Maybe I'm reading this wrong but JavaScript is problematic unless it comes
with a free license.
Yes, I agree.
Non-obfuscated, non-free javascript is better than obfuscated one, but it's
not enough.
And then there's the question whether minification is obfuscation as many
pages come
Sounds like a good idea, but most important is the possibility to allow/block
particular scripts.
With this, many websites can be used without running nonfree js.
Web pages use much free javascript, this is not the problem.
But almost no site uses free javascript only, so we have to choose
I also think about buying a yeeloong but after everything I've read, watching
youtube videos / videos in general will be difficult.
I quote this link: http://b.mtjm.eu/lemote-yeeloong.html
Gentoo has patches making full-screen low quality YouTube videos playable
(used WatchVideo for this),
@Sachin: You mentioned another command in the issue you linked to. Thus, I
tried sudo /etc/init.d/virtualbox start. But this only resulted in No
suitable module for running kernel found.
@GNUser: Thank you very much for your elaborations. However, I think I didn't
manage yet to use the
Thank you, dadix. In another thread you mentioned the Intel Open Source
drivers. Where did you get them from and how did you install them? Maybe I
just need these to fix my problem.
On 01/08/13 09:36, GNUser wrote:
But yeah, Noscript is your friend... a very annoying friend who never
shuts up, but a friend and a good one. Use it everyone.
You can disable the message that comes up when a script is blocked. I
used to do this every time I used NoScript. But I don't need to
On Thursday 01 August 2013 03:54 PM, gromo...@web.de wrote:
@Sachin: You mentioned another command in the issue you linked to.
Thus, I tried sudo /etc/init.d/virtualbox start. But this only
resulted in No suitable module for running kernel found.
That happened because the kernel module does
On 01/08/13 19:53, shiretoko wrote:
Don't know if it's possible to liberate gentoo; we could kick out
the default kernel and use linux-libre instead, but I don't know if
they have free-only repos.
I think Ututo is (or was?) based on Gentoo. But I don't know how
English-friendly it is. I recall
So I think you need some special patches for watching low-res-videos
(!) which are only provided by gentoo.
The fact that only Gentoo provides them is not important. No one had
applied them in gNS nor Parabola since e.g. they might depend on other
X.Org versions, recent X.Org broke other
You two (lembas and quantumgravity) are perfectly right: the non-trivial
scripts *must* be distributed under a free software license. And yes, the
minimization step, if it exists, should be documented.
..Never said it did. Merely that it was used for web content.
And yes, yes, agree with the rest of your post, except that you CAN use a
computer with a free bios, but generally that involves too many compromises
for most people. Much like you CAN browse the web without javascript and you
I think is working without this ppa. I removed xorg from my system , that ppa
and I installed only from trisquel repos. I still have my 3.10 libre-kernel
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental
libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc-bin
I see that cube moving.
Sounds like a good thing that it's disabled. I mean, really now. Really now.
Who thought letting any random website execute whatever it damn well pleases
directly on the GPU sounded like a good idea?
That's not exactly what WebGL does. It's an API for rendering graphics; yes,
the GPU is directly used for this normally, but it's not like the code
directly tells the GPU what to do. It tells the browser what to tell the GPU
to do (though I think it's more like telling the browser what to
He does talk about marrying little girls a lot around here, doesn't he?
There's probably some way to do it if you really wanted to, but why would you
want to? I honestly can't think of any positives of marrying a kid, or, hell,
even a kid that would want to be married at such a young age to
Thanks MB
Thanks for the clarification. Never tried that myself.
Yes, it's really a broken system by this point.
There are two alternatives to someone who wants to be a little bit safer:
1. Use something like Web of Trust. At least you have the power of community
to back you up.
2. Test the site fingerprint manually in
It means that Noscript will block all javascript, making it almost impossible
to use the web with it turned on (you have to click in a few dozen
permissions for some websites to run). So, yeah, it's annoying. BUT it
protects you. So it's a very good friend.
Actually, when using the Tor
Agreed!
If Abrowser should come with noscript, it should be in allow all mode, so
that it would only protect against cross-site attacks and such.
Now, of course, as I have said before in the forum, I don't have gnash or
anything running, I prefer to use the bare minimum, but it was my
I don't think he is a pedophile (not what we would normally call one at
least).
Nor a troll. There seems to be something more to him than we see right now...
But yeah, he is annoying and a little crazy, agree on that.
Yes, Debian is a very stable and secure distro. And much of their work as
improved the whole free software community, the FSF should remember that!
But again, just because the FSF says something is not free, it doesn't mean
it actually isn't ;) Unless they copyrighted the term free software xD
Not exactly. While I believe that to be true for most cases, you have to keep
in mind that sometimes when you deblob some driver or whatever, you might
actually break it only because you forget to clean up the code to work
without the blob, and not because it depended on the blob. Like...
Ahaha, your avatar actually looks like she just read vPro comments, asking to
marry her xD xD
Anyway, the point is... I totally agree with you, open standards are the
future! And I totally support them. But I was talking about a solution for
now, as in I need a free clean computer to use
Thanks!
As a side note (this is not related to community driven websites) I
discovered that http://www.techhive.com/ has some (won't say all, I only
tried a few) videos related to technologies and such that play with html5 AND
theora! =D
Actually amazing, one more website that you can
I actually like the KISS Keep It Small and Simple.
I like websites that use html, css, some free non-malicious javascript... All
that hype about flash and such, was a real pain in the back all the way
through.
I hope as we move away from flash (thanks to html5) we don't get into another
In order to watch the videos you need to run JavaScript, so no vids for me.
The rest of the site is usable though.
FSF maintains its definition of free software. Even if Debian originated
within the FSF, it has its own free software guidelines. Finally, the OSI
defines what is open source. Those three definitions cover almost the same
licenses but not exactly. The differences can be argued. Why would the
Typically if a driver gets broken to the point where it doesn't work due to
the deblobbing, it would fail to compile as well (at least, I'd hope).
I know that, when compiling Linux-libre, it returns a lot of warnings because
of it replacing all the firmware blobs with the */(DEBLOBBED)*/
What would really kick things off is a freedom friendly version of the
Raspberry Pi. Those computers are really cool (and for all we know, the
future of computing), but unfortunately there exists no freedom friendly
device like that yet (that I know of).
But just imagine, a ~$35 freedom
Isn't there a package for DKMS for VirtualBox? I know one exists for
Parabola, and I use it because I use a custom linux-libre kernel.
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