Re: [Trisquel-users] How to get an opendesktop.org account?
Thank you ssdclickofdeath and SuperTramp83.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to get an opendesktop.org account?
Did that. Now I finally have an account.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When will trisquel update gnupg to the ecc support version?
https://www.gnupg.org/download/index.html you can download the latest gnu-pg version here and compile it from source
Re: [Trisquel-users] What kind of email services are you using and recommend and why?
https://tutanota.de/ https://www.lavaboom.com/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless Problem
My Thinkpad T420 with a Thinkpenguin wifi usb dongle was experiencing the same flakiness as tdlnx a couple of months ago, but I did two things that appear to have cured the problem: (1) Unplug the dongle from the USB port and plug it in again a few times to clean off the contacts; and (2) Re-orient the antenna on the router. My connection went from 6kb/s to around 60kb/s, which isn't lightning fast but is acceptable for web browsing and for keeping my Trisquel 7 installation up to date. It doesn't lose connectivity any more, either.
[Trisquel-users] Re : When will trisquel update gnupg to the ecc support version?
Debian experimental has a package for GnuPG 2.1.x: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/gnupg2 Use it at your own risks!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with synaptic and apt-get update
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[Trisquel-users] Re : Wireless Problem
/usr/local/bin is intended to contain such local scripts.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Creating a license that switches between two external licenses
Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking more in the line of keeping the software copyleft but if I die or a company goes under, it becomes free for all without restrictions to better society or something. That way, the copyright isn't tied to a dead entity and the software gets ignored.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
No, it doesn't. That warning is for the PNG file, not for SELinux itself. It is clear to anyone that visits the URL (http://blag.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/File:30k-blag-install-14-firewall.png) that the warning is directed to the PNG file.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!
ok well, to get the whole panel transparent, I use compiz. Unless you know of another way?
[Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
If you scroll down until you see the last two topics, you'll read this: Firewall SELinux File:30k-blag-install-14-firewall.png BLAG does not enable SELinux on install. Some legacy applications do not work with SELinux. If you wish to enabled it in the future, you can run system-config-securitylevel Link: http://blag.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Installation Warning: This file type may contain malicious code. By executing it, your system may be compromised. http://blag.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/File:30k-blag-install-14-firewall.png So, does it mean Blag team found something on SELinux that can threaten our privacy because it was developed by the NSA?
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
png files can be execute code...? *mind blown
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
In all fairness I don't recall sudo chmod +x hamburger-concerto.png to be impossible. And I guess one really never knows what, after that, would be triggered upon doing./hamburger-concerto.png (after all, an extension is nothing more than an extension...)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with synaptic and apt-get update
If you are trying to lose weight, there is nothing more important than proper nutrition. Not to mention exercise. Soy protein shakes your body Erm... with a choice such as fruit and vegetables can do wonders. That sentence made no sense. We bust past your plateau Now this is just comical.
[Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
Is playing Nexuiz online SaaSS? RMS seemed to think so here, in the original version of Who Does That Server Really Serve?: http://www.bostonreview.net/richard-stallman-free-software-DRM Interestingly enough, the passage where he mentions games is no longer in the current updated version on the GNU website. I personally don't share his view. I don't think that multiplayer games are SaaSS because (in the case of an FPS like Nexuiz or a strategy game like FreeCiv) each user still runs her own copy of the game- the server is simply an instance of the game that just so happens to be the centre of information exchange for the other instances. The only information actually on the server that would normally be on the user's own computer is arbitrary data like the state of play and the score. If several people decided to play Monopoly, each recording the state of play on their own boards (the separate programs, in this allegory) and communicating through a 'postmaster' who controlled the flow of correspondence (the server), there is no SaaSS, because no one is doing anyone else's computing for them. How is this SaaSS?
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
SVG pictures are actually potentially dangerous, that's why the Tor Browser disables them if you move the security slider to a higher position. BUT I don't know about png images. As for the file extension being enough to prevent a file from executing code, it should be simple to test, if I could bother to do so :P
Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!
So you spend all this time trying to convince me my panel's transparency setting is bugged, and then just back off with an 'ok well' when I prove it isn't. I have no idea of any other way (other than using Compiz) to force the panel items to take their background setting from the panel transparency setting. I never really understood the appeal of a transparent panel anyway. Or Compiz, for that matter. My experiences with it have had me find it ugly, bloated, and unnecessary for a decent-looking desktop.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
1. The warning you referenced clearly refers to the potential dangers of the PNG being an executable in disguise. 2. BLAG gave a clear reason as to why SELinux is not enabled by default- it does not work with certain legacy applications. 3. If SELinux was actual malware then a) BLAG would not have been the first to discover it, b) there would be massive uproar all over the GNU/Linux community, and c) it would be nowhere near the BLAG system. Oh wait- it's the 'NSA is everywhere' guy.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
I'm glad NSA developed SELinux. If openSSL had been developed by NSA, heartbleed would probably have been discovered sooner.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to create a mail server?
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Wireless Problem
Is it? I've been living a lie! I always put my own scripts and things in /usr/bin with everything else. Is there some practical reason behind this? Or just Unix tradition?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with synaptic and apt-get update
Spelling and grammar, where art thou? It what? reduce your cost down No. in the apartment can be proud of No. .apartments Spacing? Capitalisation? for sale harlem This sentence is a fragment. Consider revising. new york luxury apartments No. This is some of the shittiest forum advert spamming I've ever seen- worse than the Louis Vuitton jacket hyperlink cascade type thing. There there is no pretence at coherence- the links are presented on the off chance someone will follow one of them. This particular piece of spam reads horribly, offers no details, no information, no links to follow, and will fail to convince or even influence anyone. Since no actual specific information is provided, I would not even have a clue how to proceed even if I did wish to partake of 'It'. I wouldn't even mind the spam that much if it was actually decent advertising. This just makes my blood boil.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!
well if I can't convince you thats bugged what else can I say? Compiz fixes the issue for me is all I can say... THe guy who got me started with this on the IRC help channel believed transparency would help limit the screen burning on his monitor, i guess he has a black desktop background, or maybe worried the whole panel wasn't transparent not sure. I dunno if his worries are valid but i was determined to get it working. I just think it looks cool, i'm also using compiz to make the start menu and context menus transparent. and using the trailfocus plugin for transparent windows, snapping windows and some other things. I don't find it bloated since I don't notice a change in memory, and compiz is only using about 3-6% cpu depending, cpu running cool still.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
It's not SaSS, like software repositories and webmail services aren't. It's only SaSS when the server is running software you don't know with your data that you could be running in your own machine, like wolfram alpha for example.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Any Trisquel users on the Libreboot X60 have their keyboards turn off randomly?
You can reach libreboot folks at the #libreboot IRC channel if need be.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
SVG pictures are actually potentially dangerous Why? I'm curios about this.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
Thanks for the info onpon4. I didn't knew this was already happening, or even possible. This is exactly the nightmare that I have been seeing becoming true over time. This, the tablets/toasters, and everything that has cloud in their name is pure crap. Whether we are talking from a freedom, philosophical, privacy or independence point of view, we can only find this things dangerous. There's just some minor advantages that comes with this. For instance you can play games with awesome graphics on toasters as long as you have Internet connection. But the price that you pay on freedom, independence and privacy is just to high. Is people's duty to completely reject and ignore this horrible services if we don't want to live depending more and more on services that we don't even need.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
If this is actually SaaSS then being under a free license isn't enough if you're going to use the service anyway. You have to run it on a computer under your control (both server and client). So the question isn't whether SaaSS can be acceptable under a free license but whether using someone's else Quake 3 server qualify as SaaSS.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
Multiplayer games == SaaS? Well this is new, sort of. A SaaS game would be more like having the whole game on the server. So the client only sends the input and receives the frames. Could Stallman actually be referring to MMO games that have an important part of the game only in the server, like Habbo Hotel? If that's the case then I can see why he call them SaaS. But I can't if he refers to any multiplayer game, like OpenArena.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
That actually has been done before; there was a system designed for this called the OnLive. I don't think it ever really caught on.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Private Browsing Tor Proxy not working anymore in Abrowser
Cannot edit the first message, so here's some additional information: when I write that the addon doesn't work, what I mean is that when a Private Browsing opens, I don't see the Private Browsing Tor Proxy popup message notifying me that the Proxy has changed. A visit to http://check.torproject.org confirms that the Private session is not using tor.
[Trisquel-users] Private Browsing Tor Proxy not working anymore in Abrowser
On my main computer, the Private Browsing Tor Proxy addon is not working anymore in Abrowser. It does work in IceCat, and still works in Abrowser on my secondary computer. I may have changed some setting Abrowser (although I can't recall I did...). Can anyone help me fix that problem (I have no clue what to look for and search engines don't provide any information)?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
It seems obvious to me that he simply changed his mind. He was probably referring to exactly what it looks like in the original version. Like all human beings, RMS is imperfect and makes mistakes.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
With these games (especially the Quake 3 ones), there is a dedicated server for the clients to connect to. If the client is under a free license, the server software is probably free as well.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
It doesn't. Multiplayer games aren't your own computing, but a shared activity by multiple people.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
Then we should ask Stallman what was he referring to with multiplayer games before people picks the wrong idea.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Any Trisquel users on the Libreboot X60 have their keyboards turn off randomly?
How do you know it's a libreboot problem? Like I said it problem did not occur under other distros.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
moxalt wrote: Interestingly enough, the passage where he mentions games is no longer in the current updated version on the GNU website. Did you ask him why the versions differ with respect to your point? If so, what did he say in response? I personally don't share his view. I don't think that multiplayer games are SaaSS because (in the case of an FPS like Nexuiz or a strategy game like FreeCiv) each user still runs her own copy of the game- the server is simply an instance of the game that just so happens to be the centre of information exchange for the other instances. The only information actually on the server that would normally be on the user's own computer is arbitrary data like the state of play and the score. Since Stallman says (in https://www.bostonreview.net/richard-stallman-free-software-DRM): But where the data involved is just the state of play and the score, the worst wrong the operator might commit is favoritism. You might well ignore that risk, since it seems unlikely and very little is at stake. it seems like you don't really disagree with Stallman. Perhaps in https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html he edited out the paragraph about multiplayer games for the very reason he said in the https://www.bostonreview.net/richard-stallman-free-software-DRM version -- [favoritism] seems unlikely and very little is at stake.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
Why are you making such a big stink about this? It is software running on another server that you connect to and probably don't have any control of. If you have a problem with that, you may as well disconnect from the internet.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!
Fair enough.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
But whether there is actually some grave threat or not is irrelevant. In the same way that the issue with proprietary software is not necessarily that it is directly abusing the user (in many cases it is not) but a matter of principle. The issue at stake here is not what the operator could potentially do or not, but whether the practice of using someone else's server for communicating between instances of a game is actually SaaSS or not, and whether it should thus be rejected on principle. I don't think it is.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
I was trying to understand Stallman's position, but it seems he was just mistaking. So there's no reason to ask him now.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
That's exactly the question. I could be running Quake solely on my machine- client and server. However, I am using someone else's server, and entrusting them with that part of the game- acting as a hub of communication between all instances of the game. Is this SaaSS? That is the question.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
It seems there all sorts of attacks, Lemba linked an example of a png file causing a memory corruption in firefox which can leak data out of memory. There are also examples of png file causing buffer overflows in wmp and ie on windows which can let an attacker execute remote code. There is an example png exploits in google chrome to allow for drive by downloads or browser search poisoning. So I guess there are potential risks. I'm not sure what this has to do with selinux though? weird.
[Trisquel-users] Any Trisquel users on the Libreboot X60 have their keyboards turn off randomly?
It probably only happens once every 1.5 months but still, my keyboard just seems to turn off. Trackpoint works fine! But there is no output from the keyboard at all. This does not seem to happen in other distros I tried on the Libreboot X60. I really can't tell what could cause it to happen, I just use this machine for a terminal and email and web stuff. I've not done any kind of tinkering with it or any keyboard settings. When I happens I generally either plug in a USB keyboard or reboot. Rebooting is the only thing that fixes it, currently. Could anyone help me here, please? Thanks for reading.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
You're right. This change clearly reflect that change: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/who-does-that-server-really-serve.ko-diff.html So it's pretty much solved now, the article is just outdated.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are multiplayer games SaaSS?
As well as things like AdventureQuest, which is an MMO hosted entirely in the browser as a (*spits*) Flash game.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
I see two such vulnerabilities mentioned here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/
Re: [Trisquel-users] What kind of email services are you using and recommend and why?
I started using hushmail before I found Trisquel and this forum. I paid for a years subscription but they were providing a web based only (uses javascript) account for free. It's Canadian, they say email is stored in encrypted form and my Evolution setup is using OpenPGP. It took me a long time to figure out how to use OpenPGP or enigmail. I wonder if there is a way to certify if my email really is encrypted. I wasn't really worried about governmental mass surveillance but I would like my ISP to mind its own business. I'm not sure that email services outside of US or EU law zones don't carry other risks. I mean what is the law in Russia for instance, and does Putin prevent Russian hackers or even the NSA for that matter running supposedly secure email services? I like the post and will spend some more time looking up all your recommendations.
Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag
well yeah but just be viewing a .png file is what i ment
