Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?
I'm not sure about OpenDNS, used to be independent, now belongs to Cisco, and yes, it does block sites, you will have to use one of their paid services to be uncensored. But like you say, if you have kids it might be better. H, debian.org works fine for me here.
Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?
Thanks jodiendo ! My ip address is dynamic, I've never felt the need to have a static one. Currently still using dns.watch , but opennic sounds interesting, although I'm not sure how reliable it is (uptime).
Re: [Trisquel-users] ThinkPenguin has a new laptop
None of the machines that ThinkPenguin sells can be used with libreboot.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Writing a simple guide to Parabola for newbies
Not just Devuan, but asking for help of Parabola also depends on here. For Debian I also prefer getting help here, which Trisquel is a Debian derivative, but you are needed to be advanced in questioning skills under the Debian forums, even though the system itself is newbies friendly.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ThinkPenguin has a new laptop
I assume it contains the Intel ME (and therefore would not be compatible with Libreboot), if it contains a 'quad-core i7' chip?
Re: [Trisquel-users] X200 libreboot thinkpad unable to resume from suspension
I have got the same X200 laptop from Vikings. It is different from yours because Trisquel (preinstalled) comes whith libre kernel 4.13.X from FSFLA "by default". But when I press Fn+"moon" it shutdown. Then I have to press again Fn+"moon" to reinitate... It doesn't work...
Re: [Trisquel-users] ThinkPenguin has a new laptop
The page says that Ubuntu 16.04 works and T8 is based on Ubuntu 16.04 so I wouldn't personally worry. That's fantastic news. tfs
Re: [Trisquel-users] X200 libreboot thinkpad unable to resume from suspension
Suspend and hibernate work on my librebooted ThinkPad x60 running Trisquel 8. Both worked with Trisquel 7 too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ThinkPenguin has a new laptop
a...@ncf.ca wrote: I visited Chris' website today and saw this: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-z-gnulinux-laptop Is there a hardware switch to electrically disable the integrated webcam and built-in microphone? If this is mentioned on the page I didn't notice the mention of such a switch.
[Trisquel-users] ThinkPenguin has a new laptop
I visited Chris' website today and saw this: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-z-gnulinux-laptop Trisquel 7 isn't supported ... would an early iso of Trisquel 8 work?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass
For me the latest abrowser (57) is very slow. Startup is fast, but it now takes me over 4 seconds to completely load a page, e.g. Slashdot. I'm using the following enabled add-ons: Dark Background and Light Text, NoScript, User Agent Switcher 1.12 (as a replacement for the regular User Agent Switcher), Violentmonkey (as Greasemonkey doesn't seem to work) and YouTube Video and Audio Downloader (as a substitute for Download Flash and Video which didn't find any videos on YouTube with JavaScript disabled). I still didn't find any replacements for DownThemAll! or FlashGot. It isn't my main browser thankfully (and it won't be as long as PulseAudio is a requirement), but it's still rather disappointing.
Re: [Trisquel-users] X200 libreboot thinkpad unable to resume from suspension
My eBay special librebooted T400 suspends. I can't remember if I've ever needed to hibernate it. Hibernate works fine for me on T7 with 64bit factory BIOS Thinkpads and was always such an iffy matter on X60 tablets that I honestly don't remember if librebooting my own made it better or worse. You have to give them enough swap when you partition the hard drive if you want them to hibernate. I was overdoing it at first, but IIRC Mr. Banana assured me that with reasonably modern computers, twice the size of your RAM is a waste and once is plenty[1] and of course he was right. [1] i.e., if you have four gigs of memory, a four gig swap partition is sufficient even though you will need a 512 MB swap partition if you want to hop in my time machine and partition a drive for a hibernateable thinkpad T-foo with 256 MB of memory in two thousand foo A.D.
Re: [Trisquel-users] raptor talos will make a lower priced mainboard, if you buy 10000
Funny you should mention that. Apparently someone is working on a GuixSD port for the A20 computer card. :) I'm excited for that, GuixSD seems like a really cool system.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about the impact and future direction of proprietary software and technologies of surveillance and control.
It's probably pessimism to think that the gap between developers and users will continue to widen. It's already pretty wide. Hopefully the "open sores" marketing department will just vacuum up all the potential open sores customers and they will be able to purchase a superior product to winblows, the customer service packages of their choices, and leave us the eff alone. Those of us who have some knowledge will probably need to be reminded subtly and gently, the way you just did with those asterisks, that we are biological organisms. White men in suits and ties have spent millions of dollars learning how to kick our bruises in very specific ways. They want us to break windows and burn down walmarts so they can pass new laws to protect you from us and round us up so they can put us places where you don't have to see us. Just walk right on by and don't even look at that heather; just pretend it doesn't even exist; that's not a person, it's a BUM!!! To a certain extent, during a hopefully temporary stage in the development of free software, we average joes will need to trust. We very well may need to STFU and leave it to the experts, but at least they will be our experts who have already earned our trust long before things got this bad. The average user will probably need to keep a Windows box or an eye pad or something around just to avoid questions. Depending on their age and social circles, it might be advantageous to feign ignorance in all technical matters. "I don't know because my son always takes care of that computer mumbo jumbo and he's out of town right now soREALLY??? So all I have to do is google it and it will automatically install the app and I can pay my bill without even having to put on my underpants and wait for the bus? Well, well, well, what will they come up with next. I'll write that down to tell Junior since I don't know what a google is, obviously, jajajajaja, here's your check and you have a nice day, sonny!" The price of that is anger. It's nothing the human race hasn't done before and the free software community can get through this too. Anger is best diverted into concrete action so I think what we, as users, are going to need is something analagous to what Amazon and the corps are doing with data miners: here is one simple repetitive job that needs doing. X doesn't have the English skills so Y can do it but s/he doesn't have enough Portugese to finish the job so Z can take over from there. We need AI to take care of the details and give human readable instructions to stressed out angry fearful biological organisms. AI isn't going to get their feelings hurt if the biological organism has to blow off a bit of steam first before it can focus on the task at hand. I also think there will be a huge influx of poorly self-taught and half-functional half-programmers who will need to be dealt with tactfully and allowed to grow at their own pace. The difference between a well written AI and one dashed off in the middle of the night in frustration might make the difference between whether they work for us or for them. I can't copy and pace, but about fifteen years ago someone shared a story with me about what their grandparents went through to get information during WWII. There were underground newspapers. Even in the blazing hot summers, people always read them in front of a cheerful dancing fire in their fireplaces in case their was an unexpected knock on the door. But they read them. Average Joes risked their lives, properties, incomes, careers, and families just to find out wtf was going on. Average Joes aren't going to change in three or four lousy generations.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Writing a simple guide to Parabola for newbies
No worries, just lmk if you have any questions about Devuan I could help with; I'm on their forums too, but kind of hard to find, so it's probably easier just to use email if you have the mailing list feature enabled here. IRC works too. Hang in there and pace yourself; you are determined, young, and strong and we need you. :) I don't know the right Cantonese idiom to mangle, but the work you have taken on is a marathon, not a sprint.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass
Nah, I thought your joke was funny and it got (at least) me seeing the humour in potentially unpleasant situations elsewhere. It definitely worked. Sometimes people who are still learning English come up with insights that native speakers didn't see. It's a weird language. I am glad that you are here. Quantum is going on my T8 install as soon as I get a spare moment and then I might actually have something to contribute to this thread. ;) Surf has also been recommended as a possible non-mozilla based browser. I like Dillo for it's "idiot-resistant" features but I can't remember the last time I've gotten anything from their mailing list and I've never configured it for anything more practical than looking around without java. W3m is also new to me and I love it for when a more old fashioned text browser like Lynx or Links isn't enough and a GUI browser is just going to give you a headache. There are negative reports about Quantum elsewhere that I don't need to repeat, but it sounds like the positives outweigh them, it's just going to take a bit of elbow grease to get things set up. Thank you so much!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass
I like the 'density - compact' in customize, less space taken by GUI, more space for teh site. I heard in the next version or two there will also be an option to hide the titlebar, thet's even more space, very useful for those with small monitors, think laptops. In the meanwhile been experimenting with devilspie as described here. Looks good..
Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass
viejito, if you open up your TorBB and copy the value for the useragent (windows7, ff-esr) and disable js and redo the test you should see your fingerprint has lowered drastically. Another good website to check the fingerprint is https://browserprint.info/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass
extensions.pocket.enabledfalse extensions.pocket.site extensions.pocket.api That should disable it completely I guess.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass
No, I wasn't trying to be that clever .. The joke was funny because it was mine - lol! XD
Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass
Yeah, this sounds very good :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] libre (uncensored) DNS Providers ?
is OpenDNS not trustworthy, some opennic public servers that I use vanishes sometimes but then I just switch to another
Re: [Trisquel-users] raptor talos will make a lower priced mainboard, if you buy 10000
> The kinds of laptops you should be looking at are the $300-$400 budget > laptops (sometimes as little as $200) found at Walmart and other similar > stores. Those also include Chromebooks. I already told you that the SoC being > > used for the next computer card (yes, the Rockchip one) is actually used in a > > fairly recent Chromebook, the C201 (released sometime in 2015, afaict). In > fact, this Chromebook is still easy to find new, so you could easily buy one, > > install Debian or Parabola on it, and see how well it works. Is it hard to build GuixSD for ARM? IIRC, the only thing I might have to actually compile is Guile and Guix. -- Caleb Herbert OpenPGP public key: http://bluehome.net/csh/pubkey signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] Browsing and javascript
That's alright. Different viewpoints add to diversity.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Writing a simple guide to Parabola for newbies
No thanks and I am always on my working laptop everyday but Tuesday at 15:45 or later, but also everyday but Thursday at 10:30 or earlier. Parabola, Debian testing, Flidas T8 are my days-to-days systems I am working for my free software theories, I have also installed Devuan but need to reinstall due to some issues.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Quantum kicks ass
supertramp I download from the website and I'm impress with it, specially the speed and clarity. Yet the foot print is very sort of stable. https://panopticlick.eff.org my panoptclick results are How well are you protected against non-consensual Web tracking? After analyzing your browser and add-ons, the answer is ... Yes! You have strong protection against Web tracking, though your software isn’t checking for Do Not Track policies. Help us defend the Web against tracking: TestResult Is your browser blocking tracking ads? ✓ yes Is your browser blocking invisible trackers?✓ yes Does your browser unblock 3rd parties that promise to honor Do Not Track? ✗ no Does your browser protect from fingerprinting? ✗ your browser has a unique fingerprint Note: because tracking techniques are complex, subtle, and constantly evolving, Panopticlick does not measure all forms of tracking and protection. Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 846,502 tested so far. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 19.69 bits of identifying information. Did you decided to use abrowser or icecat?
