Makefile is a text file. He means to add that as a new line at the top of it.
The new line suggested explicitly make it use GNU bash.
「音本」だ。日本語のクラスのために作ったの。「４」も使う理由は6字があるユーザーネームだったね。
I was "shooting down" a female supremacist trying to inject female supremacy
where it doesn't belong.
This thread is not about changing Trisquel's naming system. Trisquel already
*has* a naming system which includes both male *and* female names, and
incidentally, it has exactly equal
「おんぽんよん」だ。
昨今その名をあまり使わない。「Julie.chan」（ジューリー丸ちゃん）か「The
Diligent Circle」を使う。
That's what makes it such a great name, though! :) It's a nice little in-joke
about all the drama and speculation about Trisquel being... abandoned. ;)
"Patriarchy in technology". Rght.
In case my sarcasm doesn't show through clearly enough, please do *not* turn
Trisquel into an SJW "muh womens representation" distro. "Female" is not a
part of Trisquel's naming scheme; Trisquel releases are named after Celtic
gods, either male *or*
"Japanese - Japanese" is the wrong one. You need "Japanese (Anthy)" or
something like that. Did you install the IBus Anthy package?
Did you switch it from latin to hiragana within Anthy? There should be
another menu option in the menu when you're in Anthy mode.
I actually use GNOME and have never enabled Japanese input on Xfce, so I
don't know the answer. But that's the first thing I would check.
"GNU FSDG" stands for "GNU Free Software Distribution Guidelines". The
acronym has changed multiple times, but the "F" has never stood for "FSF".
Hm... what about "sudo aptitude install -R wine1.6"? (The -R flag in aptitude
prevents recommended packages from being installed. I know apt and apt-get
have something similar, but I don't know what it is.)
The "is not going to be installed" error message can sometimes be fixed by
explicitly telling the package manager to install the package it's
complaining about. Or at least, you can figure out why it's not doing so
automatically.
I like to use the aptitude command. When it detects oddities
The problem is only with the way WebKit is distributed, so Blink doesn't have
the same problem. That's one major reason why there has been a push to switch
to it for Qt, the way I understand it.
Or they could finish the Trisquel 8 release and then start work on Trisquel
9...
Seems perfectly reasonable to me, given how close Trisquel 8 is to a release.
Snap was the bane of my existence on Ubuntu 16.04. I couldn't figure out a
way to disable it, and Software includes Snap packages (without an option to
turn them off), so any time I tried to find a program that way I'd be
inundated with proprietary Snap packages.
> The website's Help Desk says, "we only do windows."
Then don't use it.
Call them every time you need information from them, and explain when you
call that you can't use their Web interface because it doesn't work on
Trisquel. Eventually, someone in charge will notice that this ridiculous
There's no need to hand-hold for servers. The installer supports making your
own custom choices and if you're technical enough (which you should be if
you're setting up a server from scratch), it's no big deal at all. In fact I
tend to completely avoid those kinds of automatic partition
Oh god, you saw my Japanese a year ago? What's the blush emoticon? xD
Jodiendo is just a troll. He makes nonsense up for the fun of it. Nothing he
says should ever be taken seriously whatsoever, and most of it is incoherent
anyway.
つまり、Jodiendoさんのポストは必ずただのじょうだんです。笑ってわすれてくださいね。それとも、読まなくてもいいです。
I don't think there's any reasonable way to fix this server-side. You already
have the old emails, and your email client doesn't know that it's now
supposed to be sent to a different email address. Just something to deal with
I guess.
That wasn't a message that was meant for you. Whatever happened to not being
a vegan activist, as you proclaimed (by agreeing to strypey with no caveats)
on the previous page? You're just proving what I said to be true.
I still stand by what I said in relation to that: you need to drop the
I don't know the answer, but note that using software is always a possibility
if the GPU doesn't support the version of OpenGL you need. I believe most
distros are set up to run any unsupported OpenGL calls in software, so you
should be good regardless.
Also, there are some 2-D libraries
Split this off to here:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/regarding-veganism
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/
Yeah, it sure would be nice to eventually get Iridium in Trisquel. I was
never big on Chromium, but I know a lot of people do like Chrome and having a
real choice* would be great.
* Yes, there's all those WebKit browsers, but WebKit has security problems
and these browsers often don't
I've decided to immortalize and expand on this on my website:
http://onpon4.github.io/articles/libre-games.html
Veganism is a lifestyle choice that tends to be really strict and implies
activism, not just a description of what you eat. A lot of the time, it
involves refusing to eat at certain places because there's a chance that a
tiny bit of meat or egg or cheese might accidentally get into your
That actually sounds like a fine interaction to me. The comment about Netflix
can be deflected because Netflix won't work on your browser. Or, you can ask
them if they brought your computer, because you don't have Netflix.
He's already replied back to you. That was fast.
"fully Open-Source means 100% including any and all components, plugins,
extensions, patches, snippets and everything else it is shipped with by
default."
> If I don't hear them speak, I can
> usually convince myself that there's someone in that crowd who would
> have a shred of understanding and empathy for me, and appreciate me.
This is a mindset you have to escape from. I had this mindset, too. It cost
me my sanity, and it could easily have
> I don't believe in trying to go through mental gymnastics to relieve
> the actual problem of not having a place to belong in the world.
I didn't either. But if you make it to the other side, escape from the
darkness, you will see why you were so wrong to think this.
There is an underlying
This is a disproportionate reaction to what I said. Note that the second
message still came before you had responded to the first.
All I'm saying is, eat the food you want to eat. Don't make things harder on
yourself by trying to stick strictly to a perfect vegan diet. I guarantee you
you
> "Hey, let's all play a game. Cal, here's you're controller."
>
> "No thanks, I'm good just watching."
>
> "OK..."
This is anti-social and unreasonable. Take the controller and play with them.
It's not your computer, i.e. not your responsibility.
> "Sorry..." "Well, would you like
I just wanted to mention this, since the topic of Iridium has come up in the
past:
There was an issue on Iridium's bug tracker asking for the developers to
confirm that Iridium is 100% libre software. I decided to post there to get
their attention, and a contributor has confirmed that,
Regarding depression:
I used to experience depression, it was constant, and after a while I didn't
even recognize it as depression. I eventually solved it a couple years ago
when I finally accepted a truth about myself I had really known for years,
but always tried to deny out of fear.
> When I'm having a bad time because there's no food around, or I'm
> struggling to avoid using the computers, nobody understands me.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
> I want to do this, but it's hard to do because we live far away and
> don't have much gas money to spare.
I don't
That's what I tried with my younger brothers. It didn't work. As soon as my
mom got them laptops (which ran Windows), they abandoned all of it.
See, the problem is that my oldest brother was pushing the proprietary games
he liked, and they liked those games too, much more than they liked any
Are you trying to make friends over the Internet? That never works.
I make friends in two ways:
* Talking with my coworkers.
* Going to activity groups, where people do something that I am interested
in. Like a board game playing group I go to every month.
If you're saying that you're such
> I don't really understand why debian switched to it, given that it isn't as
good for older hardware.
What init system you use has nothing to do with hardware support. That is the
kernel (Linux) and the kernel alone.
As for not understanding why Debian switched to it, perhaps that should
Addendum: should have been a reply to the post above, not this one. Sorry
about that.
Regarding her friends, it's worth noting that F-Droid includes a feature that
allows setting up your device as a localized repo for other F-Droid users. So
she can share the games she has with her friends that way. She might also be
able to get the games her friends play off of them this way
You're right, sugar is terrible for you, but we are naturally inclined to
like it, regardless. In fact all energy gets converted to sugar (glucose), so
it's not inherently evil. The problem is consuming it in excess, without the
fiber that typically accompanies it in fruit.
Now, if it was
> How would using a legally downloaded program on a legally purchased device
infringe copyright?
Because you're making copies and distributing them to someone else (your
daughter). Her being your daughter does not change anything, and neither does
the fact that you're using a physical
Maybe, rather than rejecting systemd, you should ask systemd users for help
on how to do the things you haven't figured out. To my knowledge, systemd
includes the most advanced and efficient init system out there, and that's
why the vast majority of distros have chosen to use it.
I'm not sure, but assuming that it is possible, it would be copyright
infringement to my knowledge. (IANAL)
Perhaps it would be better to introduce her to what F-Droid offers. What
sorts of games does she play? You said "tocoboco's and lego", but I don't
know what kinds of games those are.
Ah, a quote mine. Classy.
(See, I can do sarcasm too.)
> No. It is like letting the gas company know where your stove is, exactly
when you are using it, what you are cooking and allowing the gas company to
control whether you are worth receiving that gas for the particular meal you
are cooking or not.
You're so full of shit. All Google knows
LOL, dude, just a couple comments down from the one you linked, MB points out
that you could disable GA instantly and your only response was, "what I put
on my website is not your business". You're so full of shit. You have nothing
against using Google Analytics to track your visitors
> You need to configure your email server address, port, and so forth in your
mail reader in order to use email, don't you?
No, IceDove figures that out automatically.
> A newsgroup is not like a www site that you can casually point your
newsreader to.
So, you're saying it takes more
> I think you should configure an account just like when you would set up an
email account. In your newsreader there should be a way to configure
accounts. Just create a new account and point it to news.gmane.org and you
should be gtg.
Why would I want to do that?
The only advantages
It's already been explained to you that Google learns nothing about you from
this behavior. They know that your IP address is running a Web browser. Big
whoop. I think the benefit of protecting people from malicious websites,
scamming, phishing, etc is much more important than not letting
> just subscribe to the newsgroup above and you will have these instant
benefits
I downloaded the Pan Newsreader and put that address you mentioned in. It
does nothing whatsoever. It says that "Getting group list from
'nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.gnu-linux-libre'" is a
Erm, why? What does use of a mailing list have to do with Usenet?
Actually, I don't even get why you want to go back to using Usenet in the
first place. I've never been exposed to newsgroups outside of archives like
Google Groups, so I don't know personally what it's like, but I am not aware
しんぱいしないでください。いつも何も言わなくてもいいです。それから、他人は話を続けてもいいですね。何もスレを始めた人のせいではありません。ボスではないのですね。
There's no need to announce that you're not continuing. You can respond or
not respond to messages as you wish; you don't gain any obligations simply
because you started a thread. Please be at ease and don't
> You seem to ignore the most common scenario (which I already explained but
again:) host A is perfectly clean/libre system communicating with host B
which is PRISM'ed (= all communication is tapped). Now consider that hosts
like A are very few and hosts like B are almost all other computers
> But all these doesn't explain his correspondents' security weaknesses,
namely PGP on Windows. Edward Snowden has *got to* know better than to fall
into that.
Snowden used Tails, not Windows. This was also what he had the journalists he
talked to use.
It's not just Microsoft. I saw an ad about a month ago advertising this
feature for Apple devices.
It's a reference to the possibility of a government agent opening the package
and tampering with the hardware to install a bug on it. Not very likely, but
this has been done before when the state has wanted to target an important
person.
> But I also thought that a lady who learns Japanese is rare. Because
Japanese men are not popular with ladies of the world. It looks that Japanese
ladies are popular in the world.
I don't think many people Japanese because they're attracted to Japanese
girls. xD The number one reason is
> Does that means that even if I get a libreboot PC, the PC still has a
potential for be installed the backdoors? Not physical backdoors, via
traffic. And even the free softwares are complex and bloated, probably full
of bugs?
It just means that no software is perfect, and no hardware is
No worries. Your English is way better than my Japanese, at any rate.
I suggest you assume good faith from all posters; it's very possible for
something you are interpreting as anger is something different entirely,
given your skill level at English that I can see.
And at the same token, don't worry about angering people. You'll be fine as
long as you don't
へぇ～。
But "Jap" is generally seen as a slur. You probably don't want to refer to
yourself as that. It would be like me referring to myself as a 外人, I
guess.
ところで、私は女です。
Most of the recommendations on prism-break are fine, so if you find it
helpful, go for it. I just don't think it's a helpful reference in general.
It's too unfocused.
privacytools.io seems fine, but I don't recommend prism-break as a reference.
It's all over the place and blacklists Trisquel because it's based on Ubuntu,
which just tells me they don't understand how this stuff works.
"Perfect" is impossible. If it's possible for one person to understand
something, it's possible for anyone as long as they have the right knowledge.
But practically speaking, no one is going to crack good encryption; the time
it would take (without e.g. social engineering) is a period of
God, ADFENO, you really have a knack for resurrecting month-old threads.
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 thing... that page they
I agree with this 100%. There are so so so many bad things that are stopped
by just not running code you can't trust on your computer.
heyjoe's insistence that "scarce" just means "finite" is nothing more than a
linguistic distraction to avoid admitting that no one ever said RAM was
infinite. MB has already clarified what he means by "scarce". I use the same
exact definition. If you or heyjoe want to use "scarce" to mean
DFSG is not 100% compatible with GNU FSDG.
That said, the reason for the assertion that WebEngine is non-free is that
it's based on Chromium. I have never seen anyone actually evidence the claim
that Chromium is proprietary.
> Python is an interpreted language and you don't know how the interpreter
handles the data internally.
https://github.com/python/cpython
> your expectations of efficiency are contrary to the basic programming
principle: that a program should use only as much memory as it actually needs
for completing the task and that memory usage should be optimized.
That is only a "basic programming principle" if RAM is scarce. RAM is not
> Starting a new program requires free memory.
Yes, but if you pay more attention to the context of what I was saying, that
would be included under the umbrella of "use". There's a difference between
using 2GB right now and using 2GB ever. The point is that if you can spare
RAM, ideally,
No, if you're not swapping, there's no performance loss. There is zero
benefit to having RAM free that you're not using. If you're only ever using 2
GB of RAM out of 16 GB, those other 14 GB are doing absolutely nothing for
you.
Exactly. I don't think a lot of people understand that increased RAM and hard
disk consumption is often done intentionally to improve performance. The only
way reducing RAM consumption will ever help performance is if you're using so
much RAM that it's going into swap, and very few people
The question that comes to mind for me is, "lightweight" in what sense? I
don't think anyone who requests a "lightweight" browser really understands
what they're asking for. Here are a few possibilities I can think of:
1. Low memory footprint (e.g. because your computer only has 1GB of RAM)
> I am not sure that it will amount to much, because it is a "lip service" by
Microsoft, never meant to work properly in large/professional scale.
I meant that the fact that they support the standard means you can safely
ignore OOXML as a "standard" and just use ODF. I don't know if it
That device also is locked down by DRM, so no. You would be best off not
using Kindle e-books and getting paper books instead, or e-books in a libre,
non-DRM-encumbered format (e.g. ePub) if possible. Defective By Design has a
rather lengthy list here:
> BTW I don't know whether Synaptic itself is installed by default.
It is. Its entry is under "System Settings".
All package manager frontends, including Add/Remove Applications, show
whether or not any given program is installed. Even if you use the
command-line to request the installation of a program you already have
installed, it will see that it's already installed and tell you that. So no
In my experience, OOXML files don't work well on LibreOffice, probably
because of those things MB mentioned. Everything always seems to render
differently between MS Office and LibreOffice.
I actually remember the whole controversy back when I was in school. My dad
was a vocal critic of
> once I download Trisquel 7 on my notebook, should I copy all my files once
again on the Trisquel 7 Documents folder?
That's fine. Any viruses there won't work on GNU/Linux, but if you're
concerned about what might happen to Windows users, you can scan with ClamAV
(the ClamTK package,
...
Touche.
> Lard is poison.
I know this is off-topic, but I would dispute that. Do some research on the
history of the lipid hypothesis, which is what you're referring to; there's
really not any evidence behind the idea. It's more likely excess sugar
consumption and, to a lesser extent, other excess
> The questions were a reply to Magic Banana who wasn't.
Fair enough, I was mistaken on this point, then. I apologize.
> So to you a conversation is worthy only if it is an argument?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/argument
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/argue
These are
> The questions weren't even put to you specifically
No, they were put to someone who was joking and specifically told you so.
That's why I didn't feel the need to refute every single thing you said. Just
those two because they stood out to me.
Look, if you aren't willing to argue the
I gave you a detailed explanation as to why it's different, and your only
response is a variant of "no it's not"? Why do you even bother responding if
you're not going to actually refute my reasoning?
> In any case - you didn't even look at the essence of the questions which is
the whole
> 1. When you go to a restaurant, do you consider every dish for which you
are not given the recipe + the right to modify and redistribute it a "maybe
poison"?
That's not quite the same thing. When you're given food at a restaurant,
you're not given a recipe that you're not allowed to
That's a proprietary program. I suggest you don't use it.
If you want an antivirus program, that's ClamAV. Look for "ClamTK"; it's in
the repo and acts as a graphical frontend for ClamAV. But I should note that
antivirus on GNU/Linux is not for your own protection; it's for the
protection
You don't even need cryptocurrency or e-cash to pay anonymously. You can go
to any store that sells gift cards, buy a MasterCard or VISA gift card with
cash, and use that to pay. It just costs a bit more.
If you're not interested in learning English properly, then don't do activist
work that requires skills in English. There is plenty of good you can do with
Cantonese, like just spreading the basic idea of libre software through
Cantonese. Or you could take up programming; no one cares how
So, you're just saying that's where your vocabulary comes from? That's
immaterial. All dictionaries contain roughly the same entries, the only
difference is spelling and a few new or uncommon words. The point is that you
need more tutoring. You're not even close to done learning English.
> Nobody loads a file into a game in the way they commonly load files into
> spreadsheets, word processors, and other similar programs for which work is
> typically done.
Games do load files, but I suppose you mean that you never transfer files for
use with non-identical software, and
If you have a device that can run Replicant with GPS, that would do the
trick; you could use OsmAnd~, ZANavi, or Navit (all found in the F-Droid
repo). But I don't think any Replicant-supporting phones support GPS with
libre software, so that's partly just theoretical.
A device with
No, that's not true. British English and American English are the same
language. The spelling differences have nothing to do whatsoever with other
languages. They were caused by spelling standard differences a couple hundred
years ago.
> When I was a teen I was mostly used to be tutored based on the Cambridge
and Oxford dictionaries, both web interface and physical ones.
A dictionary cannot tutor you. Dictionaries are tools. Tutors are people who
teach you. These are not interchangeable.
It's not about what "does the most harm". It's about consistency in your
principles. To recommend something, and then turn around and say that that
thing you recommended is unethical, is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy never helps any
cause.
And what good do you hope to bring about, really? Saving
I'm talking to someone who is (or at least was) convinced that his English is
great. Someone who believes they have great proficiency already is never
going to get better.
Also, learning English is not easy. Not only is the entire way English
grammar works mostly alien to Asian languages
Whatever languages you're fluent in. All I know for sure is that English is
not one of them.
I think people are better off using Microsoft Office than Google Docs. And
what are you going to tell them? "I don't recommend this Web service, but use
it anyway, here, I'll teach you how to use it"? I don't think it makes sense.
> that's never my own fault if my English skills are bad, instead those bad
educational systems are liable to this.
How is your activism in Cantonese going?
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