Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Dreamplug emulator or qemu?

2012-02-26 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:00:58 +0100, Björn wrote: Is there an emulator for the Dreamplug so I can do some basic testing myself? Since I don't have a Dreamplug, and noone has offered to test for me, a emulator looks like the third best thing if it exists. Another alternative could be qemu;

[Freedombox-discuss] Wiki now in Plugserver Setup Scripts

2012-02-26 Thread Nick M . Daly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've added Wiki support to the plugserver setup scripts [0]. It weirds me out a little that ikiwiki accepts any user's registration, making it ripe for the spambots, but the underlying Git repository makes it pretty easy to correct. As with

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Yet another hardware option.

2012-02-29 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:00:52 -0800, Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: Don't know if anybody has noted the existence of these yet, but you could just about hide them in a belt buckle.

[Freedombox-discuss] Santiago Updates

2012-03-04 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, just wanted to send out updates on what I accomplished with Santiago this weekend. Consider this both a status update and a request for help. If this strikes you as interesting, feel free to jump in. Santiago sits at [0], on the santiago branch. Santiago, as James mentioned in the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Santiago Updates

2012-03-04 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:56:43 -0500, James Vasile vas...@freedomboxfoundation.org wrote: - Consider changing message contents. Do we include meta-information in the replies to reduce the number of sent messages overall? Is sending data that can identify a single Santiago port to the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] D2 Plug operating temperatures

2012-03-25 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:11:09 -0700, Jack Wilborn jkwilb...@gmail.com wrote: Examining the D2 Plug at the site doesn't seem to publish anything about it's temperature limits... Does anyone who has this device noticed if there are limits to the operational temperature? Sorry, Jack, can't help

[Freedombox-discuss] Initial Santiago Developer Release

2012-03-26 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, I'm rather proud to provide an initial Santiago release. After getting tired of trying to over-engineer the program, I've gone back to basics and tried to make it as simple as it could possibly be. That's why this version is called simple_santiago.py. The tests haven't been updated and

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Initial Santiago Developer Release

2012-03-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:07:29 -0500, Nick M. Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm rather proud to provide an initial Santiago release. I realized I forgot the important bit. The code's at: https://github.com/nickdaly/plinth/tree/santiago pgp4Pip2NdDdV.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Environmental limit how can we use this hardware?

2012-03-30 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:22:34 -0700, Dave Taht dave.t...@gmail.com wrote: So, it's progress, and if the thermal problem can be licked the dreamplug-like idea can work. If you're planning on putting it in a tupperware, you could disassemble it (unscrew it and open it up) and probably get a few

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FBX Privacy Enabled UX

2012-04-02 Thread Nick M. Daly
Hi fifty four, I like your ideas. Some, we already have, and some are interesting things I've never heard of before. On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:16:41 +1000, Fifty Four fiftyf...@waldevin.com wrote: I was thinking maybe the FBX could have a privacy enabled UX. All comments in a reading/writing pane

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FBX Privacy Enabled UX

2012-04-06 Thread Nick M. Daly
Fifty Four, thanks for continuing the conversation. I disagree with a couple assumptions you make, but also want to point you to a few somethings you might like to think about. I think the underlying difference between us is in the threat-model. I assume none of the folks I trust with are

[Freedombox-discuss] Puppet/Chef Experts?

2012-04-07 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, I'm looking to turn my plugserver setup scripts [0] into something more useful for the FBX Foundation and was wondering if any Chef/Puppet experts were willing to help me transition the scripts to those management tools? I'm sure I'll get to it, on my own, eventually, but this'll help

[Freedombox-discuss] Santiago Verifying Requests

2012-04-10 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, just wanted to give a quick update on the progress here. I've started the process of making Santiago encrypt and sign service request messages. I'm not completely sure the process is right though, it seems like I'm requiring the system to do unnecessary work and that shortcuts I'm not

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Santiago Verifying Requests

2012-04-12 Thread Nick M. Daly
. Granted, these private trusts contribute nothing to the WoT but they are a useful privacy-protecting feature nonetheless. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: Nick M. Daly wrote: If you want a working Santiago, check out the previous commits [1]. Things are kinda torn up right

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Santiago Verifying Requests

2012-04-15 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:18:02 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: these two stages together look like what is known in the S/MIME world as triple-wrapping: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2634#section-1.1 I'll look into this, though it'll probably be a week or more before I have a real

[Freedombox-discuss] Freely Available Access?

2012-04-19 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, this is something that started on the FNF mailing list that fits better here, and I'd appreciate some ideas on it, because I think this is something the FBX needs. The background doesn't matter much. We need to consider part two: making FBX sites and data available to consumers who

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Hackfest in NYC, July 9 - 12

2012-05-06 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, Another FreedomBox hackfest is approaching! This next hackfest is scheduled for Monday July 9, through Thursday July 12. After the hackfest, you should also swing by the HOPE conference (hopenumbernine.net), which goes from July 13 through Monday, the 15th. The last FreedomBox

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Announcing Santiago Release Candidate 1

2012-05-16 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Tue, 15 May 2012 09:35:12 -0500, Nick M. Daly wrote: Hi folks, I'm proud to announce the first release candidate (developer preview) of the Santiago service. Santiago is designed to let users negotiate services without third party interference. By sending OpenPGP signed and encrypted

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Announcing Santiago Release Candidate 1

2012-05-17 Thread Nick M. Daly
To answer the what can I use this for type questions I'm getting, I'll try to explain what I'm going to use this for. I'm going to host a FreedomBuddy node as a Tor hidden service. That will let my buddies find me online to use the wiki I'm sharing with them, even as we both move constantly

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Next step in hardware?

2012-05-18 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Thu, 17 May 2012 08:29:02 -0700, Jack Wilborn jkwilb...@gmail.com wrote: Read the information and was wondering if anyone has thought about creating our own hardware. If people were ok with soldering it together, maybe it's not too far out to think about a custom design to house the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Hackfest Fodder: FBX as a DropBox Replacement

2012-05-25 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Fri, 25 May 2012 07:19:37 -0700, Daniel Perelman wrote: This sounds a lot like what http://sparkleshare.org/ already does (using Git for the repository). The ownCloud project which has been mentioned in other e-mails on this list also appears to work as a DropBox replacement.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get update and an SD card

2012-06-04 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:52:32 +0100, Nicholas Hardiman wrote: When I run apt-get upgrade, the top command tells me wa (time spent waiting for SD card IO) can sit at 95%. SD cards seem to have appalling write speeds. Yup. Are you using any trick to make big write jobs less awful? Some cards

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox, the Beta-Release: 6 months

2012-06-06 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi fellow FreedomBoxers, I just came back from Rightscon in Rio, which was an amazing experience, and was very troubled by the feeling of vaporware I got from a number of people about this project. Fortunately, no Duke Nukem jokes were made, but it's been a year and a half since the FBX

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] 2012.0609 FreedomBox Image Available

2012-06-10 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:47:04 +0200, Angelo Danio wrote: On 2012/6/9 Nick M. Daly wrote: I haven't figured out how to build a bootable VirtualBox image yet, so this first one is just the box's root directory. I downloaded the zipped file, sorting out on freedombox-unstable_2012.0609.img

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Testing 2012.0617 Image Published

2012-06-17 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, the latest FreedomBox testing image is published at the usual places ([0], [1], [2]). Sorry it's late, I'm trying to figure out how to make it easier to turn the directory image into a QEmu image, but haven't had much luck so far. I've also had trouble installing the new image to my

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FBx Configuration Management

2012-06-22 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:16:32 -0400 (EDT), bnewb...@robocracy.org wrote: General purpose Configuration Management seems to be a crucial component of the FreedomBox software stack/distribution. It needs to be secure, accessible (elegant user experience for diverse userbase), reliable,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] WiFi

2012-06-24 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:04:16 +0100, Nicholas Hardiman wrote: ...you can use mwifiex (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/mwifiex) ...[if] the serial number starts with DS2-114, as in S/N: DS2-1141-000123... Mine's definitely an older plug, DS2-112... Wonder if we can detect that with

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PSN, ARM's Trust Zone and TPM

2012-06-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
Ben, thank you for your skepticism. On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:53:55 -0400 (EDT), Ben Mendis wrote: I am not disputing that the serial numbers exist. I'm wondering how viable they are as an attack vector, and thus how much of a threat they realistically pose. Just in case I was missing an

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PSN, ARM's Trust Zone and TPM

2012-06-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:58:28 -0400, freebi...@hushmail.com wrote: Ben Mendis, you are missing my points. Regardless whether a product, such as software, ebook, video, etc. are purchased with DRM, the two UUIDs of TPM and the PSN are visible online to websites... Though Apple's policy is to

[Freedombox-discuss] Announcing FreedomBuddy v0.3

2012-06-28 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, FreedomBuddy version 0.3 is out and available on GitHub [0]. It now comes with: - A UI: Because everybody likes UIs. - JSON Output: Good for utilities relying on FBuddy. - Zero known injection attack vulnerabilities: For either the server or its clients. I'm currently trying to

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0629 Available

2012-06-29 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the fourth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. This image is designed to allow anyone to test the current state of the FreedomBox. However, it's not yet a complete privacy solution, so you should rely on other, more established, solutions until we produce

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Funding UI development

2012-06-29 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:32:52 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hello Freedomboxers! Is there a way to specifically donate funds for UI development?  Kind of like a domain-specific kickstarter? It's just that I've noticed a common thread in all the FB dev lectures I've watched so far: at

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0629 Available

2012-06-30 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:03:16 -0700, godswearhats wrote: I know a lot of the pages are currently immutable, so I'll create a separate page that someone with the correct authority can copy over. Have you tried making an account and editing it on the Debian wiki?

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox/Unhosted/PageKite for Access Innovation Prize 2012

2012-07-01 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:03:59 +0200, Markus Sabadello wrote: They are now calling for proposals for the Access Innovation Prize https://www.accessnow.org/prize where you can win $20k. ...Basically, the idea is that you could use any Unhosted-enabled web application out there, and your data

[Freedombox-discuss] Email on FreedomBoxen?

2012-07-01 Thread Nick M . Daly
Has anybody given thought to getting FreedomBoxes to send emails? I thought I'd build out a quick win this weekend and add Friendica to the plugserver setup scripts [0], but Friendica sends registration emails, and there's no other way to deliver the registration information (Jabber, etc). So,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox/Unhosted/PageKite for Access Innovation Prize 2012

2012-07-02 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 06:10:43 +0300, Michiel de Jong mich...@unhosted.org wrote: If you need help integrating it into the Freedom-Maker repository, so it's installed out of the box, I'd be more than happy to lend a hand. That would be very neat to see working. Cool, thanks! looking at

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox as a home router to replace Cisco/Linksys

2012-07-02 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 19:13:38 -0400, Sean Alexandre sean...@pobox.com wrote: Maybe the best of both worlds would be to make the UI for the easy solution (i.e., FB behind the router), at least initially.  Even though it's less power for the non-techie user, it's less potential frustration. 

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Request for Comment: FreedomBuddy-VPN Setup

2012-07-05 Thread Nick M. Daly
Hi Michael, thanks for looking at this. I appreciate the insight, you do touch on a few issues I don't think are solved yet. If I didn't reply to it, I think Ian's clarified it in his reply: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2012-June/004032.html On Tue, 26 Jun 2012

[Freedombox-discuss] Short Image Seeding Window Tomorrow

2012-07-05 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, there'll be a very short window tomorrow where I'll be seeding the weekly image, as I'm traveling all day Saturday. So, if you want to play with the image over the weekend, you'll want to be around at 7 or 8 CST when it gets published, because I'll be around to seed it only for 5 - 8

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox/Unhosted/PageKite for Access Innovation Prize 2012

2012-07-06 Thread Nick M. Daly
Thanks for discussing this, you both raise a lot of good points, and I have a couple questions. On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:25:16 +0200, Markus Sabadello wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Michiel de Jong wrote: So even though ownCloud has a nicer interface than pyUnhosted, getting apache,

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Weekly Unstable Image 2012.0706 Available

2012-07-06 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the fifth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. This image is designed to allow anyone to test the current state of the FreedomBox. However, it's not yet a complete privacy solution, so you should rely on other, more established, solutions until we produce a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Weekly Unstable Image 2012.0706 Available

2012-07-07 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 15:57:35 +0200, Markus Sabadello wrote: Doesn't seem to be online right now..? It won't be until later tonight or tomorrow. It's in my suitcase right now. pgpD1nMesYbIL.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Weekly Unstable Image 2012.0706 Available

2012-07-07 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:01:44 -0500, Nick M. Daly wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 15:57:35 +0200, Markus Sabadello wrote: Doesn't seem to be online right now..? It won't be until later tonight or tomorrow. It's in my suitcase right now. Doesn't appear that I'll have the wired Internet access I

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox/Unhosted/PageKite for Access Innovation Prize 2012

2012-07-08 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 16:28:46 +0200, Markus Sabadello wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Nick M. Daly wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:25:16 +0200, Markus Sabadello wrote: We should also have some updating mechanism... 1. When the FreedomBox boots, it checks if a certain file

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] uImage and uInitrd ?

2012-07-08 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:39:05 +0200, Markus Sabadello wrote: Which kernel file and which initrd file does the Dreamplug actually boot with a freedom-maker generated image? Or I guess more specifically I am asking why the uInitrd from freedom-maker is not in the image. Sorry Markus, that's an

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] my experience with make weekly-card

2012-07-08 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 00:54:24 +0200, Markus Sabadello wrote: I think the problem is that I have a really old version of multistrap (em_multistrap 0.0.8). I installed it with apt-get, but I'm on an older version of Ubuntu rather than a recent Debian. The Squeeze multistrap works fine, if you

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Need some help on UI - was: What Do You want to use the FreedomBox for?

2012-07-08 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:28:03 +0200, Mathieu Jourdan wrote: https://github.com/NickDaly/plinth By fork, do you suggest to create one more account then a third Plinth repository on github? Isn't it preferable to push to existing repositories, avoiding confusion to new contributors? By

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0714 Available

2012-07-14 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the sixth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. This image is designed to allow anyone to test the current state of the FreedomBox. However, it's not yet a complete privacy solution, so you should rely on other, more established, solutions until we produce a

[Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-14 Thread Nick M . Daly
So, since there is a lot of concern about including PHP on the FreedomBox, what are our solutions? CryptoCat (secure chat): CryptoCat Version 2 (???, in development) Diaspora / Friendica (social networking): Libertree (Ruby, Alpha) RoundCube / SquirrelMail (webmail): ???

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Booting Guruplug with freedombox-unstable_2012.0714.img

2012-07-18 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:29:36 +0400, Markus Sabadello wrote: So I am still trying boot my Guruplugs with a FreedomBox image :) I copied Nick's recent freedombox-unstable_2012.0714.http://goog_1983890326 img https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/ to a USB stick, and booted the Guruplug by

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Weekly Unstable Image: Tomorrow

2012-07-21 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, releasing images on Saturday mornings doesn't really work all that well with my schedule (particularly this week), so I'm pushing the release date to Sunday around noon, instead of Saturday, around noon. As a present for your patience, you'll have at least a GuruPlug image. You might be

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0722 Available

2012-07-22 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the seventh weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. This image is designed to allow anyone to experiment with the current state of the FreedomBox. However, it's not yet a complete privacy solution, so you should rely on other, more established, solutions until we

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FBx config mgmt update

2012-07-22 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:24:45 -0400 (EDT), bnewb...@robocracy.org wrote: Forgot to update this list, but I submitted a pull request to the Plinth repository: https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth/pull/2 The core of the changes I made are also available in a separate repository:

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Anti- freedom-box

2012-07-24 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:42:17 -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: Many of you may have seen this on slash-dot, it's a power strip with a concealed illicit motherboard, that includes: http://www.zdnet.com/power-pwn-this-darpa-funded-power-strip-will-hack-your-network-701331/ That's creepy. I guess

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Would you sign a key with a pseudonymous keyholder name?

2012-07-24 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:12:37 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Wilkes wrote: The whole point of key-signing is that you're verifying that you do know the providence of the data signed or encrypted by that key. Anonymity is the opposite of that. If you want anonymity, then you don't want public key

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox on D-Llink DIR-100 ethernet router?

2012-07-24 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:42:27 -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: Installing Fredombox on D-Link DIR-100 H/W Ver: A1 is possible? It is just an ethernet router. It comes with uCLinux. It currently requires ~700 MB harddrive space. Some folks have had success booting it off of USB sticks for devices

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0729 Available

2012-07-29 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the eighth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. This image is designed to allow anyone to experiment with the current state of the FreedomBox. However, it's not yet a complete privacy solution, so you should rely on other, more established, solutions until we

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0729 Available

2012-07-29 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:21:20 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 12-07-29 at 05:40pm, Nick M. Daly wrote: - Is S50 a good place to start the proxy during boot? The number does not matter: SysV init scripts are run in parallel as much as possible based on hints in header of init files, so

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0729 Available

2012-07-31 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:58:09 -0400, Ted Smith wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 17:40 -0500, Nick M.Daly wrote: To use wireless, make sure eth1 can access the Internet during the first-boot process, so the wireless driver is downloaded and installed correctly. After it reboots, it'll start

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] [freedom-maker] Script which will create a VirtualBox image of a FreedomBox. (#4)

2012-08-02 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 13:26:50 -0700, Tom Galloway wrote: Commit Summary: * Script to create a VirtualBox image and add FreedomBox projects. You rock. I've pulled all that and am testing it. I am having a bit of trouble running the image it produces, though. Grub just errors with no such device

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] [freedom-maker] Script which will create a VirtualBox image of a FreedomBox. (#4)

2012-08-06 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:44:09 +0100, Tom Galloway m...@tomgalloway.co.uk wrote: Hmmm, I'm able to make the VM image work on my dev Ubuntu 12.04 machine, but in a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install it's throwing errors. I'll keep looking to work out why this is happening. In my script, there are some

[Freedombox-discuss] Successfully Build VirtualBox-Image

2012-08-08 Thread Nick M . Daly
Tom, I figured out the bugs that were preventing vmdebootstrap from building an image successfully. Those are pushed to my repository [0] which is waiting [1] to be merged into the upstream [2]. If you'd like to build your own vbox-image, just pull my changes. Otherwise, wait for this weekend's

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0810 Available

2012-08-11 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the ninth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. Yes, there wasn't one last week, the images were getting heavily rekajiggered and didn't work until Bdale fixed them. Thanks Bdale! The image is available at: https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker

[Freedombox-discuss] Software as Data, Transformation as a Service

2012-08-14 Thread Nick M . Daly
In short: we have several groups of folks working on problems of standardized, distributed, and data-centric applications. Why aren't we cooperating, or at least communicating, about our problems and observations? Lionel Dricot [0], Dr. Daniel Smith [1, 2], Michiel de Jong [3], Mike

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0819 Available

2012-08-19 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the tenth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. The image is available at: https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.torrent https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.tar.bz2

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] remote servers

2012-08-27 Thread Nick M. Daly
i...@samba.org writes: In the last sprint we added support to easily setup openvpn tunnels between dreamboxes. At the moment I think Nick made simple to connect 2 dreamboxes but not create a full network. However if you want to connect 2+ boxes together I strongly suggest you look into the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora becoming a community project

2012-08-29 Thread Nick M. Daly
Simon Tennant si...@buddycloud.com writes: Simon from buddycloud here. I chatted with Jonas and Bdale during FOSDEM about bringing buddycloud to the Freedombox. If there is anything I can help do to make the install easier or porting it, please let me know. As it is, the team has done a

[Freedombox-discuss] Weekly Image Delayed

2012-08-29 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, this week's weekly image is further delayed than usual, in part because I lost my microSD card. I'll get a new one in a day or two, but I think I'll just push this week's image off until this weekend, when it'll become next week's image, anyway. Nick pgppljQuUbVvP.pgp Description:

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora becoming a community project

2012-08-29 Thread Nick M. Daly
maxigas maxi...@anargeek.net writes: can't we abbreviate it to FX instead? i still keep associating to FaceBook when i see FB, and get scared. :o FreedomBox is usualy abbreviated as FBX to differentiate it from: FB: Facebook FN: Free-networks FBF: FreedomBox Foundation FNF: Free Network

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Foundation's 0.1 release

2012-08-30 Thread Nick M. Daly
Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Wilkes writes: Does the 0.1 image include Tor? No. If not are there plans to include Tor? Yes. Are Tor hidden services currently leveraged to make Freedomboxes just work? No. Are there (immediate) plans to leverage Tor hidden services to make Freedomboxes just

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0903 Available

2012-09-03 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the eleventh weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. The image is available at: https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.torrent

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora becoming a community project

2012-09-04 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com writes: From: Leandro Noferini lnofe...@cybervalley.org Yes, this is true but using hidden services is really different to use the normal dns, so the word hidden. No, the use of the word hidden is because you can host services without revealing your

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0909 Available

2012-09-09 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the twelfth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. The image is available at: https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.torrent https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.tar.bz2

[Freedombox-discuss] Good News, Everyone!

2012-09-10 Thread Nick M . Daly
If you've purchased your own DreamPlug and have been trying to make the weekly images boot, well, you haven't had much luck recently. Fortunately, that's fixed now. Recent changes to the image require you to update your DreamPlug's u-boot firmware. See the written instructions [0] and join the

[Freedombox-discuss] Weekly Image Availability

2012-09-13 Thread Nick M . Daly
So, I've done *something* to my DreamPlug, so it's having trouble internet connecting. That irks me. Nonetheless, I'd like my weekly FreedomBox images to remain available, so till I get the entire site back online, you can check out the weekly images at: http://betweennowhere.pagekite.me

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PageKite info on the wiki

2012-09-13 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick Hardiman n...@planetlarg.net writes: Anyone know where the PageKite info is on the wiki? I can find this old mailing list reference. -- Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson bre at pagekite.net Sun Jan 16 12:19:44 UTC 2011 Hey guys, I just added Pagekite to the FreedomBox wiki, under

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] freedombox.img with qemu

2012-09-14 Thread Nick M. Daly
Hi Markus, tor...@riseup.net tor...@riseup.net writes: i am searching for a few days for any way to test the freedombox.img... without owning a dreamplug. The easiest thing might be to check out the latest VirtualBox build:

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0915 Available

2012-09-16 Thread Nick M . Daly
FreedomBox Weekly Image Report == Author: Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com Date: 2012-09-16 Sun Hi folks, welcome to the thirteenth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. The image is available at:

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] [ZS] ZS reboot seed

2012-09-21 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick Hardiman n...@planetlarg.net writes: I am sorry I missed the start of this conversation because the mail below - * http://zerostate.net * smallest federated wiki, fossil * XMPP * litter, torchat * YaCy - etc. is superb. Disclaimer: I need to take another look at Fossil. It hadn't

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Request For Comments on Islands of Resilience http://islandsofresilience.eu/

2012-09-21 Thread Nick M. Daly
JOSEFSSON Erik erik.josefs...@europarl.europa.eu writes: I'm a hesitant to send this RFC to the list since it is only vaguely related to FBX. Still, it's the fastest way for me to get in contact with lots of people that I am quite sure are interested in the topic. Please let me know off list

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0915 Available

2012-09-21 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick Hardiman n...@internetmachines.co.uk writes: I just realised there is no equivalent of a download page - a simple web-based landing page for * what can be downloaded, * where downloads are * where the big picture is described. Or did I miss it (could be - happens often, like when I

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] freedombox.img with qemu

2012-09-21 Thread Nick M. Daly
tor...@riseup.net tor...@riseup.net writes: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:00:23 + Re: freedombox.img with qemu After a couple of days, and help from another user, the best i could find is using chroot and qemu-arm-static, after unpacking the img with parted and dd... I am not sure if that

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0930 Available

2012-09-30 Thread Nick M . Daly
FreedomBox Weekly Image Report == Author: Nick Daly Date: 2012-09-30 Sun Hi folks, welcome to the fourteenth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. These images include several FreedomBox-related projects. The

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0930 Available

2012-10-03 Thread Nick M. Daly
Anthony Shaper writes: What is the MicroSD non booting bug? I spent a lot of last Sunday installing unstable_2012.0915 by copying the image onto the microSD on my dreamplug. After updating my U-boot (Which was scary) and some playing around with U-boot configuration I managed to get the

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.1007 Available

2012-10-08 Thread Nick M . Daly
FreedomBox Weekly Image Report == Author: Nick Daly Date: 2012-10-07 Sun Sorry for the delay folks, shoddy Internet and a busy weekend combined to delay the image. Table of Contents = 1 Introduction 2 How do I

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Privacy Prices

2012-10-14 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jonathan Wilkes writes: From: Nick Daly one of the most annoying parts about all this is how poorly Facebook monetizes data. My privacy is worth more than ~$15/year I think that's missing the point; even if Facebook were handing 10 crisp $100 bills to every one of its users each year, the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] virtualbox image

2012-10-21 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jonathan Wilkes writes: Hello, So I've got the virtualbox image booting.  What's the next step to bringing up the browser interface (presumably on the host machine)? :) Hi Jonathan, thanks for testing! The weekly image I'm building right now makes this a bit easier, but you'll want to

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.1021 Available

2012-10-21 Thread Nick M . Daly
1 Introduction ~~~ Hi folks, welcome to the 16th weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. These images include several FreedomBox-related projects. The changes are changes made by project contributors in the last week that have made it into the test image. The

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] virtualbox image

2012-10-22 Thread Nick M. Daly
Angelo Danio angelo.da...@gmail.com writes: Jonathan Wilkes writes: So I've got the virtualbox image booting. from where did you get it? I tried several time to download the iso with torrent inticated some days ago on the list, but no seeds ... Try again. The server goes down without

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] deb list for what is being included in freedom box

2012-10-22 Thread Nick M. Daly
Robert Teeter bteeter2...@yahoo.com writes: Nick - The Debian version for Raspberry PI has hardware floating point support in their kernel... I was just hoping that the source packages existed so that they could be added to the standard build tree and made available for downloading and

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] virtualbox image

2012-10-22 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com writes: I was suspicious about this direction, but I tried it anyway to confirm it would fail.  It did indeed.  My box has chosen a public address for itself and obviously typing a public address in the host machine browser is going to take off to the

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBoxers in Seattle this week?

2012-10-27 Thread Nick M . Daly
Thanks to business travel, I'm near Seattle for the next week. If anybody's around, just message me and we can meet up in the evenings. No changes that I know of, so no new image this week. Nick pgpjZIODN9Mx4.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.1021 Available

2012-10-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
alberto fuentes writes: A few very small fixes... Not sure if this produces a small sparse vdi tho... Thanks! I've set it to 2G to keep it in sync with the DreamPlug image. Will push later tonigth, traveling now. diff --git a/mk_virtualbox_image b/mk_virtualbox_image index 8e53b29..091a72d

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.1021 Available

2012-10-29 Thread Nick M. Daly
alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com writes: alberto fuentes writes: Reasoning for my fixes: - 1Gb partition left little room to play with the image and increasing the size of the partition to 4G does not increases final vdi while leaving more room to play 2G for now, because that's all the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] [DC206] FreedomBox Event Tuesday!!

2012-10-31 Thread Nick M. Daly
Lee Fisher writes: As I mentioned in post earlier today, Nick *might* be doing a 2600 Meeting talk this Friday, if there is sufficient interest for thost that missed it. Let Nick know if you have an interest. I do not currently expect to be able to make the 2600 meeting. I'll try,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Software as Data, Transformation as a Service

2012-11-01 Thread Nick M. Daly
Melvin Carvalho melvincarva...@gmail.com writes: I think in the case of freedombox it would be desireable to have not only a web identity but to tie it to GPG, which is something I've already done some work on. Would you mind describing that a bit? FBuddy [0] is designed to make (PGP-)

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] corrupt FS inside image ? - Was: Re: FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.1021 Available

2012-11-07 Thread Nick M. Daly
Hi Olivier! Thanks for trying it out. Olivier Berger writes: Hi. Nick M. Daly writes: You can also install the image to your DreamPlug directly. I've tried and install the contents of the freedombox-unstable_2012.1021_dreamplug-armel-card.img image to a 4GB SD card, which

[Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics

2012-11-09 Thread Nick M . Daly
I've recently had a few questions on encrypting emails and figured that sending this to the list might help. Step 1: Use email safely (don't leak your password and be wary of leaving server-side copies). Step 2: Meet and trust people who you're going to exchange messages with.

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Home

2012-11-10 Thread Nick M . Daly
Folks have traditionally had trouble getting into the FBX project. Some of that is related to how the project has a dozen or more homes that are variously linked to one another. The project's (more or less) effective home seems to be the Debian Wiki, as that gets the most love of any of our

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Home

2012-11-10 Thread Nick M. Daly
Markus Sabadello writes: We have a site for our Austrian FreedomBox community, and we have weekly meetups: http://freedombox.at/, redirects to http://freedombox.elevate.at/ On the front page it has a link to the Debian Wiki, and I just added a link from the wiki to our site. *Applause*

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