Re: [Trisquel-users] how to save these documents in a free format

2017-03-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Hm I see. I can't remember exactly if all keyboard shortcuts became irresponsible when the Ibus bug happens, but that indeed seems to be a different problem.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread vitacell
Yes I know, coreboot can integrate blobs, and it does for Intel i series.

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to save these documents in a free format

2017-03-23 Thread onpon4
Oh, wow. I think that means it's restricted with Adobe Reader's DRM. You should complain about that file; there's no way to see it.

[Trisquel-users] EFF: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy

2017-03-23 Thread gnulinux
According to EFF, "The Senate just voted to roll back your online privacy protections": https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/senate-puts-isp-profits-over-your-privacy Arstechnica also wrote about this: "The US Senate today voted to eliminate broadband privacy rules that would have required

Re: [Trisquel-users] Waiting for Trisquel 8 (Flidas)

2017-03-23 Thread greatgnu
>also, why does he have a picture of stallman on his user account? he is nowhere near the type of person who should have a picture of stallman. >

Re: [Trisquel-users] If Seamonkey is really firefox without the bloat,

2017-03-23 Thread greatgnu
>well, I checked seamonkey's security compared to firefox, on panoptclick and jondofox, it is kind of embarrassing how easily it gets tracked. meh... not sure why. > Fingerprinting has nothing to do with "security". My Seamonkey has the same fingerprint of my TorBB. Just fake the useragent

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread onpon4
> and flashed Coreboot/Libreboot. This is a confusing statement, and it's not very important, because Coreboot on modern Intel processors is just a shim for proprietary initialization blobs. It might be about as important as using a libre implementation of the ls command on Mac OS X. Very

Re: [Trisquel-users] Waiting for Trisquel 8 (Flidas)

2017-03-23 Thread calmstorm
I have donated money before to be honest its been like 25$ at least. not that its much... but its better than nothing. heh.

Re: [Trisquel-users] If Seamonkey is really firefox without the bloat,

2017-03-23 Thread calmstorm
That makes sense actually... what a pity.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread vitacell
You should not care about it, you can install OS you want, blobbed or not. The important thing is neutralize ME (and other Intel's malware/bloatware) and flashed Coreboot/Libreboot.

Re: [Trisquel-users] If Seamonkey is really firefox without the bloat,

2017-03-23 Thread onpon4
Pretty simple, really: not very many people use SeaMonkey.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread calmstorm
Well, coreboot and libreboot both said that purism is not what they are interested in despite the fact they called themselves "purism" personally, I don't think they have a clue how much of an uphill battle they would have to make it blob free. But I also think they are selling tainted

Re: [Trisquel-users] If Seamonkey is really firefox without the bloat,

2017-03-23 Thread calmstorm
well, I checked seamonkey's security compared to firefox, on panoptclick and jondofox, it is kind of embarrassing how easily it gets tracked. meh... not sure why.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread leoo
Why don't they use Trisquel? Why did they insist on further dividing the community with their own OS? As the FSF says, https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html "If you wish to improve the state of free distros, helping to develop an existing free distro contributes more than starting

Re: [Trisquel-users] libreplanet, purism is in the exhibit hall

2017-03-23 Thread vitacell
Wow fkng great!! thanks for the information.