I use VPN for everything, I truly believe in Snowden and his words, furthermore I think that using VPN is important to avoid leaks of confidential information and what is more important for me, financial information; you know that I'm the princess of domains. By the way, I don't feel proud of it, I've been silly in a way and sometimes I feel bad for it.

Twitter didn't block my account for using VPN, rather Twitter blocked my account because I changed my ip too much. I'm using VPN with a very aggressive policy about changing my IP because I don't like the NSA and associates, I kind of hate everything that is against our freedom. For me Privacy is freedom, period. They didn't ask me if I would want them to collect my information for selling it and storing in the USA government database.

That is pretty freaking, Why I would want that organizations stores my information. I think that liking that they sell our information is stupid. I think that nobody enjoys the fact that them are selling our information.

If something don't like me I don't just say: whatever. I do something against it.

My resolution for twitter will be to use double VPN that is considered as military grade security. Or just only a proxy-VPN resolution.

It seems that I will be locked out of my twitter account until I contact with the support team. What is important to considerate is that if you're planning to use twitter with VPN, is using the same location or using a double VPN chain.

Soon I will post in my blog about VPN ;)

Today while trying to update Gentoo there was a pretty unusual conflict, gtk-engine-adwaita and gnome-themes-standard are both required by gtk-+2 but them cannot be installed at the same time. Actually it is a bug!!!

I was half of a hour trying to figuring out how to solve the conflict until I realized that everything (all my USEs, my keyfiles, my masks, and my make.conf was ok); if you were a new Gentoo user, then you probably would have stuck until you asked for help in the forum. Too bad :c

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The solution is explained right in the forum

However I don’t know why it took 5 months for showing; I think I forgot to update Portage, there are two elements that I may need to read.

Today I removed Google Chrome in order to install Chromium in Gentoo, however I decided to compile it which takes so long time , indeed it took me 7 hours in my i7 processor

Thanks to the USEs I didn’t allow Chromium to use anything bundled. I decided to be very strict this time because of what I learned and discovered, i.e, Chrome is not a good choice for privacy. Hence I decided to not trust anymore Google Chrome binaries and instead only use a compiled Chromium.

I promise I will make a post about of what I have learned and what is it very important to not dismiss the privacy issues and do yourself a favour and please watch the Snowden movie 😉

As a Gentoo user it is ridiculous not be concerned about privacy because everything in the system is grainy defined, and in fact privacy is an inherent part of Web Browsing -which is my main activity in Internet and maybe the yours- Privacy is all about Liberty and choice, I think that if you are a Gentoo user and don’t care about privacy then you should be using Ubuntu instead. However it is just a generalization and don’t take so serious, we all have to learn how to be flexible and tolerant.

Privacy is a major pillar of Liberty because the real meaning of privacy is to choice what to share and how. I think Gentoo should increase the awareness in our community about privacy because Gentoo is all above Liberty.

And Liberty is the most valuable value that exist.

And I used this nice theme for my web browser Link <3

I discovered a feature called ACL, I thought it was only related to SELinux, however I found that it is a feature that exist in all distros, specially the ACL in TMPS , CONFIG_TMPS_POSIX_ACL; it must be enabled by default because is used by ALSA and the CD-ROM device; besides I found that some logs in /var uses it.

I think learning about ACL is a must for Gentoo users since it is one of the basic default options while mounting a traditional filesystem and is important to know that at least there is a security layer beyond the daily usage. And it is an additional tool for security on our daily basics because our home directory always can be read by others; and we can restrict the others access and adding exceptions using the ACL tools.

Despite disabling the ACL support may not be worth as a Gentoo developer said:

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The menuconfig suggest you to disable it from ext4 filesytem if you don’t even know what ACL is. And of course I chose to disable this feature because my var partition is formatted in XFS and it seems that I don’t really need ACL. I aim to perfectly follow the Unix philosophy as far as I can; so instead of having all the possibilities available I will only strictly preserve what I actually use.

Some days ago I learned how to subtitle a Video with hard-subs; even tough I achieved to do it in this way, I think there may exist a more straightforward method. I would have used kdenlive but since I use Gentoo I think a command line method is the correct one because I want to avoid everything related to KDE in my Gentoo.

Step one. Create an mp4 with soft-subs:

The additional step I did was because I needed to specify the encoding for my Spanish subs (ISO-8859-1) , because if you try only the burn the subtitle using only the second step it will ask you to use -sub_charenc parameter.

The maps parameters are important since they mean that the video track plus the subtitle track and the audio track will be all included.

ffmpeg -i mozart.mp4 -sub_charenc ISO-8859-1 -i Desktop/Mozart.And.The.Whale.2005.LiMiTED.DVDRip.XviD-LiNE.srt -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 1:0 -vcodec copy line-mozart.mp4

Step two. Create the hard-subs

ffmpeg -i line-mozart.mp4 -filter:v subtitles=line-mozart.mp4 out.mp4

Today my news DVDs of 8 GB arrived, so that, I tried to record my music into one of them; Brasero didn’t worked and asked me for a valid disc. Then I tried to install k3b and I disabled all its USEs, all media features were removed. To tell you the truth I love k3b but it usually includes a lot of stuff, however, since I use Gentoo I can get through this. After that I tried to burn the DVD+R and it failed in the middle of the process twice (16GB of storage space lost ), next I recompile k3b with DVD support and I changed the path of the iso image to my documents instead of my /tmp folder (I think it could have made it fail) , and finally I selected no multi-session and chose the Rock Ridge/Joliet (custom) for it. In the end I achieved to burn it, even though, it didn’t read it. So, I plugged in my external DVD player and finally it was able to read the contents of my just recently burned disc. Here part of the error log: K3b Version: 2.0.3 KDE Version: 4.14.24 QT Version: 4.8.6 Kernel: 4.8.12amu-kernel Used versions ———————– mkisofs: 3.2a06 cdrecord: 3.2a06 cdrecord ———————– cdrecord: Insufficient ‘file read’ privileges. You will not be able to open all needed devices. cdrecord: Insufficient ‘file write’ privileges. You will not be able to open all needed devices. cdrecord: Insufficient ‘device’ privileges. You may not be able to send all needed SCSI commands, this my cause various unexplainable problems. cdrecord: Insufficient ‘memlock’ privileges. You may get buffer underruns. cdrecord: Insufficient ‘priocntl’ privileges. You may get buffer underruns. cdrecord: Insufficient ‘network’ privileges. You will not be able to do remote SCSI. scsidev: ‘/dev/sr0’ devname: ‘/dev/sr0’ scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by ‘devname’ is unintentional and not supported. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 SCSI buffer size: 64512 cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02a06 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Joerg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version ‘schily-0.9’. Driveropts: ‘burnfree’ atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : ‘HL-DT-ST’ Identifikation : ‘DVDRAM GH24NSB0 ‘ Revision : ‘LM00’ Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Current: DVD+R/DL Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording Profile: DVD+R/DL (current) Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-RAM Profile: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD-ROM Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Profile: Removable Disk Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver (mmc_dvdplusr). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP Drive buf size : 360448 = 352 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 7869 MB Total size: 7869 MB = 4029292 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 Blocks total: 4173824 Blocks current: 4173824 Blocks remaining: 144532 Reducing transfer size from 64512 to 32768 bytes. Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Happy New Year!!!