Notices by FreedomBox (freedomboxfndn@mastodon.social), page 2

Do you like the Mastodon toots you get from the FreedomBox Foundation? Do you support our mission to #DecentralizeTheWeb? Do you want to help us make private server software accessible to the masses?

If so, please consider donating:
https://freedomboxfoundation.org/donate/

Did you know that #FreedomBox offers a one-click install of @matrix?

#Matrix is software for messaging and VoIP. #FreedomBox installs #Matrix for you and helps you configure it.

#Matrix hosts your chat rooms, which support conference calls and video calls! Just connect with the #Riot chat app. Riot has a beautiful UI!

Do you want to use #Matrix on your #FreedomBox? What better way to connect with friends than #Riot?

Let us know what you think!

In the 1980's, personal computers displaced mainframes. It was a revolution.

Now, we need a new revolution: for personal servers to displace centralized servers.

How can we make this happen? Check out this presentation to learn.

📺WATCH: "Creating a Computing Revolution: from Personal Computers to Personal Servers - Danny Haidar, FOSDEM 2019"
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/52fb6887-9627-46b0-936c-bf9f635bdcd2

#WednesdayWisdom from Eben Moglen:

"[Freedom in the net means] the continuity of the very concept of human freedom that we won at great expense in hundreds of generations of lives...and which we will now either make more permanent or less permanent as we shift the fundamental technology of human communication."

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx1pwTtxcVc

9 years ago this month, Eben Moglen delivered the oration that started it all: "Freedom in the Cloud."

This speech inspired the #FreedomBox project. Part history of the web and part call to action, this speech continues to orient our community today. It's worth revisiting each year.

Video: https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/2d7f1421-2e64-4756-9d90-c75860e3c378

Transcript: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/isoc-ny/FreedomInTheCloud-transcript.html

We made so many improvements in #FreedomBox v0.48.0 that it's hard to summarize them all in one Mastodon post!

Check out the full release notes here:
https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ReleaseNotes#Version_0.48.0_.282019-01-28.29

Great privacy software exists. But what the world needs next is privacy infrastructure on which to deploy that software.

To make your own infrastructure, just install the free #FreedomBox private server system on a single-board computer.

We like the LIME2 made by Olimex. What single-board computer do you like?

Check out this video of Eben Moglen speaking about #FreedomBox at Yale Law School!

Shout out to @privacylab for organizing this event!

Eben Moglen: "Better than Rage Against the Machine..."
https://youtu.be/khO76Mpo9dg

Check out this interview with our friends Sean O'Brien (@diggity) and Laurin Weissinger of @privacylab!

These gentleman bring hands-on hardware hacking to Yale Law School. And sometimes, they even use #FreedomBox in the classroom.

Learn more about their unique work here:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/securing-institutions-we-rely-grassroots-case-study

#FreedomBox has been featured in this Digital Rights Guide!

Check out the blurb about us here:
https://bestvpn.org/digital-rights-and-privacy-resources/

#DidYouKnow you can host your own website on a private server powered by a solar panel!

This article explains: all you need is an Olimex Lime 2 single-board computer + a solar panel.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website/

Would you want to host a #FreedomBox using solar power? Let us know!

⚡️New Feature Spotlight⚡️

You asked. We delivered.

In the newest version of #FreedomBox (v0.39.0), we added a Backups feature! 🎉

We're still improving it, but we're excited to share it!

How do you install and use this new feature? These pictures teach you in four steps:

#Facebook network breach exposes the personal data of 50 million users to hackers.

Facebook's security weakness is infrastructural. THIS is why #FreedomBox is designed to shift user data out of centralized servers and into user-controlled private servers.
https://nyti.ms/2OmvHom

☎️ REMINDER: #FreedomBox progress call tomorrow! ☎️

WHEN: Saturday, September 8th at 14:00 UTC

HOW TO JOIN: Using a Mumble voice over IP application, connect to server <http://fbx.freedomboxfoundation.org> using port 64738.

More details here: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls

See you there!

"[Social media platforms] are advertising businesses first and foremost...Consumers are the product. Advertisers are the customer"

Social media growth is stagnating. Are users fed up? Are users ready for #PrivacyByDefault?
...Or, dare we say, #FreedomBox?
https://nyti.ms/2ORIr3H

So how can #FreedomBox enable you to host your own community?

#FreedomBox offers communications services that you control. With encrypted chat and voice call on your #FreedomBox, you can shift your online life to a place that you can trust.

And we're still adding more features.

"A side effect of the disinformation campaigns is that they make social media as a whole seem inherently untrustworthy"

Propagandists enmesh themselves within online communities and ruin the social internet.

So?

Host your own community on a #FreedomBox.
https://nyti.ms/2OCL75t

What is a #FreedomBox? A multipurpose privacy appliance, powered by #Debian.

What do you need to make one? Not much.

Who is it designed for? You.

We're serious about this. Give us a chance. Try it out. Free yourself.
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Download the software today: https://freedombox.org/

REMINDER: #FreedomBox progress call tomorrow! ☎️

WHEN: Saturday, July 14th at 14:00 UTC

WHERE: We are using Mumble voice over IP (VoIP). Connect to server <http://fbx.freedomboxfoundation.org> on port: 64738

Learn how to connect to calls here: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls

All are welcome!

You: Why should users insist on using fully free and open source software on their devices?

Us: If you can't see the code, you can't trust the device.

You: Prove it.

Us: Chinese phone cameras self-activate with certain apps (e.g. browsers & chat apps).

https://advox.globalvoices.org/2018/07/09/chinese-mobile-phone-cameras-are-not-so-secretly-recording-users-activities/