Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread mjmhogg5
True ! But if I use jxself's method, I doubt very much that the root servers will ever change their ip address ! I also agree with the fact that I don't want to be subject to other people deciding what is right or wrong for me to visit on the web, as Jodiendo pointed out. Finally, why

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need a daily reminder

2017-11-23 Thread alonivtsan
Putting everything inside the gnome-terminal command should work though - something like this: gnome-terminal -e "sleep 1m && gedit file"

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread vitacell
Wow, so, they did a great job.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about the impact and future direction of proprietary software and technologies of surveillance and control.

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
Depends on how conflict of rules is solved. The AI can read hipocrates and the greek and come to the conclusion that a computer should be like a medic (or physician) or psychologist of the mankind. The computer can understand that if she is not doing physical harm (she is not killing

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
everything is a matter of trust.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
The only flaw of this method is that sometimes servers change ip addresses if they change provider, as there is no portability on ip. But usually that's quite noticeable, as you won't have access and have to make the process again. Bu, there's a possibility if your group change ip

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
have you heard the man? Maybe he's serious on his job and want extra security. You can query DNS directly with dig or other tool, directly the root servers of most common accessed sites and put it on alias file. So it wouldn't be necessary to install bind except for seeing the addresses

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread jason
"TO BE A dns provider requires a machine dedicated for that service Why you, should want to host a server for that purpose,?" Maybe if you're running something as a public service but for someone's own personal DNS resolution this is totally not needed. The method I proposed would work

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread jodiendo
jxself Partially i DISAGREE WITH YOU ON THIS ONE. wHY? TO BE A dns provider requires a machine dedicated for that service, that takes time, skill and security settings to avoid spamming and overload. Why you, should want to host a server for that purpose,? when some one is just doing it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about the impact and future direction of proprietary software and technologies of surveillance and control.

2017-11-23 Thread contact
@gslima Humans program AI, so we still have a chance to encode some values into it, if AI ever becomes a serious thing. Take for example Asimov's law for robots. "A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm." Something similar can be programmed into the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

2017-11-23 Thread i_write_words
I believe I am wanted in four states and considered armed and dangerous, but frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

2017-11-23 Thread i_write_words
I share Calmstorm's minority opinion but am too chickenshit to click on a stupid little thumbs up button, lol; long story for another internet forum.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about the impact and future direction of proprietary software and technologies of surveillance and control.

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
What I see in future is a little dark, but also with a good possibility. Non-supervised Artificial inteligence will conclude the only way to solve the human problem is to be against government and bad big corporations, because of ubiquity of surveillance and so many rules to follow, beyond

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
I agree partially. The image of transgression was the only thing that brought us progress on science, although I agree that what he done on Brazil was not a civic thing (he defaced a wall). Formerly scientists thought that out-of-box thinking was everything, and they wanted to stimulate more

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about the impact and future direction of proprietary software and technologies of surveillance and control.

2017-11-23 Thread contact
This is a good book on that topic: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf People buy the things that fbit mentions because they do not know any better and/or conditioning. If part of the RMS' books can be distilled into some more digestable format to explain to people the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
agree very much with this. I can add that Ubuntu would have the right philosophy if there where no bad persons and governments on world, other places FSF has its place, specially bad owned ruled locals.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apologies to J.B. Nicholson-Owens

2017-11-23 Thread contact
Privacy is terrorism. Got it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Paypal compatible with software freedom?

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
The future will probably be crypterium, have you heard of it yet? Great people on this project. You should help them. It will not be like bitcoin, you will have distributed banking all over the world. It is estonia based, and api will be open source. If you have skills, there you will find a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apologies to J.B. Nicholson-Owens

2017-11-23 Thread contact
Yes, privacy is terrorism. Got it. Thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apologies to J.B. Nicholson-Owens

2017-11-23 Thread shiretoko
The link you provided does not call people who are munging their mail adresses "terrorists", but the spam-senders. It advices not to "reducing the quality and functionality of the Internet" because of the spam. Overall it's a pretty strange article that has no sense for comparativeness. It

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fora few domains, my .htaccess file isn't effective at blocking them from access by my Abrowser

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
first of all, it would only block if they use your site via proxy. There's no way of blocking image access from other sites, only if people use only https protocol, and high security browser config (with cross-site protection config). Else it would be nice if some foundation had the hashes

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about the impact and future direction of proprietary software and technologies of surveillance and control.

2017-11-23 Thread shiretoko
"I am old. " Don't get me wrong, but you're saying this in almost all of your posts, litteraly. And I'm far from reading every single post on this forum, I only scan them briefly. Still I got this impression. Maybe you're taking this whole age-thing a bit too important?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apologies to J.B. Nicholson-Owens

2017-11-23 Thread Cassandra of Troy
Meh

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread Cassandra of Troy
Meh On 11/22/2017 06:43 PM, dataminer...@trolzrus.com wrote: > Ageism is such lovely behaviour. Thank you for your inclusivity.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
agree. But some people only want to have a life. /etc/host.aliases would do the job if your system is impenetrable, for banking, as typing on the browser some sites have extended verification, so they can't have proper access with direct ip number.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
In my country there's also this system of records (Brazil), also these can be routed by the service provider if you have legal issues. Also physical connection can be hijacked from third party, and routed by a regular microtik router. For extra safety, I would recomend fiber optics. The

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread ivan . baldinotti
Trisquel 8.0 I have it installed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about the impact and future direction of proprietary software and technologies of surveillance and control.

2017-11-23 Thread masonhock
Thanks for sharing this. I hope you know what a positive force you are in this forum.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about the impact and future direction of proprietary software and technologies of surveillance and control.

2017-11-23 Thread masonhock
A relationship with the developer of or company controlling a piece of proprietary software is like any other abusive relationship. Often, the relationship is perpetuated by emotional or practical dependence on perpetrator, sometimes to the point that the victim will defend their abuser.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread greatgnu
>'ll have to read about it https://wiki.debian.org/Bind9

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread mjmhogg5
Thanks for the replies ! I wasn't aware about BIND at all. Sounds very interesting, I'll have to read about it - thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread greatgnu
Just a friendly reminder for those using the new noscript extension and having troubles figuring out how to make it as secure as the old one (well, almost.. clickjacking and ABE are still missing). Instead of untrusting websites and making long list just make your default 'all unchecked'.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread greatgnu
Sure, vita_cell, it's an old (2007) laptop, AMD cpu dual core 1900 Mhz max, 3 gb RAM (old original ram), GPU old nvidia. A 2007 laptop completely loading Firefox in 5 seconds on each subsequent load, and then running smooth as hell all the time on all websites - fantastic :) Don't have to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

2017-11-23 Thread greatgnu
shame on you for doubting adfeno's level of celebritivenesss. or is it celebritivity?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Paypal compatible with software freedom?

2017-11-23 Thread gnulinux
Like onpon4 already wrote, Paypal isn't really compatible with software freedom. Plus, they seem to be blocking accounts for political reasons or "US regulations". For exmaple, I don't know if this has changed or not, but I remember reading that Paypal didn't work for Palestinians in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk 2.0 Last Touches

2017-11-23 Thread sigdpsy
if Guix were pre-installed- I will be happy. I also want Uruk 2.0 with xfce4 desktop. Because my pc configuration is low. Mate menu is not so fast.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fora few domains, my .htaccess file isn't effective at blocking them from access by my Abrowser

2017-11-23 Thread amenex
quantumgravity asked: [QUOTE] Can you checkout the access.log of the apache server or does your provider deny you permissions to do so? [/QUOTE] Yes; that said, if I download the .GZ visitor log file mid-month, somehow that truncates the end-of-month version, and so I hesitate to do so

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread jason
You are your own best DNS provider. It's not even hard: sudo apt install bind9. BIND can query the root name servers for you and you're independent.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'd like to start volunteering my time to help Trisquel. What can I do to help?

2017-11-23 Thread david
I fully deny your words and I won't ask you again to stop spreading FUD.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread onpon4
The noscript tag isn't "served" based on what the server thinks, it's a browser behavior to cause content within those tags to be visible. The problem is that the extensions in question don't actually disable JavaScript, so Firefox's un-hiding of these elements is not triggered. In the

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread contact
What a coherent, logical, well-thought out argument that makes complete sense. The source cited is coherent and authorative and should be used as a measure of all things.

[Trisquel-users] Advanced user/ beginner programmer wants to help trisquel to have an raspberry pi 3 release

2017-11-23 Thread gslima2016
Can anybody guide me step-by-step how to help contribute for releasing trisquel for raspberry pi 3? I'm really excited on this hardware capabilities and trisquel project, and I want to help automate its release or help with the firmware, or both. I have plenty of time for these. I consider

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'd like to start volunteering my time to help Trisquel. What can I do to help?

2017-11-23 Thread radiowavers
If you doubt my words, please ask Ruben - he will confirm the 2020 release date

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fora few domains, my .htaccess file isn't effective at blocking them from access by my Abrowser

2017-11-23 Thread shiretoko
Can you checkout the access.log of the apache server or does your provider deny you permissions to do so?

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread jodiendo
MartinH SAID: Question though is: Does anyone know of similar ones that are Libre ? (As in using libre software). vISIT THE FOLLOWING WEB SITE SO YOU COULD LEARN MORE ABOUT DNS. https://www.opennic.org/

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread jodiendo
Sra. Heather said: I'm old school too and proud of it. :) I'm gong to troll you on this one WITH MUCH RESPECT, iF YOU ARE CONSIDERING YOURSELF AN OLD SCHOOL, THEN i MUST BE A PREHISTORIC OLD GIZZARD OLDER THAN YOU..lol J/k

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fora few domains, my .htaccess file isn't effective at blocking them from access by my Abrowser

2017-11-23 Thread amenex
quantumgravity: When I started using the .htaccess file to block copyright usurpers back in May of 2017, the effect was immediate for all but one domain. Now it's two more who are escaping that block, but for only one of my two Trisquel installations; both have the same IP address because

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fora few domains, my .htaccess file isn't effective at blocking them from access by my Abrowser

2017-11-23 Thread jason
It's not a browser problem. Sorry, but you're barking up the wrong tree.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fora few domains, my .htaccess file isn't effective at blocking them from access by my Abrowser

2017-11-23 Thread amenex
Magic Banana: Thanks for the heads-up. FSF doesn't like mis-appropriation either. It pollutes the code. The first two images in question are part of an online course, open to all without any payment, which I participated in and then preserved fifty years later, all at my own expense. Folks

Re: [Trisquel-users] We need a simple YouTube solution

2017-11-23 Thread forum3434
Thank you. Very nice of you. Can it be possible to get subtitles?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fora few domains, my .htaccess file isn't effective at blocking them from access by my Abrowser

2017-11-23 Thread amenex
jxself properly states that the decision of whether to block (403) or allow (200) is up to the server, which is where my .htaccess file resides. All the server can do is allow or deny access to the data that I am paying them to make available to the public. It's data which I created with my

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Fora few domains, my .htaccess file isn't effective at blocking them from access by my Abrowser

2017-11-23 Thread shiretoko
I think it was already pointed out, but all the .htaccess file does is basically changing the config of the server on a limited scope without touching the server config files. That means that there is no way Abrowser is to blame for that.

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

2017-11-23 Thread shiretoko
Couldn't agree more.

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

2017-11-23 Thread shiretoko
Those can hardly be considered celebreties. I think the starter of the thread thought more about famous politicians, actors or singers...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any famous celebrities that advocate Free Software?

2017-11-23 Thread calmstorm
Sadly, that would scare some people away from it, ps, Bieber is a prickish animal.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread csh
I know about all that. I was asking if the joke was funny because it was an implication that IceCat is simultaneously dead and alive, and you won't know until you install it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread vitacell
SuperTramp can you share your computer hardware specifications?

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
You can, when *you reply* to someone, delete the citation made by *your* email client automatically. In my case I keep only the most recent one because it helps to keep context. I was also not a fan of bottom/top posting once, but was convinced to do so in order to preserve context and try to

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
In senile email clients (and senile *user configurations* of the same email clients), the clients should only cite the email address if the "From" field has no friendly name. On every forum I found so far, this friendly name is mostly absent in the "From" field. Assuming both your email client

[Trisquel-users] Re : "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread lcerf
You won't, indeed.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread lcerf
Erwin Schrödinger developed a number of fundamental results in the field of *quantum* theory. He is also known for his "*Schrödinger's cat*" thought-experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger Quantum is an ongoing Mozilla project encompassing several software

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apologies to J.B. Nicholson-Owens

2017-11-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Indeed, I also don't like address munging, the real effective thing is to catch the message, report the full message (including headers, "Reply-To" and "Message-ID") to the domain owner from which the spam originated (both those listed in "From" and and "Reply-To" fields) and *only as a last

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread csh
I want to use my email client to use this forum, but I'm afraid I won't see edits that people make to their messages.

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread csh
Not publishing an email address is a poor security measure and approaches terrorism. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread csh
Will I be able to use this forum without littering it with junk at the bottom of my message, or are you top-posting on purpose?

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread csh
How do I do this? I'd like to just have a "Trisquel Forum" folder that I check every once in a while, so I don't have to bother logging in and stuff. Also, is there a Mediawiki code for quoting messages that works on this forum? > is ugly.

Re: [Trisquel-users] "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" and Trisquel site runners.

2017-11-23 Thread csh
Start NetworkManager right now. systemctl start NetworkManager.service Make NetworkManager start when the computer starts, if it doesn't already. systemctl enable NetworkManager.service RMS is a senior citizen, and he wrote an entire operating system. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] QupZilla-libre?

2017-11-23 Thread hd-scania
So, is that true which Gtk2 is being deprecated? GNOME has deprecated Gtk2 for years, but this is well criticized the Gtk+ backward compatibiltiies over Gtk2 are ‘‘worse than worst’’, this needs to be just why LXQt leaves Gtk+ and Bugdie needs to experiment in LXQt as to quit Gtk+. A number

[Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?

2017-11-23 Thread mjmhogg5
Hi Everyone ! You may be aware that your ISP may block websites and also stores info on you. Here in the UK your ISP has to store all emails, visited websites and a host of other stuff by law for at least 1 year ! I'm avoiding this by using a different DNS Provider/Resolver. Currently that is:

Re: [Trisquel-users] QupZilla-libre?

2017-11-23 Thread csh
IKR? :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] QupZilla-libre?

2017-11-23 Thread csh
You have people who use Fuckbook? That site's malicious, proprietary JavaScript is almost as bad as Facebook's.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Apologies to J.B. Nicholson-Owens

2017-11-23 Thread csh
http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread csh
Do you use/are there extensions for password-store?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread csh
I don't get the joke. Could you explain?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread csh
Firefox is the only free browser that can run free web apps.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread csh
What?! Really?! Ign http://nl.archive.trisquel.info belenos-updates/main Translation-en Fetched 5,209 B in 5s (1,011 B/s) Reading package lists... Done cal@leela:~$ apt search abrowser Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done abrowser/belenos-security,belenos-updates,now

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass

2017-11-23 Thread csh
Quantum really does kick ass. I can't wait for Abrowser 57. (Firefox is filled with annoying ads and links to services that require proprietary JavaScript.)