mps-youtube does not use avideo/youtube-dl as backend, it's just a
simple wget script. Therefore, it is not youtube-dl, but it still
manages to avoid JS. You can easily tell because it barely wowrks: half
the vids don't play because no JS.
As with anything in the FLOSS world, the simplest way
There used to be libre Darwin distros. Those should run better on Apple
hardware.
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Proper threading and subject changes are also available in the mailing
list. I'm guessing that all responses are folded down to appear as children
of a thread-starting post in a forum and that any subject changes are
simply lost in the forum as that seems to be how forums work nowadays.
Threats to freedom are amplified by efficiency. While police can and do search
the homes of innocent people, it takes time and resources, and it is done
visibly. Abuses of this power are obvious, and while they can often get away
with it anyway, they are incentived to avoid it. A mechanism for
To clarify, GuixSD is a distro that is based on the Guix package manager. If
you install Guix (the package manager) on Trisquel and do not enable binary
substitutes, the Guix package manager is rolling and sources-based even though
Trisquel is not.
Guix (the package manager) uses tarballs,
The Guix package manager can use binary substitutes if you so choose, but by
default it builds from source.
Found a discussion. Learning...
https://trisquel.info/es/forum/how-boot-new-linux-libre-kernel-libreboot
I followed all the steps on that page to install linux-libre-lts, in hopes of
getting version 4.9 as listed, but after I did every step and rebooted, uname
-r still says 3.13. Not sure what to do next.
Thanks! I'll look into it.
I have already installed this Guix into my systems, namely Parabola, Uruk,
Hyperbola, Trisquel, but they are all bins-based, with their main package
managers of pacman and Debian, among the 4 systems only Parabola is rolling.
Thus do you stand for trying that operating system GuixSD with Guix
Since switching to the mailing list from the forum I've begun to notice that
each experience results in missing content that I now realize has been the
cause of miscommunications for me in the past. I have heard that the forum is
being reworked, so I thought I would document the discrepancies
There are two claims in there, as freedom (in the software sense) and privacy
are to important but separate issues. I agree that Firefox does not
adequately respect privacy, but it is free software which is why it is
possible to create Firefox derivatives that improve the software with
> (1) is common-place: it is unusual to be forbidden
> use/study/copy/redistribute hardware. Well, except that we do not have
> copying machines for hardware. But, by (1), I imagine mason was actually
> thinking of free designs for hardware, documented hardware. Anyway, none of
> the projects
I am with Linux-image-4.14.12. No problem at this time.
I used mason's numbering:
(1) hardware that respects the equivalent of the 4 freedoms of software
(2) hardware that can be used without any proprietary software
(3) hardware that is compatible with free sofware (but may require additional
proprietary software)
He wrote that
The patches will be backported at some point, I hope. But, yes, for the
moment, you can use jxself's Linux-libre repository to be on the safe side
(you will get version 4.9.75 or version 4.14.12, depending on the package you
install): https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
> I would say that every resource/vendor you listed is about (2).
Most of the hardware on h-node is (2), but it includes for instance laptops
that require a non-free BIOS, which I consider (3). I consider ThinkPenguin's
laptops and and TechnoEthical's phones to be (3) for the same reason, even
> Could you please explain what freedom issues (apart from the one mentioned
> by me) there are? I have always thought Chromium is FLOSS.
See Magic Banana and Supertramp's posts.
> But I am not a programmer. And it seems no programmer has taken care to
> remove them
I wasn't suggesting that you
It's been 6 months and I've still rocking a Minifree Libreboot T400. I've
been doing corporate work with it recently (Office 365, LibreOffice, emacs).
I still have to cheat with an iPad for some things like Webex and Microsoft
Teams because of proprietary crap I need for work, but it's my
Congratulations.
I recommend the following further steps on purely aesthetic grounds:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/new-devices-ryf-certificate#comment-111959
h-node is to list test results (be them bad or good) about hardware and
how well they work with fully free/libre distros and with only
free/libre software, thus in h-node it doesn't matter that much if the
device is RYF-certified or not. Thus, the absense of a given test result
just shows that
In my opinion, there isn't really much difference between the X200/X200S,
though the latter does have lower-power CPUs as previously discussed.
How was your reply any different than the original comment?
Not trying to be rude be you kind off just emphasized what the original
commenter said, except that you said that every resource/vendor OC mentioned
is about (2). And what did you mean by that, anyway?
Cheers!
ProteanOS is for embedded devices, not laptops.
I would say that every resource/vendor you listed is about (2).
In particular:
The h-node project aims at the construction of a hardware database in order
to identify what devices work with a fully free operating system.
https://h-node.org/
All the product software must be free software.
A, that makes sense!
A little wierd if you ask me that they are developing ProteanOS and selling
Protean stickers, but sell computers with Trisquel :p but hey.. why not
though
My Trisquel installation on my Minifree computer says it's at
3.13.0-137-lowlatency, with no updates available. Do I have to force it up to
4.1x to get meltdown/spectre issues patched/hardened?
No, it looks like the Taurinus comes with Trisquel.
https://shop.libiquity.com/product/taurinus-x200
The FSF appears to endorse individual products from those vendors. I don't see
a list of approved vendors and that is probably because they won't want to
appear to endorse non-free products by
When I do the:
gksu pluma /etc/rc.local
It gets me here (see screenshot)
Should I just copy all of the text that you said I was supposed to copy (like
everything) and just paste it in say.. line #13 for example?
You only run one kernel. The command 'uname -r', executed in a terminal,
prints the version you are currently running. In its default configuration,
the bootloader (GRUB) always boots the latest version of the kernel. So, you
need to reboot the system after installing a new version of the
Mainly the KPTI patch, against Meltdown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)
That patch has been present in the branch 4.9.* since 4.9.75, in the branch
4.14.* since 4.14.11. It will be in the soon-to-be-released version 4.15
too.
Lol :p
I am simple man, asking questions. Although that was a funny article, it
didn't help me :p
But anyway, seems like I posted the same post twice (just slightly different
wording), that was unfortunate. Is it impossible to delete posts?
And this process described by alimiracle will fix that problem (but limiting
power)?
Well said! They don't want the back door, they want the master and only key
that fits in all doors. It could be laziness, or a strategic attempt at
trying to gain abilities while the laws are not yet clearly defined, in hope
of setting precedent to lobby for laws that favour them at the
Basically: all Intel processors in use are affected. Yours included.
https://nonfree.news/2017/09/22/stallman-refuses-to-use-nonfree-microwave
Removing the liner will do the trick.
sudo gedit /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-ubuntu.conf
Add the following line, save and then close.
allow-guest=false
Reboot, and you're set.
copy and pasted, use a searX engine, m8, won't hurt :P
Right, exactly. That statement is the equivalent of saying that they want
front door lock manufacturers to give them a skeleton key to someone's house,
if they ask for it. Why should data that is stored on my electronic device
have any different legal status than data that is stored in a
I do not think there is software running in earphones/headphones. Anything
you can plug in the phone connector of your computer should work out of the
box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)
If you are talking about Bluetooth devices, then the Bluetooth chipset in
your
And if you want to enable it again you go back and edit it to
allow-guest=true?
HTML who? :p
In the same style as my other post about monitors I wonder if earphones
and/or headphones fall victim for proprietary software or if they are such
"simple" pieces of technology that proprietary software is not an issue in
the world of headphones?
While I'm at it I'm also wondering about
>Also looking at most recent issues of Spectre and Meltdown - personally I
have blocked all JS in chromium. Firefox doesn't even have such setting.
Well done, welcome to the club. Firefox does have the option to block all
javascript, of course. In about:config type javascript
See https://trisquel.info/forum/testing-trisquel-8-upgrade-process
"The FBI is not looking for a "back door" that would allow agents to obtain
the contents of those messages secretly, he said. Instead, law enforcement
wants the app developers to obtain the information when presented with a
court order. "
*bangs head on desk"
Yes, yes they are. It's not
I guess their HTML foo is even worse than mine :P
Just highlight the link with your mouse and copy it and paste it in your url
bar
I want to disable the guest account. 'System -> Users and groups' shows me
nothing but my main account. According to several sources I can add
'allow-guest=false' to lightdm.conf but that file doesn't exist.
What is the trick?
What? Why would it take so long? Debian released the patched kernel for
meltdown on January 4.
>I indeed did not understand it right.
Yeah, me too (and I even read, well read not understood, the pdf from
goobles0)
What I find interesting is the wording from AMD's post about the issue, I
guess they don't know fore sure yet. We'll see.
My bad. Is that the OS that come pre-installed on their Taurinus X200?
According to FSF:
" ProteanOS is a new, small, and fast distribution for embedded devices. Its
platform configuration feature allows binary packages to be configured at
build-time and run-time for different hardware and
It is FSF-endorsed. https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
From a user perspective, I think of it as software on different levels:
a standalone software application, which I can install or remove
a set of software, which together is called desktop environment
a set of software, which is together called GNU/Linux distribution
So I can run
I note that Libiquity sell "ProteanOS" stickers. Is that an operating system,
and if so, why isn't it recommended by FSF?
> As I understand it Chromium has freedom issues
Could you please explain what freedom issues (apart from the one mentioned by
me) there are? I have always thought Chromium is FLOSS.
> Firefox has known issues, but as free software can be modified to remove
any antifeatures.
But I am not
These are all interesting devices which I would personally like to try out.
However, I am looking for a device that I can persuade my to use too (in the
car). It seems that I will not find a such running on free software. In that
case I will have to find consolation in the fact that a simple
I agree wholeheartedly with you, if you don't commit a crime no one should be
using a search warrant on you.
And yes, this makes me somewhat happier as well. Although, the idea of
seizing people's stuff in general is wrong if they have done nothing wrong.
Talk about paranoid... that's the
> I'm looking for free hardware.
You could mean a few things by 'free hardware':
(1) hardware that respects the equivalent of the 4 freedoms of software
(2) hardware that can be used without any proprietary software
(3) hardware that is compatible with free sofware (but may require additional
Personally I like direct links and the good thing is that the parents
closer to me also got the same taste, specially due to bandwidth and
resource usage concerns. ;)
2017-11-26T21:57:41+0100 leestro...@gmail.com wrote:
> So, I have an account on Diaspora and I wanted to post a video to
> share
You're welcome! ;)
2017-12-04T13:28:43+0100 da...@sognus.com wrote:
> Hi! Thanks a lot for your contribution, although I'm not sure about
> the implementation.
>
> The solution for the excessive indentation is nice and elegant (and
> I've already put it up in production) but I don't think we
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/blocked-passwords-fbi-can-t-unlock-over-half-devices-seized-n836091
I believe strongly that the law needs to be enforced (as long as those laws
are just and reasonable). If the law enforcement agencies have a reasonable
suspicion that a
Damn, this keeps on happening. And it seems there's no way I can edit the
original post ... link:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/blocked-passwords-fbi-can-t-unlock-over-half-devices-seized-n836091
> and as a whole Chromium so far seems the most
> privacy respecting browser
As I understand it Chromium has freedom issues, which doesn't surprise me since
the project seems committed not to freedom but to ensuring that its proprietary
counterpart Chrome benefits from all free software
I'm looking for free hardware.
Specifically I am looking for monitors, but in general I'm looking for
everything.
As far as I'm aware, the FSF doesn't recommend any specific desktop monitor
or company that sell desktop monitor(s).
Is that because all monitors are considered free? Are the
After install linux-image 4.14.12 if I remove linux-image 4.9.66, any
problem?
if not,
I could install 4.14.12 and remove 4.9.66.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
freesh-keyring linux-headers-4.14.12-gnu linux-image-4.14.12-gnu
linux-libre-lts
The following packages will be upgraded:
libplank-common libplank1 plank uruk-base
4 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 86.3
You can't just consider that one person and their one device. You have to
look at who they are, who their circle(s) is(are), and and how they interact
with their circle(s). There's little benefit to getting a few people in a
circle to adopt different software if their larger circle will not,
Love this:
"But it is essential to introduce as well the free software *philosophy*. A
user who understands the injustice of proprietary software will not surrender
to it whenever more convenient."
That's a great first step.
I post this question here, and pardon me if it is unsuited, hopefully someone
can guide me to a better suited forum if that's the case.
Anyway, I'm simply wondering whether or not earphones and headphones contain
any software to speak of at all, and if it does, of someone know of any
My impression is that you just need more practice, but what do I know.
Feel free to email me just to talk. We could also chat on IRC, even if
it was just about the weather and our health. lmk if that is ever
something you would be interested in, okay?
My experience in education is not
He means that those of us who continue to use Intel processors with ME
will need to sacrifice speed for security.
Is there some way I can donate a non-proprietary wireless card to you? I
already have one I can send or else I could make a small donation with
paypal or a check if that would be
I disagree.
For some reason, your English skills do not seem to be as big an issue
for me. Your English isn't perfect, but neither am I and I would like to
keep in touch if you decide that this forum is not the best use of your
time and energy.
Keep up the good work, either in Cantonese,
Yea, me too.
I'm currently running Uruk on a librebooted X60 with only two gigs of
memory and mostly staying offline.
Do I even need to do a full upgrade?
I'm just a hobbyist. My computers have nothing to do with my income.
On 01/08/2018 10:43 PM, you wrote:
> Processor Speed is so important
Things are not always black and white and people juggle with many types of
competing priorities. I respect the resolve of those who reject every
proprietary program, but life is full of other inconveniences (like finding
food and shelter) that sometimes take priority in the life of people I
That's not how much of the world works nowadays, unfortunately. I suppose the
word employee may be
inaccurate...contractor/freelancer/consultant/micro-entrepreneur/etc. The
reality is many people do use their personal computer equipment working for
their "employer."
That post is also in the list, for sure.
I have found that two new packages where added to dependencies before the
last update: the open atk9h and another one named Linux-free-firmware. Try
removing the second one and checking if the adapter works. If it still does,
probably that means
That post is also in the list, for sure.
I have found that two new packages where added to dependencies before the
last update: the open atk9h and another one named Linux-free-firmware. Try
removing the second one and checking if the adapter works. If it still does,
probably that means
From reading the form recently I have gathered that trisquel 8 needs more
assistance.
However I am not sure how to help.
Is there a list of things to do somewhere?
When I click on the techcrunch link in your post I just get redirected to
this post, anyone else got this issue?
In Trisquel 8, Abrowser is default browser and works nice (apart from some
branding issues).
Also, as others have mentioned, the "Web" package is nice.
Where/how do I actually find out if this issue affects the processor in my
MacBook Pro 9.1, and will this method of yours work universally?
Hello friend of software freedom,
In December 2017, after trying FF 57 for the first time, I saw some hideous
things and I started to test various browsers myself, from privacy
perspective. I have shared some of my findings as bug reports:
Firefox:
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