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They might pull crap in California or New York, but I've never seen a chiropractor recommend scented candles, hugs, or witchcraft. Just a few adjustments here and there for about half an hour as needed and send you out the door. All a doctor is going to do, if they don't schedule a chiropractor, is prescribe you an opiod. Pharmaceutical companies are getting pissed at alternative medicine and you wouldn't believe how many of them are forking the bill for these "studies" and conferences to descredit people. I don't condone this personally, but here's an example with Marijuana: https://theouterlinux.com/2016.... Yes it's on my site, but I like to keep an open mind if the arguments are sound. In a nutshell, people are switching to medical marijuana instead of opioids and fighting that battle has become a lost cause for pharmaceutical companies. Some zeitgeist work out for the better, most for the worst. So now, pharmaceutical companies are attacking every alternative out there. To their credit though, A LOT of alternatives are "snake oil" and having the the purest form of a drug, even if synthetic, rather than from tree bark, is much better for you.

I'm really sorrow about using HubiC, but I've been trying to get away from cloud services like Google as much as possible, and HubiC is also based in France, to which they are much more strict than the US or UK about privacy and less strict regarding "non-free" software; VLC is a good example.

Also, my website uses its own analytics so people like Google don't have access and my settings are are set to honor "Do Not Track" settings that most web browsers have. And even if your browser doesn't, all you have to do is go to the "Privacy" link: https://theouterlinux.com/priv... and there's an option to tell my site not to. I'm only mentioning it because the warning I give before downloading may seem a little ominous to people, but it is really targeted towards those who live in the US or Japan if you know what I'm getting at.

I tried the "Sugar" version of Trisquel and couldn't figure out how to use it, and I also couldn't get wifi to work out-of-the-box. I hate GNOME and Unity. XFCE with a Whisker Menu for easy program search, Catfish for easy or detailed file search, and wmctrl for easy workspace switching; then, add key combos to the keyboard settings. However, the OpenSUSE (Tumbleweed) version of XFCE is much faster than Ubuntu and there are a lot more packages available thanks to SuseStudio. To give you an idea, I made my own Linux distro with SuseStudio based on OpenSUSE 13.2 32-bit before they dropped support. Because of this, I had to create my own upgrade script to fix broken repositories, which isn't really that big of a deal since there are Tumbleweed and Factory versions of the ones I was using. So now, I have a nine year old laptop running 32-bit kernel 4.11 PAE (for more RAM access) and the latest open source software and on my worst day, it might barely graze 2 GB of RAM out of the 4 I have. Start up for me is usually only ~300 MB of RAM on XFCE and ~160, if I remember correctly, when using IceWM. Even just booting up the 3GB ISO I made Live, the DVD only uses ~600 MB of RAM. I don't think Ubuntu anything uses less than that at anytime, even after installation. You can check it out here: https://theouterlinux.com/psyc..., though it doesn't have an easy installer like Ubuntu has. If you want to make your own Linux distro, I highly recommend SuseStudio.

...an iPhone has to be recycled about 10-20 times before its materials cost savings will ever catchup to itself to be a problem for Apple. That's all this is. They don't want people hanging onto products that they know will still work in 5+years. I got a 32-bit MacBook that's 9 years old (4 GB of RAM) and an Acer Aspire One ZG5 (7 years I think with 1 GB of RAM) running Linux kernel 4.10 (after Upgrade script) just fine with a distro I made. https://theouterlinux.com/psyc.... I also have an iPod Touch I've literally never turned off in probably 4 years running iOS 6 with the screen on for at least three constant years 24/7 as a security cam of sorts via time lapse photography (saves storage that way). No glitches at all. So, don't give me that millennial, blindly over-capitalistic, bs excuse for needing new Apple products every year. If you take good care of your stuff, it will last. This is why cloud computing is being pushed so hard now. It's easier than zeitgeisting a new architecture to get people to buy new hardware like they did about ten years ago. Cloud computing takes your control of the OS and software away, to which the irony is that most cloud computing is open source. Only gamers, graphic designers, and hackers benefit from 64-bit because of the GPU.

Here it is again: https://theouterlinux.com/priv... Feel free to look around at the other stuff too. I'm always trying to figure out what to add or change to make better so if you got a suggestion, let me know. Just remember to keep the suggestion free or open source if possible. https://theouterlinux.com/rese...ðY"--/ for other categories.

Here it is again: https://theouterlinux.com/priv... Feel free to look around at the other stuff too. I'm always trying to figure out what to add or change to make better so if you got a suggestion, let me know. Just remember to keep the suggestion free or open source if possible. https://theouterlinux.com/rese...ðY"--/ for other categories.

http://www.minetest.net/. Also, if you like free and open source software, I got more links to some cool stuff here (not games): https://theouterlinux.com/rese...ðY"--/. I try to only list things that actually work with the most bang per byte and most are cross-platform. I'm also not a big fan of eye candy over functionality. If anyone has website suggestions to add to the open source info and archives section, I'd love to know. I need to add http://ibiblio.org/catalog/, for example.

My trust was broken as far back as Vista. I've been using nothing but UNIX based operating systems ever since and though it's been quite a learning experience to say the least, the headaches evolved are entirely my own fault for "playing around" rather than being caused by a corporation forcing them on me. I have a laptop that's about 9 years old running Linux kernel 4.10 32-bit PAE (for more RAM access) just fine with new software, no lag, and no weird privacy agreement because it's not only Linux, but because I made the distro myself. https://theouterlinux.com/psyc.... It does have a EULA though, but so does everyone else. It's OpenSUSE 13.2 based so please make sure to run the Upgrade script if you do install it (yast --> live installer). I'd correct the ISO by default, but SuseStudio killed OpenSUSE 13.2, so I had to make a script to fix repos and other things.

There is also GNU PSPP as an open source SPSS alternative and Octave as a Matlab alternative. For more stuff: https://theouterlinux.com/rese.... I tried to pick as many cross-platform open source software as I could. Any other suggestions would be awesome.

https://theouterlinux.com/2016... Yes, it's my website, but there are links on this page to research papers.

prints out the tcp packets from eth0 in HEX or ASCII format. So, actual encrypted packets would look like garbage. prints an overview of system audit information, including failed login attempts. traces packets sent from start to finish. A LAN scanner would be good to have too just to see who's on the router. I used to use one to see if my RA was in the building or not. Mistake number one, naming your phone with your actual name or a name at all. Entering a " " actually prevents devices from seeing the phone when using it as a hotspot, so it may have other benefits. Or, just name everything the exact same and let the router assign numbers. They change every so often. Lynis (and Rkhunter) is an open source program built for finding Rootkits on Unix-based systems, ie. Linux and Mac. It also prints out suggestions from what it finds to harden your system. ClamAV is an open source virus scanner; unfortunately, it's front ends are deferent for different operating systems and makes it hard to tell if you're getting the real thing. You should also hide your network if you can. In other words, people driving by your house can't pick it up normally when scanning. I think Kali has tools to circumvent this, which brings me to next point. Kali is a Linux based distro that's been around for a really long time and is designed for ethical hacking and could be used to test your stuff out. Oh and, for the love of God, encrypt your Home directory. Linux has LUKS (SHA512), Mac (not sure) has FileVault, and Window$....not going to matter if running 10. You can also learn how to shred your files to prevent recovery. Emptying the trash doesn't do much good anymore. For Mac users, "srm" (secure file removal) command is built in even though they removed secure empty trash option for whatever reason. It wipes 35 times by default. Linux also has srm available, as well as "shred" built in with wipe number options. There are many others for Linux. Bleachbit for open source cleaning of caches is available for both Linux and Window$, and I think they've been working on a Mac version. And, it never hurts to wipe Swap and RAM every once in a while. Cover your webcam if you don't use it. Skype is a convenient trap. If you only need one-on-one calling, use a Tox client. It's encrypted and is available for just about everything, including phones, and supports video, vocal, text, and file sharing. It connects to a server like a switchboard and then it's all p2p from there. Only mentioning this because I read somewhere that Signal and Telegram where compromised. WhatsApp, the Facebook owned version, should of been a given. Duh. As far as web browsing is concerned, NoScript, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, and uBlock Origin. Block and uninstall Flash if you can. Most things are HTML5/MP4 these days anyway. DO NOT USE CHROME. Google digitally fingerprints everyone. Chromium with a user agent spoofer addon is a good alternative. Firefox is still the best though. ;P Not everything mentioned is fool proof, but they are tools available to most OS's and people need to start being more proactive in their computing defense. You may not have anything to hide, but "probable cause" is incredibly vague these days, and it'll get worse because of this. https://theouterlinux.com/priv... if anyone is interested. I need to add more stuff.

I think Fitefox doesn't feel the need to do more to prevent tracking because of Tor Browser project already exists. Plus, placing blockers inside their software by default slows them down just enough to affect the Firefox vs. Chrome speed war each year. And, they may use that data themselves for the Browser Health Report that's turned on by default. If anyone is interested in browser privacy, I have a few links on my website: http://theouterlinux.com/priva... There's other cool stuff there too.

https://www.ftc.gov/iot-home-i... When the Federal Trade Commission plans to award $25k to whomever can prevent wifi device hacking, it's not as simple as a don't give the device your wifi password. There's sooooo many things to exploit these days in networking. Honestly, they'll probably force an Internet connection or void the warranty or do like what HP did and release a firmware update to make older devices stop working or prevent out-of-company parts from working. Twitter & Tumblr (command line stuff) @ theouterlinux http://www.theouterlinux.com/