I don't trust proxies either. Since, if I was the one who wanted to surveil
other people, I would set up a whole bunch of false anonymizing alternatives,
in order to catch people trying to escape from that same surveillance.
(And, bear in mind that, if the powers-that-be consider you to be a person
worthy of such, even if you use secure communications, the images displayed
on your computer screen can still be reproduced from afar:
http://cryptome.info/0001/tempest-fret.htm)
:)
(Let's hope that that changes,
I know very little about the technical details...
But, one thing that I know is that, this is something about which (still
today) all the secret services are worried about. And about which (still
today) many governmental departments take counter-measures against.
Reading on the Internet, I
1) Privacy (http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=101456.0)
2) Security (I don't think I have to argue about that, in here)
3) Configurability (/Ability to change a lot of things, according to taste,
/Freedom of choice between different variants, /Freedom of use, /FREEDOM) -
4) Speed
How do you know that this Startpage search engine and its mail service are
really private?
Are you aware that:
1) The Startpage search engine is recommended by the EU?
2) That one of the main persons behind it is recommended by the US corporate
media?
If you think that, by adhering to
Je... I didn't know that even in open source (I don't like the term either)
OS's had backdoors been discovered(!)... (And I will, definitely, inform
myself about that OpenBSD episode...)
Concerning what I said, I can give you two references:
1)
You can't know that anything (especially on the server side) is actually
private.
That's just it...
Unless it's a service managed by someone you (personally) know good enough or
know that you can trust in, as long as there are governments and corporations
out there wanting to violate your
That's what I think also. (And what I've considered doing, in the past...)
Since, I have a modem-router online 24h/day and can easily buy a cheap
computer, with enough processing power and low energy consumption, just for
that.
And the main reasons I don't do it, it's because there's
Concerning GPG, I haven't learned to use it yet, also... But, it doesn't
sound like that much big of an effort.
Concerning the privacy issue, I think that its relation to Free Software
usage is best seen from a different angle...
People who actually use their brain cells and that want to,
If you: are (like myself) all well-informed enough to know that the Russian
government is nowhere near as corrupt and evil (to put it mildly) as our
Western ones; are not willing to go through a lot of work because of this;
and just want to choose the lesser of (several) evils...
You can
Yes, of course... And, even that is not enough, if the person on the other
side is using a OS with backdoors in it... (i.e. Windows and the likes...)
That's what I meant, in one of the above comments... All this type of efforts
are irrelevant, unless the persons you are corresponding with
I don't know anything more about this riseup.net website, other than the
fact that the people who decided to include my e-mail address, in the past,
in a mailing-list that existed on that service, are easily fooled and
infiltrated activists...
(This is one of the reasons why I think a different kind of forum - like the
one Ubuntu has, with places where people can discuss topics not specifically
about software, but related to it, and whatever kind of topics people want to
discuss - would be a very good idea for the Trisquel
And, also, still concerning the hackers (I forgot to say) this new
phenomenon of Internet attacks supposedly made by groups like Anonymous,
LulzSec, and the likes, is also something behind which is the
(Anglo-American) establishment itself.
I'm sure this was done in 'the name of healthy eating' or for 'safety'
reason or to 'avoid legal liability due to allergies, etc'.
Don't be fooled by the propaganda... This Big Brother exists to protect you
and take care of you is always the official explanation. But, it's not the
true
(Not wanting to drift from the original subject, I can't resist answering
that...)
That's because the traditional family model, where a mother (or,
alternatively, a father) would educate their own children (instead of a
stranger, that takes orders from the State, now doing that) has been
Homeschooling means learning at home. Not being locked inside a house for
24 hours a day. And, every sane parent wants their children to socialize with
other children (also homeschooled or not) and do whatever they want, on their
free time.
There are thousands of persons who were
I believe that, when I tried Openbox, the graphical program that I used to
change the wallpaper (and that usually comes pre-installed in Openbox
distros) was one called Nitrogen.
But, I know there are others:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Openbox#Wallpaper
If you search on the
radeon will most likely not work under Trisquel. AFAIK it still relies on
firmware files / blobs to provide 3D acceleration and even for pure 2D
loading the driver will fail without blob.
--- Darksoul71
I guess that must be true...
After a little more experimentation with Trisquel 6.0 - on
Hi there, lembas.
Thanks for the tip. I will take a look at the radeon manual, once I have
the time to.
Yes. On 5.5 I could operate my laptop pretty well. (And I have the impression
that I also had to add the nomodeset parameter - like I did in 6.0, to make
the computer be able to boot
What do you expect from a government school?
(http://www.prisonplanet.com/court-rules-texas-school-can-force-students-to-wear-id-around-necks.html)
One Spy Device Per Child, would be a more appropriate designation...
This is not necessarily what people, in general, are getting into. But,
Thank you very much for your confirmations, lembas and miga.
I can, then, rest assured that there's nothing wrong with my WiFi connection.
As for the error messages display, lembas, the only one that appears during
boot is the ssb0:0: Missing Free firmware one.
So, there's no need to hide
Hello everyone.
It is with great pleasure that I can say that (after some doubt, and a long
time waiting for this latest version, based on a LTS (more stable) version of
Ubuntu) I have definitely adopted Trisquel on my secondary (laptop) computer.
:)
I managed to get it working properly
A wise decision, in my opinion.
I even thought of proposing just that, in the previous discussions that I saw
being held here. But refrained myself from doing so, because, not only am I
not part of the developing team, but also, because I'm still waiting for
Trisquel 6 to be released
As for the Countries Under Surveillance list, I would put Portugal and all
the rest of the European and other Western countries on the list.
We are all under (heavy)[1] surveillance[2] on the West.
And, if you doubt it, try doing anything political.
Concerning Tor, I urge you all to take a
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.
Organize
I can't stand those stupid devices.
They give you brain cancer[1], are listening and tracking devices[2], are
an annoyance to other people who don't want to hear them ringing everywhere
they go and braindead people talking into them all the time, and, on the
overall majority of the
(Not that much off-topic, in my opinion, since it also fits into the general
Free Software-related discussions that usually take place in this forum. And
this is a subject that also interests me, since I've also been looking for a
portable media device, where I can install Free Software.)
Or...
(Because, in my case, I was looking for an MP4 player - that could play FLAC
files, in which one could also play chess, and - that could easily fit into a
pocket, I almost forgot...)
You can also buy one of those cheap (99€/$) 7 inch so-called mini
tablets, like a Yarvik model[1],
Hello there, david.
Now, I'm the one who must apologize for the delay in a response...
I wanted to let a full week pass, before I responded here in the thread - in
order to give enough time for everyone to first post their responses - but
then Christmas came, and, after that, came some
Thank you very much, all of you, for your answers.
It's relieving to know that you are all already aware of this problem and are
trying to do something about it.
No hurry on my part, since, what affected me has, in the meantime, already
kindly been solved.
All the Best to your project.
I wouldn't trust this Tor network as an effective tool to protect one's
privacy.
Tor has been developed by the US government. And is still supported by it, to
this day.
Originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory,[8] Tor was
financially supported by the Electronic Frontier
I didn't say anything about hidden code in the Tor network. I know it's an
open source project.
What I said is that it's a network know not to be safe - as it is explained
in the last link I left. Unlike a lot of people working for the US
government, I'm not a computer security expert. So,
And, by the way...
Trying to hide from your governments is not the way to go.
Fighting for a society were there is not such government intrusion is.
The more you just try to hide from them and don't fight them, the more space
of manoeuvre our governments have and the more at will they are to
OK.
I understand, and also agree, that this should be discussed elsewhere,
instead.
But, could you please not publish my e-mail here in the comments? (And delete
also that part of your post?)
In the edit options, it says that the e-mail address is not made public.
eheheh :)
Very nice.
Well done, FSF.
For all of you in doubt, this kind of actions do work... The way I got to
know about GNU/Linux, years ago, was through two friends of mine who went to
an anti-Bill Gates demonstration, here in Portugal, where someone offered
them a CD with a GNU/Linux
hehe
Yes, I actually though it was a joke. But one made because of this being a
repeated thread. I thought it was a jokingly reference to the fact that the
person who opened this new thread was just repeating - or creating an
alternative to - an already existing thread of the same nature.
eheheh :)))
I stopped using ext3 as soon as ext4 was declared stable and appeared as an
option on my Ubuntu install.
I noticed an around 50% increase in speed on my hard drive operations, as it
was reported by other people. So I don't ever think of going back.
I like the control that Arch/Parabola offers
lembas,
I realized later that I misunderstood a possible relation of the bug I had
with the description of the bug you linked to, after I quickly read it, when
you posted the link to the description here. And, therefore, ended up not
trying to implement that particular solution.
The
Hello there, Chris.
I have not decided yet if I will adopt Trisquel or not, but I will surely
make a donation, anyway, once I have the money to.
(I'm also one of the many unemployed already, so it will take some time and
won't be that much... But it's the least I can do to offer something
Hi there, SirGrant.
Yes... I can see that my computer specifications are not listed there, yet.
And I will most certainly submit the results of my experience, then.
It's the least I can do, to contribute something back to you guys, and to the
Free Software comunity at large.
Take care
Hello there, lembas.
I've just checked that description and there's the possibility that, although
my error messages are about the radeon driver, the bug might be that the
system is not properly killing all the processes at shutdown/reboot. And
that, for that reason, it takes so much time
Hi everyone!
I've just discovered this distro and tried it out, and I was amazed as to how
it was possible for my computer to make everything that I wanted it to
(connect to my router through a wifi connection, play mp3 files, watch flash
videos on the Internet etc) with a fully Free
Michał:
Well... I now have a more pleasant boot, where it shows much less (to none)
text messages, and, instead of the error messages when shutting down, I now
only see the splash animation. But the computer still takes two minutes to
shut down... So, I guess the only thing this procedure
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