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I also liked the fact that this is hosted using Mediagoblin.

It's free software all the way down.

It's actually very difficult to completely use free software, cf. Richard Stallman's setup:

http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/

You run into problems with binary blobs such as bios and firmware/drivers for hardware.

Living based on ethical rules is always a daunting task if one want to do it "completely".

People who are vegetarians by ethical choice can easy find themselves eating meat. Be it from candy, to supplements to medicine. Then there is bioplastics, which while should be eaten, qualify as something a vegetarian might found unethical to use.

It is good that someone sacrifice so much to try living by their believes. It would be so much worse if ethics did not exist at all.

LibrePlanet and FSF never use any proprietary software for anything.

Doesn't work on Safari: "Sorry, no compatible source and playback technology were found for this video. Try using another browser like Chrome or download the latest Adobe Flash Player."

Strange, because I do have Flash. Seems to be caused by a JavaScript error which, somewhat ironically, occurs in obfuscated code.

Which is still running a funding campaign right now: free software is the future, just let it happen, donate!

http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html

I'm very excited for bunnie's open laptop.

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3597

This is absolutely amazing. Especially the high speed FPGA. I'm currently working with the Xilinx Zynq which is the same idea but with an FPGA on the same chip and it's amazing for a lot of things. In particular, stuff you'd do with only an FPGA is made so much easier with a Linux SoC on board to handle Ethernet, USB, and the like.

Helpful utilities and documentation for Free Software live audio/video streaming

https://github.com/ioerror/freenote/

Wow, that's awesome! I wasn't expecting it to be just a single shell script. A very complicated one, but still simpler than I was expecting.

I agree with what Jacob says about Jitsi. It's great, but just isn't user-friendly enough.

I assume that all my convos and cam chats on Skype are recorded [1] - so i try to push my contacts to jitsi. But every time it's so hard to walk people through setting it up correctly.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam...

I have to say this was my favorite talk this year at LibrePlanet, it was interesting to see Jacob's appropriate paranoia. His understanding of the security situation is amazing, and his advice is poignant.

From his suggestion I'll be honest his statements has certainly influenced my plans, and make me really consider writing more software in the security space.

Does anyone know what the following software is:

Just use "triscull/triskill." @00:31:49

He mentions it a couple of times, I finally decided to look it up after the reference at 31:49.

That would be Trisquel[0], a GNU/Linux distro based on Ubuntu that is completely free (no proprietary software or binary blobs whatsoever).

[0] https://trisquel.info/

Wow, I was not close with the spelling. It looks like Debian/main except it comes with a libre-linux kernel?

Great talk, thank you for posting!

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