked from viewing those channels on YouTube if they wished to. As so often happens with Big Tech censorship, much of the pressure on Google to more aggressively censor content about the war in Ukraine came from its own workforce: “Workers across Google had been urging YouTube to take additional punitive measures against Russian channels.”
So prolific and fast-moving is this censorship regime that it is virtually impossible to count how many platforms, agencies and individuals have been banished for the crime of expressing views deemed "pro-Russian.”
Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.
👉 Source: Glenn Greenwald
Join us:👇
@G3News
If one wishes to be exposed to news, information or perspective that contravenes the prevailing US/NATO view on the war in Ukraine, a rigorous search is required. And there is no guarantee that search will succeed. That is because the state/corporate censorship regime that has been imposed in the West with regard to this war is stunningly aggressive, rapid and comprehensive.
On a virtually daily basis, any off-key news agency, independent platform or individual citizen is liable to be banished from the internet. In early March, barely a week after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the twenty-seven nation European Union—citing "disinformation” and “public order and security”—officially banned the Russian state-news outlets RT and Sputnik from being heard anywhere in Europe. In what Reuters called “an unprecedented move,” all television and online platforms were barred by force of law from airing content from those two outlets. Even prior to that censorship order from the state, Facebook and Google were already banning those outlets, and Twitter immediately announced they would as well, in compliance with the new EU law.
But what was “unprecedented” just six weeks ago has now become commonplace, even normalized. Any platform devoted to offering inconvenient-to-NATO news or alternative perspectives is guaranteed a very short lifespan.
Less than two weeks after the EU's decree, Google announced that it was voluntarily banning all Russian-affiliated media worldwide, meaning Americans and all other non-Europeans were now blocked from viewing those channels on YouTube if they wished to. As so often happens with Big Tech censorship, much of the pressure on Google to more aggressively censor content about the war in Ukraine came from its own workforce: “Workers across Google had been urging YouTube to take additional punitive measures against Russian channels.”
So prolific and fast-moving is this censorship regime that it is virtually impossible to count how many platforms, agencies and individuals have been banished for the crime of expressing views deemed "pro-Russian.”
Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.
👉 Source: Glenn Greenwald
Join us:👇
@G3News
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#TBOT PREVIEW: Organic Technologies, Breathing, Living Homes With Hempcrete
A while back I felt called to expand outside the realm of digital technologies. Little did I know I would embark upon a journey working & building with the abundant Hemp plant.
Many thanks to River & Imani of Haven Earth for creating a safe & encouraging place for us to learn. The combined efforts & energy of 40 people over 3 weeks manifested in the beautiful Hemp structure you see behind us.
Our team will be helping them produce their first video course, in which you will learn the process to build your own Hemp House from start to finish. I truly walked away from the experience with the determination to build my own hemp house.
#TBOT will also be releasing an introductory video in the coming weeks. You'll get a quick overview of hemp technology and its numerous benefits, and a tour of the house ;)
Follow Haven Earth's email list for updates.
Follow #TBOT's mailing list for more digital & organic technologies.
A while back I felt called to expand outside the realm of digital technologies. Little did I know I would embark upon a journey working & building with the abundant Hemp plant.
Many thanks to River & Imani of Haven Earth for creating a safe & encouraging place for us to learn. The combined efforts & energy of 40 people over 3 weeks manifested in the beautiful Hemp structure you see behind us.
Our team will be helping them produce their first video course, in which you will learn the process to build your own Hemp House from start to finish. I truly walked away from the experience with the determination to build my own hemp house.
#TBOT will also be releasing an introductory video in the coming weeks. You'll get a quick overview of hemp technology and its numerous benefits, and a tour of the house ;)
Follow Haven Earth's email list for updates.
Follow #TBOT's mailing list for more digital & organic technologies.
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A Youtube Protocol Update May Have Broken NewPipe
Owning our content and protecting our privacy from the likes of big companies is a constant struggle. We have to thank developers like the NewPipe team for providing an app that allows us to watch Youtube with more features & privacy, without any ads.
But in the past few days, NewPipe hasn't been able to play videos, likely due to a Youtube update.
I have just donated $100 (in BTC) to help support them as they work to fix this. Let's help them help us.
Donate: https://newpipe.net/donate/
More info about the project: https://newpipe.net/
Owning our content and protecting our privacy from the likes of big companies is a constant struggle. We have to thank developers like the NewPipe team for providing an app that allows us to watch Youtube with more features & privacy, without any ads.
But in the past few days, NewPipe hasn't been able to play videos, likely due to a Youtube update.
I have just donated $100 (in BTC) to help support them as they work to fix this. Let's help them help us.
Donate: https://newpipe.net/donate/
More info about the project: https://newpipe.net/
NewPipe
NewPipe - a free YouTube client
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