Don't try and remove the WiFi chip. It is, as you said, soldered. Since they
are very small usually you might end up pulling other stuff off too. I once
de-assembled a radio. I pulled off a capacitor and after that it would only
make a clicking noise.
So, the Tor browser bundle warns people not to open files downloaded through
Tor except offline. I assume it is fine to open them automatically in the
browser because you are connected to Tor, in pdf.js?
IceCat can display PDFs. NoScript does not block it, at least for me, and
there is an option to allow/deny pdf.js.
So your IceCat is probably a chilly old moggy, on its last legs and surviving
on spam and old breadcrusts.
It turns out the Sony readers all run a simple GNU/Linux system called
"Montavista Linux". So in theory it would be possible to port some custom
software to it. Have a look here. They have ways of modding icons:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=100
Some later Sony readers r
I think it is bad for them to host the non-free repositories. I can
understand perhaps for firmware that is barely acceptable, but I do not think
they can really say Debian is "completely free software", when they just
don't enable the bad stuff by default.
It doesn't mean we shouldn't use it
I learned with this online guide:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
I also bought a book called "bash pocket reference" which has a comprehensive
list of commands that you can use in your scripts. I am quite bad at writing
scripts but I hardly ever need to so it is fine. It was
Some people here also recommend Searx (e.g. https://searx.laquadrature.net,
searx.me). It runs on just free software. It does give different results
though to Duck Duck Go alone in my experience so I often use both.
You should raise the issue with the developers. I think it is silly too.
Get the Replicant SDK:
http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SDK
It includes an emulator.
I do not know why they don't include it. Probably because it is a pain to
build and changes a lot.
Hope that helps.
I suspect they write the CDDL so they can go after companies profiting from
GNU/Linux systems with ZFS distributed. They obviously still want this as an
option because they have not re-licensed it to GPL. So I think Canonical
could be in for trouble, but regarding Debian I doubt it. Canonical
Trisquel does not distribute anything that violates copyrights significantly.
Things like emulators are a grey area, but court cases have shown that if
such programs are made through reverse engineering they do not violate
copyright; you can just play homebrew games or ROM images you ripped f
It's in the "contrib" repository.
So no.
You could ask on the Libreboot mailing list. It seems to be a problem related
to Libreboot.
They seem to care about freedom so I think they will not include the
Broadcomm wireless and AMD gpu in the final package. There are good wireless
cards for freedom at this point.
I see.
The "encrypt home directory" option uses cryptfs to encrypt the file system,.
LVM creates a volume group, and then you create physical areas for
encryption, and then when you start the computer you unlock the volume group.
It makes it harder to resize partitions (you do it via the CLI)
Do you still have need of our help then? Or did you get it to at least partly
work?
Have the instructions on a mobile phone or tablet computer. Then just follow
them exactly.
The prototype tested on the Phoronix website had an AMD graphics card and a
Broadcomm wireless card:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-workstation&num=1
I think these are just prototype s though, so maybe these were just cheapest
for the system.
Other than these the POW
...and you said "That turns people who really need anonymity harder to spot
though."
So I did not understand what you are saying.
Is your image on a removable drive? The drive won't be mounted automatically,
usually, so LXDE isn't able to load a background image, hence the blank
background. Store the images in your home folder. I usually have them in a
folder in ~/Desktop.
> lost the desktop panel
It sounds like you have been starting Openbox by mistake. It is a window
manager that LXDE uses. Did you select'openbox' in the Trisquel display
manager (where you log in)?
In the display manager, change it back to LXDE by selecting the icon by your
name, and then l
Normal hardware doesn't either. Many mobile phones only have the warranty
required by law and often fail to honour it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29
All the components are available in Trisquel repositories (Trisquel is
[GNU/]Linux).
Ubuntu is mostly free software so it would be stupid if the LAMP stack
incorporated lots of proprietary components.
I don't understand this. If they are using Tor to torrent (thus revealing
their IP address) they are not anonymous so there is no 'herd' immunity. If
anything it makes the people who need anonymity easier to spot because they
are the only ones not using it to circumvent blocks of torrent site
I just reject sites which require it.
Good:
Ars Technica
The Guardian
Reddit
Riseup.net
Bad:
The Register (it is a load of crap anyway)
Content-aggregation websites (crap too)
Project Gutenberg (book search does not work, 403 error) :'-(
So whatever, apart from Gutenberg.
"As a Harvard undergraduate, Kaczynski was among twenty-two students who were
research subjects in ethically questionable experiments conducted by
psychology professor Henry Murray from late 1959 to early 1962"
Maybe that's what drove him to madness.
I think we can ask people to consider buying a more freedom-respecting
computer but if they are not in a position to do so then we have to consider
the "least worst" alternative until they are able to.
I don't think it is a fork. It us using Trisquel packages so is more like a
respin. Which is good, because they didn't have to go to all that effort to
make a brand new distribution.
I live Diceware. Truly
But what if they are doing an encrypted installation? Is it necessarily
better to use the whole disk (considering whether the quality of encryption
will be better that way)?
Well, technology has implications for society. So I think that technological
progress is only a good thing so long as it helps society to ameliorate.
I think that Stallman is partly wrong about "society placing too much value
on innovation". I don't think society places much emphasis on it at all. I
think it places too much emphasis on new, shiny features, but the features in
question are really not innovative.
Let's take the example of th
I found out about Parsimonie from that website. It gets GPG keys over Tor and
slowly so that you can't be tracked based on your associations with others
https://help.riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp/best-practices#ensure-that-all-keys-are-refreshed-through-the-keyserver-you-have-s
It's like how George RR Martin kills a character when people ask questions
about releases and his physical health.
You are worse though. You kill tangible dreams.
;'-(
In the Debian installer (the one on Trisquel network installer and in Debian
installer disks), there is an option for setting it up automatically. This
does not encrypt the /boot partition and since you are on Libreboot there is
no reason not to encrypt boot partition. Basically, what it does
Relevant link to installing with encrypted /boot on Libreboot:
https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html
It's pretty easy. I wouldn't set up an swap partition on an SSD though.
For encryption, the more random the passphrase is, the stronger the
encryption. For a root password this might not matter as much. But if you
have someone trying to brute-force it, then random becomes very valuable
indeed. Allow me to refer to the Diceware FAQ:
http://world.std.com/%7Ereinh
Allow me.
La Quadrature du net - "the squaring of the net"
They are an internet freedom campaigning organisation.
They want:
- "Human rights in digital society"
- "Free and open access to the world wide web"
- "The freedom to share culture and knowlege online"
There is an English and French versi
It is indeed true that the Lenovo computers have a whitelist. It is standard
practice in the industry.
I'll put it this way, although the card may fit in the X200, the whitelist
will reject it. The computers sold by Minifree have the Atheros WiFi but it
says on the website that the proprietar
Those who know don't know
Why would they keep such a fact from the community?
It would make no sense.
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/formatting-trisquel-forum?
I usually use the em tag to make my posts italic.
It's like HTML.
The site is down due to high traffic. The server is not liking it. It is
probably from renewed interest in the project (I joined the mailing list for
instance).
You can still access the site if you wait a short time though.
Fair enough.
I gave La Quadrature du Net as the link because they are a good organisation
promoting rights on the net.
They also have a Tor hidden service: http://searchb5a7tmimez.onion/
So does searx.me.
I think Scratch might be good for getting into the 'mindset' of programming
to think about logic. I used it when I was a complete beginner. Then I tried
Python and it was pretty fun. The Idle IDE is all right; heck, even Emacs GTK
interface is pretty good at highlighting code and it helps wit
After trying it, I have decided that I really like searx. It is much more
feature-full than Duck Duck Go HTML.
I agree with these observations. I suppose we are thinking about how they are
implemented - basically to make the ruling classes more prosperous and keep
society "the way it always has been".
However, the "creation stories" for example are generally to explain the
world because nobody knew. I
https://searx.laquadrature.net/
You can run it yourself too.
> but laugh at people who take the more cumbersome road to defend them
selves. It doesn't make sense.
There is evidence that people feel guilty when they see others make a
decision perceived as ethical and because of feeling bad, they act negatively
towards that person.
There was a study do
Make a thread in the troll hole if you want to continue the debate.
> But misleading, speaking of which, fox news... xD
I do not understand what you are trying to say here. If you are comparing
what I wrote to misinformation in the style of FOX News, then this is an
extremely poor example. In fact, FOX News regularly drags atheists onto its
programmes in ord
It was a passing comment. It was admitted as much in another forum. Unless it
comes from the actual development team then it's not really evidence.
They said "GTK-based" desktop in the recent blog post. So it could easily be
Xfce or full GNOME-Shell, which would both be ideal, or even Cinnamon.
That's when it was based on Ubuntu.
I like the old logo better ;'-(
Religion is about explaining the mysteries of the world and giving people
comfort in hard times.
There is little evidence to support many of its claims, especially
'miracles'. Free software is tackles the abuses of non-free software, which
there is lots of evidence for. Free software is about
Regarding email:
sudo apt-get install icedove enigmail
It's an unbranded Thunderbird. Enigmail let's you do email encryption using
GnuPG.
Almost anything you can do on Ubuntu (other than install non free software
from the repositories) you can do on Trisquel, since Trisquel takes Ubuntu
LTS
What does this mean? Isn't GPA just a front-end to GnuPG? Do you mean with
signing you want to create ACII-armoured signatures or just normal .gpg
signatures?
It's ready when you are.
Apt just tracks the files from the .deb archive. If it tracked all the
directories a program ever made it would get bloated.
Also, keeping the config files is convenient, if you delete a program by
mistake or install a modified version of the program.
For example, it is convenient for Mozilla-b
With Diceware, the die gives you entropy. A computer is predictable if you
work out the seed for the RNG.
Maybe it would not matter as much for a root password. For encryption, it
weakens it though.
A story is easy to remember. If you think of the words as just random words
it could be done
Alternatively have a workshop session after where members of the audience
demonstrate to others, and Stallman should demonstrate too.
Have you read the page on Stallman.org where he explains how he does his
computing (https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html)? It does not sound
beginners
I have a LUKS partition where I store my personal files. I also have an
encrypted USB drive where I back up my private keys (it is only 256 MoB in
size).
I used to make full disk images and store them in a LUKS partition but it
became too much work. That being said, it was useful doing this e
Regarding passphrases, the problem with using a short story is that your own
bias tends to weaken it. For instance, many people think of a popular phrase
e.g. "one does not simply walk into mordor". Some journalists might use a
phrase from their own work.
So the solution is Diceware. You get
If this was a cult I would happily join!
You used Trisquel so you are a Trisquel user.
People like what they know even if it is bs.
Windows often throws up weird errors and bloatware tries to extort money out
of them, and they always hear stories of ransomware.
It is often easier to 'trust' the computer and leave it alone as much as
possible.
So people get terrified of any sugge
Yes, and Ubuntu does this too. The 'universe' and 'multiverse' repositories
are left to rot until the next Ubuntu release.
What I'm saying is that this similar criticism should be applied to Trisquel
too. The packages here are of the same age as gNewSense 4.
Debian had Iceweasel which was a rebranded version of Firefox. It was never
behind upstream for very long; they now just use upstream Firefox in
'unstable' and 'testing'.
Abrowser is Firefox with Duck Duck Go as search engine, and a few features
turned off that are a privacy concern.
It does
Ethics is something they have plenty of. The ethics in question, though, are
probably unrecognisable to the likes of us. They are very close to the US
government. The ethics in question are the same ethics of the people who like
starting wars and not finishing them or promoting peace. The dro
He meant 16/10/10
> because some of their employees want them to
It says Patrons at 50.000$, Patrons at 30.000$, Patrons at 25.000$... and
then just "Patrons". I suspect that the companies under just "Patrons" are in
this position, whereby the employees convince the PR and Sales deptartments
to give some (rel
> Google does at least donate money to the fsf
So do other companies, e.g. IBM, HP. And they do not respect freedom either.
It suggests it is mostly a marketing ploy.
They don't care. They are as bad as other such corporate behemoths.
> They are, I do however feel confident that reverse enginee
Try explaining it to young people and children. If they can understand then
you are probably being clear about it.
Think about what they would say:
"I have nothing to hide"
You could, for instance, quote Snowden, who presents the analogy that that is
like saying "you don't want freedom of spee
That's mean. A free version of Debian is important.
GNewSense is old but at least there are still security updates. Is Trisquel 7
irrelevant because it has old packages? They are of a similar age to the ones
in gNewSense 4!
> The MATE based main release
Again, evidence?
Dolphin Emu + Wind Waker
Gr8
The Debian security team only support i386 and AMD64 architectures. This
means that gNewSense's developers are going to have trouble supporting the
MIPS-based Leemote Yeeloong. I hope they rebase off Debian 8.
You don't need to leave the forums! We are happy to discuss free software
here with anyone! Quite a few of us (myself included) mix and match our OS. I
use both Debian and Trisquel, for instance. Your experience with Debian can
still help people here as they are similar, since Ubuntu is based
> Then again most SoCs contain microcode
I thought this generally was not the case with ARM CPUs, only with Intel and
AMD (because x86 is so complicated). Instead ARM CPUs have other horrible
things, such as nonfree video drivers and firmware.
The thing about microcode is that it is stored on
Do you mean desktop environments, as in 'spins' that Ubuntu has, such as
Xubuntu and Lubuntu, and for us Trisquel-mini and Triskel? Because we do have
most of the desktop environments like XFCE, LXDE, GNOME-Shell. They are just
metapackages that install the components of the DE rather than a
"Unable to start tor, the Tor executable is missing"
You should check if Tor is installed from the package manager. Otherwise,
your Tor extension has no way of connecting.
You should not do this though, as you may reveal your identity by mistake.
Use the Tor browser bundle instead:
https:/
RISC-V or OpenRISC? That would be free and something not done before.
> No? Other than the ethical issue, what personal computing issues would I
have using the proprietary firmware with Debian?
The firmwares are proprietary, thus there is a distinct possibility of
backdoors. We do not know so it is rational to assume so. Keep in mind a
firmware is not always ju
What I do is put a link to the email self-defense tutorial guide, as well as
my public key and fingerprint. If it invites even a few people to find out
more then it is a small victory.
This is the alpha based on Debian Squeeze? It is hopelessly outdated and from
just a security perspective should be avoided.
Yes, the For Browser Bundle replaces the default DuckDuckGo web search with
that.
I learnt it so I could impress fellow nerds.
It is beginning to sound like party politics.
Most charities have paid staff. For instance, charity shops often employ a
full-time manager to operate the shop every day. The running of the charity
is also based on paid, full-time staff.
We live in a capitalist society. Your post seems to imply
¡Me gusta tu foto!
New NVIDIAs require signed firmware blobs.
Selling it might be a good option. You can probably recuperate most of what
you paid, since this is a new card and it seems you have barely used it. Then
look on H-node for a good supported card.
Alternatively, install Debian, enable nonfree repo for
I personally do not fear being persecuted for my political postings and
technology stories, but I can see why social media can be bad for people who
do not wish for these things to be used against them. At least, with GNU
Social, there is no real-name policy, so people can post under pseudony
There is a browser add-on called Mailvelope, I believe it is licensed under
the GBU Affero Public License. See here for an explanation:
https://posteo.de/en/help/sending-an-end-to-end-encrypted-email-in-the-posteo-webmail-interface-and-making-encrypted-emails-readable
You can of course use it
Good Riseup labs LEAP, and Tor. Improving access to ethical technology is
important for helping disadvantaged people and helping encourage political
debate.
I agree perhaps on the point of a Firewall. I added it for 'completion', so
to speak. Ufw (and the frontend Gufw) do have some advanced features that
means it is worth mentioning it breifly,
> Email encryption : totally worth it if the person you intend to communicate
with doesn't have emails
I'll see if I can make a Live CD using the TAILS instructions, but Libre, and
with grsec etc.
There's evidence using an adblocker can help track you because you block
connections to these domains. I think NoScript doesn't block the connections,
just the script from running.
You do not need to stop using a mobile phone, either. Purchase a
Replicant-supported mobile phone second hand, and just remove the battery
when you aren't using it. Then people can actually contact you sometimes for
instance if you are meeting up with people at a cafe or in a park, and of
c
If it were QN Intel processor it probably would have had an integrated
graphics too, but alas, it was not to be.
I should also add, you need not remove yourself from all social media. GNU
Social is decentralised and runs with LibreJS (you can use Quitter,
GNUSocial.no, etc). Even Twitter is not bad at all other than being
centralised.
This is an area I am interested in, too.
Let's think about the computer as a 'line of defense' for sensetive
information, such as banking records, private cryptography keys and personal
information.
--
The first line of defense is Libreboot. Libreboot is:
1. Not backdoored: It cannot be used
That's the point... just because something is widely used (seemingly the aim
of Linux and its blobs, understandable to a certain extent) does not mean
that it will spread freedom or the ideals of it. If people don't value
liberty why give it to them?
You could clean the USB ports in the Lenovo. Dirt could be covering one of
the contacts so that not enough power is being provided. I find this is
usually the problem on my laptop computer regarding keyboards and mice and
USB drives.
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