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⚡️Above Phone & #TBOT on Decentralize TV @takebackourtech Recently I had a chance to join Mike Adams on his new show, DecentralizeTV which focuses on decentralized solutions. A lot of fun things happened in this spot: - I made a prediction on how CBDC would be implemented by both Google and Apple in the next few years - Demonstrated how to own your media on the Above Phone - We bartered between phones & knives - One young man's action that lead to this interview in the first place! If you're out there - hit me up. I owe you a phone. Watch here: https://www.brighteon.com/aacc069f-0132-4ab1-9af2-2a8cd7235d6c ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Eggplant Harvest @takebackourtech Today I harvested some eggplants in the garden, these had been going for a few months and I thought theyd never fruit because they were constantly under attack by ants and aphids. Turns out they still made 5 eggybois. Interesting thing about the fruit, theres a debate around whether there are male and female eggplants. One side calls it all a myth. The other says that you can distinguish sex by the their belly button on the bottom. Smoothness and roundness means male, elongated unregular belly buttons means female. Female plants carry more seeds and are bitter to propagate the next generation. With that guide we got 4  males and 1 female. Now time for eggplant curry! 🍆 🍽 ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Drill Your Own Water Well @takebackourtech I found this resource today on digging your own shallow water well using just PVC and household water houses. It can be done for less than $200. These shallow water wells can reach water within 25 feet, they're not meant for drinking but suitable for irrigation. This is huge for anyone near the water table. https://drillyourownwell.com/ ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️New Investigation Shows Proof that Instagram Allows Ads for Guns, Drugs, and Meth @takebackourtech A new investigation by 404 Media uncovered a collection of illegal content on Instagram's ad service. Items such as stolen credit cards, wholesale marijuana, counterfeit cash, scamming services were found as sponsored advertisements. Its unclear if these are actual services or scams, there's been no response by Meta or investigation by law enforcement. Original article What's crazy to me is how Meta (owner of Instagram) moved forward with a new age-verification system last year, partnering with Yoti to conduct facial feature analysis, as well as ID verification - with the excuse of keeping kids safe. At the same time they have advertisements that no one would want kids to see. They seem comfortable making money off of black markets while trying to convince us that their surveillance focused features are actually for their users protection. ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️PREVIEW: Brown's Gas With George Wiseman @takebackourtech A few weeks ago I sat down with George Wiseman, serial inventor and mind behind the AquaCure. The AquaCure is a water torch which can produce Brown's Gas at your home safely. George shares with us the science behind Brown's Gas and the beneficial ways it could interact with our health! Make sure to sign up to our email list, don't miss this interview coming out soon! https://takebackourtech.org ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Wiring Your Home for Ethernet @takebackourtech Thought this was a great video on how to wire your house for internet, getting rid of Wifi. It really is as easy as: Modem/Router —> Ethernet Cable —> Switches —> More Switches or Devices I'm setting up a new home network system over the next month or two and will document my journey. Link here: https://invidious.takebackourtech.org/watch?v=ZyVpunl8By8 ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem @takebackourtech An interesting editorial by Thom Holwerda points out the current state of browsers on Linux. Linux gets treated like a second class citizen when it comes to browser support, especially in Firefox's case where Firefox is offered as the default browser for most distributions of Linux. And Linux orgs that develop browser such as KDE and GNOME rely on big tech browser engines. In an ideal world, the major stakeholders of the Linux desktop – KDE, GNOME, the various major distributions – would get together and seriously consider a plan of action. The best possible solution, in my view, would be to fork one of the major browser engines (or pick one and significantly invest in it), and modify this engine and tailor it specifically for the Linux desktop. Stop living off the scraps and leftovers thrown across the fence from Windows and macOS browser makers, and focus entirely on making a browser engine that is optimised fully for Linux, its graphics stack, and its desktops. Have the major stakeholders work together on a Linux-first – or even Linux-only – browser engine, leaving the graphical front-end to the various toolkits and desktop environments. ... Linux needs a browser engine that is independent of Google (and Apple), and takes Linux seriously as a platform. https://www.osnews.com/story/136653/desktop-linux-has-a-firefox-problem/ ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Creator of Vim, Bram Mooleanaar Passes Away at 62 @takebackourtech If you're a developer, you may have heard of the Vim text editor, a legendary piece of software that improved on the original vi editor distributed in Unix systems. Released in 1991 and still maintained today, vim is used by millions and remains one of the most popular text editors of all time. Vim's creator Bram Moolenaar has passed away at 62. His family announced (Google Groups link) his passing on August 5th: It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2023. Bram was suffering from a medical condition that progressed quickly over the last few weeks. Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of the VIM community that you are all part of. Bram was also the creator of the 'charityware' concept, where people could only vote on software features if they donated to a charity of the developer's choice. Check out Bram's personal website to get a feel for who he was. Rest in peace Bram, and thank you for your service to all of us! ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Chultrabook, a way to run Windows, Linux, or macOS using alternative firmware @takebackourtech You may remember our last post on ChromeOS overtaking the desktop Linux market. I posed the question, how can we take some of the market share back and replace ChromeOS with Linux? Now the Chultrabook project offers a way to flash your Chromebook's firmware with Coreboot so you can install different operating systems. But be warned, this is not a simple process, some Chromebooks are not supported, and some things may not work properly after the conversion - please read the guide in full. I think its some of the best documentation I've seen. When installing Linux the following distros are recommended: Arch Linux Fedora OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Pop!_OS Debian 12 (Bookworm) 🧠 Learn more Replace your Chromebook's operating system with one that respects you. ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️New Series Being Published Next Week @takebackourtech Hey peeps, I'm very excited to be releasing Pt 1 of a new series next week, this one diving further into mobile privacy/security - and will focus on phone backdoors, how they work, the relationship with contact tracing, and how they're being used by phone manufacturers themselves! I would appreciate y'all spreading the word everywhere when we post the series, our community is thankfully on-top of these issues but the majority of people are blissfully unaware - we may have to venture on proprietary social media to spread the word. You are loved! ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Microsoft's AI Sensor Platform "Premonition" Begins Surveiling Mosquito & Diseases In Texas @takebackourtech In September 2020, Microsoft first announced "Premonition", a robotics and sensor platform that automatically samples disease carrying insects, like mosquitos. Originally partnering with universities and pharmaceutical giant Bayer for R&D, Microsoft wants to track and control vector-born diseases for 'bio-threat' detection. The system consists of automated Mosquito traps which can capture mosquitos and perform "meta-genomic" analyses. The first place Microsoft decided to roll out the technology was in Harris County, Texas. The county received 100 traps beginning in early 2021, and now that the system has been gathering data for 2 years, new Disease Activity Maps were released. How is the data analyzed? Premonition’s “metagenomic” analyses will also allow us to computationally scan environmental samples for known and novel threats – giving us new tools to help detect emerging environmental pathogens, such as Zika, much earlier. 🗺 View the maps — Yet another tool in the arsenal of the surveillance state where diseases can be tracked without transparency, and used as justification for measures such as expanded spraying, lockdowns, and promotion of fear. Could this system be used to test for genetically-modified mosquitos such as those used as malaria "vaccines" in the 2017 Seattle trials? Ironically these trials were funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,with future rounds funded by DoD and the NIH. Genetically-Engineered mosquitos were also supposedly deployed by Oxitec in this same area, covered in this report by Derrick Broze. ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

Jack Spirko Survival Podcast: Above Phone Origin Story @abovephone On the Jack Spirko Survival Podcast, Ramiro discusses the Above Phone Origin story, the importance of solutions and key takeaways for how data is exploited by malicious actors. Watch the full interview: https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/ramiro-romani/ ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️New Italian Law To Enforce Takedowns of IPTV Services @takebackourtech Ever heard of IPTV? Its a protocol that lets people stream continuous video over the internet to hundreds of people. Popular in foreign countries, many people use IPTV to watch TV or live sporting events for free or practically free, the streamer purchases access and then streams their live feed. 25% of Italians use IPTV, and now the Italian parliament has passed a law to prevent the growth of IPTV and provide consequences for those using the service. Italy's AGCOM (Authority of Communications Guarantees) approved the following rules: - AGCOM will issue dynamic injunctions against pirate services, blocking user access within the first 30 minutes - This will occur by blocking DNS resolution and traffic routing for IPs that are "unambigiously" identified as unlawful - ISPs must respond to blocking requests quickly - ISPs will need to report info about the pirate service providers - ISPs would be fined €10,620 to €265,000 - Streaming services would face up to 3 years in prison, plus a fine up to €15,000 - Users of IPTV would be fined €5,000 Another exercise in mass censorship systems. Pirate services may move quickly out of the country to friendly jurisdictions, and users may attempt to protect their internet traffic. Read here ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Spreading Bitcoin Under an Oppressive Regime @takebackourtech Togolese activist Farida Nabourema shares good insights on spreading Bitcoin (or new ideas for that matter). How do you typically respond to those who are dismissive of Bitcoin, especially those close to you? Honestly, I don’t reach out to friends and family to teach them about Bitcoin. I never do that because I don’t consider myself a Bitcoin evangelist and people are very sensitive and aggressive when it comes to money and the less they know, the more aggressive they are. I would rather go to communities that have been excluded from the financial system or that need an alternative to the existing ones to teach them about Bitcoin and they always welcome it because it works for them and they need a solution anyway. These are farmers, activists, young people. Now, while seeing me do that, some close friends come to me and ask to learn and because the request comes from them, not me trying to impose it on them, and they are very receptive to it. Read the article ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️A Fridge From 70 Years Ago Has More Features Than Your "Smart" Fridge @takebackourtech Originally posted by Amanda on Mastodon ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️UK's Online Safety Bill Close to Passing @takebackourtech This 4 year old bill started off as a whitepaper on Online Harms. It applies to any website or service which hosts or shares user-generated content. That could be interpreted as a blog that accepts comments, vs a encrypted chat application with millions of users. Public forums, video sites, instant messaging - pretty much everything. There's two categories of providers, 1 and 2 - Category 1 having the largest userbase and risk and Category 2 consisting of all other websites. Category 2 need to act on illegal content and activity. Category 1 would bear the brunt of the scrutiny and is required to: - publish transparency report on the steps they're taking - implement ways to verify identities on their platforms - protect children from harmful content such as a pornography - regular risk assessments - age checks - take down offensive content such as terrorism, child abuse, other offenses - take down scams Read the Online Safety Bill (Official UK Gov Website) - Section 5 Once passed into the House of Lords, the bill will be read and debated about multiple times, eventually passing into the House of Commons, where the process is repeated. While the EFF and larger messaging providers like Signal, Element, and WhatsApp encourage people to email their representatives, I'm not convinced sending an email will do much, although I wish people the best with their efforts. This comes down to mass non-compliance and free software. If the bill passes, the UK would need to fine a large portion of a billion websites, in and out of their jurisdiction. Can a group of lawmakers who hardly understand encryption really enforce a bill that attempts to pry into the user data of every website? I doubt it, keep calm and carry on. ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Mystery Increase In Brain Tumors - Is it EMR? @takebackourtech Ramiro of #TBOT and Bill Cadawallader discuss the rise in aggressive brain tumors that are on the rise in Western countries. Does it have something to do with taking calls right next to our heads? Check out the scientific data. 👉Watch the full interview: https://takebackourtech.org/emr-save-a-life/ ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Google's "Web Integrity API" Proposal Aims To DRM The Web @takebackourtech Over the past week, an update to an unpublished "Web Environment Integrity" proposal has caused outrage among the tech community. The proposal is focused on improving the client trust model using an "attestor" or a web service that decides whether your device is trustworthy enough. Google would run a service that websites could use to request a token that attests information about your device, for instance what type of web browser you are using on what operating system. Attestation services like these already exist for mobile apps on both the Apple/Google ecosystem. This would allow websites to reject traffic based on the attestation decision and begin to block off certain parts of the internet. Thankfully, this caught the internet's attention and repository got absolutely dunked with negative feedback. Still, in May - Google issued an Intent to Prototype for this specific feature. Maybe one day we will begin to see "approved browsers". Read more here ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

🎥 Watch as Ramiro demystifies the streamlined process of using New Pipe on Above Phone! 📲 A must-see for all Above Phone users! 👀 Watch more of the Mindful Media webinar series free: https://learn.abovephone.com/course/media/