Re: [Trisquel-users] Movie streaming/downloading with free software
> Technically, it isn't against the law, to watch online. DMCA punishes the uploader not the downloader/watcher. Well, but if I'm using something like torrents or Popcorn Time, then I'm going to be seeding the files for other people, so technically that could be illegal, right? I'm not sure if I want to risk getting into hot water over that .. Let's face it, there's not really any legal way to get around DRM, is there? That's the whole point of it ..
Re: [Trisquel-users] Movie streaming/downloading with free software
Technically, it isn't against the law, to watch online. DMCA punishes the uploader not the downloader/watcher. MY thoughts on this are simple: do what you got to do, to avoid DRM. Also, those websites are notorius for trying to censor, and spying on their customers... I wouldn't hesitate to avoid them. Look online for html5 websites that have lots of content on it. That's my advice. Options a-c are crap. Again, watch it for free until they get the message that DRM is unacceptable for any reason. They just want to charge people for the same thing over, and over, and over and well you get the idea... also again, they spy like crazy on people. That being said, greasemonkey or violentmonkey + aak-cont and your better off. :)
[Trisquel-users] Movie streaming/downloading with free software
So, it seems that services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc. are not compatible with free software, because they employ DRM and require non-free software to run (unless I misunderstand)? In that case, is there any alternative movie streaming/download service that is both legal and compatible with free software, or are free-software users basically caught between the following options?: a) Accept the DRM b) Break the law c) Don't watch the content? If that's the case, then what is the least-bad option? I know this is kind of a vague question and probably depends on personal preference. I mean, I want to support the movie industry and I'm fine paying for the pleasure of watching a film once in a while, but I want to do it in a way that also respects the free-software philosophy.
[Trisquel-users] LibreJS not working with this site?
Hi. Whenever I enable LibreJS, I seem to be unable to load this site (trisquel.info); however, most other sites seem to load up (although possibly with some JS disabled). In fact, trying to connect to trisquel.info with LibreJS seems to completely crash Icecat and I have to restart it. Does anyone else have this problem or know why this is? I'm using Icecat on Trisquel 7.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Used correct password and still locked out !
Here is a tutorial on this login loop problem. Maybe you can start your research from here... http://www.linuxslaves.com/2016/05/3-ways-fix-ubuntu-gets-stuck-login-loop.html I've just installed Trisquel... about a month or 2 ago... I'm totally new to linux in general. Learning it from scratch... Been having problems with this login issue quite often, had to re install the system 4 times now due to this... Had to open a few beers to cope with the stress haha It seems that this is commonly solved by by tweaking the authorization on the Xauthority file, or reconfiguring or re installing lightdm (or uninstalling lightdm and installing another alike program responsible for login/GUI). Make sure you have internet connection before uninstalling lightdm, as the apt-get thing needs internet to download the programs it'll install. Otherwise you'll end up having to re install the system like I had to I found out, though, when trying to set up the graphics card driver, that I fixed my problem once by uninstalling the proprietary driver for my graphics card (nvidia geforce GTX1050 ti): $ sudo apt-get purge nvidia* All the times i have to re install the system for getting stuck on this loop, the proprietary nvidia driver was installed (the only proprietary software on the system)... guess some bad stuff happen for a good reason after all...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
Yep, why are you surprised, they clearly are full of hot air.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
Whoa... calm down, its not worth it. To be honest, I am not sure if what you said is much better. I see no point in causing a fragmented free software community due to pettiness of any kind. IF you think you are right, let it be. Otherwise people will just rail harder at you. Silence is golden.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
Since you brought this again, I'll state again the facts: My comments were being hidden by people like you who were abusing the voting system in an attempt to silence me in a thread announcing that Technoethical has made available for purchase the most modern laptop with free BIOS. My original post was also being heavily downvoted, which showed the level of hate a gang of trolls on this forum have. Seeing that, I've called for people involved with Technoethical to review the thread and choose for themselves whether a comment deserves a vote (plus/minus). That has been a reaction to censorship and the administrators of this forum can confirm that in the past we have never downvoted posts we don't agree with. Moreover, it's baseless and completely false that "fake accounts" have been used. It's quite transparent who is involved with Technoethical: https://trisquel.info/en/users/technoethical The core team is here: https://technoethical.com/about_us Engage in slander again and you'll be hearing from my lawyer. /tct
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
To those who are on the Devuan mailing list this will sound so familiar... but... this is my response to everything "Purism" as in the company... Gee, I thought purism was a trustworthy company, I mean they claim you can get the latest and the greatest without intel me in it and also they claim that they can sprinkle magic fairy dust on all the hardware so that you can use it all without any blobs or firmware that is proprietary... even when the drivers are signed with the most powerful crypto key they can get their hands on! Doesn't that sound just plain trustworthy? Can you honestly say that they cannot be trusted? And moreover, they claim to do what even libreboot and coreboot cannot do. or replicant for that matter Wow I guess if you believe in magic, anything can happen... :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP
There doesn't seem to be a lot on the other two programs, but it seems like all should be clear. Chip-mconfigs look like it should be removable; it's only an openbox/tint2 theme manager tool, which I don't think matters for XFCE. As for xserver-xorg-video-armsoc, no source or license is obviously available. However, it's developed by Free Electrons, who seem like a free software development company, so there doesn't seem to be any issue here. I'll contract them just to ensure the source is available.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
5. Technoethic abused the voting system of this forum in a well orchestrated effort in order to silence the critical voices, even using fakeaccounts. ThinkPenguin never did that. Since you were so eager when it comes to stating facts, I thought another fact wouldn't hurt.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I watch youtube videos?
>I disliked da teletubbies but when I inserted a tutorial-video url it played flawlessly and I downloaded it too! Heh, yeah I hate them too :D Just didn't want to link the usual cat vid so I thought I should annoy you with some tubbies.. cheers
Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I watch youtube videos?
yw.. >Do you know if there is any libre way to watch an Amazon Prime video? I wouldn't know. I seriously doubt it. :/
Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I watch youtube videos?
*Warning, VERBOSE mode initiating in 3.2.1... WOW-m!!! THAT WAS AWESOME terminal command line magic! I want to climb the walls and shout in joy. The commands executed (with 2 errors that auto-corrected by patch upgrade without user input) and finished with no unexpected information requiring a fix -YAY! I can scroll up and review all the executed commands, now this is what I call hands-on-the-job-training. I disliked da teletubbies but when I inserted a tutorial-video url it played flawlessly and I downloaded it too! Again without a flaw! Take me out to the ball game... I saw a homerun hit out of the ball-park - the crowd's thunderous cheers are deafening! More - more- command magic please :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
Of course you have the right to spend your money as you choose, whether it's on a Purism laptop or some oceanfront property in Colorado. Your right to do something is a separate debate from whether or not it is a good idea.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I watch youtube videos?
Thanks SuperTramp83 - my terse speaking friend ;) Maybe one day I will comprehend forum speak and no longer require the verbose mode.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Nepomuk is actually disabled ...
Magic Banana wisely said: [QUOTE] If it depends on the time you use Internet, then it has nothing to do with your operating system and everything to do with your Internet provider.]/QUOTE] You betcha. This morning between 8:00 and 9:00 EDT all was copacetic; then the brakes locked up. Doesn't matter which browser I try. Traceroute to my ISP: [QUOTE] 1 Wireless_Broadband_Router.home (192.168.1.1) 52.682 ms 122.968 ms 152.821 ms 2 lo0-100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-301.verizon-gni.net (173.49.202.1) 162.404 ms 173.092 ms 174.932 ms 3 B3301.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net (100.41.201.88) 174.924 ms 174.902 ms B3301.PHLAPA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net (100.41.201.90) 179.953 ms 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 0.ae8.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET (140.222.233.153) 240.845 ms 28.211 ms 0.et-5-3-0.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET (140.222.239.79) 16.449 ms 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 cr1.lax1.us.packetexchange.net (4.71.136.2) 99.352 ms 85.917 ms 85.930 ms 10 * * * 11 * * * 12 * * * 13 biz186.inmotionhosting.com (23.235.208.41) 108.763 ms 108.996 ms 112.377 [/QUOTE] When I try to access Cpanel, the login is quick, but then it redirects to ... an endless wait. If it's not the stock market, or break time at work, then it must be kids not doing their college homework, or their newly freed parents having breakfast.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I watch youtube videos?
>I recommend you also install youtube-dl that way (and not via apt) as the version in your repo is terribly outdated.. Outdated? in Trisquel youtube-dl isn't outdated... What are you talking about? maybe you use Debian? Here for Debian users: http://forums.debian.net/
Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I watch youtube videos?
I have to confess, I've just been using YouTube's non-free JS, but this is fricking sweet - thanks! :D Do you know if there is any libre way to watch an Amazon Prime video? My wife has an account and I tried to watch a vid the other day, but it wouldn't play, presumably because of plugin issues. I assume it must be using Silverlight or Flash?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Used correct password and still locked out !
Just complementing: the package named "xinit" (not installed by default) provides the 'startx' command. To install it from the terminal: $ sudo apt install xinit
[Trisquel-users] Re : How can I watch youtube videos?
Hmm. ViewTube works with LibreJS that tells that it "did not allow the execution of any scripts on this page".
Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I watch youtube videos?
>Yes, I read and didn't comprehend: "mpv url -> stream vid youtube-dl url -> download vid mps-youtube -> search, browse, play, download vids" What does that mean? how do you download videos? Open up a terminal and write: sudo apt-get install mpv youtube-dl You just installed the two applications, namely 'the best video player a human has ever made' and a tool for downloading videos from youtube and more than a hundred other websites using flash, that is 'the most ubiquitous malware a human has ever made'. Now that you have the two installed, in terminal: mpv https://youtube.com/watch?v=LldbjATAgzc which will stream da teletubbies :P youtube-dl https://youtube.com/watch?v=LldbjATAgzc which will download the teletubbies vid in the highest vid quality by default. The tool has a metric ton of --options, some of them are very useful. To know more and learn use 'man' --> man youtube-dl. The 'man', short for manual, is your gold, you want to take care of your gold, you want to learn your gold :) As far as mps-youtube the way I do it is I use python-pip. Newer versions of it will not ask for sudo and will download the python applications in your /home. Older versions asked for sudo (terrible practice for installing code outside your distribution repo) unless you gave them explicitly the --user option. I think you have the old version of it. So, the procedure is the following --> sudo apt install python3-pip You installed pip, the python package installer pip3 install --user mps-youtube This will install mps-youtube To upgrade mps-youtube: pip3 install --upgrade --user mps-youtube If you decide to go the pip way, then I recommend you also install youtube-dl that way (and not via apt) as the version in your repo is terribly outdated.. To launch mps-youtube: mpsyt Now you have dem tools - may dem teletubbies fill your hard drive with profound joy :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
That response implies she was talking to TodD (whoever the hell is). She was talking to me. I stopped talking to you lot years ago over a different issue but I just thought I'd mention the truth untwisted because I'm still very offended at someone telling me where I can spend my very hard earned money. It's very offensive. Are ya..are ya...nope you're not going to consider that are ya?... Right, on second thought, please excuse my interruption of the circle jerk. Plastics.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Used correct password and still locked out !
Hi LinuxDummy, this could have one of several reasons. I'd advise you to first check which keymap is selected - if you are using e.g. a French keyboard while having the US keymap selected, many keys won't match the letters that are on your physical keyboard. Secondly, as you can indeed login on another TTY, you can do so and type "startx" at the command line to further troubleshoot from there. My guess is that on starting the X server, a different keymap is selected for some reason (possibly something wasn't set correctly during setup or something of the sort). At the command line, however, it might be defaulting to the correct keymap, which would explain why you can login there but not using your display manager (the "GUI login screen"). Hope this helps! - PenGNUin
[Trisquel-users] Used correct password and still locked out !
Hello everyone . I entered the correct password but for some reason shows the login screen again. Because of this loop I can't access my computer. I read forums regarding this problem on internet. Pressing alt + ctrl + F1 does show the command prompt screen and am able to use my login name and password at command prompt but I want access to GUI.So nothing worked, I'm always back to GUI login screen . Help !
