Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

[J.B. Nicholson]

will.hillno...@gmail.com wrote:

That's a good point, but surely you would prefer and recommend a search
engine that used and shared free software, perhaps something that could be
used cooperatively?  If all other things were equal, we should alway prefer
free software.


In the context of a search engine, we're talking about a service that does 
not do your computing for you; this is not SaaSS (Service as a Software 
Substitute). So whether that service uses free software is of interest to 
that service's owners but not the users. 
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html 
discusses this.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

[onpon4]

> I trust the community to solve systemd issues

That won't happen. Trisquel uses what Ubuntu uses. There is no reason to  
expend extra effort to use a worse init system that isn't fully supported  
upstream.


> and will be watching what Richard Stallman does.

RMS doesn't care about systemd. It's libre, and that's all that matters.

RMS also doesn't have a problem with DDG. In fact, it's his primary search  
engine.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

[will . hillnotes]

That's a good point, but surely you would prefer and recommend a search  
engine that used and shared free software, perhaps something that could be  
used cooperatively?  If all other things were equal, we should alway prefer  
free software.  

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

[will . hillnotes]

Running off users is a curious goal for a free software project, onpon4, but  
you won't get rid of me that easily.  I trust the community to solve systemd  
issues and will be watching what Richard Stallman does.  If you succeed in  
driving him off, you will probably run off most people.  At that point, I  
suppose, your work will be done.


At this point, I don't have much more to say to you.  I gave you the chance  
to explain your odd and at least five year long misrepresentation of me and  
the Techrights community.  Instead you chose to express outright hostility.   
I will expect more of the same whenever I see you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

[will . hillnotes]

Well, yes, that's what I do because I want good free software results.  There  
may not be much difference in the privacy, but DDG has hidden important free  
software projects from users the same way Microsoft's search engine does.   
DDG is foolish enough to use Bing in some kind of secret mixing algorithm and  
either lacks the technical competence to protect the quality of their search  
results, or is a willing Microsoft partner.  I don't pretend this is the best  
way to search but it's not the worst.  

Re: [Trisquel-users] Use this bash init script snippet to get an improved prompt. Also can you donate to help us to get a friend out of jail?

[marioxcc . MT]

"In 2016, Alina Davis was abusively and unfairly accused of drugs possession.  
[...] We are confident that we can prove Alina's innocence. The obstacle is  
that her legal defense will cost 40,000 Russian rubles (690 United States  
dollars)."


The page is very clear and there is no lack of transparency. The above quote  
is what the page says since it was created. Maybe you both did not read it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

[calmstorm]

Simple answwer: There are some bugs that need work.

Like the fact that when you go type in the search engine the first time,  
sometimes it just erases what you wrote and then doesn't go anywhere.


that's my experience with searx.me and I would have to reload to see if it  
happens with yours.


its not limited because of not being free software its just bugs like that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[calmstorm]

Yeah, I just wish she would stop going after the gnu/fsf organizations

that's all.

Other than those two things, I will consider still supporting libreboot.

Besides, libreboot is still a good bios. :) 

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[greatgnu]

>If Leah figured out how to do it for the x220 maybe other intel second and  
third generation processors will be figured out as well.


Leah kicks ass and rocks hard. I'm absolutely 100% positive she'll libreboot  
the s... out of that lappy in no time.

(This is great news)

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

[greatgnu]

>searx though somewhat limited now

How is searx limited?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Use this bash init script snippet to get an improved prompt. Also can you donate to help us to get a friend out of jail?

[greatgnu]

Apparently they are in prison for driving with a fake license and will  
undergo another trial for drug possession. As much as I like the OP I like  
transparency too.

Good luck with the donations.
cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[g . smyli]

https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel kind of ruined my day.

Maybe my January 2010 desktop may not be too bad as it seems not to have the  
ME installed at least. Probably one of the last to not get that technology.  
MSI and Intel H57 Express Chipset.

Re: [Trisquel-users] editing multiple photos in the same way

[g . smyli]

Thanks Magic for the clarification, I understand the < now

I also did find gmic and the gimp-gmic plugin in Flidas repository and  
installed them. Will try that out also. The http://gmic.eu/ website looks  
very cool.


Gracias :) 

Re: [Trisquel-users] Doubts about libreboot flashing and configuration

[calmstorm]

dunno, but I shall bump in case anyone has an answer.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you play games with a libre engine but proprietary data? Any advice? What are some of the ethical pitfall?

[calmstorm]

If it is reverse engineered then, how is it illegal and also how is not free?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[calmstorm]

IT does at this time. but there is a link I remember hardenedlinux or  
something which has some kind of like information I think to disable the ME  
in even third generation processors.


I dunno when it will be perfected for the purpose of libreboot, but give it a  
few years and I am sure people will find a way.


http://hardenedlinux.org/firmware/2016/11/17/neutralize_ME_firmware_on_sandybridge_and_ivybridge.html

the above link is what I am referencing.

If Leah figured out how to do it for the x220 maybe other intel second and  
third generation processors will be figured out as well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

[calmstorm]

Duckduckgo may be fine, but I think that searx though somewhat limited now,  
has the best potential. and since it is free software, we should support  
searx.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[jbahn]

Doesn't that information contradict with the option to install libreboot on  
an quad-core Core i5-2410M CPU? Wasn't that released in 2011? The LB faq  
says: "It is extremely unlikely that any post-2008 Intel hardware will ever  
be supported in libreboot" 

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you play games with a libre engine but proprietary data? Any advice? What are some of the ethical pitfall?

[calmstorm]

That logic is sound to me. 

Re: [Trisquel-users] Use this bash init script snippet to get an improved prompt. Also can you donate to help us to get a friend out of jail?

[calmstorm]

I Think he must be transgender but yeah... I will bump because the russian  
government should not be allowed to be that absurd or wicked and then  
succeed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[calmstorm]

Is it pre 4th gen or 4th gen and onwards,

if it is before 4th gen then it may be a possibility in a few years.

I imagine someone will figure a way out by then...

Cannot say for sure.

I didn't look it up yet, but I am assuming it is new.

am I wrong?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[lcerf]

Not librebootable: https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel

[Trisquel-users] Re : editing multiple photos in the same way

[lcerf]

A file listing the paths to the pictures should be written after the "

Re: [Trisquel-users] Use this bash init script snippet to get an improved prompt. Also can you donate to help us to get a friend out of jail?

[marioxcc . MT]

# Copyright (c) 2017 Mario Castelán Castro
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see .

function set_color () {
local RED GREEN CYAN END_COLOR
RED="$(tput setaf 1)" &&
GREEN="$(tput setaf 2)" &&
CYAN="$(tput setaf 6)" &&
END_COLOR="$(tput sgr0)"

if [ $? != 0 ]; then
local PRINT_EXIT_STATUS=\
"\$(E=\$?
if [ \$E == 0 ]; then
echo \"[\$E]\"
else
echo \"*\$E*\"
fi )"
PS1="\u@\h $PRINT_EXIT_STATUS [\$PWD]\n\\$ "
else
if [ $(id -u) == 0 ]; then
local USER_COLOR="$RED"
else
local USER_COLOR="$GREEN"
fi
local HOST_COLOR="$CYAN"
local PRINT_EXIT_STATUS=\
"\$(E=\$?
if [ \$E == 0 ]; then
echo \"\[$GREEN\][\$E]\[$END_COLOR\]\"
else
echo \"\[$RED\][\$E]\[$END_COLOR\]\"
fi)"
PS1="\[$USER_COLOR\]\u\[$END_COLOR\]\[$HOST_COLOR\]@\h\[$END_COLOR\]  
$PRINT_EXIT_STATUS  
\[$HOST_COLOR\][\$PWD]\[$END_COLOR\]\n\\[$USER_COLOR\]\\$\[$END_COLOR\] "

PS2="\[$USER_COLOR\]>\[$END_COLOR\] "
fi
}

set_color

The attachment seems to be broken, so I have posted the snippet above.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[g . smyli]

So ThinkPads only work? A local PC recycling outfit has a bunch of impressive  
looking ThinkCentre units with i5 cpus and something like 3.2 GHz for $169. -  
Not librebootable?

Re: [Trisquel-users] editing multiple photos in the same way

[g . smyli]

Adfeno, Thanks for this, I adventured into ImageMagick for the first time.  
Fun.


Re..."Note 3: Please replace the lines starting with "/home/adfeno" to the
full/absolute path to the images that you want to edit. This can be done
by selecting all of then in file manager (default for Trisquel is
Nautilus), copying them, pasting in a text editor, and this should give
the paths you want to copy again and paste in the area I just described."


Where exactly? I did select all - copy - paste into text editor but what  
next?


I was not able to get a while read -r loop to work so I ended up replacing  
the variable "$each_original_image" with an actual image name (path I  
suppose, but I ran the command from the same folder - convert testImage.jpg  
-scale "854x1280" "{testImage.jpg}").


And does the final < in your script belong there? 

[Trisquel-users] Use this bash init script snippet to get an improved prompt. Also can you donate to help us to get a friend out of jail?

[marioxcc . MT]

Hello fellow free software users!. I want to share with you a small snippet  
that I have in my .bashrc to make a custom prompt, as you can see in the  
attached image. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3  
or any later and you will find it attached to this post. Note that the exit  
status code of the previous command is displayed between the host name and  
the path.


I am also writing to ask for your help to raise funds for the legal defense  
of a friend who is currently in jail. He is known as Alina Davis among  
Russian users for his sometimes feminine and sometimes androgynous appearance  
and sense of fashion You can find information about Alina and how to help in  
this web site. Please help by donating, and also by linking to our  
fund-raising web site from your social media accounts. For those of you who  
use Facebook or Twitter, please help us by linking to Alina's fund raising  
web site from those social networks, especially among those groups that may  
sympathize with Alina's situation. Thanks.



# Copyright (c) 2017 Mario Castelán Castro
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see .

function set_color () {
local RED GREEN CYAN END_COLOR
RED="$(tput setaf 1)" &&
GREEN="$(tput setaf 2)" &&
CYAN="$(tput setaf 6)" &&
END_COLOR="$(tput sgr0)"

if [ $? != 0 ]; then
local PRINT_EXIT_STATUS=\
"\$(E=\$?
if [ \$E == 0 ]; then
echo \"[\$E]\"
else
echo \"*\$E*\"
fi )"
PS1="\u@\h $PRINT_EXIT_STATUS [\$PWD]\n\\$ "
else
if [ $(id -u) == 0 ]; then
local USER_COLOR="$RED"
else
local USER_COLOR="$GREEN"
fi
local HOST_COLOR="$CYAN"
local PRINT_EXIT_STATUS=\
"\$(E=\$?
if [ \$E == 0 ]; then
echo \"\[$GREEN\][\$E]\[$END_COLOR\]\"
else
echo \"\[$RED\][\$E]\[$END_COLOR\]\"
fi)"
PS1="\[$USER_COLOR\]\u\[$END_COLOR\]\[$HOST_COLOR\]@\h\[$END_COLOR\] $PRINT_EXIT_STATUS \[$HOST_COLOR\][\$PWD]\[$END_COLOR\]\n\\[$USER_COLOR\]\\$\[$END_COLOR\] "
PS2="\[$USER_COLOR\]>\[$END_COLOR\] "
fi
}

set_color

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[calmstorm]

I hope tehnoetic and libiquity know about this.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

[noordinaryspider]

I was checking out eBay today and found an inexpensive librebooted X200, but  
the fine print in the description set off some red flags. Flashing the BIOS  
is beyond my expertise but not so far beyond my intellectual capacity to be  
complete gobblydegook when I read the instructions.


Even though I now have a very cute little X200 tablet that I picked up for  
$15 "for parts or repair" on eBay that wasn't a particularly fun or juicy  
"project computer" since it only needs a battery and a hard drive now that  
I've repaired the keyboard with a bit of patience and superglue, my "dream  
machine" is still a Technoetic of the same model and I still think it would  
be well worth the money if I had it which, unfortunately, I don't.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 is STILL not out yet?

[calmstorm]

Valid indeed, I will wait though. Trisquel currently is my choice. ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Favourite features of favourite DE

[calmstorm]

So basically LXDE?

not sure if the third one is covered by lxde, but meh three out of four is  
pretty good right?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 is STILL not out yet?

[calmstorm]

Ah just checking hehe.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 is STILL not out yet?

[legimet . calc]

Trisquel doesn't accept contributions (OK, very rarely). That is a valid  
complaint, but I just moved to a different distribution.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Development of Trisquel 8.0 "Flidas" Software proposal by category : Internet

[thedanish]

I wouldn't recommend Deluge. The proxy support is broken and has been left as  
such for years now, meaning you think you are safely redirecting traffic over  
proxy/vpn but actually aren't.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Development of Trisquel 8.0 "Flidas" Software proposal by category : Internet

[leoo]

For the web, I advocate Abrowser simply on the basis of being a very  
straightforward, obvious name and logo without anything off-putting or  
requiring explanation.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Development of Trisquel 8.0 "Flidas" Software proposal by category : Internet

[leoo]

For email clients, I would vote for Evolution.  Since LibreOffice  
unfortunately lacks an Outlook equivalent, users have to look elsewhere for  
that.  Evolution fits the bill nearly perfectly, handling email, but also  
contacts, calendar, tasks, and some basic note-taking functions, together  
with being able to handle scheduling on a network.  Remember that Trisquel is  
intended for small business as well as individual home users.


Furthermore, Trisquel's default UI look and feel is meant to be familiar for  
novices and first time users coming from Windows.  And similarly, Evolution  
closely matches Outlook's user interface.


If there's anything I would change in Evolution, it's the name, in keeping  
with my longtime gripe about free software projects making poor choices in  
their names and/or logos.  While the Evolution logo is fine, the name, while  
not being as extremely bad as Iceweasel or Claws Mail, is still not as good  
as it could be.  Yes, "Evolution" as a name can be defended on the grounds  
that it implies that it is being continuously improved upon, or that it is  
better than other programs.  However, it does not convey what the program  
does, and also introduces an unnecessarily distracting and divisive element:  
the evolution vs. creation controversy.


I hasten to state that I ACCEPT the scientific mainstream on evolution AND DO  
NOT agree with creationism.  PLEASE DO NOT waste everyone's time by  
denigrating me on the assumption that I'm a creationist, or by denigrating /  
dismissing creationists or posting refutations of creationism.


But advocates should not underestimate the importance of this issue.  Gallup  
polling in the USA  
http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspx  
shows that by far the biggest portion of US public opinion on this issue  
continues to believe that "God created humans in their present form" - a  
plurality of 42%, and has never been lower than this number.  The next  
position, that "Humans evolved, with God guiding the process", is far behind  
at 31%.  The idea that humans evolved, with God having no part in the  
process, is a tiny minority at 19%.


My point is that regardless of how true evolution is and how wrong  
creationism is, and even granting that this is an important issue to debate  
and win on, the name of an Outlook-equivalent computer program is an  
inappropriate place to make that case, and also constitutes an entirely  
unnecessary self-imposed barrier to the adoption of this program specifically  
and even free software in general.


Since one of the great benefits of freedom is the ability to just copy a  
program and change an aspect of it, even something as small as the name, I  
propose doing the same with the Trisquel version of Evolution.  Call it  
"Overview", which is similar to "Outlook" and which would, like "Outlook",  
refer to a feature within the program where you can get an Outlook or  
Overview of your entire day, such as the most recent or important emails, and  
your upcoming tasks and schedule items.  It still doesn't directly inform the  
viewer what it does, but the alliteration between "Outlook" and "Overview",  
plus the logo of an envelope and clock, will provide some big hints.

Re: [Trisquel-users] editing multiple photos in the same way

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

As Magic Banana pointed out, G'MIC might be a good idea to try, also,
ImageMagic is also a great tool for the job.

Note 1: The example given in the end of this comment will replace the
existing images, so make sure to have backups. I could make a more
elaborated example, at the cost of losing easy understanding.

Note 2: My copy of ImageMagick came from Guix package manager, not from
Trisquel 7's repositories, so there might be differences in the
result. Specially because I was forced to upgrade my ImageMagick because
I needed to work with .jpg images which had embeded color profiles.

Note 3: Please replace the lines starting with "/home/adfeno" to the
full/absolute path to the images that you want to edit. This can be done
by selecting all of then in file manager (default for Trisquel is
Nautilus), copying them, pasting in a text editor, and this should give
the paths you want to copy again and paste in the area I just described.

I'll first describe what the `convert` command options do, and then I'll
give you the actual script.

Description:

`-auto-orient` attempts to read EXIF orientation tag from the image
file, and respects it. The resulting image will not have such EXIF tag,
but will still be corrected. This avoids having images in the wrong
orientation.

`-colorspace "Gray"` converts from the image's color space to a generic
grayscale color space. Note that, if the input image depends on a more
complex color space (like the CMYK madness, for which even conversion
between the exact CMYK profile results in distortion), and if you want
the resulting image to use RGB color (the color used by the
monitor/display you are using to read this now), you must place
`-profile [Path to desired RGB color profile file]` before `-colorspace`
line. For the sake of completeness, in the case of Trisquel 7, the path
for the color profile of your current monitor/display can be obtained
using the following command:

$ colormgr get-devices-by-kind "display"

And to check if the images have embeded color profiles (and which color
space/standard they represent), use:

$ identify -verbose "[Path to image file]"

To find the color space, look for the topmost "Colorspace" line. To find
out if the color profiles are embeded, look for the topmost "Profiles"
line (this line has others inside). If the color space is CMYK, then the
profiles *must* exist, otherwise the photocopy effect might produce
non-grayscale or bad results.

Now, continuing with the main explaination:

`+clone` clones the last generated image (the one resuting from setting
the image as grayscale only) to the set of current operations (which are
limited between "\(" and "\)").

`-blur "0x2"` blurs the image slightly. Particularly, I find this value
to produce a result more closer to a photocopy than the one produced by
the values suggested by my copy of GIMP.

`+swap` swaps the the last two images in the sequence (this should put
the grayscale image behind the original one).

`-compose "DivideDst"` uses the mathematical compose method called
"DivideDst" which is, like all mathematical compose methods, greyscale,
and simply attempts to divide the uppermost image in the sequence by the
previous image in the sequence. This means, for example, that: If the
grayscale (previous image) has a color understood to be similar to zero,
that part of the uppoermost image is ignored. With older versions of
ImageMagick, the "DivideDst" is called "divide".

`-composite` actually generates the image that resulted from all
operations so far. This makes a new image available in the sequence.

`-linear-stretch "5%x0%"` does some color stretches. Particularly, I
find this value to produce a result more closer to a photocopy than the
one produced by the values suggested by my copy of GIMP.

`-scale [Geometry]` scales the topmost image (no enclosing "\(" or
"\)") but *keeps* aspect ratio (avoids "fat" or "tin" effects on
images). If you do want to force the geometry of 1000x1333, then use
"1000x1333!" instead (notice the exclamation mark).

Actual script:

while read -r each_original_image; do
  convert "$each_original_image" \
  -auto-orient \
  -colorspace "Gray" \
  \( +clone -blur "0x2" \) \
  +swap \
  -compose "DivideDst" \
  -composite \
  -linear-stretch "5%x0%" \
  -scale "1000x1333" \
  "${each_original_image}"
done <

Re: [Trisquel-users] Development of Trisquel 8.0 "Flidas" Software proposal by category : Internet

[leoo]

Elaborating further on my previous response, I think Claws Mail also has an  
unnecessarily strange and off-putting name and logo.


Claws are sharp instruments of imposing harm.  In everyday speech, the word  
when applied to people is harshly negative: "Get your claws off my such and  
such."  Having and using claws not only imparts characteristics like  
aggression, but is also dehumanizing.  Why would anyone want to apply such  
things to himself?


And then the logo. http://www.claws-mail.org/img/sc-bar-right.png

A green, reptilian foot or hand bursting out from within a globe to grab some  
mail envelopes.  Humans tend to be repelled by reptiles.  And since the claws  
have done harm to the world in the picture, they were a sinister force  
lurking from within it before they emerged.  Their grasp on the envelopes  
also seems to be aggressive, as if they are seizing someone else's mail.


Finally, as if all that weren't enough, the official Claws Project website  
has this already-terrible logo over an even worse slogan or motto: "it  
bites!"  Directly implying aggression and harm in any language, and in  
colloquial American English, also specifically implies that the product in  
question is of very bad quality!


WHY do free software projects do this to themselves, and to the free software  
movement in general?!?


At this point, discussion of Claws' limitations like inability to write HTML  
email, is superfluous.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 is STILL not out yet?

[jason]

"unless your talking about t3g."

Yes I am. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] editing multiple photos in the same way

[thedanish]

I don't know what the "photocopy" filter actually does, but, you can resize  
the images with mogrify -resize.


I don't know how to "nobump" here, sorry.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat XML Error

[thedanish]

Yes, same here. As well as:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/icecat-abouthome-1

Firefox is dropping support for all XUL based addons. That affects a lot more  
in the repos than just the icecathome and torproxy addons.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ#Which_add-ons_will_stop_working_when_XUL.2FXPCOM_is_deprecated.3F

[Trisquel-users] Re : DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

[lcerf]

https://duckduckgo.com/html/ and https://duckduckgo.com/lite are not  
software.  They are pure HTML.  And accessing the results of a search query  
is not Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS):


Services such as search engines collect data from around the web and let you  
examine it. Looking through their collection of data isn't your own computing  
in the usual sense—you didn't provide that collection—so using such a  
service to search the web is not SaaSS. However, using someone else's server  
to implement a search facility for your own site is SaaSS.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve

The server-side code being free or not has no consequence on the visitor's  
freedom (it has consequences on the service owner's freedoms, her business).   
And the user cannot know the code that really runs on the server-side.  She  
has to trust the service provider.  Or crawl the Web herself.  Or  
collaboratively (Seeks/YaCy).  But what a waste of energy!  As in "more power  
plants" if most users start to crawl the Web themselves.