Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Installing newest Python on Trisquel 8?

2019-07-19 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Em 8 de julho de 2019 23:59:11 BRT, lc...@dcc.ufmg.br escreveu: >There is this PPA: >https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa I would probably avoid PPAs and point to .DEB files (as long as they don't change the repository list) unless there is a main page of the repository

Re: [Trisquel-users] Start a Business Using Only Free and Open Source Tools!

2019-07-04 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
As a contribution, in Brazil the Consumer Protection and Defense Code demands every service or product *sold* to come with a legally implied warranty of 90 days for durable things such as software. So the "no warranty" clause is void in Brazil, but this does not nullify possible other parts of

Re: [Trisquel-users] Emacs 25+ on Trisquel

2019-05-21 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
You can install the GNU Guix package manager[1], which by default comes with repository that is *committed* to follow the GNU FSDG, which Trisquel also does, and after that, install Emacs from GNU Guix. [1] https://www.gnu.org/s/guix Em 21 de maio de 2019 02:09:01 BRT,

Re: [Trisquel-users] ICC Color Profiles

2019-05-16 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Hi there, Em 17 de abril de 2019 17:50:50 BRT, davidich...@tutamail.com escreveu: >I have been trying to change ICC color profiles for my libreboot X200 >Tablet, >but am getting nowhere. The furthest I have been able to do is use >gnome >color manager in the terminal, but no devices seem to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freed-ora vs Trisquel

2019-04-30 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Em 27 de abril de 2019 02:45:09 BRT, jcmartinez2...@pm.me escreveu: >I guess in that regard you have a point. Seems unfair to ditch a distro >that >really tries to make things right for another one that doesn't support >the >ideology. Although Fedora claims freedom, in reality it's no

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freed-ora vs Trisquel

2019-04-25 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Em 24 de abril de 2019 19:35:39 BRT, jcmartinez2...@pm.me escreveu: >Hello, I just wanted our opinion about using Fedora using the >Linux-libre >kernel, is it Ok freedom-wise? Besides having to be conscious of the other problems not addressed by GNU Linux-libre, it's not recommended to

Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox, Eclipse Java

2019-04-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Em 23 de abril de 2019 07:13:57 BRT, Narcis Garcia escreveu: >It's libvirt that uses Qemu and other virtualization software (KVM, >XEN, >OpenVZ, LXC, VirtualBox). Oh, I see... Thanks for the clarification. -- - Página com formas de contato: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#vCard

Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox, Eclipse Java

2019-04-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Em 17 de abril de 2019 03:27:09 BRT, ma...@masonhock.com escreveu: >There are two issues here: freedom and security. If you stop using a >non-free program and remove it, and it no longer has any influence on >your life, then freedom-wise everything should be fine. However, >depending on the

Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox, Eclipse Java

2019-04-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Em 18 de abril de 2019 13:25:34 BRT, kerda...@disroot.org escreveu: >Isn't there a VirtualBox alternative to use on Trisquel (libvirt)? I If I'm not mistaken, QEMU uses libvirt. I use QEMU and, at least the one that can be installed on Trisquel using Guix package manager, it supports reading

Re: [Trisquel-users] Flatpak

2019-04-16 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I don't know if it was Snap or Flatpak, but [one of these] had a issue reported in Trisquel, in which they would allow installing from the default repository maintained by the package manager, that wouldn't be a problem if the repository had policy to include only GNU FSDG compliant packages.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8.0 and interactive whiteboards Epson BrightLink 595 Wi+ and 675 Wi+

2019-04-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Hi there, Em 5 de março de 2019 10:18:57 BRT, conta...@josegatica.cl escreveu: >Trisquel GNU/Linux 8.0 is compatible with EPSON interactive >whiteboards. Awesome news! But let me understand this: which one did you do? a) installed Trisquel as the whiteboard's operating system; b) installed

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Firewalld onTrisquel

2019-03-05 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Em 13/02/2019 00:54, deonte.street...@protonmail.com escreveu: > Complete Noob here I’m trying to install firewalld on Trisquel from the > source tar.gz file but I’m not exactly sure how to do so I don't know what you want to do with firewalld, but I personally use iptables, which is already

Re: [Trisquel-users] I nede your help and Support

2018-05-27 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-26T14:21:43-0700 Mason Hock wrote: > I think that a general free software forum is a good idea, but I'm not > so sure about the Trisquel subforum. There is already a Trisquel forum > here, and I don't see a benefit in moving some of the conversations > here to a new forum. This would

Re: [Trisquel-users] Having trouble installing add-ons on Abrowser. When I click install, it doesn't.

2018-05-24 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-24T09:41:01+0200 renr...@protonmail.com wrote: > I learned that the add-on tool doesn't work, so I did it through the > browser on Trisquel's site. Having another problem though. How do I > install Abrowser from backports? I need an updated version, because > the default one I'm using now

[Trisquel-users] Actions to do after installing GNU Guix

2018-05-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Note 1: in the time of this writing, this didn't include what is documented in the GNU Guix installation instructions[1] and application setup[2] nor what GNU Guix recommends after installing other applications through it. Note 2: after my final bachelor's degree work I might turn this into a

Re: [Trisquel-users] SuperTuxKart complaining about OpenGL

2018-05-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-23T05:39:06+0200 xliang9...@live.cn wrote: > distribution like Trisquel. This is why I prefer Debian testing. There > are some "non-official" proprietary firmware hosted on Debian's mirror > servers and this is why FSF doesn't endorse Debian. But those non-free Yes, we also shouldn't be

Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I make a live DVD or live USB on Windows 10

2018-05-21 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-21T19:27:31+0200 xliang9...@live.cn wrote: > However, in order to boot GNU/Linux on latest computers (full of > anti-features), you will first need to enter the UEFI settings and > disable Secure Boot (we call it Restricted Boot). If there is no > "Secure Boot" option in the firmware

Re: [Trisquel-users] few questions before installing

2018-05-18 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-11T01:25:40+0200 jo...@keemail.me wrote: > 2) Will Trisquel security updates include patches for the Intel > vulnerabilities, including patches for Spectre-NG? ... the real fix is changing the hardware to one such as EOMA68 and (perhaps) RISC-V and POWER8 (or was it "POWER9", I don't

Re: [Trisquel-users] few questions before installing

2018-05-18 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-11T01:25:40+0200 jo...@keemail.me wrote: > 2) Will Trisquel security updates include patches for the Intel > vulnerabilities, including patches for Spectre-NG? Also note that Meltdown and Spectre aren't entirely fixable, in the sense that the patches only narrow the vulnerability margin,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mismatch: Trisquel and (you're the) Prey, Pal

2018-05-18 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-14T03:35:19+0200 jamesdhazl...@gmail.com wrote: > Any good alternatives? I'm a crypto enthusiast. Still, I'm not sure it > is developed enough. There is also Snowdrift.coop (in construction) which is based on crowdmatching instead of crowdfunding, and will require results of the funded

Re: [Trisquel-users] Videotelephony on Trisquel 7

2018-05-18 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-15T19:11:25+0200 stry...@disintermedia.net.nz wrote: > I have a page about chat-related free code projects, open standards > and common protocols here (Disintermedia wiki is having issues right > now but should be back up soon): > https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/core-us

Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel wifi

2018-05-16 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-07T02:22:52+0200 sr...@yahoo.com wrote: > This is the only issue that I've had with Trisquel. Other than the > wifi, the distro is absolutely wonderful. I'm about to buy a > refurbished T430 and make it my Trisquel-book. Guess I'll just have to > bite the bullet, and buy the dongle from

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Another Wine problem ... Out of memory

2018-05-05 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-05T03:03:21+0200 lc...@dcc.ufmg.br wrote: > PSI-Plot is proprietary software. Apparently, you only face problem > with that program. No free software program you could use instead? R > is not easy to learn but there are simpler (although not as powerful) > alternatives such as PSPP,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel wifi

2018-05-05 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-04T11:59:06-0700 Mason Hock wrote: > I wonder if this is better freedom-wise than installing the > proprietary firmware for the Intel WiFi card. They'd still running > proprietary firmware, just on the phone's WiFi card instead of the > desktop's. Plus, by carrying the phone they'd allow

Re: [Trisquel-users] Deblobbed iwlwifi in 4.10+ libre kernels

2018-05-05 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-02T09:36:56+0200 ludek.stas...@gmail.com wrote: > of fun. Yes, I absolutely agree to use a relatively small non-free > driver with the fact that when I do not need it, I will remove it is > the ideal solution. I like how we are called in the Czech Republic "a One must notice however that

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web seed issues

2018-04-28 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-04-28T12:33:21+0200 maximilian.mache...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > According to this github issue I think that the web seeds for the > Trisquel 8.0 torrents have some issues / bugs. Or maybe I've > misinterpreted the issue? > > https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/586 Issue

Re: [Trisquel-users] Deblobbed iwlwifi in 4.10+ libre kernels

2018-04-27 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-04-27T12:09:45+0200 ludek.stas...@gmail.com wrote: > Yes, it is true, that it should not be a problem to install non-free > firmware with libre kernel. Except Ubuntu/Trisquel I use many other One must note that, compared to common distros, free/libre ones don't *facilitate* installing

Re: [Trisquel-users] disabling secure boot

2018-04-27 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-04-26T20:58:29-0700 Mason Hock wrote: > all of which advise booting into recovery boot and disabling Secure > Boot in the BIOS settings. However, all security settings, including > Secure Boot, were greyed out. I found one source that suggested I recently found out that some computers will

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trtisquel 8 missing icons

2018-04-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-04-23T07:58:40+0200 enduz...@riseup.net wrote: > Here's Mint's corresponding detail. I do see different icons, but I don't understand where are the "missing" ones? For me, it shows the green check mark, a picture-like, a music note, a video/film canister, a help buoy, and an X. And at least

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 codename "Flidas" Release Candidate is ready for testing

2018-04-16 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-04-16T03:09:41+0200 ja...@bluehome.net wrote: > "now is booting as a... UEFI OS?" > > Yup. Trisquel 8 should be fully UEFI compatible. Yay! With the > exception of Secure Boot, which requires Microsoft to sign stuff for > the project so it can be trusted. Our fearless leader said on IRC that

Re: [Trisquel-users] PC not waking up properly after suspending

2018-04-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-04-15T15:37:19-0300 Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > newer than 4.9.59. I still have the .deb of linux-libre 4.9.59-gnu (with > PAE) here, so if you want I can perhaps try to transfer it to you. I just found out that I don't have the package's .deb file anymore, but here follows a hint

Re: [Trisquel-users] On my first download of Trisquel 7.0 LTS Belenos I got no md5sum file

2018-04-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-23T23:13:30+0100 erbpe...@gmail.com wrote: > I mean I didn't get any md5sum file to compare with. > I got an alphanumeric string after typing the command on the appropriate CLI. > But I don't know where to look for the md5sum file to compare with. > Any idea about what coud have happened

Re: [Trisquel-users] Writing my ‘common distros’ for us in 2018

2018-04-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-17T10:04:51+0100 radiowav...@gmail.com wrote: > Please add QubesOS , Void Linux and Artix Linux. QubesOS = secure OS Good idea! :D Could you convince at least one of these to see the reference in [1]? We as distro users cannot request new distros for addition, the project contributors

Re: [Trisquel-users] When a website expects more than javascript, what else might it be requiring ?

2018-04-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-11T15:25:07+0100 ame...@amenex.com wrote: > The website uses the ASP server-side programming language, which > requires a Microsoft server, and the sourcecode of the website > expects Internet Explorer (IE 11). That seems to be an issue in development practices, I also see other websites

Re: [Trisquel-users] PC not waking up properly after suspending

2018-04-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-02T22:09:20+0100 ngmovi...@gmx.com wrote: > like a charm, but there is one thing that has never worked and it is > bothering me: when I wake the computer after suspending it I always > get a black screen. The screen doesn't get any signal, so I guess (I'm I am also experiencing this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Other Languages

2018-04-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-03T09:37:39-0800 Mason Hock wrote: > I think the op may be referring to the lanuages for which there are > trisquel-users forums/mailing lists. Right now there are only forums > for languages that are European in origin. There should be forums for > some Asian languages as well, certainly

Re: [Trisquel-users] i'm Thinking about doing a free software Community(Forum)

2018-04-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-07T13:58:33+0100 stry...@disintermedia.net.nz wrote: > replies. Many modern web forum server packages (like Discourse) allow > for email delivery and replies. Loomio enables text discussions We currently need help solving some end-user JavaScript freedom issues in Discourse, if you know a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2018-04-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-05T20:25:34+0100 inthefor...@autistici.org wrote: > thank you for your post, adfeno :) You're welcome. > my .bashrc contains everything it should, but I can not achieve the Try puting stuff inside .profile instead. > result I need (I am happy without that icons, but it would nice) >

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel Panic Using Virt-Manager on Trisquel and libreboot

2018-04-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-02-15T05:53:08+0100 goodstu...@msn.com wrote: > I am attempting to install PureOS 8.0 (beta) on a libreboot Taurinus > laptop running Trisquel 8 using virt-manager. Everytime I try to > create the PureOS virtual machine, I get a black screen filled with a > whole lot of meaningless stuff on

Re: [Trisquel-users] linux-libre 4.16 still vulnerable to CVE-2017-5715 aka Spectre Variant 2

2018-04-05 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> core2duo cpu and found linux-libre is still vulnerable to > CVE-2017-5715 aka Spectre Variant 2. To my understanding, every CPU which is known to be affected by Meltdown and Spectre is always vulnerable. The patches don't cover the vulnerability window completely, they only delay or shorten

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why is Trisquel 8 taking so long

2018-03-27 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> "GNU FSDG" stands for "GNU Free Software Distribution Guidelines". The > acronym has changed multiple times, but the "F" has never stood for > "FSF". Indeed, I'm sorry. I guess I missed the fact that I *personally* use/see "F" as standing for "FSF". :D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Why is Trisquel 8 taking so long

2018-03-27 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Oh, yes, there is that. Are there still packages under that old > unclear license in Stretch? I'm not sure, all I know is that the DFSG (D for "Debian") still accepts that, while the GNU FSDG (F for "FSF") doesn't.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Why is Trisquel 8 taking so long

2018-03-20 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Note: I'm top-posting so that new people know what I'm replying to. The Artistic License 1.0 ([1]) is considered DFSG-compliant ([2]), while not free/libre software license ([2][3]). Software under Artistic License 1.0 are included in Debian's "main" repository ([4][5]). [1]

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a perfect method to guard our communication?

2018-03-20 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> learning to use correctly Endless+Onion browser, turning off/on > JavaScript, etc, by current only my device, iPhone. Also, more importantly: complain to websites that use any complex/non-trivial non-free --- or not labelled as non-free --- JavaScript. It's not enough to simply turn off the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Email provider: riseup.net OR disroot.org?

2018-03-16 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Just an addendum, no objection to anything. > their computer). Users should be concerned with privacy and security > and concentrate on what they run on their own computer. ... and that also includes what kind of client-side JavaScript gets automatically executed. :D -- -

Re: [Trisquel-users] recommend a run-and-gun video game for Trisquel?

2018-03-13 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Do you know of a good one? I don't play it since 2017, but in GNU Guix, you can install cdogs-sdl. -- - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre. Por favor, veja formas de se comunicar

Re: [Trisquel-users] SNAP, a door to non free software!

2018-03-13 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> How is this any different to pip or easy_install? As far as I know, it's not different from these, because all of those three have external default repositories. Perhaps we have to seek help from other free/libre system distribution projects since these patches might be useful to all these

Re: [Trisquel-users] SNAP, a door to non free software!

2018-03-12 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> I now have Spotify. All it takes 'snap install spotify'. Trisquel 8. If your copy of SNAP really came from Trisquel 8, and you manage to install Spotify by doing `snap install spotify' without needing to add any other repository/store/whatever, then this installation of Spotify *is* a bug. The

Re: [Trisquel-users] How does one respond to this statement?

2018-03-07 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> contributions to these forums. But can I ask that you please trim your > posts? Quoting the entire post to which you have replied is Yes, indeed. I tend to do trim-posting now. That message is old. Sorry.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2018-03-06 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> D-Bus python bindings are missing in this computer > D-Bus capabilities of Gajim cannot be used > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "gajim.py", line 289, in > import gtkexcepthook > File >

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2018-03-06 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> guile: warning: failed to install locale > warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument Install "glibc-locales" in both "root" and per-user profiles (at least for the users you do want to have translated messages). GNU Guix's info pages ([1]) will tell you more about this in the sections

Re: [Trisquel-users] Other Languages

2018-03-03 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> what is the standard by which Trisquel Forums use for choosing which > languages apply? If for the amount of people that speak it, why > Catalan and not Chinese? And if it's to appeal to certain groups, why > not languages like Esperanto? I'm not webmaster of Trisquel website, but if you are

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-03-02 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> When you quote automatically whole (especially lengthy posts) it is > difficult to follow what exactly you are commenting on (without Sorry, I'll do trim-posting now. :D > I have sent this using the Contact link on this site. No reply so > far. No fix either. Hopefully someone will look into

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2018-03-02 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
See what GNU Guix infopage/manual tells you about setting locales. If you choose to set locales in "$HOME/.profile" then the variables will be available --- and probably immutable --- until the next desktop session [re]start. If you choose "$HOME/.bash_profile" and similar, it will be reread each

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-02-28 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
What's your XMPP/Jabber address by the way? Your profile page in the Trisquel forum doesn't tell much, nor your e-mail signature (non-existing currently). -- - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-02-28 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Gajim, but has nothing to do with my client. I got the same issues on > Pidgin and bitlbee. I just tried to make jxself aware of this issue. Both in IRC and in XMPP. -- - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). -

Re: [Trisquel-users] Confirmation: Iridium is libre

2018-02-28 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> chromium-browser > Description: Freed version of googles Chrome Web browser > Homepage: http://www.chromium.org/Home > Problem: (1) Copyright or license of some code is unclear > (2) Links to proprietary plugins. > Recommended Fix: Remove program/package > > Use GNU IceCat, or equivalent > >

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Free email providers

2018-02-27 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> I will write to you now to get your account number and thank you that > way for the better CSS you wrote for my Web page. Thank you very much for the understanding. ;) > Totally different topic: I know you are involved with checking > Chromium's licensing status. Have you taken a look at the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Community guidelines question

2018-02-27 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Your patch really makes my web page look better on smaller screen. > Thank you again! You're welcome! ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Confirmation: Iridium is libre

2018-02-27 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> What are the next steps in this investigation? Compile from source and For the next steps, David already gave a lead. For a page which lists software which deserves high scrutiny, see [1]. Also, in particular to Iridium, since it depends on Chromium, see the talk page for Chromium in the FSD

Re: [Trisquel-users] Directing the details of your help goes over better when you pay

2018-02-26 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> It sounds to me like what you want is what IT professionals do. Whom > did you contact about buying a paid support contract? I support this, specially because I do need money to get living and I recently made a savings account which (as far as I know) accepts Orders of Payment from abroad, and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Community guidelines question

2018-02-25 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> (By the way: anyone knows what to write to get 1) the banana staying > below the menu and 2) the presentation text always vertically centered > with the banana... even on cell phone where the width of the screen is > tiny?) I hope you forgive me for being late, but I managed to make some

Re: [Trisquel-users] Feature Request: WebTorrent

2018-02-25 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Strange that BitChute are using a CDN, isn't the whole point of using > WebTorrent that your site can scale up indefinitely without needing a > CDN? Also, worth pointing out that BitChute haven't published any Strange indeed, down with CDNs! ;) > CDN? Also, worth pointing out that BitChute

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-18 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Also, putting security and privacy aside, you might be interested on helping with evaluating Chromium and other things based on it ([1]), we are really short on human resources for that. After the main evaluation is done, you can perhaps contribute to other project teams in the FSD so that the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Is it free? It isn't on FSF's list? It's not free/libre ([1]), I would suggest that people around here stop recommending this distro otherwise people might as well start using the post downvoting system. [1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#openSUSE . -- -

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why is Trisquel 8 taking so long

2018-02-12 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> check them out they can see what's involved in transforming Debian. I > think it does a disservice to the people that work on FSF-endorsed > distros to classify their work as "just" removing the non-free > stuff. Not only is it not true, because things are also changed and > added, it seems to

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with DOCX?

2018-02-12 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> I appreciate your enthusiasm for Org Mode, but using it won't help me > to assimilate into society while keeping my promise to the world that > I will not pressure them to put them in a helpless position as a user > of technology. Hm... I didn't understand this message. Both Org mode community

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-11 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> thanks for you answer adfeno the thread you posted is really intresting You're welcome! ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-11 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html, this is the fsf > recomended gnu/linux distros page, many distro here are dead or about > to be(for the exception of parabola and pureOS) Trisquel, Dyne:bolic, Ututo, and so on are not dead ([1]). [1]

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Then I would suggest to Joe to use a librebooted computer. I am sure > then he will find some other reason why free software is irrelevant as > it seems his strategy is to argue by demanding impossible perfection. I don't want to sound harsh to any of you, but all I can say is this: without

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> repositories is free software too. Given there is no alternative that > is more freedom respecting than Freedombox for a plug server, I do not > see how it would be unethical for me to recommend it. I even wonder if Well for plug-server, you have plenty already, to name a few: Parabola,

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-02-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> In KDE Plasma > System Settings > Color Management I have specified > the color profiles which should be used but when I install nouveau I > see the desktop colors as non-color managed (more saturated that they > should be) which tells me that perhaps color management doesn't work > properly.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with DOCX?

2018-02-09 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Personally, a year ago I started to depend less on document/spreadsheet/presentation formats which are not easily readable, understandable and editable with plain text editors. So I decided to start writing my things using Org mode syntax/markup. Besides being easily readable by humans in plain

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Community guidelines question

2018-02-09 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> (By the way: anyone knows what to write to get 1) the banana staying > below the menu and 2) the presentation text always vertically centered > with the banana... even on cell phone where the width of the screen is > tiny?) Magic Banana, is this still an issue, or did you manage to find the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Node.js free?

2018-02-09 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Node.js is fine, but Electron is questionable and needs to be audited > for licensing issues. Indeed, check out (and if possible, join) the work we're doing in [1]. [1] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_evaluation .

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it ethical to use github?

2018-02-09 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Another thing that helps is convincing the authors to insert alternative ways to contact them, preferably those which Git itself already supports (email).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it ethical to use github?

2018-02-09 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> I disagree with the FSF on this. I never enable JavaScript when > accessing GitHub, and I get zero problems. In fact, it's one of the > best no-JavaScript designs I've ever seen. And the whole C2 The fact that JavaScript is (by default and by the standard) enabled in most browsers leads me to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it ethical to use github?

2018-02-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> On the other hand, there are a lot of projects that I want to > contribute to that are hosted in github... > Damned network effect... Sometimes you can send patches to the email of the authors, and insert in the same message an explanation as to why you don't use GitHub (with references,

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Not sure what you mean by ring 3. First time I hear that term. If you He refers to the issue of MINIX's existance in ring -3 sector of all computers with Intel Management Engine ([1]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX#MINIX_3 . See the last paragraph of that section and the references

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> saw that the file it downloaded is with date from 2016, so I guess it > takes care of that. See the "description" field in the .info.json file, it's the field that mostly appears in every attempt to download videos using avideo or youtube-dl. There is a field which also tells the upload date,

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> I didn't look at YouTube. I downloaded with avideo locally. > So blame the one who shares dated info and asks for feedback based on > current issues :) Don't worry, this happens with everyone. ;) I didn't have time to test this yet because I rarely use YouTube --- except for getting stuff out

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
For those which reported missing references for the message I'm replying to (my own one), here is the references. Now they should appear normally for those reading using the forums. [1] https://downloads.softwarefreedom.org/2017/conference/0-keynote.webm . According to

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
For those which reported missing references for the message I'm replying to (my own one), here is the references. Now they should appear normally for those reading using the forums. [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2017-April/007982.html . [2]

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> "Firefox frees people from a net created by Microsoft" > > Yeah, like I do agree with you, although it must be noted that the upload date was 2012-06-01, and unless I'm mistaken (please investigate this or correct me if I'm wrong), back then we were unaware of the freedom issues of

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> * Freedombox, the "plug server" you make reference to, is a real > project, it works and is being developed. Yes, Freedombox really exists and has releases, however I must note that it's not a free/libre system distribution, so we mustn't recommend it here, and so far I have received no

Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternative To WallCh Desktop Wallpaper Changer?

2018-02-07 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> For a long time I have been using "WallCh" to cycle threw a folder of > wallpaper images, but recently I have had issues with it in Trisquel 7 -- Not > sure why. In any case, I have always disliked the app and am open to > alternatives. Any ideas? I have attached a script that tries to do the

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-02-06 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
You can get your copy of GNU Social to be like Facecrap, most importantly change the character limit to something equal or greater than 500. Also you don't need the Raspberry stuff if you are going for a simple home server, various free/libre system distribution projects use Beagle Bone Black and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Public consultation on "open" internet

2018-02-05 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
The page unfortunatelly does require non-free JS, but it's not a fault of Replicant, in fact it's fault of WordPress and related theem projects they're using. however, this shouldn't render the page blank. In my test it was visible, and I'm running GNU IceCat 52.3.0 with GNU LibreJS 6.0.13.

Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF adds PureOS to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions

2018-02-05 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Well, close enough. Unfortunatelly, GuixSD isn't from GNU. Thankfully, Guix is. ;) 2018-01-01T00:36:44-0600 Caleb Herbert wrote: > If you hate systemd, use GuixSD. It does not use systemd, and it's a > GNU system distributed by GNU.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unsubscribe, please.

2018-02-02 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
First, thank you very much for your forever lasting kindness. Your messages in both the Trisquel forums/mailing lists and in IRC are very pleasing to read. Just to clarify, I got somewhat confused in the first time I saw your request to unsubscribe, because from the friendly display name in my

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unsubscribe, please.

2018-02-01 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
You have to unsubscribe yourself, login and unsubscribe using [1]. [1 https://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/options/trisquel-users . 2018-02-01T12:31:28-0800 γραφω λογον wrote: > David, if you're reading this I think I need you to "ban" me from the > forums too and there's a thread in the Troll

Re: [Trisquel-users] Downloading videos from youtube with "$ avideo *video-url*" gives me only the sound.

2018-01-30 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
You're welcome! :D 2018-01-30T19:06:31+0100 svenerik...@protonmail.com wrote: > Thanks for helping, although I am satisfied with mason's solution: > > https://trisquel.info/en/forum/downloading-videos-youtube-avideo-video-url-gives-me-only-sound#comment-127256

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-01-30 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I would remove their contact resources/forms/ways that are not *federated* (this is a little beyond free/libre software as a product, and is very important, see: [1], it belongs to a subset of the free/libre software as philosophy). Email is, at least by design, federated, so you don't need to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-30 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Yes, you need to have them available, not because you'll necessarily use them, but because someone else will, be it the person who gave it a copy, the other which received a copy from you, the thirty fifth genration of people who receive copies from your generation. You never know the econimic

Re: [Trisquel-users] Downloading videos from youtube with "$ avideo *video-url*" gives me only the sound.

2018-01-30 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
What are the codecs of the video which was downloaded? This will give us such information: avprobe -i "[Video path without these braces.]" Alternatively: ffprobe -i "[Video path without these braces.]" 2018-01-29T19:00:03+0100 svenerik...@protonmail.com wrote: > When I download videos from

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Default Keyring"

2018-01-29 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I think this key it asks is related to Seahorse or to the password manager you're using. I'm not sure though, it's just a guess. 2018-01-29T17:34:14+0100 dh...@fastmail.com wrote: > For some reason every time I attempt to connect to a new network I get > this "enter password for default keyring

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Color management? Do you mean brightness keys? 2018-01-23T11:31:34+0100 stu...@anchev.net wrote: > Thanks for sharing. I have tried this one: > > https://h-node.org/videocards/view/en/1792/GK104--GeForce-GTX-680---rev-a1-/1/1/undef/undef/undef/undef/video-card-works/undef > > but with nouveau it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-20 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Please note that we discussed client-side software so far, not database nor server-side software. ;) 2018-01-20T11:47:55+0100 stu...@anchev.net wrote: > Imagine a billion websites submitting a billion web extensions to each > and every distro and requiring each user to install them (especially >

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are Big Sacrifice

2018-01-20 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Awesome! ;) Based on your shell prefix ("ariella@/ $ ", particularly the "/" part), if you plan to write a guide, please take care to do any of these: a) tell the reader to change directory to "/"; b) write all references of the exact phrases "vmlinuz" and "initrd.img" as "/vmlinuz" and

Re: [Trisquel-users] family privacy Again

2018-01-17 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
One thing that I find hilarious: Facebook may take and reuse all your multimedia that you publish there, but Facebook's terms of service says that you are only allowed to publish things that have you as the only author. Effectively, one cannot legally share in Facebook works under CC-any-variant,

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