In some jurisdictions, they cannot be "public domain", unless their authors
died at least 70 years ago, which I very much doubt. They are probably
distributed under a so-called "permissive license" (aka "lax license", aka
"pushover license"), which lets anyone do anything they want with the
By explicitly stating what license apples to your work: a copyright notice in
each file and a copy of the license distributed along the work. For the
details, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html for the GNU licenses
for software, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html for th
It is not a "Trisquel problem". Sound in Abrowser works great on my systems.
Have you tried launching 'abrowser' from a terminal emulator and "open" a
video? An error message may be displayed. Also, does the "Applications" tab
of "Sound", in the "System Settings", list Abrowser? Is it on
It is in the default install.
No package is named "qt5-webengine" in Trisquel's repository. Neither in
Debian's, apparently:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=qt5-webengine&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
The closest I found (maybe the same):
https://packages.debian.org/libqt5webengine5
Both Trisquel and D
Thanks for your answer, but webkit is a different story from webengine, could
you check if the libqt5webengine5 package is available on trisquel?
Not in Trisquel 7's repository at least.
And what about the other question I made about Debian and it's nonfree repos,
I would really like to know
Except for Abrowser and IceCat, the versions of the packages in a given
version of Trisquel are frozen. Regular updates only fix security issues or
otherwise critical bugs. LibreOffice 6 will be in Trisquel 9, probably.
But, yes, you can download the .deb for your architecture on
https:/
It is still an issue (on small-width screens). Apparently, "bootstrap"
provides a solution but I was trying to stay away from frameworks. Also, the
version of Midori in Trisquel 7's repository get the alignment wrong
(whatever the width of the screen). It may be that more recent versions
Also, if I'm not mistaken, even Debian's "main" repository has some GNU FSDG
issues, so even if one manages to "do it yourself" the process of disabling
the other repositories, you still end up with possibly non-free software.
https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html says:
Debian consc
Of course it is. The opposite would mean DRM! But FSF-endorsed
distributions do not steer users towards nonfree software. Here is the whole
paragraph in the FSDG:
A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any nonfree
information for practical use, or encourage the
Of course he does! He refused to send any information to Glenn Greenwald
before he had PGP working. He has endorsed Signal on multiple occasions.
Etc.
With your own isolated network you would only communicate with yourself,
i.e., not communicate. Free software end-to-end encryption, using
good-enough cyphers and protocols, is the solution. It works on the
Internet. That is for the data. For the meta-data, the best we have is Tor.
Bot
The email provider does NOT run only free software. NO computer in this world
does that as of today. I wonder why it is so difficult for most people here
to understand this.
I wonder why it is so difficult for you to understand that it is *not*
quantumgravity's point. He even started his r
Why should the communication go through "your own network"? Those are your
words. Isn't your interlocutor entitled to control the network carrying the
communication as much as you are? Should you and your interlocutor build a
network you administrate together? Good luck if an ocean separa
I still haven't figured out how to add a gpg key to it yet
Have you tried following the steps on
https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/index.html ?
I am not sure about the extended-term support (ETS) version. I am certain
that all other versions that jxself's repository currently propose have the
KPTI patches.
You want your GPG private key to stay on *your* machine, not on that of your
provider.
Try to import
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/archive/trisquel/trisquel-archive-signkey.gpg :
$ apt-key adv --fetch-keys
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/archive/trisquel/trisquel-archive-signkey.gpg
gnutastyc apparently has the correct process (at least it seems to work as
well for vltr, two posts below):
https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/testing-trisquel-8-upgrade-process#comment-124586
You can write to david (although I am not sure the issue is worth fixing):
https://trisquel.info/users/david/contact
Spectre and Meltdown are not backdoors. They are attacks to read data in the
main memory that the process should not be allowed to read.
There is this newly emerging trend to sell "ethical" devices which I think
will become more popular as surveillance increases. So ethics is becoming
corrupt too.
"Popular" implies "corrupt"?!
Assuming you want commercial grade tactical security: A typical PC with no
proprietary software on it, and exchanging PGP encrypted emails over internet
(and ensuring that the other side also takes the same precautions) should
suffice.
It suffices Edward Snowden, who successfully communicat
Edward Snowden might have exploited the status of having a low profile (i.e.
not being singled out) by then.
I would estimate that 99.% of the people have a lower profile than a NSA
contractor with top-level permissions! For those people, GPG on a free
software operating system (such a
I think on the contrary, an agent using encrypted communications would be
less suspect arising than average people doing the same, as it is only normal
and natural for an agent to use encryption.
Laura Poitras is not an agent. She was on the watch list of the Department
of Homeland Securit
Such an incident would intimidate people to self-censoring.
The Snowden revelations have caused self-censorship:
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/new-study-shows-mass-surveillance-breeds-meekness-fear-and-self-censorship/
It indirectly implies that: "All these security fuss is really much
I personally used Trisquel 7's graphical "USB Creator" (or whatever it is
called) to create a live USB from
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/20171223/trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso
That said, the problem may be with the recently cooked (today!) ISO.
I don't think it is fair to say that Abdullah's posts here have had a
demotivating influence.
It is indeed unfair. And ungrounded (as I wrote: I have no evidence). In
the same way that it is unfair and ungrounded to suggest that Edward Snowden
is "a deliberately created figure". It was w
I agree that it should be repeated over and over that perfect security does
not exist. Yet, for 99.% of the users, the available technologies (such
as GPG) will efficiently secure their online communications. One does not
secure a line in an absolute way but given a threat model:
http
Nobody said "give up".
Indeed. You understand the word "subliminal", don't you? And Abdullah
actually answered: "I might have come across a bit discouraging in my attempt
to 'be on the safe side'":
https://trisquel.info/forum/there-perfect-method-guard-our-communication?page=2#comment-128
I very much doubt the problem relates to a bug in the CPU. Just knowing the
kernel "panics", how can you tell?
Meanwhile he himself is actually discouraging any exploration into anything
different from the established pattern of "say free software and don't look
any further". (...) I am not the one who puts words in other people's mouth
You are. Here for instance.
Unclear to who? Some lawyer? Seems pretty clear to me. Do you really want a
lawyer to tell you what software to use? Or a layman who fails to understand
legal terms?
I really want the lawyer. The layman may be somebody who believes he
understands everything after looking at one single lice
Lol.
I don't think it is not part of the browser (is it?).
They are like embedded dependencies. "third_party" contains 3,726,248 lines
of codes, according to 'sloccount'. They are not included for nothing.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/ui/webui/resources/js/analytics.js
Your hardware is fine. However, doubling the RAM would not cost much and
would make a real difference in the number of Web pages and applications you
could simultaneously open.
You can test Trisquel's live system before installing.
You should make a difference between demotivating and disagreeing to blind
faith in "free" as a synonym of "safe".
Nobody here says that "free" is synonymous with "safe" (again: good work at
not "putting words into other people's mouth"!). "Free" is a necessary
condition to "security", not
These make me think that the analytics may be part of the Android version or
Chrome (where I assume that being tracked is inevitable).
I see no reason why the Android version of Chromium would "need" Google
Analytics more than the desktop versions.
BTW if https://www.google-analytics.com/an
Where do you see me say "person X is saying free is synonymous to safe"? Yet
it is undoubtedly a common assumption that it is so.
No, it is not.
And I say it is, in the context of the particular things I was answering to.
??
Yes, I have such network.
So do I. Inside my apartment. It is no
But you can unminify it. That's what I meant. It is still difficult to read
due to the non-descriptive variable and function names but that is surely
easier to reverse engineer than a binary code.
Are you the same person who pretends that freedom 1 is not practical because
it is too much wo
Then why people want free software according to you? Because they like the
licensing? Or because it is not paid? No - they want it because of the
ability for community control which implies it safety.
You pretend that the free software movement believes that "free software
implies safety" s
analytics.js is not 10M lines of code.
"Unminify"
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/chrome/test/data/chromeproxy/extension/google-analytics-bundle.js
(about 1300 lines of code) all you want and try to rewrite part of it in
understandable JavaScript (with meaningful var
there is not a single mention that free software (like Firefox/forks) can
also report that you are "reading page 5" (through telemetry)
The telemetry component does not report the pages the users visit.
Doesn't that say that in the world of free software you won't be a victim? -
Yes, it does
A: I see no issue with this at this point. Previously (before WebExtensions)
any extension could enable that or make changes to any other preference, but
that is all sandboxed away now.
*Third-party* attacks concern*ed* RMS. Not Mozilla. Not anymore.
As you see - just mitigations, not a fi
as an example: https://anchev.net
Its CSS is more than 10,000 lines long (!): https://anchev.net/home.css
Without it, your site becomes much uglier:
http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/anchev_no-css.html
I blanked all pictures. Although you told me in
https://trisquel.info/forum/web-browser?page=5#commen
Indeed. Pyllyukko, who is quite paranoid but honest, even keeps the
protection against phishing that Safe Browsing brings:
https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
Honesty is what is probably lacking to somebody who, on one hand, pretends to
be concerned about Google learning too much from Saf
FWIW (not that I owe anyone an explanation): this website was made on a quick
notice, using a ready made template.
Yet you took the time to subscribe to Google Analytics and to add their
proprietary JavaScript to your website.
The majority of the visitors are using Mac OSX, Windows, Google
I am pretty sure strypey refers to the current #1 poster on this forum:
https://trisquel.info/forum/what-i-think-about-george-anchev-heyjoe-and-his-site
This thread is not about "What do you Magic Banana think about person X and
his site".
Indeed. I have just posted a thread called like that:
https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/what-i-think-about-george-anchev-heyjoe-and-his-site
Thank you for the suggestion.
In Trisquel 7, one just has to execute the following command in a terminal:
$ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
If that Shell script still exist in Trisquel 8, it probably still work.
What exactly happens after the kernel launches the init daemon depends on...
what that init daemon is. They all aim at launching the system services but
do so differently. Nowadays, systemd is, by far, the most popular.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ lists quite a lot o
Thank you very much! I was not expecting anything! I will apply that patch
tomorrow and see if I can understand your magic.
Any association you could join? Maybe a free software user group?
I gotta say, if true, it doesn't make your case look good.
It is true. See by yourself: https://anchev.net/home.js
Often times, avoiding proprietary software comes to a point of avoiding
computers altogether for that task.
Are you talking about avoiding proprietary software on your own computers or
on computers you do not administrate? The latter case does not make you
more/less free. Only the owner o
Your patch really makes my web page look better on smaller screen. Thank you
again!
I will write to you now to get your account number and thank you that way for
the better CSS you wrote for my Web page.
Totally different topic: I know you are involved with checking Chromium's
licensing status. Have you taken a look at the superficial investigation I
made in
https://tri
I am still on Trisquel 7 but anyway:
Additionally, I do not know how to connect to other repositories such
as the Trisquel 8 repositories to see if some of the missing packages might
be available.
Isn't there "Software & Update" (or something like that) in the "MATE Control
Center"? Alternat
Exactly. Here are the supported domains:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/atlas/
And https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/rulesets explains how to add a
ruleset to HTTPS Everywhere.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/621553/disconnect-5.18.21-an+fx-linux.xpi
works here (I have just successfully installed it... and removed it since, as
far as I understood, Privacy Badger does the same job).
The support for extensions relying on the older (and problematic, because
tightly coupled with Firefox's core) XUL and XPCOM APIs have been disabled
since Firefox 57, in favor of WebExtensions. After a rather long period of
transition. Indeed, the WebExtension API has been considered stable
NoScript is now a WebExtension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/858506/noscript_security_suite-10.1.6.5-an+fx.xpi
Decentraleyes too:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/870473/decentraleyes-2.0.3-an+fx.xpi
I believe that quidam sets an older and more common user agent to mitigate
fingerprinting. You can right-click on the button "+ Add to Firefox" to then
copy the link and paste it in the address bar.
Indeed. The real solution is to add the free software add-ons to Abrowser's
catalog, https://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons that is also accessible
through Abrowser's menu. I do not know who takes care of that list. Adding
add-ons in decreasing order of popularity
(https://addons.mozill
Here is a script (basically one line) that downloads the pages of add-ons
from addons.mozilla.org (calling it with no argument display usage info):
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2018 Loïc Cerf (lcerf [at] dcc.ufmg.br)
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under
It is plain text: use a text editor.
Red Hat is among the co-founders of the "Open Invention Network":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Invention_Network
So, technically, Red Hat (and the rest of OIN) holds software patents, for
defensive purpose.
Repeating, with one more bullet, what I wrote three months ago in
https://trisquel.info/forum/trisquel-8-where-are-you#comment-121933
t3g, you are tiresome:
https://trisquel.info/forum/trisquel-8-almost-6-months-late-do-something-anything
https://trisquel.info/forum/trisquel-8-still-not-out-ye
How ironic! The five threads you created to complain that quidam is not
working fast enough certainly helped a lot to "get a free software OS out the
door".
See that recent thread: https://trisquel.info/forum/free-email-providers
(heyjoe's messages were removed; that is why, sometimes, the sequences of
messages apparently makes little sense).
Again: as long as you do not run out of RAM and never hibernates the system,
the swap makes no difference. No advantage and no drawback (it does not slow
the system, if vm.swappiness is small enough), except the related disk space
consumption, typically one or two GB (maybe more if you want
It is common practice. Whether it is acceptable is up to you.
If you do not use end-to-end encryption (typically GPG), the email provider
can read your emails. Some providers propose to store your emails encrypted:
see https://posteo.de/en/site/encryption for instance and notice (a
comple
I suspect you do not understand what "running out of RAM" means. Probably an
English problem.
Every program you execute uses some RAM. If you execute many programs, or
programs using much RAM (maybe because of memory leaks), then all the RAM may
be in use. Once a program tries to store s
It is another terminal-based front-end to the package manager. Like
'apt-get' and 'apt-cache' ('aptitude' provides the functionalities of both
these commands, ad more).
As far as I know, those GNU/Linux distributions are not 100% free software
and not even trying.
What is copylefted? The JavaScript of the webmail?
The content of the website?
I am sorry: your English makes little sense to me.
That is weird. Sorry to ask but are you sure you do not forget to save the
file or save it somewhere else or start its name with a dot (if so, it is
hidden)?
Since you write that the problem happens with different text editors saving
the file (Leafpad or GEdit), I do not really believe in
After removing the repositories that do not distribute software for flidas or
xenial, you need to get rid of broken packages. To list them graphically,
you can use the "Synaptic Package Manager": click on the "Custom Filter"
button (in the bottom-left corner of the window) and then on "Broke
My file manager had no difficulty listing it in the same directory where
terminal couldn't see it.
Again: that is weird. Even if there is no simple way to trigger the bug,
please show us at least a screenshot with your file manager displaying the
content of the directory and a terminal ses
LibreOffice Calc still does a better job, as I can sort on two columns at
once, eliminating the need to sort with terminal.
The 'sort' command can do that (and much more): one or several --key (or
simply -k) options can be used and --field-separator (or simply -t) specifies
the character se
Oh, yes, there is that. Are there still packages under that old unclear
license in Stretch?
Here is a superficial analysis of differences in packages between Trisquel 7
and Trisquel 7 Mini:
$ apt-cache depends trisquel trisquel-recommended | grep -e '^ Depends:' -e
'^ Recommends:' | cut -d ' ' -f 4 | sort -u > Trisquel
$ apt-cache depends trisquel-mini trisquel-mini-recommended | gr
I have both a SATA 3 HDD and a M.2 SSD in my laptop. Benchmarking them with
'hdparm -t' respectively gives 0.142 GB/s and 0.430 GB/s of transfer rates.
Benchmarking my DDR4 RAM with memtest86+ gives 21.053.
So the RAM is about 150 faster than my HDD but still about 50 times faster
than my
The server you were downloading your packages from is apparently down
(hopefully not permanently, but I do not know): select another server. You
can do so graphically from "Software & Updates" in the "System Settings".
You can even "Select Best Server" (based on 'ping', I suppose), a button
If you press Ctrl+Alt+F1, do you get some text or even a login prompt?
That looks OK. If there are package repositories to remove, they must be
define in files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
Notice that you can use as well a graphical interface to manage the software
repositories: "Software & Updates" in the "System Settings" (well, that is
for Trisquel 7 at leas
Yes. Everything looks OK then. It may just be that Wine is (for the
moment?) not installable on Trisquel 8, which is still alpha.
What happens if you "accept this solution"?
Weird indeed.
As far as I understand, nickylodeon tells you that the winehq repository
contains nonfree packages and that using apt-get's "--no-install-recommends"
option does not trigger their installation:
$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends wine
Just to be clear: the "no-install-recommends" option aims to not trigger the
installation of the packages that are "recommendations" (rather than
"dependencies"; "suggestions" exist too) of the packages you explicitly ask
to install. The recommended packages can be all free software (e.g., i
I would try a more recent kernel, taken from jxself's repository:
https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
Go ahead! :-)
On Trisquel 7, to call the script /usr/local/bin/max-fan at the init:
Edit (here with GEdit but you can use any text editor) /etc/rc.local:
$ gksu gedit /etc/rc.local
Write that line before the 'exit' statement:
/usr/local/bin/max-fan
Save the file.
It works here (Abrowser 58.0.2), normally. Try to do what I wrote here,
maybe:
https://trisquel.info/forum/disconnet-addon-will-not-install-abrowser#comment-129059
Just that: /etc/rc.local is executed with administrative permissions.
Write a line before the 'exit' statement (and after "#!/bin/sh -e").
That's both Abrowser and IceCat.
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