Re: [Tails-project] Blog post: "Celebrating 10 years of Tail…

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Subject: Re: [Tails-project] Blog post: "Celebrating 10 years of Tails!"
Hi!

On 04.12.19 00:57, anonym wrote:

> And IMHO we should link to page 25 of https://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35535.pdf which is the best endorsement we've ever gotten! :D (I just noticed we lack this on our press page, and took the liberty of pushing 8c89b0c). Admittedly those slides weren't published until Dev 28 2014, so that would screw up the chronology.


I like this idea.

> Actually, I remember yet another leaked slide-show which had a dedicated page about Tails and described it as some synonym of "painful", which is just pure gold! Does any one remember? Know where to find it?


It was one of the NSA files, but I searched and could not find it.

> Perhaps it's too much, but what about a section with funny random things from our history (similarly to have we reported poinit-by-point summaries of sprints in a more informal way, years ago)? Here goes some of mine:
>
> * Failed Anarchist coup d'État (perhaps this is too much of an insider joke or signal ~political affiliation in an unwanted way?): https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/11140


That's cute.

> * That time when some Lovecraftian cosmic horror (or something, perhaps just a mischievous gamma ray) interfered with our release process: https://lists.autistici.org/message/20121011.120918.d1134728.en.html


Also cute.

> * We could publish summit-2017:recipes/mafe.mdwn recipe, referring to the 2017 summit when we had the pleaseure of having it served to us.


Also a good idea.

> * We had an amazing disco powered by Tor Browser + youtube + proper discoball at the 2017 summit, so why not publish a partial playlist of songs we can remember. I remember these:
> - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
> - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsPOgCPEeKs (but we sang "The onion makes us strong!")
> - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66FUc61MvU
> - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
> - other songs (semi-)relevant to privacy or surveilance or the Tor ecosystem or Tails in some way?


I like it!

> I at least had fun reminiscing over these memories, so even if we discard this idea it wasn't wasted time for me! :)


Thanks for posting those, I had a good laugh :)

Cheers
u-