Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Low Cost Community Wi-Fi Networks

2017-03-23 Thread Bob Mottram
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:58:36PM +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote: I recently had an opportunity to work with an team on setting up a low cost community Wi-Fi network in a village nearby here in India. I wrote an article about it. It is attached. This sounds like a good achievement. An idea

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Challenges with Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss)

2016-12-09 Thread Bob Mottram
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:42:18AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: When I now try to follow the recipe for building a FreedomBone Mesh node on https://freedombone.net/mesh.html >, the download URL for the git repo with the build rules,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Challenges with Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss)

2016-12-09 Thread Bob Mottram
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:46:12AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Bob Mottram] There are at https://freedombone.net/mesh.html Thank you. That would also be something worth trying. In tests so far the mesh router images on Beaglebone Blacks have been quite reliable. At least my RPi

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Challenges with Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss)

2016-11-14 Thread Bob Mottram
Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote: > [Bob Mottram] > > See https://github.com/bashrc/freedombone/tree/master/src > > > > and > > https://github.com/bashrc/freedombone/blob/master/src/freedombone-image-customise > > > > The freedomb

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] 4th Amendment Troubles

2016-06-25 Thread Bob Mottram
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:29:25PM +0200, Karlheinz Meier wrote: Am 23.06.2016 um 23:25 schrieb Bill Kronholm: Hi Bill. We are not only talking about the US here. The germany High Court has ruled that there is a right for an untouched integrity of private IT systems: This is targeted against

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] 4th Amendment Troubles

2016-06-24 Thread Bob Mottram
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:30:51AM +, Nick Daly wrote: Hi Bill, thanks for writing in, it's always good to hear from our insightful lurkers. :) On Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 16:26 Bill K. wrote: > The federal government (in the US, anyways) is trying very hard to make > it legal to break

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Challenges with Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss)

2016-06-23 Thread Bob Mottram
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 03:06:27PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Bob Mottram] See https://github.com/bashrc/freedombone/tree/master/src and https://github.com/bashrc/freedombone/blob/master/src/freedombone-image-customise The freedombone-image commands are based on freedom-maker

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Challenges with Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss)

2016-06-22 Thread Bob Mottram
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 07:10:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Bob Mottram] For anyone interested in deploying mesh nodes it's a little off-topic but I've recently made some changes on the Freedombone project which make deploying Batman Adv mesh nodes simple, together with supporting Tox

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Challenges with Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss)

2016-06-21 Thread Bob Mottram
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:36:27PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: ki/Freifunk .. _Ninux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninux Supporting these three networks would require support for two different mesh protocols, OLSR and batman-adv, since they are the ones used (and which one depends on the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Challenges with Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss)

2016-06-21 Thread Bob Mottram
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:16:21AM +0100, Bob Mottram wrote: teur Radio Emergency Data Network http://www.AREDN.org/ They're building a mesh network along the west coast of the U.S.A. starting in San Diego County. This reminds me of the question of mesh protocol. Which mesh protocol should

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Challenges with Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss)

2016-06-21 Thread Bob Mottram
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 03:52:56PM +0200, juh wrote: Same here. Freedombox is kind of beta. Many things didn't worked for me. tt-rss never worked on my Pi. Tor stopped working suddenly. And after the big login fail during one of the last updates I nuked Freedombox on my Pi completely. Following

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Man-in-the-middle detection for SSL/TLS

2016-06-15 Thread Bob Mottram
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:26:53PM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote: This looks like a good thing to add to the Box, though there are other attempts to solve the same problem & for all I know one of them might be better, or we might need more than one.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Wiki: New CC Licence on June 13th

2016-06-01 Thread Bob Mottram
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 06:29:51PM +0200, Philippe Baret wrote: CONTENT REMOVAL Many major contributors to the wiki have already agreed to the relicense their contributions during the last progress call and following a blog post published on May 23rd[4]. If you are a contributor to the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] DynDNS password eaten

2016-04-22 Thread Bob Mottram
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 06:40:20AM +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote: On 04/21/2016 12:57 PM, mray wrote: I can't reach my FreedomBox from the outside anymore, DynDNS fails me. After an automatic update to Plinth 0.9.1 all applications that I used seemed to be uninstalled. I managed to setup

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] owncloud

2016-04-21 Thread Bob Mottram
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 07:40:16PM +0200, Dietmar wrote: I realized, owncloud is still in SID, there is just a dependency which is unresolved. A bug has already been reported. owncloud was removed from TESTING though. SeaFile looks nice, as an intermediate solution I even could live

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] owncloud

2016-04-20 Thread Bob Mottram
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:06:17PM +0100, Daniel Sousa wrote: On 19/04/16 20:38, Dietmar wrote: apt wants to remove owncloud from my sid Freedombox. Has it already been removed from SID? I was hoping to have some more time to find an alternative. One will be Radicale for the calendar, are you

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Initial login

2016-04-05 Thread Bob Mottram
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 04:24:16AM -0700, p...@hartallen.com wrote: You'll have determined already that I'm pretty unfamiliar with Linux - so I need and would appreciate more detailed assistance. Is there a default user/password to login here? If not, I need help in understanding how I login

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Initial login

2016-04-05 Thread Bob Mottram
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 10:40:52AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Bob Mottram] I havn't tried the latest build, but I think the way to initially log in is via the browser at freedombox.local. As far as I know the initial account creation then allows you to use ssh with the same login

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Initial login

2016-04-05 Thread Bob Mottram
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:14:50AM -0400, Paul Allen wrote: Hi - I'm trying to install Freedom box and need the user and password for initial login. I've tried (root, freedom) and (fbx, frdm) with no luck. Thanks. Paul Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada's largest network. I

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Owncloud Failure

2016-03-23 Thread Bob Mottram
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:15:13AM -0400, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2016 11:07 AM, Strathy wrote: OK. I think I found the problem ... my dev/root/ directory is full. Actually it is at 95% now. (3.5 GB) When I first checked it was at 100% full but I ran apt-get clean

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Let's decentralize: Hardware recommendations

2015-11-04 Thread Bob Mottram
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 03:17:00PM +0100, Yves L wrote: > Hi > > - Mail original - > > De: "f" > > Envoyé: Mardi 3 Novembre 2015 18:53:32 > > > snipped > > > > Having never used such a device before what are your experiences in > > terms of performance with these small

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Wireless Mesh Netowrking

2015-10-08 Thread Bob Mottram
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 12:21:06PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > FYI > > Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network > > http://www.AREDN.org/ > > > > They're building a mesh network along the west coast of the > > U.S.A. starting in San Diego County. > > This reminds me of the question of mesh

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] The future is now -NASA future strategic issues/future warfare 2025

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Mottram
development, particularly in the air, but also on ground vehicles. The DARPA grand challenges were part of that effort. -- Bob Mottram http://robotics.uk.to GPG ID: 0xEA982E38 Fingerprint: D538 1159 CD7A 2F80 2F06 ABA0 0452 CC7C EA98 2E38

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Keeping the noise level up to avoid traffic analysis?

2013-08-19 Thread Bob Mottram
. It would be tricky to implement, but perhaps not impossible. -- Bob Mottram http://robotics.uk.to GPG ID: 0xEA982E38 Fingerprint: D538 1159 CD7A 2F80 2F06 ABA0 0452 CC7C EA98 2E38 ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Why plug servers and not smart phones?

2013-07-13 Thread Bob Mottram
On 13.07.2013 13:53, macbroadcast wrote: My resumee after reading all this dissusions when you have an idea , never ask a developer what he thinks about it, just make it. Agree. -- GPG ID: 0xEA982E38 Bitmessage: BM-onHAKaXvEgPBzHv2nuPhfF7HMk943C2Ws

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Update Tracking: FBX Planet?

2013-07-03 Thread Bob Mottram
On 03.07.2013 01:44, Nick Daly wrote: I'm trying to work a RaspberryPi target into FreedomMaker. Also, the OLinuXino A13 looks nice. I personally prefer the A13 over similar devices (over the BeagleBone Black and even the RPi) because it's a fully open and free design, in the strong senses of

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] why choose new OSHW (Open Source HardWare)

2013-07-03 Thread Bob Mottram
On 03.07.2013 11:24, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 09:18 +0100, Nick Hardiman wrote: I got a couple questions - What is the point of choosing new hardware? Will picking a different hardware target help to spread the software development? Will a small percentage of the million

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Update Tracking: FBX Planet?

2013-07-02 Thread Bob Mottram
On 02.07.2013 18:05, James Gilmore wrote: Out of the list, the upshot is that you are the only dev that has committed code in about 4 months, and that the only person who has given a talk about it in recent history is dr.jones. Even though it reinforces my suspicions, I am glad to know where

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] A Massive Surveillance State: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails

2013-06-08 Thread Bob Mottram
On 08.06.2013 12:55, Rick wrote: Yesterday. They have this email. http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/7/a_massive_surveillance_state_glenn_greenwald [1] Also see: http://robotics.uk.to/blog/?x=entry:entry130608-144105 ___ Freedombox-discuss

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] A Massive Surveillance State: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails

2013-06-08 Thread Bob Mottram
On 08.06.2013 13:57, Melvin Carvalho wrote: On 8 June 2013 13:55, Rick graham.r...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday. They have this email. http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/7/a_massive_surveillance_state_glenn_greenwald [1] I hoped never to see this day.  Eben Moglen has been proved correct.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] What do you use your FBX for?

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Mottram
On 09.12.2012 14:03, Melvin Carvalho wrote: Im just wondering if people are actually running freedomboxes for useful things right now? I've been running a Sheevaplug for about two years. I use it for: - Email - Webmail (Roundcube) - My home page (Mediawiki/Apache) - A way of storing and

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] What do you use your FBX for?

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Mottram
On 09.12.2012 14:27, Melvin Carvalho wrote: I havent yet made the leap of hosting my own email.  Did you find problems with spam? So far I havn't had any spam problems. I'm running spamassassin, and for most of the last two years I've been using gmail as a glorified spam filter - just

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendica Red

2012-09-22 Thread Bob Mottram
On 22.09.2012 03:08, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: That is false.  It is not prohibitively expensive. https://www.eff.org/nsa/faq But if the deep packets only contain cyphertext then decrypting them is not so economical. However, if they just store the data and then wait for 20 years it's

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendica Red

2012-09-19 Thread Bob Mottram
On 19.09.2012 04:38, Russell Edwards wrote: You keep the logs of what happens on /your/ site. But every time you comment in a context hosted on another node (wall-to-wall, community, private messages etc.), you must consider, where will this be stored? Obviously, I can control what happens on

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendica Red

2012-09-18 Thread Bob Mottram
On 18.09.2012 22:48, Russell Edwards wrote: It still encourages people to store all their stuff on someone else's server, and to send copies of it the servers of Facebook and others. In fact, in amongst all the sweeping design improvements listed for Red, is the plan to provide incentives for

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] The video

2012-04-02 Thread Bob Mottram
On 02.04.2012 10:02, Robert Martinez wrote: This is what I think could be done: _1 Somebody could work out if there is a way to link to the correct starting point of the video _2 Somebody could re-encode, cut and upload the video _3 James could record a short replacement for the talk _4

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] School intimidates girl to give up Facebook password

2012-03-13 Thread Bob Mottram
Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net: How does (or how could) a FreedomBox help a user avoid giving up their authentication credentials in the face of heavy-handed coercion by a powerful authority figure? This is not a rhetorical question; i'd really like to hear

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox's pursuit of perfection undermines its goals

2011-10-22 Thread Bob Mottram
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:31:25 -0400, Joshua Spodek wrote: I hope the following blog post -- http://joshuaspodek.com/freedomboxs-pursuit-perfection-undermines-goals -- is appropriate here. I agree. Especially at the current time when there really are people in the street seeking freedom as

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Lessons from a FreedomBox alternative - Tonido

2011-06-27 Thread Bob Mottram
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:38:07 +1000, John Walsh wrote: Still, I think the FreedomBox would have to work behind and in front of a router (both use cases). My parents have a modem+router+wi-fi combo box because they have the piece of *consumer* mind that everything will work together. The most

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] objectives

2011-06-12 Thread Bob Mottram
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:08:34 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Ikiwiki makes for quite a decent blog, and as already mentioned, has the benefit of generating static content, which makes it a good fit for the low spec. machines we're focussed on. I might try that next.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] NYT: USA financing Internet Suitcase

2011-06-12 Thread Bob Mottram
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:54:46 -0500, Tom Marble wrote: The New York Times has an article today on efforts by the US Government to support /alternate/ Internet communication strategies [0]. (I hope this page is accessible to everyone) My estimation is that governments will assist such projects

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] lest we forget (Libya news)

2011-03-04 Thread Bob Mottram
On Fri, March 4, 2011 6:26 pm, Thomas Lord wrote: Libya turns off its internet: this time it's a flatline It's tempting to believe that this sort of thing could only happen under dictatorships, but if something similar to what happened in Egypt or Libya were to happen in any of the democratic