No, I actually provided a lot of arguments, many different ones. But you
didn't read them. Maybe you are not limited only in logic but also in plain
english...
And by now, you are starting to get quantumgravity's place as the asshole.
So just go pirate your shit away, and leave the good
Just to end this, like I said, you care nothing about sharing, you won't do
any sacrifice for sharing with people who need, and you refuse any business
model that doesn't say do whatever the hell you want, no need to pay.
You just want free beer, you don't give a damn about free speech.
That's why I suggested to use Tor Browser Bundle. The browser is made in a
such a way that tries to prevent dns leaks. So far, it seems to work for me.
However, I think this is just another thing to be changed in the next
Trisquel release... or better yet, just provide a security update that
Now let's see if google, apple, microsoft and facebook do the right thing
and close shop as well.
I wouldn't hold my breath lembas ;)
I can't find inkview in the add/remove apps.
Did you install it from a different source? It could be the case that only
apps installed through the standard app manager appear as alternatives =S
I will try to take a look at it later and see what I can come up with ;)
Thanks for the suggestion. From what little we can read in their website, it
seems to be a good company, similar maybe to Lavabit. But these days, one can
never be too confident in email providers...
Anyway, I might choose to use them for the time being.
I have been thinking, most people have a smartphone these days. That means a
device that is connected to the internet 24/7, with a SD card inside.
How about we run a mail server in there??
I actually think it could be a good idea. I don't know about you guys, but I
don't usually get that much
Cool, I hope you get extra ecstatic ;)
Keep up the good work. Let us know how it goes =)
Thanks, I will try this!
How could one know the ISP DNS? Usually the support is very poor in my ISP,
if I ask them about DNS, they probably won't know what I am talking about =S
I am not doing propaganda. I am defending what I believe to be the best
interest of the community. So, yes, I am obeying the rules about that.
Let's try to make it simple for you: I am not supporting monopolies. I
believe we should go with free/open standards in the internet, I believe we
No one who shares illegaly takes *away* money from the copyright holders.
The amount of money in their pocket stays the same if a friend gives you a
jamendo.de song or a copy from lady gaga.
Taking away money from the copyright holders would be theft, that's true, but
I can't imagine how
Words change meanings over time!
Piracy is a word that has been used for many years now to refer to illegal
distribution of content. People who make stupid jokes about ships and seas,
are just pretending they can't see a big elephant in a room.
I am not doing propaganda and I have explained
Well, that is a very sad decision from Mozilla. They have made some... not
very good decisions over the last few months unfortunately. I think that
taking away a easy solution from the user to disable JS is a poor choice. But
I don't really care about that, as we still have NoScript. But I
Again, again and again, piracy is not a propaganda term. Words change meaning
over times, and we should accept that. And stop making comparisons to ships
and seas -.-
The truth is, you think in the internet you don't have to obey the law.
Have you ever thought that maybe it was the other way
from a legal point of view, you are still causing financial harm, and
therefore you are to pay all the money that person has not won plus expenses.
Think about it... You take one copy, and share (pirate actually) to 100
people. If you were to pay the money that the creator would have made
Well, first things first... You are an asshole. Just to make sure you
understand it, I will even repeat: You are an ASSHOLE!
You have been harassing me ever since I came here, so, that is the proper
word to describe you.
Now, as for the whole piracy thing, you keep making stupid jokes and
In Trisquel, you can use the movie player and in preferences pick start
reproduction from last point. That should do what you want. As for portable
media players, they support that themselves.
Hope it helps =)
I have noticed both you and the asshole (quantumgravity for those who might
not know him yet) like to attack me with straw man fallacies
(http://www.logicalfallacies.info/ambiguity/straw-man/) . I used to think,
before I joined this forum, that this was a place where I would find
Well, forgive me for actually having an opinion instead of just agreeing
blindly with everything written in some website! -.- shame on you... I have
already stated here that I did not agree with everything the FSF says. I
still think we can work together, I don't need to agree with
, that's a funamental
misunderstanding on your part.
You keep using a classic form of circular logic, GNUser - you assert that
piracy is bad because it is illegal (or that is equivalent to stealing), and
because it is illegal it means it's bad.
I never explained things that way, so that's
Considering that most people are complaining about the same situation
happening to them, I think it's more reasonable to admit that it comes as a
default in Trisquel. Maybe somehow it got overwritten by your ISP
configurations.
Now, I am not saying that Trisquel is aligning with Google and
I'm merely pointing out the fallacy of chastizing someone for not following
the rules of the creators when you're failing to do so yourself. Here's a
contradiction.
I will play along and pretend to believe that. Still, two totally different
things, so... moot point really. Moving on
Well, I don't know where you live (and I am not asking, don't take it in the
wrong way please) but in my place, everyone knows piracy usually refers to
illegal copies. Problem is, they accept it as much as they accept windows =S
I don't know what is worse, but I would say windows is worse.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/talks-about-drm#comment-40255
Right here. You made it as if I was talking about competition, and not
illegal distribution. Now, you will say that was not it and I didn't
understand bla bla bla... You used straw man attack against me. Also,
everytime people
And I have explained to you that you were wrong. I won't do it again. Use
your brains instead of believing everything you read on the internet.
People use that term because they know what they are doing is illegal and
they are taking something that does not belong to them (did they buy the
content? no, so it's theft in a way).
Apparently you have problems reading English.
Sharing is good. Sharing means you create something and share it under a free
license, or provide means to share what other people have created under
similar free licenses.
Piracy is bad. Piracy is when you illegally distribute something that does
Maybe you are the one who need it.
Both were straw man attacks. Making it as if I was talking about A when I was
talking about B. You refuse to accept that, you are just being irrational.
As for ad hominem, I would have done it if I had called him son of a bitch.
I don't know his mom, and I
Well, that's a solution!
Thank you so much! =)
As I have stated countless times before sharing is sharing, when you
share what is YOURS. If it is not yours, you are not sharing.
Want to share? Create something, use a free license, and share it. Or just
mirror some CC and PD content and share that. That is sharing. What you are
I don't want to mislead you, but I believe that when you install Trisquel it
creates a partition used for swap. I don't think you can wipe it.
You can however use the memory option and the free space option, which
would in theory wipe all traces left behind of anything you might have been
Well, using Pidgin with OTR encryption you can have private (non anonymous)
conversations with them, if they use the same program. Problem is, it will
only encrypt text conversations, Pidgin has video conference chat available
for XMPP protocol, you can use it, but it's not encrypted. So, if
I am starting to find some arguments presented here ridiculous. Really!
sharing knowledge and sharing your copy doesn't harm the person who gave
you the copy, yada yada yada You guys are forgetting that what we see in
the web are THOUSANDS of websites that share the latest hollywood piece
Of course, you had to come around and play victim.
You are forcing them to do what you want: share the movie for free on the
internet.
When was the last time you worked day and night and got 0 return from it? Had
your family waiting for you to come home with the money to buy food and had
First, I was not ranting. Second, the only person I directly replied to was
quantum gravity and it was a different separate reply.
As for what you write, I believe it was with you that I changed some emails
the other week, but if it wasn't here goes some information.
People who need audio
Lol, what would people do without you as a sensible voice to guide them...
xD ahahahahah. And I am the one who is childish? You think you are so better
than me... You have been harassing me ever since the first day I arrived
here. Well, guess what? I am not going away. And I will keep
So, hows it going? =)
I was going to suggest something similar to that, like starting a project
not just a club. Like, the people would not just getting together and feeling
lazy, they would actually have a purpose together. I am happy Andresm
suggested that first =)
I hope your club is
I know this is an old thread, but I am going to leave here some thoughts
anyway.
First, that was a bad timing man =/ I am sorry you couldn't change your
phone.
I too have a phone that does not support Replicant (which I had no idea of
what it was back when I bought it) and so, I have decided
What do you mean? Approval to be recognized as a nonprofit organization?
Well, looks like politics work the same speed everywhere =P
I apologize Kendell Clark. I did not mean to attack you or put words in your
mouth. But seeing as a couple of users were already taking the conversation
in that direction (supporting piracy), and you seemed to be saying something
like if we don't get have money it's ok to pirate stuff, I was
https://securityinabox.org/en/pidgin_portable
Take a look at this website. It explains everything in great detail.
Of course, if they are using windows, your privacy is 0 already, so you can
just have them downloading Pidgin, unziping it, and running it with gmail.
You use a compatible xmpp
Unfortunately I am not capable of answering your question.
However, your question actually made me think, if Trisquel overwrites files
concerning DNS, does that mean that when using Tor in Trisquel I could
actually be spied on? (My ISP knowing what websites I visit).
If someone could answer
Of course, I am not pro-DRM. I am
pro-people-learning-to-respect-the-license. That would make DRM
unnecessary.
I think DRM are bad and should be abandoned. But I merely understand why SOME
companies use them.
As for HTML5, I think it should be freely used, but the truth is that many
Well, as much as I hate the way DRM are used nowadays, I still say what I
have said before in this forum: users brought DRM on themselves, when they
started pirating stuff.
The suggestion on defectivebydesign is the correct way to do things. You
don't like a policy, you don't support the
Thanks to everyone who replied.
However, no one actually suggested a way to get what I needed. I know
encryption is good, and I know not letting strangers in my apartment is good,
and I know that if a bad guy gets access to my computer he can do many nasty
things I just don't know how
I don't mind you asking, not at all =)
However, I can't give much details, suffice to say I have no other machines
available at the time. I have only one computer, and no way to set a physical
firewall.
So, I really need to go with ufw.
But thanks for asking =)
Many reasons, but for me the main two are:
1. you want your freedom respected, but you don't want to respect the other
person freedom.
2. GNU exists because RMS didn't pirate UNIX, he created something new with a
new license, GNU. That is, in my opinion, the principle what should empower a
Agreed. It's better than nothing.
Anyway, I would like to thank both of you, both have provided very helpful
comments (Mampir actually told me what services to stop and how to do that,
thank you very much).
I am not an inexperienced user when it comes down to security, mind you, but
I make
That was a good suggestion f00bar. THANKS!
Yes, Tails is an option, if you don't mind the extremely limited usability. I
have decided to use Tor Broswer in a non compromised system (which I believe
Trisquel may provide).
One option you would have was to go with Thunderbird (or icedove) and use
Torbirdy extension. Its made by the Tor
Unauthorized distributors hurt the copyright holder's freedom, because he is
no longer free to determine how something that actually belongs to him, will
be distributed.
Truth is, and i have said it here before: people behind those sites don't
care about sharing or making a better world.
Sure, but if you go to the kid and hit him until he shares by force it's
not good, it's not sharing. Welcome to reality, that's piracy.
I am really confused how people can actually support both free software AND
piracy at the same time. ??
Unfortunately that's the same thing I hear from people when I talk about Tor,
and about how facebook and google are evil, and all of that.
Are people blind, or they just like to get screwed time and time again??
Didn't know tormail was down, thanks for the heads up.
Well, I never fully agreed with their choices, but they have done a good work
so far, I learned some new things there and I am not a inexperienced user
when it comes to privacy/security.
I guess it all comes down to what compromises you are willing to make
(gnewsense could be used with
Personally I would suggest against that. Some years ago, Tor started as a
simple proxy, it would redirect all you traffic through Tor network, and that
was it. Over the years, the Tor team actually understood that was no good,
because there are MANY ways that your system can screw things
Firewall is not a magical solution for all problems. But it certainly
helps.
It makes you harder to detect on the web (stops wannabe hackers from messing
with you).
It makes a log of what happens in your network.
It prevent that a program connects to a outside server without you wanting it
Hello all.
Thanks to everyone who replied to my post.
Well, I understand most things that were said, but here are some key facts:
1. I don't store anything in my computer (no files nor anything personal).
2. I clean the system regularly with BleachBit.
3. I don't use autosave passwords options.
What's wrong with Javascript? You didn't even say non free javascript.
You refuse to run any javascript in your machine??
You could try using Tor Browser, they have made a good work disabling some
dangerous javascripts in their browser.
Lol, thanks for the heads up :P
I might try it, do you know if they have a CD ISO, or do they work with DVD
ISO only?
Hey everyone.
I'm in a hurry now, but I will give more details later if needed.
Basically, when you allow the system to show hidden files and such, you
will notice in your home directory a couple of folders appear, I believe
these are used by various programs like gimp and openshot, to keep
Thanks for the clarification. Never tried that myself.
Yes, it's really a broken system by this point.
There are two alternatives to someone who wants to be a little bit safer:
1. Use something like Web of Trust. At least you have the power of community
to back you up.
2. Test the site fingerprint manually in
It means that Noscript will block all javascript, making it almost impossible
to use the web with it turned on (you have to click in a few dozen
permissions for some websites to run). So, yeah, it's annoying. BUT it
protects you. So it's a very good friend.
Actually, when using the Tor
Agreed!
If Abrowser should come with noscript, it should be in allow all mode, so
that it would only protect against cross-site attacks and such.
Now, of course, as I have said before in the forum, I don't have gnash or
anything running, I prefer to use the bare minimum, but it was my
I don't think he is a pedophile (not what we would normally call one at
least).
Nor a troll. There seems to be something more to him than we see right now...
But yeah, he is annoying and a little crazy, agree on that.
Yes, Debian is a very stable and secure distro. And much of their work as
improved the whole free software community, the FSF should remember that!
But again, just because the FSF says something is not free, it doesn't mean
it actually isn't ;) Unless they copyrighted the term free software xD
Not exactly. While I believe that to be true for most cases, you have to keep
in mind that sometimes when you deblob some driver or whatever, you might
actually break it only because you forget to clean up the code to work
without the blob, and not because it depended on the blob. Like...
Ahaha, your avatar actually looks like she just read vPro comments, asking to
marry her xD xD
Anyway, the point is... I totally agree with you, open standards are the
future! And I totally support them. But I was talking about a solution for
now, as in I need a free clean computer to use
Thanks!
As a side note (this is not related to community driven websites) I
discovered that http://www.techhive.com/ has some (won't say all, I only
tried a few) videos related to technologies and such that play with html5 AND
theora! =D
Actually amazing, one more website that you can
I actually like the KISS Keep It Small and Simple.
I like websites that use html, css, some free non-malicious javascript... All
that hype about flash and such, was a real pain in the back all the way
through.
I hope as we move away from flash (thanks to html5) we don't get into another
Html5 is still way better than flash ;)
Flash is unsecure and a real pain in the back. Html5 sometimes loads non
free javascript as in license. The actual code is not obfuscated in any way,
so I don't really think of that as such a bad thing.
I just think it's stupid that so many websites
Thanks for the link!
From what I read, the beagle board can actually use a free bios and can
work without proprietary drivers except for 3d acceleration. Let's face it,
it's the same problem we have in most laptops (graphics cards usually won't
have free drivers providing 3d acceleration)
Agreed Lembas.
As if Unity was not bad enough, now they spy on us... xD
Thanks Lembas. But, I know that I need to install that and I know how to dot
it. It's just that in order to keep my system safe I don't go around
installing anything just because some website says me trust me, install this
and dive in!
But yeah, If I need to actually take a look at
Lol, yeah, I was just making a joke :P
Already explained the certificate thing in above comment, and as for the last
statement =( damn! I was really getting excited (thinking that if Ubuntu
ran there, Trisquel would run too) and now, it all comes down to this.
Hum well, I will hardly
Thanks for the reply and man I am so sorry you have to put up with UEFI
=S
Hope you recover fast and can ever speak again =S
Ok, jokes aside, thanks for the link ;)
I don't think I will venture myself into installing all of that on my own =S
I would get mad before I ended and would
HUm, I never actually tried it, but in theory, it should. Because if you have
noscript set to block ALL javascript, then it should block your own scripts.
Problem is, when you use flash/gnash/lightspark/whatever_flash_plugin, you
are actually activating the flash on the website. It might not
Linux as you probably know has blobs, parts that are not free and their
source code not available.
Linux-libre projects usually clean those out. Trisquel uses a linux-libre
maintained by Ruben I believe, which is not always as much up to date as we
would like.
jxself kernel is one kernel
Well, I have to agree. Unless you use some specific websites that need flash
AND work with gnash/lightspark, it makes no sense to have it installed.
More and more websites work with html5 these days, and html5 has not shown
(yet) to be half a pain in terms of security/privacy issues as flash.
Not phoning home? A friend in my book :P But honestly, if I wanted a music
player and a calculator... I would buy a music player and a calculator :P
As for gnewsense, well, their latest stable was 2009 and ever since they
released 2 betas... Not what I call a solid development and support.
First, thank you very much for your comments. Much appreciated =)
However, I fail to see how copying /home/ directory would help me... I am not
afraid people taking a look at my files (the first thing i do is install
firewall, so there are still no files there), I worry about an attack that
You suggest I download the .deb file of ufw (from debian for example) and use
it to install, is that it?
I thought of that, but it seems ufw has dependencies, and even if I was to
install those dependencies deb files too, they TOO have dependencies
themselves.
I think the only way to install
Well, Evolution is as much safe as any other... You still have the passwords
and emails stored in your system in a way that they can be compromised. But,
evolution is not a bad choice of course.
Actually, I appreciate the way Trisquel comes prepared for social
interaction on the web. If I
Thank you very much for your help.
I will maybe try doing that, downloading all the deb files needed. Do you
have any idea which ones I would have to download (meaning ones that are not
already installed in Trisquel) ?
I wouldn't think that was the reason, I remember reading an old thread
Unfortunately no. I tested the ports condition and there were a couple of
them opened (22 and a couple of others). Like, OPENED! In the RED! That just
made me angry ya know, because all my ISP has to do is just have a bot
waiting ffor any connection to happen and attack those ports.
I have
While I don't agree with everything vPro said, I would agree that you should
avoid that new Intel technology. VPRO is a backdoor at the hardware level,
you can't trust it.
Please, calm down C'mon man, breath slowly That's good...
Now that you are at peace with the universe, please, explain, what is the
matter with those two ports you mentioned? If it is VPRO technology, my
computer has no such thing.
Could you please explain in more detail please?
I guess one solution would be to stick with older machines for as long as
possible. If you can, avoid laptops, and use a tower with free software only
friend hardware.
It's not perfect but is a solution.
As for laptops, if you can get one from a trusted friend (someone who you
know didn't
Hushmail has admitted to providing information to governments before.
You have some alternatives, and while none is perfect, you should analyze
each one carefully, one will serve you well.
1. Setup your own mail server. Not easy to do, but not impossible. You will
spend more electricity but
Could you please explain in more detail how does that happen (the 3g thing).
Maybe provide some links. I would like to know more about that.
Unless you are refering to TEMPEST attacks, which are dangerous but don't
work the way you mentioned. Are you talking about TEMPEST attacks?
I totally agree with you, and I forgot to mention yeeloong. But as far as I
know, yeeloong won't run trisquel. =S
What are those nanonote?
No unfortunately I don't use a router. But still, yes, deactivating the
service is one way to do it, BUT i guess the port itself remains open.
Someone suggested to me to use Firestarter, well that's like using UFW or
GUFW, all the same thing. I can use both GUI and terminal commands, however,
I went to read about Nano, it seems interesting, but yes, still can't think
of a use for it. Maybe soon I hope.
As for the Yeeloong, I don't really think I would change from Trisquel to
GNewSense. Just no comparison. Trisquel is more or less updated, it has a
solid users community, I
Some extra thoughts:
1. delete an email once you read it. Download if you want to keep it, but
delete. It won't protect you against the SERVER but it will protect you
against SOMEONE who gets access to you email account (no past messages for
him to read).
2. If you send and receive
Hey, he actually picked the right name for himself vPro, a pain in the back,
no matter if it's a user or a technology. xD
Hello all.
So, I was thinking, since Trisquel is installed without UFW, and because UFW
always says it's not verified or something when trying to install (even if
it does, the warning causes me to think if everything is alright), I have
came to think, how can I close ports without UFW
Hooray! That's great news!
Trisquel is once again keeping up with the needs of the users. Still the best
operating system that I could use right now ;)
Thank you so much! Very good comment and very informative!
Lol, the funny part is that I had actually watched her a few times on youtube
and had NO IDEA who she was xD
Anyway, I wonder... why did Hawk asked me if I had ever heard of her? Lol,
she seems to be type of girl who all nerds try to
Yes, you are right.
However, I am not sure if viewtube loads some external plugin automatically
(before you chose another option, like HTML5). Also, adding addons to a
browser like Tor Browser, makes it easier to identify you.
I was just talking in terms of security and privacy, as for the
They charge 210 dollars for a non profit organization to register with them
and yet they demand another 45 dollars for the room?
That's... a little too much I think =S
Well, it's always good to be upfront with people: what is supposed to be
like, in each get together of the club. If you
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