Mr Penguin

CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc, co-host of Freedom Decrypted & syndicated radio show Free Talk Live. FreedomDecrypted.com

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2025-04-29 15:24:03

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@nprofile…kjc8
Stop being such a left/right wing extremist / statist. Government workers shouldn't exist... taxation is theft, so your security, social security, kids education, and so on are things you should be opting in to through competitive free market solutions (be it nonprofit endeavor or otherwise). Unionize ha. Let them unionize and find out they no longer have a job. They have every right to form a union and we have every right to pick and choose which if any services we want and who from.

2025-03-29 08:48:44

Your a real libertarian if...
1025. You have a smart phone with LineageOS, GrapheneOS, or some other fork
1026. You have a smart phone, but don't have a sim card or use the cellular feature
1027. Instead of the cell phone you communicate with boefang radios and unlike hams defy the authoritarians by not asking their permission, going so far as to unlock restricted albeit unused portions of the spectrum (hey, we aren't monsters, protocols aren't the issue, it's the violence inherant in the system that ia the problem)
1028. When the FCC shows up looking for your pirate radio station you and your closest friends go out to protest
1029. When the health inspector shows up to your events you and 1000s of your friends run them out of town
1030. Your first instinct when a cop shows up is to pull out your phone and start recording
1031. When you start an anti-drug-criminalization protest in the central square and one guy dares to pull out some weed after the cops show up in an attempt to intimidate and then gets arrested you and a hundred of your friends take a trip to the police station and start smoking weed in the police station in protest of their arrest
1032. You actually know enough about the law to refuse a roadside DUI breathalyzer test after being pulled over without losing your license or facing a trial
1033. You know enough about the law to a point you can stare down a cop illegally demanding a drivers license during a DUI checkpoint encounter and still not be arrested for failure to ID (the reason a cop can normally demand a license is they have articulable suspicion of a violation, but at a DUI checkpoint this does not exist, stops are based on a plan and supreme court carve out exception to the warrant requirement in the constitution)

2025-03-29 08:19:41

Your a real libertarian if ...
10. At least one or more of your friends are sitting in a cage over reasons of principle
11. You have constant conversations on weather Matrix, Freenet, or encrypted mesh networks are the way to go
12. You know what Tor is and have actually used Tails
13. You smoke weed not because you like it, but in defiance of unjust laws or attend decriminalization rallies despite not using
14. You've spoken at state house hearings, attended trials of your friends, and know people who have run for office
15. You have your GPG key on your business cards
16. You don't tweeet, but toot
17. You look down on people using dirty fiat
18. While you may not pay taxes you help others who help themselves
19. You car is registered to a trust or LLC
20. You think about how you can be more self-reliant on regular bassis
21. You've moved to New Hampshire for The Free State Project
22. You've stood up to abusive authority figures be it the police or a high school vice principal

2025-03-29 08:19:04

There is a new simple test to determine if your a real libertarian.
1. All your friends are on Matrix
2. You attend attend regular crypto meetups that have turned into alternative currency meetups
3. You attend events where the people around you are accepting and spending crypto, but not investing in or marketing crypto even if they sell or advocate for non-fiat currency
4. You have attended some form of mesh meetup or event, such as for Mashtastic, or simply setting up a mesh network
5. Your preferred operating system is primarily or entirely composed of free software
6. You or someone close to you has 3d printed or milled a gun for reasons of principle, no serial numbers and preservation of freedom
7. You have no respect for the law, but are OK with protocols and value principles of nonviolence with the exception of self defense
8. You can sniff out feds amongst your 'friends' based on their interest in sports and a lack of understanding of fundamental liberatarian principles
9. None or nearly none of your friends pay taxes for moral reasons

2025-03-29 05:43:28

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@nprofile…0w4g
Or we could just dissolve the IRS. For the first 86 years after the United States founding we didn't even have an income tax! And... the roads pre-date government so no we don't have to give up the modern conveniences in the processes. There is also still a gas tax that funds the roads too. Prior to the governments monopoly on roads though we actually did have 'long distance' toll roads where every so many miles you would pay a toll. In New Hampshire we had a toll road privately funded between Keene and Concord/Manchester which is about an hours drive in an automobile. We also had private enterprise run public transit in a more decentralized way before government took it over and trains prior to the interstate system. Nothing says we can't have a mixed system to guarantee ones right of travel on private enterprise managed roadways with limits on profits or profit sharing between public interest and corporation managed infrastructure.

2025-03-28 01:46:24

How you know you've won: So I was reading an email from the Free State Project's director about an entertaining incident he had encountered the other day. He was at a small cafe in Dover alongside a ton of other free staters (just so coincidentally packing the cafe, apparently independent of one another) when a group of politicians rolled in. These politicians were democrats and sat down to have a meeting of some kind. Well, while holding this meeting they could be overheard complaining about all the free staters who’d been moving in. They were complaining about being surrounded by free staters. This isn’t really anything new, but what is humorous is that they were apparently unaware of the fact they were completely surrounded by free staters in the cafe.
Later it was pointed out on social media that the former Maine senator Eric Brakey who is now the Free State Project’s executive director was in the background of a picture that the democrats took of the meeting and posted to social media.
The left in New Hampshire isn’t wrong when they complain libertarians and free staters have taken over the state. The house is at around 100 libertarians currently and for the first time ever we have 5 libertarians in the senate too! This is 100 out of 400 in the state house and I think it’s 5 out of 24 in the senate. Every two years the number of republicans and democrats in the senate and house decline and the libertarians take their place! Where else in the world do you see successes like these? We don’t “own” New Hampshire yet, but we are getting closer every day and it’s plain as day to see why the left and right are complaining.
https://social.freetalklive.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/237/529/729/164/798/original/3af475bfad438a2e.png

2025-03-24 20:04:26

A follow up to what is so disturbing about this proposal in France to criminalize 'incitement' of piracy:
"The act of inciting by any means, including an advertisement, the use of an online public communication service, a device, or software, allowing access to a competition or sporting event without authorization"
To ban the public from advocating free expression is utmost disturbing.
https://torrentfreak.com/france-mulls-instant-iptv-blocks-e750k-fines-new-piracy-crime-incitement-250324/

2025-03-24 19:44:42

France Mulls Instant IPTV Blocks, €750K Fines & New Piracy Crime of ‘Incitement’:
I want to make it unequivocally clear that I wholeheartedly advocate for the elimination of the artificial creation they call 'copyright law' and push forward the ideas of the free decontamination of information, of which political opponents may refer to as 'piracy' or 'incitement'.
To surrender free expression for the benefit of a tiny minority is to hand over democracy as well by it's very nature. Whether I agree with the idea it works or doesn't being less material given it's still seemingly the least bad governance system man has implemented to forego it for the benefit of a tiny minority is insane.
The left may argue for socialism under the logic a growing economic disparity between the haves and have nots being bad or dangerous for society, but this disparity is not the real underlying problem. The cause of this disparity is largely the result of the creation of copyrights and patents that business majors are taught in 101 classes, startup courses, and so forth. This is the means by which exploitation occurs and one of the major things that need attacking. For without it (among other regulations) large enterprises wouldn't be able to achieve the level of monopolies, duopolies, and minimal competition in a truly free market in the first place.
https://torrentfreak.com/france-mulls-instant-iptv-blocks-e750k-fines-new-piracy-crime-incitement-250324/

2025-03-14 18:47:15

It's official: Our 420 Concord weed decrim rally in NH is on the calendar. This is for the sale more or less since weed is mostly legal here already. So is our Bitcoin Pizza Day at Little Zoe's! And don't forget about the Free State Project's annual conference coming up! We'll be there in attendance with all sorts of cool privacy oriented stuff.

2025-03-11 22:48:05

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@nprofile…4ky6 That's the plan! I haven't done it quite yet, but working on it.

2025-03-09 20:52:27

4/20 is just around the corner. What are your plans for the day? I'm planning a trip to Concord, NH to rally at the statehouse for the complete decriminalization of the sale of currently illicit substances.

2025-03-09 17:57:22

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@nprofile…tnk6
You do you and then come back! Hopefully your mom's situation revolves itself one way or another sooner than later as parents can become a serious burden when things go south. I've been fortunate up to this point, but I don't think I could deal with such a situation.
PS Rily and I are going to start promoting this years 4/20 rally shortly. The situation isn't looking good as the Governor won't sign further decriminalization bills regarding the sale of marijuana and some of our biggest advocates it appears have given up on the issue for the time being. Though it is good they didn't pass tax and regulate like other states. We can do better in the live free or die state even if it takes us longer to get there in the end.
We may see a bill pass that will eliminate vehicular inspections this year though! So that is good.

2025-03-07 01:51:03

Great news! I know we're a little behind other states at eliminating or minimizing the inspection nonsense, but we're close to passing a bill in New Hampshire to eliminate inspections. The house just passed HB649 that will eliminate inspects 212 yeas to 143 nays. Now we have a couple of weeks to let everyone know to reach out to their senators to pass the senate version of the bill so this thing becomes law!
PS: Next up to eliminate: Vehicle registration, license plates, and drivers licenses ...what can I say I'm an optimist, but each year libertarians get a bit closer in taking over the state. We've got a 100 reps in the house out of 400 and 5 of 24 in the senate. Those 5 were elected in the past couple of years too, so our rate of expansion is amazing and really spurred on by the Free State Project- which is a migration of libertarians from around the world to New Hampshire for the purpose of working together to establish freedom somewhere.
https://social.freetalklive.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/118/553/258/243/930/original/39e7f873ac92f36e.png

2025-03-06 04:05:10

If you ever thought law enforcement did good think again. Law enforcement has been pressuring businesses to take greater steps to stop stop scammers. Initially scammers would threaten little old ladies with jail time if they didn’t pay their back taxes immediately and would then proceed to direct them to purchase gift cards and similar products like AT&T prepaid wireless refill cards. So stores put up signs warning customers that government employees would never demand payment of back taxes in gift cards. This of course didn’t work with people this stupid. So now when you need to purchase prepaid refill cards (you pretty much always need more than one) you get met with skepticism from cashiers at checkout when you try to purchase enough refill cards to activate a new phone and obtain the 1-year discounted plan from AT&T. OK, so now you need to go back the next day to purchase the 4 additional $30 refill cards you need. Well, that worked yesteryear, but now AT&T itself has put a limit on how many cards you can use at activation. It’s 3. No, it’s not a dollar amount, it’s 3. How this is suppose to hinder scammers I do not know. What you now have to do is find a store that sells the variable denominated refill cards that you can get in amounts from $10-100. Then get 3 of those and activation is still possible for the $300 1-year plan that is available at a discounted price. The scammers have no problem directing their little old ladies to particular stores to obtain the variable amount refill cards. What does this mean? Scammers 1, government 0, the public and particularly the poor -1.

2025-03-03 00:51:31

How did Rep. Eric Gallager ever get elected? Bill HB649 is overwhelmingly favored by the people of New Hampshire. It would end mandatory inspections. These are nothing other than a money grab by mechanics and there is an entire lobby organization that hinders these bills when they come about from passing.
Ohh, he's probably getting paid off. Now I understand how he got elected and why he is against this bill.
He's making up some nonsense about vehicple inspections being connected to safety which is nonsense and the vehicular security aspect while likely correct in thinking you can't have a conversation about security without source code being available doesn't lead logically to inspections being neccessary or your mechanic looking at the source code. That isn't fundamentally how this works. Your sources should be released, the world can examine the code for security issues, those issues get reported, they get patched, they get fixed, and then a binary becomes available (firmware) that at most a mechanic can apply. The availability of security patched firmwares is important, the mandatory inspection are utterly dumb and a money grab. I nor anyone else should be forced to pay $40 for an inspection when I can do an inspection myself, or a friend, or ANY MECHANIC on my own volition. The evidence is clear, vehicle inspections don't make us any safer, and many states have done away with them or reduced how often they're required.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@egallager/114088864577394000

2025-03-01 23:38:05

Have you written to Ian Freeman? Ian's been fighting for all of our freedom since long before
Ross Ulbricht founded the Silk Road. He introduced the masses to cryptocurrency via his church and his nationally syndicated talk show Free Talk Live. Ian advocates for peaceful non-government non-violent solutions to problems and is currently sitting in a cage over it. In this particular case a guy name Phil Christiana has spearheaded the attack on Ian and other free staters over the past two decades. Ian has been fighting for financial in this particular case for your financial freedom through the promotion of Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency) on a widely heard nationally syndicated radio program called Free Talk Live. This is Phil Christiana's 3rd attempt to take Ian Freeman out. He's serving 8 years, though will likely be out in 4 1/2 and possibly sooner if appeals are successful.
If you haven't written to Ian Freeman you might think about doing so, people whom are caged love to recieve info from the outside world. Check out:
https://www.thecrypto6.com
for information on how to write to Ian and get tons of media content.

2025-02-17 17:49:23

For anyone still using Android / Apple you'd be advised to stop. Google just added a program to scan your device for content the government deems unacceptable (my summary not having fully read the story yet): https://www.protectstar.com/en/blog/android-system-safetycore-hidden-installation-and-what-you-should-know
" it’s distributed via Google Play Services or the Play Store in the background, without requiring any additional confirmation from you."
If you need a phone that doesn't ship with Google Play Services, the Play Store, or Android (ie core) I'm still selling at least basic smart phones with LineageOS 22.1. And assuming people remain interested in such phones at some point probably Pixel and/or some other models with GrapheneOS (again).

2025-02-07 06:18:20

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@nprofile…rhk5 @nprofile…3x9q
Clearly Trump isn't doing enough to solve the problem. He needs to do more. End government or at least big government and stop enabling billionaires from having something to seize. This isn't a republican or democrat problem. Both have contributed to this problem. We need real libertarians to end it. No more government programs. Say no to government education, no to boarder agents, no to welfare programs for either the impoverished nor corporate, say no to government insurance schemes that benefit the wealthy building homes in high risk flood and fire prone areas, say no to board walls, say no huge military programs, say no to the IRS, say no to tariffs, say no to income taxes, say no to property taxes, say no to schemes funding Elon Musk, say no to it all! When taxes become 0 little poverty can exist among those willing and able to work as incomes will more than double.

2025-02-07 06:09:32

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@nprofile…fgmj
When did that ever stop government? You will always have opposition in power doing things you don't agree with. I've known nothing but evil in government. The only way to limit bad government is to stop giving government more and more power. I dislike Trump, but Trump is right in that government is too big. I'd add the democrats have created this situation right alongside republicans through a hundred years of the welfare state. The welfare state first and primarily benefits the top and not those it claims. So stop voting for it. Advocate peace, advocate for individual responsibility. Schools would and did exist before government. There is very little that government is really needed for. We had roads before government took them over. Cities had privately run public transit before government consolidation. You can solve problems routes and such without government taking over. But that isn't how the left and right like to do things. Keep solutions simple people.

2025-02-07 06:00:53

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@nprofile…fgmj
The security breach was a direct result of any of this data existing in the first place. Instead of government control should be in the hands of each individual and the resources coming from ones own labor going towards each owns individual purgatives. Those resources should be spent as each of us sees it, not via wealth redistribution schemes of the democrats and republicans whose programs are promoted via special interests of all kinds. If you want to drop bombs on children in the middle east it should come from the money you have worked to earn, not some general pot that is derived from violence (taxes) 60% of the population doesn't agree on.

2025-01-31 04:04:57

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@nprofile…tnk6
We miss you Nobody! It is time to come back home.

2025-01-24 00:26:09

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@nprofile…thfz
@nprofile…z3zf
Yea, noticed it. Didn't care. I usually do revise errors. Didn't care here. A-holes gonna be a-holes and the grammar ain't going to make a difference.

2025-01-22 06:42:53

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@nprofile…z3zf
You are such an ass hole. Ian Freeman co-founded a nondenominational peace church and has helped more homeless people, small businesses, and families with various mental health issues and poverty. As I write this the Shire Free church continues providing subsidized rents to low income individuals some with visual impairments (ie blind) and other issues. When was the last time you helped a blind guy to learn to navigate a grocery store by himself (ie it takes YEARS of practice) or gave regular rides to the parents of families with mental health issues and drug addictions? Well, we do. I personally drove mom to work on more occasions than i can recall, kids to be dropped off at moms so they wouldn't be deprived of seeing their other drug addicted parent (dad included, dad couldn't drive due to a head i jury for a number of years post an accident, he has his license and family is doing relatively well today, although I'm not sure about mom's addictions, but at least dad is back on his feet and maintains custody of the kids).

2025-01-22 01:11:42

Ross was just granted a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON by Trump.
Sign our petition for Trump to pardon Ian Freeman, a political prisoner, whose been fighting for your freedom, both financial and otherwise for DECADES:
https://www.freeiannow.org/
And somehow I doubt Ross will come out of this unscathed. Besides the decade he's spent caged the government still has his Bitcoin, or they did until they sold them off, and he won't be getting those back despite the pardon. The authorities coerced and bullied Ross into signing away his claim to the Bitcoin. Just as they've done for Ian Freeman and many other political prisoners over the decades.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-pardon-ross-ulbricht-silk-road

2025-01-15 20:05:55

I support Canada's proposed acquisition of Washington, Oregon, and California, how about you? New Hampshire is willing to give up these states for independence of its own too. While we are at it maybe Mexico can take some of mid western states and finally declaw the testicles of what remain of the "United States".
https://www.newsweek.com/canada-lawmaker-suggests-letting-three-us-states-join-get-free-healthcare-2011658

2025-01-11 00:17:49

Join us for a Free Ian rally Jan 16th @ 10AM in Concord, NH advocating the pardoning of Ian Freeman, a man wrongfully convicted of victimless crimes let alone crimes he didn't even commit. Ian has been fighting for our freedoms for decades, including our financial freedom. This event aims to raise awareness about the injustices he's facing for speaking up politically. He's been attacked for his activism and been rung through the ringer multiple times over the years because of one FBI agent (Phil Christiana) with an agenda against the Free State Project and it's most significant proponent: Ian Freeman.
Help us urge president elect Donald Trump to grant Ian a presidential pardon.
Event Details
Date: Thusrsday, January, 16th
Time: 10AM
Location: New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord N.H.
Address: 107 N Main St, Concord, NH 03301
https://social.freetalklive.com/system/media_attachments/files/113/806/822/311/450/799/original/1a7d03fa39780b49.jpeg

2025-01-03 08:21:11

The war on porn has started up again. For those old enough to remember and those concerned about the attacks on freedom of the past hundred plus years (and not just porn, but right to travel, financial freedom, speech, youths right to work/independence, etc) there is a new case to be decided at the US Supreme Court that could end up restricting your access to porn on the internet (yes again, several supreme court cases of the 90s ruled repeatedly you can't burden adults access to porn for the sake of 'protecting' youth). This law would effectively require sites to ID users as adults if primarily distributing porn. It would not apply to sites like Reddit however and of course you can't enforced anti-porn laws outside your legal jurisdiction anyway making it effectively a mute and stupid law that doesn't 'protect' kids assuming we take the 'think of the children' psycos at their word porn somehow harms kids who are if we are honest with ourselves don't care cause they haven't hit puberty and those that have are NOT children! Not to mention what this law actually does is punish the US operators of porn sites by pushing them to move porn sites to jurisdictions outside the United States or in this case at least Texas:
https://www.vox.com/scotus/391248/porn-supreme-court-free-speech-coalition-paxton-first-amendment

2025-01-03 08:06:33

In relation to the persecution of Ian Freeman and the Crypto6 who have been fighting for your financial freedom (among every other kind of freedom):
Good news from Ian and Bonnie:
I just received the details on the oral arguments hearing for my appeal at the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston from my attorney.
If supporters feel like traveling all the way to Boston, they can, or there will be an online stream available and a downloadable recording made available later on the court's website. Here is the hearing info:
Wednesday, February 5th, 9:30am
Boston, MA in the Panel Courtroom at the Moakley Courthouse, 7th Floor.
The court says the only way it will be continued is for "grave reasons", so expect it to happen as- scheduled.
Share as you feel inspired, thank you.
The address of the courthouse is:
1 Courthouse Way
Boston, MA 02210
Adjacent to the courthouse is a parking garage. This is Boston waterfront property and there is a fee for using the parking garage. Getting to the courthouse may be a bit tricky. Boston is a big city so start planing your carpool(s) now!

2024-12-31 16:50:59

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@nprofile…njst
Welcome! It is just like twitter just ya toot instead of tweet.

2024-12-24 00:38:52

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@nprofile…nvyk
@nprofile…gp6r
Interesting. Is that all models of the three? Is it just Europe or worldwide? I know there was a legal argument in Europe that they should not be locking it down. Though FCC and EU equivalent regs suggest they should be locking down the slot. Or at least blocking cards that support 5ghz.

2024-12-24 00:36:17

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@nprofile…nvyk
@nprofile…gp6r
Interesting. Is that all models of the three? Is it just Europe or worldwide? I know there was a legal argument that they should not be locking it down.

2024-12-24 00:33:34

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@nprofile…gp6r
Umm that isn't the case at all. Sounds like an issue of someone being extraordinarily lazy. Most of the smaller companies selling laptops with Linux don't lock down the WiFi card slot, though like most of them the WiFi sucks now cause they have moved the antennas in most newer laptops to under the case rather than keep it in the screen where reception isn't a problem. However that said this is no different than the rest of the industry so you won't end up with a worse laptop than otherwise available elsewhere anyway.

2024-12-22 22:19:13

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@nprofile…k0su
Maybe they shouldn't have taken the job if they couldn't handle the stress.

2024-12-22 22:16:35

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@nprofile…gp6r
You thought HP was the way to go, really? It always blows me away people you'd think should know better don't. Apple, HP, Lenovo, IBM, Dell, and Toshiba branded products are defective by design. They include digital restrictions that are hostile to proper support under Linux. WiFi card doesn't work? You can't even replace it. This is why we don't have better support in Linux. People keep giving their money to shitty companies working against our interests. I can understand historically going with one of a select number of HP printers because of the proper support on some models over the competition, but an HP laptop? Hell no.

2024-12-20 10:43:36

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@nprofile…xs2g
Many have said that, yet many others have done it. We have people who have fled South Africa, Russia, and other countries. Immigration from the old world is actually the easiest.

2024-12-20 04:12:34

According to an infamous anti-piracy PSA that just recently celebrated its 20th birthday, "downloading a copy of a movie is the same as stealing a physical disc from a regular store, stealing a handbag, or even stealing a car."
Accept it isn't. When you steal something another party is deprived of the thing you've stolen from them. That doesn't happen when you make a copy of a friends content.
Copyright is an artificial creation that was crafted by people with the aim of depriving everyone of their natural born right to communicate for the private gain of a select minority. While it was sold to us as a means to promote the arts and sciences they've forgotten that the sales pitch was "for the public good" and a limited time. How long? 7 years. Today for all practical purposes copyright doesn't expire. Something produced today will not enter into the public domain until after you are long since dead. Copyrights today can survive 120+ years in the right circumstances.
It's time to put an end to copyright and patents. Preserve actual property rights, not works of fiction that defraud the public of their inalienable right to speak.

2024-12-20 04:04:14

Keene, NH is freeking awesome! Where else can you live where you can go for a dentist appointment and pay with crypto, then get lunch with crypto afterward? It's all thanks to the free state project and movers who've come to the state for the sake of drowning a baby in bathwater before the state gets too big. This might be a terrible analogy, but nothing less than accurate. New Hampshire has always leaned in the libertarian direction, but has become even more libertarian over the past two decades thanks to thousands of people who have moved to the state to effect change for the better somewhere and take back our freedoms. Whether it is the right to marry who we choose, carry concealed or otherwise weapons without a permission slip, or ending the state's insatiable appetite for theft. During COVID New Hampshire was the only state that reduced its budget (not taxes, it's BUDGET) and this all while every other state spent more money. If you love actual freedom and prioritize it over safety why haven't you already moved? Or have you?
https://www.fsp.org/

2024-12-16 23:59:17

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@nprofile…nals
I didn't realize people still used Microsoft Windows.

2024-12-12 18:14:20

If anyone hasn't signed the NEW petition to free Ian please do so now! Time may be running out to get him a pardon: https://www.freeiannow.org/

2024-12-06 20:21:49

OK,
I'm not advocating murder, but is this murder or does it fall within the category of 'self defense' (I don't know, I'll leave that up for debate). However, so this United Healthcare CEO apparently was shot by a disgruntled customer who probably got shafted or someone related. On the bullet casing he had laser inscribed "deny, defend, depose". I'm not sure if he's my hero or someone I should be shaking my head in disgust of. However I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, and given the inscription my gut is he's someone we should all be looking up to for taking a stand against the wrongs of politicians, mafia create health insurance entitles, and the likes.
For those unaware the government regulated health coverage to a point where I can't gather like minded friends to share the cost in covering my and their health care costs without risk of being persecuted for my beliefs. This is to say it's not insurance, but like-insurance in that it socializes the costs among consenting participants without involvement of a for-profit entity. The only entities excluded are ~5-6 religious entities that pre-date some law that have something akin to health insurance, but instead of paying for insurance you pay the costs of the bills of those whom are part of a group. It's way cheaper, but as a person who does not believe in organized religion I'm explicitly excluded. These solutions to health coverage are about half the cost from what I'm told. Prior to the laws of today most people partook in voluntary clubs and groups that would cover these costs. They'd pay in and get health care coverage in return.

2024-12-06 18:23:57

Hilarious .... use GNU/Linux unless you want a malware infected system.
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2024-12-04 11:07:58

I don't get people's obsession with containerization. I understand there are some advantages here and there, but dang. Just give me some basic documentation so I don't have to trust some random persons shit on the internet. I don't want to dig through more than need be. And if you aren't going to do that at least provide enough basic instruction on how to use docker. If you try and look into it there is a ton of shit tutorials that direct you to jump through hoops. It isn't super complicated ... so just say apt install docker-compose ; systemctl start docker; and stop making something simple into a shit show for normal non-container obsessed folks. It should not require a degree in computer science and 45 minutes to detangle it. Containers are dangerous and it doesn't matter if it is flatpak, snaps, or docker. Just give me the source code not some proprietary dependent crap. Yes, working on jumping through hoops to detangle an otherwise good solution in a situation that at least here did make sense yo use docker. My criticism is a little more reserved .. but including some basic docker info for non docker experienced users would still have helped massively even if not so much me directly.

2024-12-04 10:46:05

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@nprofile…thfz
https://torrentfreak.com/e3bn-pirate-iptv-network-serving-22m-users-dismantled-in-massive-operation-241127/

2024-11-29 21:41:36

The real reason government wants to and now has banned under 16s from social media in Australia has to do with it being an authoritarian state. This new law will force everyone to ID on social media, not just "youth", and maybe not even just those in Australia. Talk about Orwellian. Just to let everyone know we will NOT be introducing ID checks for ANY ONE on our social.freetalklive.com Mastodon instance. F' Australia.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/big-tech-says-australia-rushed-social-media-ban-for-youths-under-16/ar-AA1uXN2w

2024-11-28 19:17:26

Umm, no, IPTV is NOT a crime. It's a protocol. An IPTV provider may be committing copyright infringement IF they're sourcing materials without permission from copyright holders. That's NOT the same thing as a protocol being illegal. The argument an application is illegal would be better reserved to applications connected to services and/or companies like Napster or LimeWire, but even in those cases it was NOT illegal for FrostWire (a fork of LimeWire) to be distributed even after the court found the LimeWire entity to be violating the law. The criminality was something along the logic that they advertised content early on that that they knew or should have known was not legally available through the system (assuming I'm thinking of the right case here). Napster was centrally controlled, LimeWire was not. LimeWire had an interesting bootstraping protocol that didn't rely on a central server (from what I recall) which is also why FrostWire (and possibly other clients) continued working after the LimeWire entity shut down.
https://social.freetalklive.com/system/media_attachments/files/113/562/132/757/394/952/original/3a0779a3ba204584.webp

2024-11-25 08:35:20

I'm no fan of Elon Musk/Trump and am not a left-wing nut job either, and I never post memes, but this was just too funny not to pass on. Elon Musk posted a hilarious meme about buying the extremest left-wing MSNBC news outlet. Just in case there are some out there who aren't aware Elon Musk is a billionaire who purchased Twitter and changed its name to X. Elon's companies are also all heavily dependent on government hand outs making him a bit of a left-wing socialist for corporate interests, and also kinda funny that he'll be working to cut government waste as part of his new job under the Trump administration in the new "Department of Government Efficiency" which is suppose to cut all that waste.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJwke4jYBRQ
"And lead us not into temptation"
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2024-11-04 01:18:46

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@npub1anr…s48g
social.freetalklive.com doesn't block any instances.
I'm guessing you are hostile to freedom of speech and communications if you think not publishing a blocking list is a 'red flag'.
Mastodon is 'self hosted' at a certain level, if you choose to host it. We have. I'm one of the people helping.
I'm not sure I care much what others think who advocate against freedom. However I will fight to enable those who want freedom to be able to speak regardless of which side of the isle they are on.

2024-11-04 01:11:56

Sign the petition to free Ian! Ian has dedicated his life to making the world a better place through peace and freedom advocacy. Ian was charged with ~27 different crimes for the dastardly “crime” of effectively opposing government. While Ian “won” on about 22 of these 27 charges the federal government leveled, he’s now appealing what remain from behind bars. This is actually a good thing in that it’s what he wanted. Appeals are what can on occasion lead to positive precedent and what may protect others in the future.
Ian has been a champion of financial freedom and cryptocurrency since long before Bitcoin was making people rich. He has advocated for it in for the purest and principled of reasons. For that advocacy he's being persecuted by the federal government. The prosecutors have lied and played dirty at every turn.
Ian jumped through hoops to protect people. He got laws changed. He performed KYC despite not being required to. The feds have sadly used this KYC to twist the story into one of fraud despite not actually leveling any fraud charges against Ian. Prosecutors even admitted in open court Ian did not have any knowledge of the scams committed against a small number of his clients.
The testimonies of the “victims” was previously questioned, but it turns out the prosecutors pressed people to testify who were manipulable including child molesters, actual money launders, and worse.
The reason the feds were even able to identify a small number of “victims” is the result of Ian having the foresight to preserve IDs (including of scammers). Despite this the “victims” testified that the feds were not interested in going after the scammers. In fact they’ve never caught a scammer ever.
Sign petition: https://www.change.org/freeiainnow

2024-11-03 01:26:14

Are there any human beings out there? :( I wish more actual human beings would post stuff here. Mastodon is such a potentially great tool, but only if people would utilize it.

2024-11-03 01:23:21

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@npub1p6u…j0xh How is the request a national defense issue or forein relations. It's literally a domestic political event. hmm

2024-10-31 18:47:53

Good news everyone! The matrix.lrn.fm server has been fully updated to the latest OS release and matrix synapse release. The admin got to updating things sooner than initially anticipated. We still haven't migrated to new hardware, but for the moment I think we are "good enough". This was a major undertaking due to various complications. Matrix "home servers" are NOT easy to maintain when you're dealing with a ton of people relying on your service. Thank you for your patience while we dealt with this issue.

2024-10-31 08:50:30

For those using our matrix.lrn.fm server... just be aware it's being a bit flaky at the moment and it’s not you. We’re going to try and do redeployment on a new server this weekend. Unfortunately it’s relatively easy to deploy a Matrix “home server”, but keeping a public instance up and running requires a crazy amount of effort and resources that most folks who’ve tried simply don’t have. There is a reason half of all matrix users are on matrix.org and the system isn’t as decentralized as would be optimal. However for real freedom to flourish someone needs to run independent systems separate from the company behind Matrix and separate from the big corporate entities that are the scum that make up most of the internet/tech industry. It’s never mentioned, but I figured it’s a good time to credit those who sponsor and/or run things behind the scenes. It’s Free Talk Live, the Shire Free Church, and frankly Bob & Chris @ ThinkPenguin.com.

2024-10-24 02:35:49

Yea, I'm no fan of Putin, BUT I call bullshit on Linus's explanation and stance. This is hypocrisy at its best too. There have been talks of sanctions, but no sanctions to the best of my knowledge in the software development category have actually gone through in the United States that would force free software developers to exclude Russians. Claiming all folks who think you're wrong Russian trolls is just intellectually dishonest. While I am critical of socialism, I'll defend RMS when he's right, and when Linus is wrong I'm going to say it. RMS was right when he crafted the GNU GPL in such a way that it EXCLUDED politics outside of free software development. This has been the reason "open source" folks, "free software" folks, serial killers (governments), and activists of all kinds have all been able to work together to benefit mankind. To now come in and say "what did you expect", in response to excluding Russians I say, I expected you to object to Putin's invasion of another country- but not to undermine the very foundations of FOSS software development. No one is saying you should accept every patch from every Russian developer, but you should have a technical reason for doing so. It doesn't even take a genius to come up with a technical explanation for removing Russian developers en mass, but some silly hypocritical act like this is below pathetic. What's next, inserting backdoors because you want to help Ukraine spy on some subset of Linux users?
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/10/23/2035248/linus-torvalds-comments-on-the-russian-linux-maintainers-being-delisted

2024-10-18 06:44:47

End the silence, having an opinion shouldn't be a crime, and free software shouldn't be under scrutiny or attack because one of guys that did the world a favor in creating the GNU GPL license has what I'd actually call sane thoughts on the insanity of statutory rape laws and has at one point or another spoken out regarding the hysteria from psychos in the world that make up the "think of the children" crowd attacking anyone who dares point out the hypocrisy and literal harm to young people that these laws cause. To learn more about the "Stillman Report", lies, and manipulation by a small dishonest anonymous group check out this video and stop letting a horrible group of "me too" people and anyone else who dares has a different opinion bully the rest of society (particularly those who dare speak out against their dangerous legally implemented ideas):
https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2/free-software-is-under-attack!-%28will-you:5

2024-10-16 22:50:19

We are launching a huge campaign with a lot of professional help to get the #FreeIanNow campaign going! Sign the petition at freeiannow.org
Please spread the message via the #freeiannow hash tag and let others know you support Ian our fight for financial freedom.
#bitcoin

2024-07-31 01:32:44

Will New Hampshire's independence movement continue to grow as more people become aware of it? New Hampshire's independence movement has been getting some great coverage thanks in part to Carla Gericke of the Foundation For New Hampshire Independence, free stater, and law enforcement accountability activist. Carla's portion of the segment covering New Hampshire starts at the 9 minute 52 second mark and can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaYEecJAOjM

2024-07-11 00:00:51

Our social.freetalklive.com Mastodon instance is back up. There was unfortunately some amount of downtime recently due to a combination of issues and management and administration being a bit distributed and certain people being away on travel. Thanks for being patient while we worked on resolving the issue.

2024-06-17 20:23:15

More pics from Rogers Campground:
https://social.freetalklive.com/system/media_attachments/files/112/633/825/661/223/873/original/98e6e63ef68dbb18.jpg
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2024-06-17 01:16:51

Awesome party pic at Forkfest from Saturday! Didn't make it this year? Check it out next year https://forkfest.party or come check out the Porcupine Freedom Festival starting Monday. https://porcfest.org
https://social.freetalklive.com/system/media_attachments/files/112/629/318/334/196/605/original/f8006a5bcb807550.jpg

2024-06-17 00:58:14

Didn't make it to Forkfest? Join us for the Porcupine Freedom festival this week. https://porcfest.org

2024-06-17 00:56:38

Caged activist Ian Freeman joined us this summer for Forkfest. He attended Beard Talk Live to great fanfare.
https://social.freetalklive.com/system/media_attachments/files/112/629/238/882/500/517/original/c43558520c6aaa33.jpg

2024-06-11 00:32:53

I'm back on Free Talk Live starting tonight. I'll be on Monday nights starting at 7PM. If you find libertarian tech topics interesting tune in at https://www.freetalklive.com
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2024-05-19 19:54:53

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@npub1vgz…l43s
Hundreds of jobs won't have a noticeable impact on the jobs market.

2024-05-19 02:09:41

As of April 2024 Ian has been moved from the Merrimack County Spiritual Retreat to the Devens Spiritual Retreat. After taking a plea deal Aria was sentenced to ~8-18 months depending on good behavior. She was released to a halfway house May 9th, 2024 after serving 317 of the ~540 days, or about 57% of the sentenced time. Ian’s likely to serve 4 ½ to 5 years (probably ~4 years 8 months) if appeals fail. For more info on the case check out TheCrypto6.com

2024-04-14 23:23:55

I love this sticker.
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2023-11-13 02:19:04

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@npub1trw…ea5f Hell yea!

2023-10-19 05:25:09

For the 2nd time in two years New Hampshire reps have introduced legislation that would result in New Hampshire declaring independence from the United States. New Hampshire led the way in declaring independence from the British empire and is once again leading the way in declaring independence from the American empire: https://nhexit.us/2023/10/19/second-state-secession-bill-filed-in-new-hampshire-legislature/

2023-09-06 20:50:53

Ian has been on the feds radar for over a decade. He’s being targeted because he is such an effective liberty activist and by taking out Ian and his nationally syndicated radio show Free Talk Live the feds think they can take out the Free State Project and the larger migration movement. They want to make an example of Ian and chill the adoption of crypto and demoralize the broader liberty movement.
Ian exemplifies liberty principles and consistently demonstrates what it means to be a free stater. It was Ian and Free Talk Live that introduced Bitcoin to the world. In fact, he introduced Bitcoin Jesus aka Roger Ver to Bitcoin.
It was Ian and Free Talk Live that directly and indirectly led 10s of thousands of people to move to New Hampshire and partake in the Free State Project. I myself moved in 2016. The feds know Ian's the reason 2/3rds of people moved early on too (according to early Free State Project participants who did ‘intake’). What the feds have missed in their effort to take out Ian is that they’re too late.
When principled liberty activists are targeted by the state it is in all our interests to double down and get behind them. Please join us next Monday in Concord.

2023-09-06 20:50:45

Are you going to attend Ian’s sentencing hearing on 9/11 @ 10AM in Concord (US District Court, 55 Pleasant St)? I am. Ian was convicted for the bastardy crime of selling Bitcoin and not begging the government for a permission slip to do so. Supporting Ian now is one of the most important things you can do for liberty in our life time. A sentencing hearing is the MOST important hearing a person can attend to support a fellow activist in our fight against the governments erosion of our freedoms.
For those who don’t know Ian he has been one of the most influential people on the planet in promoting liberty and the use of cryptocurrency as a way to separate money and state. Ian advocates for peace through voluntary exchanges that cryptocurrencies facilitate. For selling Bitcoin Ian faces up to 70 years in a cage.

2023-08-28 04:07:46

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@npub1trw…ea5f It's funny that someone would blame crypto rather than the government and the exchanges. Particularly given that you don't need the exchanges to spend crypto. The problem isn't crypto... this is a problem of regulation and government and one of refusing to educate yourself on how you can actually use that crypto independent of turning it into dirty fiat. There are tons of places that take crypto online so even someone whose not in New Hampshire could easily spend it.

2023-06-24 21:44:20

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Ohh I missed him this year. So disappointed. And no its not cause I like his body. I like his activism and staunch opposition to the few conservatives who complain.

2023-06-24 21:42:29

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The humorous thing is there are both adults and children running around naked each year and no one has been raped yet! No kids have been kidnapped and neither any white daughters either. No white vans are circling the campground. Yet that is a media invention to scare folks. Its FUD to scare people into accepting state oppression. This issue with nudity is a very conservative freak american thing. Anywhere else in the world and no one would even notice. Say no to the next "protection" law cause it ain't being used against the rapists. Its being used selectively against the "enemies" of political opponents.

2023-04-30 20:48:17

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@npub1yxx…h8es Hilarious ! The world is ending. There will be no more children ! Whatever are we going to do. That gays got their hands on our kids and this will certainly put an end to the libertarian migration movement. This MUST be stopped! [end sarcasm]