Re: Magnesium (was: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto)

2019-11-05 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Jean Louis wrote: > * Alexandre François Garreau [2019-11-06 00:05]: >> What’s taking magnesium? orally? what does it do? > > Physical relaxing is helped with magnesium. You may take it as you like, and > if not orally, how else did you imagine takin' it? In injections? I believe, magnesium

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > Also its name is FSF and not FSF North-America. Yes, a very American thing to do. :-) > To me sister organisations were more like local department/filials (like for > a multinational company). No, not at all. They are completely independent. And that

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 6 novembre 2019 00:00:39 CET, vous avez écrit : > * Dmitry Alexandrov <321...@gmail.com> [2019-11-05 19:58]: > > Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > > [0] within the current state of affairs, and FSF long having been on > > > lower freedom and moral standards than GNU> > > Could

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Jean Louis
* Dmitry Alexandrov <321...@gmail.com> [2019-11-05 19:58]: > Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > [0] within the current state of affairs, and FSF long having been on lower > > freedom and moral standards than GNU > > Could you please elaborate this. Good that you ask him Dmitry, as

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 21:08:45 CET, vous avez écrit : > Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > there are other stuff such as “commercial-like” software-advertisement > > advertisement related to most occidental festivities like St-Valentine, > > Christmass, Halloween, etc. (or even to some

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > there are other stuff such as “commercial-like” software-advertisement > advertisement related to most occidental festivities like St-Valentine, > Christmass, Halloween, etc. (or even to some extent simili-religious > rethorics like Windows 7 Sins that

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 19:58:00 CET, vous avez écrit : > Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > [0] within the current state of affairs, and FSF long having been on lower > > freedom and moral standards than GNU > Could you please elaborate this. For instance I heard about “a day without DRM”

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > [0] within the current state of affairs, and FSF long having been on lower > freedom and moral standards than GNU Could you please elaborate this. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 04:09:45 CET, vous avez écrit : > > Purism do not respect users’ freedom: > > https://libreboot.org/faq.html#will-the-purism-laptops-be-supported > That statement is true at one level, unfair at another level. > This is not entirely satisfactory, I agree. But it

Re: puri.sm (was: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto)

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 11:49:53 CET, vous avez écrit : > I see the context of your letter and aware of certain deceptive marketing > practices that had been used by puri.sm. However, out of the context that > claim looks glaringly unfair. What context exactly? That might has been wrongly

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) wrote: > Please keep discussions related to technical issues about the GNU system, > non-free platforms are entierly off-topic for this list. Please note, @gameonli...@redchan.it sent his letter to two m/l: gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org and

Re: puri.sm (was: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto)

2019-11-05 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > Le lundi 4 novembre 2019, 14:51:08 CET Jean Louis a écrit : >> * gameonli...@redchan.it [2019-11-04 14:05]: >> Look here how Purism, company behind the PureOS, one of the FSF endorsed >> fully free system distributions is disabling the Intel management

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Jean Louis
* Florian Weimer [2019-11-05 09:08]: > * nipponmail: > > > Getting GNU/Linux onto a laptop these days is quite the difficulty if > > you don't know what you're doing because of Secure Boot. It's not a plug > > and play thing like once it was. Probably discourages alot of users. > > Sure, and

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* nipponmail: > Getting GNU/Linux onto a laptop these days is quite the difficulty if > you don't know what you're doing because of Secure Boot. It's not a plug > and play thing like once it was. Probably discourages alot of users. Sure, and that was totally predictable. But what can we do

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread nipponmail
Getting GNU/Linux onto a laptop these days is quite the difficulty if you don't know what you're doing because of Secure Boot. It's not a plug and play thing like once it was. Probably discourages alot of users. Linux doesn't have any security after GrSecurity went proprietary (something that

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread nipponmail
I was describing the steps one needs to go through to get a Gnu/Linux system installed on a laptop. I did it a month or two ago. It's not as easy as it was in the past because of secure boot. You must use the pre-installed OS to disable the secure boot: you _cannot_ do it from the bios. On

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jean Louis: > * gameonli...@redchan.it [2019-11-04 14:05]: >> Windows is required to disable the trusted computing locks in Most new >> laptops. Other than windows there are only a few signed operating systems >> that can be installed without disabling said locks, and they are signed by >>

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Purism do not respect users’ freedom:

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Please keep discussions related to technical issues about the GNU system, non-free platforms are entierly off-topic for this list. And in general, all GNU lists. :-)

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread gameonlinux
Windows is required to disable the trusted computing locks in Most new laptops. Other than windows there are only a few signed operating systems that can be installed without disabling said locks, and they are signed by microsoft. I am an American. (Also an Attorney, and a programmer) The

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread gameonlinux
Windows is required to disable the trusted computing locks in Most new laptops. Other than windows there are only a few signed operating systems that can be installed without disabling said locks, and they are signed by microsoft. I am an American. (Also an Attorney, and a programmer) The

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread gameonlinux
Debian / Devuan installation is very quick and straight-forward, and the package "vrms" (inspired by rms) allows one to check if one has non-free packages. You can set up the full disk encryption off the bat there. (I like Devuan for it's non-systemd options: that way you can strip the system

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread Jean Louis
* gameonli...@redchan.it [2019-11-04 14:05]: > Windows is required to disable the trusted computing locks in Most new > laptops. Other than windows there are only a few signed operating systems > that can be installed without disabling said locks, and they are signed by > microsoft. That is sad

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread Jean Louis
* gameonli...@redchan.it [2019-11-04 12:25]: > Debian / Devuan installation is very quick and straight-forward, and the > package vrms (inspired by rms) allows one to check if one has non-free > packages. You can set up the full disk encryption off the bat there. In Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre