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Build Android apps with Debian: apt install android-sdk https://bits.debian.org/2017/03/build-android-apps-with-debian.html

Music https://www.mixcloud.com/555sounds/ep04-khao-luang-national-park/ from soundscape http://soundscape.twgrid.org/db_browse.php?ColID=20

"It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964."

Interesting article. In fact:

Speaking to the Guardian en route to Stockholm to receive the 2013 Nobel prize for science, Higgs, 84, said he would almost certainly have been sacked had he not been nominated for the Nobel in 1980.

Edinburgh University's authorities then took the view, he later learned, that he "might get a Nobel prize – and if he doesn't we can always get rid of him".

Higgs said he became "an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises". A message would go around the department saying: "Please give a list of your recent publications." Higgs said: "I would send back a statement: 'None.' "

>> Avadiax:

“[...] https://twitter.com/snowden/status/700823383961792512 [...]”

Too bad twitter is too F*cked up to be viewed and preserve my freedom. What a god awful nightmare of a site.

Twitter Dev's: Learn to fail/fallback gracefully.. Learn to support text based browsers. Learn and impliment the W3C's WCAG.

Pumpa 0.9.2 is now in Debian testing :-)

Link to original post: https://bits.debian.org/2016/02/tails-installer-in-debian.html

Thu 11 February 2016 by u with tags tails privacy anonymity announce

Tails (The amnesic incognito live system) is a live OS based on Debian GNU/Linux which aims at preserving the user's privacy and anonymity by using the Internet anonymously and circumventing censorship. Installed on a USB device, it is configured to leave no trace on the computer you are using unless asked explicitly.

As of today, the people the most needy for digital security are not computer experts. Being able to get started easily with a new tool is critical to its adoption, and even more in high-risk and stressful environments. That's why we wanted to make it faster, simpler, and more secure to install Tails for new users.

One of the components of Tails, the Tails Installer is now in Debian thanks to the Debian Privacy Tools Maintainers Team.

Tails Installer is a graphical tool to install or upgrade Tails on a USB stick from an ISO image. It aims at making it easier and faster to get Tails up and running.

The previous process for getting started with Tails was very complex and was problematic for less tech-savvy users. It required starting Tails three times, and copying the full ISO image onto a USB stick twice before having a fully functional Tails USB stick with persistence enabled.

This can now be done simply by installing Tails Installer in your existing Debian system, using sid, stretch or jessie-backports, plugging a USB stick and choosing if one wants to update the USB stick or to install Tails using a previously downloaded ISO image.

Tails Installer also helps Tails users to create an encrypted persistent storage for personal files and settings in the rest of the available space.

Pumpa v0.9.2 is now in Debian sid: https://packages.debian.org/sid/pumpa.

[ZDNet]La Brique Internet : nouvelle offensive des FAI indépendants ? -
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"There's No DRM in JPEG—Let's Keep It That Way" http://apr1.org/E9

Dear all

You can read the log of the pump.io meeting we had some hours ago here:

https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/wiki/Meeting-2015-10-08 

Since time ran out quickly and lots of agenda topics were uncovered, we decided to meet again next week, same day, same time. Details here:

https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/wiki/Meeting-2015-10-15 

Thanks everybody, and happy hacking!

We just had a mini-meeting in #pump.io on irc.freenode.net... here is a quick update. @Evan Prodromou kindly joined us, and quite a few other community members, and everyone seems interested in making Pump.IO more of a community project. Here are roughly the future steps from this meeting:

1. Find a community-stewardship home for pump.io. We will apply to become a Conservancy member project (@Bradley M. Kuhn is interested in Pump becoming a member project, but he is not the only one involved in that decision), though other places may also be explored (but Conservancy is currently target #1)
2. We will be expanding the number of people committing to and contributing to the project. To start with, Evan has extended commit and admin rights to @jpope and myself. We will also be looking to make this more of a community structure; @Laura Arjona and I are volunteering to help with this transition. Laura also started this community document!
3. E14N is looking for new homes for E14N hosted nodes on the pumpiverse. Are you interested, and a responsible person with strong interest in the health and future of the pumpiverse? We could use your help!
4. We will probably need to raise funds for some of the hosting costs. How that will be done is yet to be determined.
5. Since @Evan Prodromou, @Tsyesika and I are all working on the ActivityPump spec, of course we want Pump.IO to begin adoption of this standard, and will be looking towards that over the next few months. We'd like to also see GNU Social and Pump.IO talking together; ideally this would happen via both of them adopting the new standard, but probably Pump.IO needs to lead the way here and product a reference implementation to test against.

I'm looking forward to a more community-driven future of Pump.IO. Long live the pumpiverse!