Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread alex.hache
Dear all as a close person to the developer team, I send some information regarding lorea background. First of all, apologies cause we are not English native, you might find therefore some pieces of our texts pretentious or bad written. On the other side, we are fluent in spanish, catalan,

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread alex.hache
sorry, I forgot in my previous email to refer to FoxGlove license and the collaboration within the GNU social project, i copy paste an email of one of the developers explaining this issue cheers *** One of the novelties in Foxglove is the license. Last February, the Lorea Virtual Assembly decided

[liberationtech] Press Release: ChokePoint Project, IMMI and Liberit join forces for a stronger Digital Rights Watch

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Pinchen
thought this might be of interest to some people on this list Cheers, Chris ChokePoint Project, IMMI and Liberit join forces for a stronger Digital Rights Watch *For immediate release - Reykjavík/Amsterdam/Budapest, November 8th 2012* Today ChokePoint Project, International Modern

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/2012 02:46 PM, ale fernandez wrote: I'm certainly using it like mad since it came out, both bug finding as well as actually filling in assemblies - I'm in an assembly run cooperative and using lorea is really important as a shared place

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10

2012-11-08 Thread Douglas Lucas
I want to chime in here to thank EFF for encouraging Ubuntu to do this and encourage everyone who appreciates it to donate to EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate I'm sure many of us have had and continue to have the experience of wanting to nudge someone over from OS X or Windows to GNU/Linux

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10

2012-11-08 Thread Parker Higgins
Thanks Douglas! I'm not exactly a neutral party, as I work with Micah at EFF, but I want to second your opinion and thank Micah in particular for his work on this issue. Back 18 months ago he was already explaining the alternate installer and pushing for default inclusion:

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10

2012-11-08 Thread Micah Lee
On 11/08/2012 05:18 AM, Niels ten Oever wrote: Dear Micah, Small correction to your piece: Selecting full disk encryption in the installer GUI was already possible in Ubuntu 12.04. The explanation wasn't as clear as it is now though. Before 12.10 the Ubuntu GUI installer only let you set

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10

2012-11-08 Thread Seth David Schoen
Micah Lee writes: Before 12.10 the Ubuntu GUI installer only let you set up home directory encryption using encryptfs, which is different than full disk encryption. For anyone hoping to read about the details of this technology, you probably want the (possibly counterintuitive) spelling

[liberationtech] Cuba detains Yoani Sanchez

2012-11-08 Thread Yosem Companys
#Cuba govt detains net activist @YoanifromCuba; demand her release http://is.gd/qMjFEt -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba detains Yoani Sanchez

2012-11-08 Thread elham gheytanchi
and here is the news about a blogger who was killed in prison in Iran: http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2012/11/sattar-beheshti/ From: compa...@stanford.edu Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:10:14 -0800 To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] Cuba detains Yoani Sanchez #Cuba govt

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba detains Yoani Sanchez

2012-11-08 Thread James Losey
Yoani was detained and released after 30 hours this past October as well: http://www.ifex.org/cuba/2012/10/10/sanchez_released/ On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote: #Cuba govt detains net activist @YoanifromCuba; demand her release http://is.gd/qMjFEt

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread Yosem Companys
So is Lorea meant to be a social web alternative? How is it different from Tent.io? On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:07 AM, The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/2012 02:46 PM, ale fernandez wrote: I'm certainly using it like mad since it

[liberationtech] Tonight's (Nov. 8) Communications Forum on New Media in West Africa at MIT

2012-11-08 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Brad Seawell seaw...@mit.edu Hi – ** ** If you plan on joining us for tonight’s forum, please note that the venue has been changed to E25-111 http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E25 at 45 Carleton Street on the MIT campus and that this forum will take place from 7 until 9 pm: ** ** **

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution:Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread MainID
I think its fucking stupid. If its not on top them it's the bottom. Will it suck when needed as I need more edu sucking. This made possible by a student signing me up for these fucking edu lists. From: Yosem Companys Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 5:19 PM To: liberationtech Subject:

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution:Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread Yosem Companys
Following community guideline #3, George has now been placed under moderation: 3. We have a zero-tolerance policy for anyone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages, so please keep discussions constructive and civil. We urge you to use the list to ask for (or offer) advice,

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread Alejandro Fernandez
Hi Mr doctor who, I never thought I'd meet you in a time and space like this :) On 8 November 2012 19:07, The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/2012 02:46 PM, ale fernandez wrote: I'm certainly using it like mad since it came out, both

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread Alejandro Fernandez
Hi, On 8 November 2012 23:19, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: So is Lorea meant to be a social web alternative? How is it different from Tent.io? I'd say more a tool for organising, and sharing info but also with social network features from it's elgg-ish beginnings. I've not

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10

2012-11-08 Thread Dev Random
On 12-11-08 11:34 AM, Micah Lee wrote: ... get encrypted. When you're not encrypting your whole hard drive, evil maid style attacks become much easier. If someone gets physical access to your computer for just a couple minutes, they can boot to a live cd and replace your /usr/bin/ssh or