There isn't a good solution. I like to refer to cell phones as trackers. I
think I might have picked this up from RMS (can't remember now). In any case
the biggest problem with phones is not the software they run. Its the
tracking. Your not going to fix that by running a free OS.
I like
Ghostery is redundant there. While NoScript will allow blocking by domain,
you can use Adblock Plus to block single unwanted scripts.
But that's like saying since most people use proprietary software, why should
we be different and do the right thing.
Web standards will only get more important in the future as there will be new
hardware and software platforms to browse the web. I'm sick and tired of the
best viewed with
I'm running Trisquel 6. I have added a second user with full administritve
rights but when they try to add remove applications it asks for their
password. They enter their password and get the message
Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic '--hide-main-window' '--non-interactive'
'-o'
The user who currently has administrative privileges should add the other
user name to some group. I guess the adm group is the one missing (the
'groups' command can be used to check that out):
$ sudo adduser 2nd adm
In the example above the user is named 2nd. Change it accordingly.
You probably do not want to do that. Many applications depend on Qt. A
distribution is a coherent set of applications and libraries. If you update
Qt, many other applications in the repository would not work (or even be
installable). Observe that Qt5 is not even included in Debian unstable
Say someone is creating a new software package and wants to distribute on
their website and licenses it under a GPL license. When they describe it,
they have the option of calling it either free software or open source
software on their site or any other type of description of their
I wouldn't reject something GPL, just because it's called open source,
instead of free software. If something is both free and open-source,
what about the term foss? That would appear to eliminate confusion;
maybe it's redundant, if anything free is, by necessity, open-source?
In my
Yeah the free software confusion with freeware was one of the concerns in the
original post.
I would not reject it, since it's still free software regardless of
what the author called it. The author might call it open source
because they reject the social, ethical and political underpinnings
of the free software movement and instead think software should be
free because of technical
If there were two identical software offerings but one labeled open source
and the other free software I'd always pick the latter. However, in case of
one package labeled open source I would not refuse it because of that
language.
This article deals with this issue nicely.
So, how to try out software that needs it? I was looking towards updating qt
only because of Sigil's prerequisites.
If someone is making distributing software under GPL license, I think he
already knows that by mentioning it as 'open source' or 'free opensource'
he is giving 'false' information.
He must be thinking that by mentioning 'open source' he is helping a non-tech
person understand difference
You could try to download Qt5 from there and follow the installation
instructions.
A friend of mine lives in a country where he has to go on the internet
through a VPN that censors what he can look at and what not. His email is
spied on, his chat messages are spied on. Using encryption is a criminal
offense. Downloading Tor is impossible, the Download Mirrors are blocked.
Lavabit is also concerned about standards
http://lavabit.com/xhtml_valid.html#
I had been there before starting this thread.
They got a huge 388mb binary bundle. Was asking about updating via synaptic,
as i thought it will pull in just the essential stuff.
By the way, will it not break the current applications, as you said earlier?
Has anyone here tried Sigil on
As I wrote there is not even a Qt5 package in Debian Sid's main repository,
where most DEBs appear first.
The petition is 11,000 short of 100,000 needed for a response from the US
whitehouse. If you haven't signed and are a US citizen you might want to
consider doing so. This is your last chance. The petition ends February 23rd.
https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en#download
He will probably still be able to use Tor. However he needs the Obfsproxy Tor
Browser Bundle. You might want to download this, add some files, and then zip
it with a password. Upload it to a site he can access and send him a
I treat it as a warning that there might be non-free yuck yuck now or in
the future. EG jdownloader, ubuntu.
Yes.
Your friend should go back to the Time Machine and return to the Present.
The cyber 9/11 event, that has been talked about for years - and that will
give our Western governments the excuse to implement[1] all that - is very
close[2] to happening.
So, he shouldn't be that far into the
Speaking seriously...
The solution does not rely in the domain of computers. The way for your
friend to freely access the Internet is to change the political regime he's
living on.
We should not try to hide from, or evade, Big Brother. We should take it out
of the equation.
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