Re: [Trisquel-users] "Tehnoetic" is now Technoethical: Hooray!
Glad to see that you are excited! I am as well! https://tehnoetic.com/ will redirect to https://technoethical.com very soon too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
This is good to hear Leah! I'm curious, have you considered adding 'Encrypted Trisquel' back to the libreboot docs? https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160925173359/https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy
But Republicans are okay with states preventing municipalities from providing municipal broadband. This is similar to when Texas banned cities from banning fracking and Michigan banned plastic bag bans. Another example of this is when Sean Spicer criticized Dan Malloy for not enforcing federal (not the state's responsibility to enforce) immigration law. Sean Spicer/Donald Trump are not "RINOs," they are the face of the modern Republican party.
[Trisquel-users] Re : EFF: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy
A lot of people like to point to Europe or Japan or something, but an example of how much easier it is for them is Germany who has a population of 80 million people in a land mass the size of Montana. Take Norway. One of the least densely populated territory in the world: 15.5 inhabitants/km² (35 in the USA) but one of the country with the greatest Internet connectivity: 96.3% of the population was connected to Internet in 2014 (73% in the USA), with the third best average speed in 2015: 18.8 Mb/s (8.7 in the USA). The average cost for a 10 Mb/s connection (with unlimited data) is below US$ 40/month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_number_of_Internet_users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds#Akamai_Q4_2015_global_average_connection_speeds_rankings https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Norway Norway was one of the first country that adopted Net neutrality guidelines, in early 2009: http://eng.nkom.no/technical/internet/net-neutrality/net-neutrality/_attachment/9222
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot issues an "Open Letter to the Free Software Community"
It is possible she has many fences she needs to fix and she hasn't gotten around to it yet. But we shall see I guess.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
This is all good news, I am glad you finally made the right choice. Don't though let the pressures of life get to you like that again. none of us want you to go down in failure. I hope you will stay sober. You do have a good heart. Otherwise you wouldn't have made libreboot in the first place. Not to mention supported it for so many years. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
Thank you Leah;) Great news!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
We may provide Trisquel by default again in the future, especially if we yet again work with the FSF for RYF certification on newer products. At present, Debian is the default as a matter of course (and none of the systems sold by Minifree are RYF certified at present; we have ditched X200/T400, in favour of X220 preorder since I'm working on that in Libreboot). Of course, Minifree provides the customer the option of any distribution that they would like. Trisquel is a distribution.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Asus KFSN 4-DRE at the end of november 2016
Now I have this when trying to compile with GRUB2: configure: error: qemu, coreboot and loongson ports need build-time grub-mkfont (need freetype2 library) make[1]: *** [config] Error 1 make: *** [grub2] Erreur 2 Yet the freetype2 library (libsomething6) is already installed. I don't mind using Seabios only if it's possible to use full-disk encryption like with Libreboot. Well at least I figured out how to boot with a liveCD. Hopefully I can transfer the flashrom utility and the rom from a thumbdrive to the CD.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot issues an "Open Letter to the Free Software Community"
I'm still surprised no one out there, whether a formal company like Minifree, Viking, Technoethical, and Libiquity, or even just some random eBay seller, is yet selling any Libreboot-flashed laptop other than the Lenovos. Nobody's selling: the ASUS Chromebook C201 https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.html the MacBook 1,1 https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/#macbook11 or the the Macbook 2,1 https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/#macbook21 And while Minifree sells Libreboot desktops, nobody is selling a Libreboot-flashed example of this: the iMac 5,2 https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/imac52.html If it weren't so darn difficult to do, I'd do it myself. But putting Libreboot on something is a whole different deal thus just installing a Linux distro, let alone a fully free one, on a given PC. Also, and separately from the Libreboot issue, I'm curious that there's nobody out there selling a Netbook with Trisquel Mini pre-installed on it, although I know Libiquity offers Trisquel Mini as a non-default option on their Lenovos, which are not netbooks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
That is a relief.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
Interesting! I am curious if the offended party which lead Leah to be so upset to begin with got a pay out or something. The FSF's accounts are public right, I'm curious to see when their budget for this year is disclosed how much they pay out for discrimination. Of course, two of the people who had fingers pointed at them are leaving the FSF now...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
By saying "Now I see how great is the idea behind the GPL.", I hope he means in good/friendly sense. Otherwise, he might have seen a case of wrong license compliance or wrong license enforcement. -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre, por isso não uso. Iguais a ele prefiro Ring, ou Tox. Quer outras formas de contato? Adicione o vCard que está no endereço acima aos teus contatos. - Pretende me enviar arquivos .doc, .ppt, .cdr, ou .mp3? OK, eu aceito, mas não repasso. Entrego apenas em formatos favoráveis ao /software/ livre. Favor entrar em contato em caso de dúvida. - "People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world." --- Richard Stallman
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
OK. I understand that a misundertand can complicate any relationship. Specially, if are well-made rumours. However, many times we can do choices that even can affect many important relationships and the reputation of projects like Libreboot. I've been whitness of this kind of issues; specially, with XScreensaver case, which Zawinski acted like a douchebag stalking to the Debian developers to keep the nagware of "update now or GTFO", stuff that fortunately has not been accomplished. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703 (please check the flame replies) http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_5.30-1+deb8u2_changelog I hope that the next time that any software developer wants to judge to anyone about the contribution and/or authoring of source code, please read this message that I want to quote: "The situation is very simple in fact. Somebody just lost the ground and cannot see the difference between the free software authorship, credit for it and property rights no more. He accepts the free license but in a some strange one-way fashion: to get the freedom for himself and to take it away from the others. Just like terrorists do. Setting timebombs and objecting others to disable those bombs is not only the violation of free software license as up to me, but also it spoils the idea of the free software itself. Now I see how great is the idea behind the GPL." Melleus @ message #200 in bug #819703 of Debian bug report logs https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703;msg=200 Thanks by understand us. Eliot.
Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy
Emphasis on colluding to remove competition. You can bypass surveillance to an extent but you can't choose from monopolies.
Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy
The real bogey men of internet spying are Google, Facebook and FedGov, not the ISP's. The ISP's really couldn't care less about your traffic usage, except when FedGov makes them go after DMCA violations, etc. Furthermore, ISP's are easy to beat with VPN and Tor. It's the services that you log into or require javascript to run you've got to watch out for. All I'm saying is that this repeal is not "the Republicans selling out your privacy" like it's been billed as. It's a little more complicated than that. That being said, it's not like "the Republicans" aren't *known* for selling out your privacy. Just like the Dems, they're both guilty of being disrespectful of our privacy. But this is one case where they've done a good thing.
Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy
I know it's huge. That's why I cut these companies some slack if or when they agree "you go here and we'll go there and cover more people instead of competing over the same small scraps." A lot of people like to point to Europe or Japan or something, but an example of how much easier it is for them is Germany who has a population of 80 million people in a land mass the size of Montana. Where I live, it's miles and miles and miles in between very small towns and neighborhoods. There are many parts not far from where I live that have no internet service at all, unless they want to do satellite. And even satellite is hampered by laws such as fair access doctrine. For example, I would gladly pay quadruple for internet if I could get quadruple the amount of GB every month. But nope, I'm not allowed to. Meanwhile, my neighbor who uses the internet 5 minutes a day to check her email pays the same amount as me and uses but a fraction of the bandwidth I do. So, instead of getting faster internet through satellite, I get slower, but unlimited, internet through DSL. If you really want awesome internet, it's in your best interest to get government out of the situation as much as possible.
Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy
"...mega-corps are in bed with the government and spy on us and collude to remove market competition." It's exactly why they want net neutrality to be scrapped.
Re: [Trisquel-users] I've started a Patreon page
This is untrue. CloudFlare doesn't block Tor users; it just requires them to complete a CAPTCHA. The CAPTCHA used to be broken in non-JavaScript mode, but it works just fine now as long as you're properly blocking it (i.e. not using LibreJS). I just tested it; I was able to look at my Patreon page through Tor Browser just fine (though of course, I had to switch the security level to "medium" to see the actual page; this is unrelated to anything CloudFlare does). > Anyway, isn't it better to donate directly to you instead on relying on a middleman that will charge you more fees, resulting in less money reaching you? Patreon charges contributors' cards on a monthly basis rather than just once, so that's the advantage. It's a steady stream of contributions, more similar to Trisquel or FSF membership than donations. But yeah, if Patreon is something you can't or won't use, sending me money directly would be helpful, too. I have a public Bitcoin address (bitcoin:1Ko772jMW2ZDXaPT4Pi9VYi8612eSXCxfU), and there's also my PayPal account (onp...@riseup.net).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot issues an "Open Letter to the Free Software Community"
I haven't received an apology from Leah. I have received an apology from Alyssa for Leah's behaviour.
Re: [Trisquel-users] I've started a Patreon page
I don't like that Patreon blocks Tor users because it uses CloudFlare. I hate CloudFlare: https://people.torproject.org/~lunar/20160331-CloudFlare_Fact_Sheet.pdf https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare Anyway, isn't it better to donate directly to you instead on relying on a middle-man that will charge you more fees, resulting in less money reaching you?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot issues an "Open Letter to the Free Software Community"
Only admins of Libreboot repository can edit issues of other people, so I guess that was made by Leah or someone else with admin roles. It should be a matter of looking at the log registry of the database of NotABug to find out who did this, so I don't know why he/she did that, it's a very childish attitude. If your ticked has been played with (and you didn't do that yourself), I hope to see an apology from the Libreboot repository admins.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
Keep up the excellent work you've been doing all these years, Leah!!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware: cheap Intel config?
The northbridge is very very hot, bit I still had no problems. Be sure to clean NB and put quality thermal paste on the chip. Yes, this board is about 30-50€ used. Don't forget to purchase Xeon x5460, the best CPU for that board you can buy.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware: cheap Intel config?
The PCIe GPU works fine as OpenGL render with DRI3, but it doesn't work as primary GPU.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware: cheap Intel config?
This gigabyte board runs much better with Xeon x5460, but needs a minimun quality cooler. And x5460 costs about 20€. Be careful if you want to flash that board by hardware. Also this board works fine with only one main spi chip (without backup one).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware: cheap Intel config?
The problem of A20 computer card is GPU, other things are seems to be perfect.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Proposed Project: GOLD - Gaming on Linux Distribution
You are right: "entitled" is the not the proper word. The question is whether the author who wants to negotiate something with the blog/distro (or refuse the commercial use) is mistreating her audience. My answer is no, hence my acceptance of the NC clause.
[Trisquel-users] Re : EFF: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy
Sorry if that was not clear Net neutrality does not aim to be an antitrust act. Those are two separate topics. But I deem essential to have laws against against both problems. The investment for a third company to come in and compete is huge. Especially is the existing ISP refuses to rent its cables.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Proposed Project: GOLD - Gaming on Linux Distribution
"entitled"? http://questioncopyright.org/compensation
[Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project
Hi, We have made peace with the FSF and GNU project, on our end. See: https://libreboot.org/unity/ For avoidance of doubt, the same willingness to resume cooperation also applies to Trisquel, not just the FSF. I personally wish this project well. Libreboot's website no longer negative mentions Trisquel. ~Leah
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot issues an "Open Letter to the Free Software Community"
Next time I speak with Zammit I will see what his take on it is. So far great news!
[Trisquel-users] Re : Question about Free GNU/Linux distributions
I look forward to reading better arguments in the future. :-)
[Trisquel-users] Re : Proposed Project: GOLD - Gaming on Linux Distribution
Even in the case you list at the end, shouldn't the authors be entitled to negotiate something (a fixed amount or a percentage on the money the distro/article raises)?
Re: [Trisquel-users] EFF: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy
Then what's stopping a third company from coming in and competing? Or what's to stop neighborhood or community co-ops from owning the last mile? I understand the frustration here. I live in the middle of nowhere and I only have one provider as an option. And it's slow-ass DSL. I would love to have cable internet. I want the internet that people in San Francisco get, but in reality, that's not going to happen. It takes time. Rome isn't built in a day, and letting FedGov get involved isn't going to make anything better. Let's work on finding real solutions instead of empowering a bureaucracy (which is subject to regulatory capture).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware: cheap Intel config?
I too have not run into any Dell laptops yet that don't allow you to change the wifi adapter. I have in fact run in to a few Hewlett-Packard laptops that have a restriction.
