He was an intelligent man worthy of admiration. Now he is not. Old age is not
an excuse. Just to give an example: Paul Erdős worked until the last of his
days. He died when he was in a conference about mathematics.
> it is not enough of a "contribution" to be worth that amount of toxicity.
Free feel to ignore my messages then. Taking into account that you use the
word “toxicity” without even knowing what it means, your commentary would
not be missed by me at all.
There is no reason for me to be nice
> It has everything to do with my critique to you. Not only you do far less
than Stallman for free software but you feel entitled to call him lazy.
Again this is the ad hominem fallacy. Given that you seem to not to
understand this concept, do a simple web search (1, 2). That will bring
>GNU Emacs alone is sufficient to earn RMS a place in history.
Stallman did not write what is currently GNU Emacs. Many people did. His
contribution is tiny.
It is a common mistake to give most of the credit of a project to the first
person who participated. When projects become big enough
> Stallman has been spreading the word about free software. All around the
world.
Correct. He gives himself a luxurious life as a traveler of the world's big
cities, where people celebrate him for his past contributions (Emacs, GNU,
the GNU GPL, etc.), achievements of an era long gone.
Hello.
I have never used Whonix, and I have some experience with KVM, but I use it
without libvirt.
How are you checking “the size” of the file? What is the output of the
command (copy and paste it here or upload it as an attachment)?
If you use “ls -l”, this will tell you the logical
There is nothing noteworthy here.
Microsoft is more than Bill Gates, and it will continue producing proprietary
software.
Moreover, there is not anything noteworthy with Android. It makes no
difference that it uses Linux (the kernel). It just yet another proprietary
system. People pay
“He looked at me and said...
"I want Trisquel 8 too.."”
As is typical of Stallman, he complains and says what he wants to be done,
but does not do anything about it. Although he has done real work in the
past, now he is lazy and unwilling to move a finger (think about it: what has
he
I use Debian 9. Although Trisquel has a nice ideology, it is technologically
deficient. For example, there is neither the will nor the manpower to
generate new releases in reasonable time.
An additional difference from the ones mentioned by other users:
Debian accepts the Artistic License 1.0 as free software while the FSF does
not.
Thus Debian contains Simutrans in the “free” section, while a
distribution that follows the FSF guidelines would not include it at all.
I once
Hello.
I do not know what Ctrl+click does in NetBeans. Another user seems to imply
that it finds the definition of the identifier clicked (function name, etc.).
There are several ways to do this in GNU Emacs.
The traditional way is using the etags program to generate a data-base of the
>Marioxcc has clearly posted discrimination towards women and his comments
are not only negative, but destructive, irrational and should not be part of
this community.
>He had made some horrible comments against woman and I am sad to see such
ugly thoughts contaminating Trisquel community.
I will not engage in further discussion with you, because you are interested
only in criticizing my person, instead of addressing my arguments. This is
the ad hominem fallacy and is not a valid argument.
Nonetheless, I fell compelled to address your attempt to spread insulting
Thanks you. This is an useful (and the only) answer for my query.
I acknowledge that I made a mistake in assuming that you were from the United
States.
Let us try to recap. By a wide margin. most programmers are male, and
moreover “he” is the generic pronoun in English. Then, why do you use
“she” to refer to an undetermined programmer?
I know the
>That is true: it cost US$ 250,000 and used 1,856 custom chips to crack one
DES key in a little more than two days.
This is grossly misleading. It is like saying “It cost 10,000,000 USD to
build your CPU”, conflating the cost of the equipment (semiconductor plant)
with a single unit of
I can see you replied with the attitude of “I am smarter than you”, but
you just succeeded in showing your incompetence.
Your method gives at most 15.9 bits of entropy per word. 4 words give a lowly
63.6 bits.
DES, which has 56 bit keywords, was obsolete in 1998 because keys could be
I have the following line in my Bash init file. I am sharing it with you in
case you
find it useful:
“alias gen-password="head -c 16 /dev/urandom | base64 | head -c 22 &&
echo"”
This generates a password with just above 128 bits of entropy. I generate all
of my web site passwords this
Sorry, the message was truncated and I can not modify it. Here is the rest:
mario@svetlana [0] [/home/mario]
$ head -c 3 /dev/urandom | base64
w5eJ
Write it in a paper or leave it in the terminal. Invent a mnemonic for it or
just memorize as is. In this case, I can think of “_W_ill has _5_
Thanks for your replies.
I know about GNU Savannah and the wait for project approval. I used to be an
administrator there and did that. I was the only person doing that at that
time. As I began to have less time, I offered to review one project per each
project that somebody else reviewed
Hello.
What service do you recommend to host Mercurial repositories in a
freedom-respecting way? I note that I am not looking for a suggestion of
“run X free software in your own computer” (i.e.: self-hosting).
Thanks.
Hello.
What has been the functionality lost while liberating it? Is Soon.to.be.Free
the same person as "Grace Past"?
If I told you that I know a computer programmer and then I told you that he
has never has touched a computer, nor ever will do, would you believe that he
is really a programmer?. Of course not. That is utterly absurd. Such is the
absurdity of saying that Ada Byron was the first programmer.
Although I am not sure, probably it can not be used with a fully free system
because FPGAs require proprietary software to program.
Talking about fundraising, I have made a web site for the fundraising
campaign of a friend who needs help to pay for his legal defense from a
mistaken
I use "xbacklight" to change the amplification of my screen.
I have the following code in my ".bashrc" file:
function light () {
if [ $# == 1 ]; then
xbacklight -steps 1 -set $1
elif [ $# == 0 ]; then
xbacklight
fi
}
Why do not you simply follow the normal procedure for installation?.
40 GB (1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes) is more than enough. I typically install
my virtual machines with Debian and LXDE in 10 GB virtual disks and there is
plenty of space left.
We have less than 24 hours to collect the required amount for Alina's legal
defense. The trial will be on 2 March 2017 (time of Moscow, UTC+3) but we
must have the money ready before that, taking into account the time it takes
to exchange.
Now we can receive PayPal donations (send to the
Did you try "gpg --recv-keys 33C66596 --server SOME_SERVER"?
>This is going nowhere fast.
It is!. We have until (and up to) 28 February 2017 to collect the required
money for my friend's defense, because her trial will be very soon. It is
less than one week away, which is good because he will be finally free, but
not if we can not afford a decent
So, to recap:
You skimmed through Alina's fundraising page, and concluded that there is a
"lack of transparency" because you missed the statement where it is explained
what he is accused of doing, while at the same time assuming that he is
gullible without proof.
Then you read a news
>Mario, I did read it, in fact I've read it twice.
What you think that the page and the news article say is not at all what they
say. If you have read the page twice and you couldn't understand it properly,
then I am afraid that you are functionally illiterate.
>Metamphetamine
The charge
"In 2016, Alina Davis was abusively and unfairly accused of drugs possession.
[...] We are confident that we can prove Alina's innocence. The obstacle is
that her legal defense will cost 40,000 Russian rubles (690 United States
dollars)."
The page is very clear and there is no lack of
# Copyright (c) 2017 Mario Castelán Castro
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
#
Hello fellow free software users!. I want to share with you a small snippet
that I have in my .bashrc to make a custom prompt, as you can see in the
attached image. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3
or any later and you will find it attached to this post. Note
Thanks for replying pizzaiolo, but those are not search engines.
Hello. I am looking for a general purpose academic search engine. I want to
avoid Google Scholar because of the well known evils of Google (mainly
tracking). For the field of human biology I use PubMed and it works as
expected, but its scope is limited. I see that there are many academic
Do you know about any other programs that I have missed?. Thanks.
Hello.
What free software programs exist for playing the game of Go (engines, SGF
editors, and Go server clients) that are actively maintained or at least
usable?.
As for engines, I know of Pachi and Michi.
As for clients, I know of qGo. Another client, CGoban 1 has been long
I will let you (generic "you") know if RTV works. I'm planning to try it in a
Debian 8 virtual machine (but I don't guarantee it). As a good practice, I
run small single-author programs like this in a virtual machine to protect
from security flaws and intentionally malicious code.
As for
At a glance, RTV seems like a workable option but I have yet to download and
try to use it. Thanks hack and hack.
>AFAIK the JS is free, just not compliant with LibreJS.
I'm not sure. I checked the HTML source code and found no Copyright notice. I
did not check Reddit's source code. In any case, I know that it calls
Google's JavaScript which is almost surely non-free (I used to enable JS for
Reddit).
Hello.
My quesiton is the one in the title. When I use Reddit I use it without
enabling JavaScript and I have noticed that it works partially. I can browse
and register, but I can't post. Is there a way to post without using Reddit's
proprietary JavaScript?.
Thanks in advance.
i know ip is the acesss point to the internet and mac is computer id. but
that is all i know.
No, you think you know that, but your description is outright wrong. If you
thought you know that, then you are using a bad source of information or you
are misinterpreting it and reaching wrong
I noted that one option is given that the laptop comes with Ubuntu, but
Ubuntu includes proprietary controllers and firmware.
Therefore I do not know if it would work with Linux-libre given that it seems
to work with Ubuntu. It is not mentioned in the specifications whether it
requires the
Is the HP 240 laptop with CPU Intel Celeron N2840 compatible with free
software (see the specifications)?
There is not much useful information in the specifications. I was especially
interested in the wireless chip model to check for compatibility, but only
the manufacturer is mentioned
Indeed, but I do not have physical (or otherwise) access to the laptop.
Furthermore, the specification paper describes several options and it is not
described which ones of those applies.
I do not think that it matters as for compatibility and I do not want to give
free publicity to the shop.
I an Mexican an I live in Mexico, and I couldn't buy from that shop. Thanks
for the suggestion nonetheless. Online shops are of no use in my particular
case; I am only asking for help regarding whether this computer will work
with free software.
There are really very few computer hardware
I see.
And even after all that we still don't have any solution for the future.
Lets says two or three years from now. Unfortunately there are a lot of
things that need funding like this (be it reverse engineering or cleaning up
code for release or design work / manufacturing), cooperation
2. We had free software friendly wifi chips and now we don't have any
I thought that your company ThinkPenguin is selling some. Do you mean that
free software friendly NICs are no longer being manufactured?.
What software did you use to make the PDF?.
If you are attempting to use software that will hand control over your
computer to its developer then you have a bigger problem thereof than whether
it “breaks”.
all this talk about licensing is why i stopped going in the #gnu room on
irc. I'm not interested.
Then according to your own interests, you should stop “going here” as
well, because you will find mostly the same attitude regarding licensing. If
you can't grasp the importance of licensing,
There may be local (non-web) clients to trade Bitcoin which are free as in
freedom. If your FOREX trading platform has a public API, then you can
develop or hire a developer to write a free software client; you may use one
such Bitcoin trading client as the starting point.
When i click on Synaptic in the Preferences menu, nothing happens. The menu
disappears but i don't even hear any CPU activity.
That seems like a bug. I think it should ask for your password. Consider
filling a bug report.
That implies that the FSF associated itself with a site that runs proprietary
spyware on the browsers of uninformed users (or users who want to run it). I
am referring to the fact that most web users don't block JavaScript with
NoScript or similar.
Maybe you are misinterpreting a statement
We ARE NOT THERE YET. But are very interested in anybody willing to help
advance this area forward.
Rather than bashing those trying to solve the impossible maybe we can work
together to free it!
If you promised a fully free system, the responsibility to deliver it lies
entirely in you,
I do not know where to get one, but maybe you are interested in buying a
Gluglug Libreboot X200, which as far as I know, is the more freedom
respecting computer model available (see the link; I do not sell them).
You already identified another word that isn't so easily confused with work
[1], so there is no point in changing my message since you can do it
mentally. I intentionally used the same word for [1] and [3] with annotations
(the ones between square brackets) so as to make it clear that the
This is misleading. Debian “main” repository includes software which is
proprietary (according to the FSF) including some under the Artistic License
1.0. Therefore not all software from Debian main “is definitely ok” in
the sense of being suitable for a fully free distribution that uses the
danieru: You are conflating 3 separate concepts: [1] the abstract concept of
a work, like “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, [2] its
physical representation (an exemplar of this work as found in most libraries)
and [3] “work” as the action of making effort to build something
I did not read carefully the thread you linked because it seems worthless,
but I have an idea of what the problem is: You are trying to educate the
users of an informatics forum about about free software. It is a noble task,
but it is unlikely that you will succeed and there are better uses
Hello and welcome.
Linux is a kernel. Most people unfortunately call the OS just “Linux” but
this is a mistake which some intentionally make and spread. We call it
“GNU/Linux” to attribute the GNU project which started the free software
movement, is the first project to build towards a
When accessing remote servers (not in the same LAN) the latency is usually so
high that remote graphical programms are unusable.
I recommend setting up a VPS server in your server and route all of your
traffic through it when you are in school. If a plain VPN connection doesn't
work
Do you find that it is too hard or too much work to enter your query into a
search engine?. You would have found links like the ones the people provided,
but faster and without wasting their time.
I have not used Osmo, but what you describe appears to be a bug or very bad
practice from the developers.
In C and C++ assertions are a feature intended to be used for internal
consistency checks (those that depend only in the program and not in its
environment). Sometimes they are used
By “free software hardware” do you mean hardware whose full functionality
can be accessed with free software[1], or something else?
[1]: Do not confuse it with “free hardware”, that is, hardware whose
design is free to use, modify and distribute.
That will cause problems if devices are renumbered, which may happen if one
adds or removes hard disks.
“server software should have something implemented that functions like the
groupbot”
It is already done that way: most (or at least a big proportion) IRC and XMPP
servers accept TLS connections from clients. What benefit does your proposal
offers over this?. What problem do you attempt to
I suggest reporting it as a bug.
Hello and welcome!.
Do not hesitate to ask here about what you can not readily find using search
engines that is related to Trisquel or the free software philosophy.
But no distribution audits all of the software it bundles (and even if they
did, it is likely that several vulnerabilities go undetected); in specific,
Ubuntu and Debian don't. For discovering vulnerabilities distributions mostly
rely on public discoveries. Debian mentions the name of the
Systemd as an init maybe not for the time being. But I meant to systemd as
any of it's components (that can become a dependency), like logind or udev.
I commented about system specific features and software in my first reply.
I completely agree with the first sentence, GNU should always have
But hey, if you want to talk about non-portable dependencies, how about X?
You know, the window system most commonly used for the last ~30 years.
Seriously, it's exactly the same deal.
The X library is not any more portable than systemd: it only works with X.
Most of the time, when
Is systemd going to be an obstacle when people want to port applications to
GNU Hurd or other Unix-like systems?
I suppose you mean “programs”. See my comment about the word
“application”.
We have always had system-specific features and programs and they are by
themselves not an obstacle
x86 and ARM are instruction set architectures (the format and semantics
allowed for machine code). 32 bits or 64 bits in this context refers to the
“word width”; the size in bits of the general purpose registers and
usually also of the RAM addresses. Both ARM and x86 have 32 bits and 64 bits
x86 and ARM are instruction set architectures (the format and semantics
allowed for machine code). 32 bits or 64 bits in this context refers to the
“word width”: the size in bits of the general purpose registers which is
usually the same as the size of memory addresses. Both ARM and x86 have
Do you know any other websites which can fit into the context?
Yes, Libregamewiki.
The articles don't mention what is going to be open source (a compiler, a
debugger, an IDE, an implementation of the standard library, or what else?).
As usual, those who talk about open source don't know what the term means and
misapply it. Open source is a property that software may
I see that tomlukeywood has answered the orignal questions, in addition:
It is not “app get”, it's “apt-get”, as you wrote correctly in the
message body. APT stands for “Advanced Packaging Tool”. “app” is
ostensibly a shorthand for “application”, but in practice it is a
marketing trash
When you have a doubt, the first thing to do is to use a search engine. If
you search well and are unable to find anything relevant or pointers to
further information, then ask. This is better for you because you may answer
your inquiry faster, and better for the rest because you don't
“vrms” is misleading, because it is based on the Debian policy, instead
of GNU policy (and the name makes it seem like so), and as far as I know, it
just checks whether there are packages installed from the proprietary
repository section, and you can do the same with any package manager
Specifically, the relevant quantity is the average power consumption with the
intended workload; in order to determine it, one must make the computer run
that workload and measure the power consumption. The quantity with units of
power in the labels of computer power supplies is usually the
Should I use the Trisquel net-installer iso?
Yes. I think that the CD images for installing a graphical environment also
contain the netinstaller, but it doesn't uses the packages already in the CD,
it downloads them from a mirror. I am not completely sure.
I am assuming there is an option
You have conflicting requirements: “cheap” and “mega performance”.
Also: don't forget about freedom: not all computers allow the user to make
full use of them with a fully free system; you must deliberately make sure
(or have an high confidence) that the computer you are going to buy runs
It's better to use nmap locally.
That is right. However, I want to make clear that I didn't suggest to search
for “works with Linux” as if it was a magical string (I know that your
comment doesn't explicitly says that). My suggestion was “research whether
it works with free software”, and I did not give any specific
Servers in the sense of (1) computers marketed as servers should not be
confused with servers, in the sense of (2) any computing running the server
part of a client‐server system. I see that Wikipedia conflates server (1)
with server (2), that is it: they discuss “servers” as if (1) and (2)
I can't comment on the idea that old hardware is more likely to work with
free system than old hardware. In any case, I recommend you to do your best
to determine whether a computer will work well in a fully free system before
purchasing it; I recently wrote a short message about that (the
When buying any computing hardware, you must research whether it works with
free software. You can start with h-node.org. The ideal procedure is (1) to
build a list of all relevant components (usually the main IC manufacturer
names and models), then (2) investigate whether each of them works
I can't comment on user friendliness compared to Windows or OS X because I
don't use them. I can comment, however, that Trisquel is derived from Ubuntu
which has the reputation of being “user-friendly”.
I do not like the term “user-friendly”, but I do not oppose it on ethical
reasons. It
There is also the gEDA project.
“*” is substituted with the name of all files (including directories and
special files) not beginning with “.” by default. All directories contain
“.” and “..” which are pointers to the same, and parent directory,
respectively (except for “/”, where both point to the current directory,
This is a very board request. You can find tutorials on almost any software
package with a search engine, and you can and should consult the software
documentation. Don't ask other people to do all the work for you. It's fine
to ask for help with specific problems that you weren't able to
Economical activities ought to be a means to advance society, profit should
only be an effect of providing a service to society; companies or individuals
who seek otherwise do a harm to society (almost all of them). Proprietary
software may be more profitable because it generates artificial
I advice against recommending and using http://choosealicense.com/. It uses
the open source viewpoint, promotes the attitude of “make the least effort
possible” when licensing, and contains outright falsehoods.
Specifically, it invites to the bad practice of simply placing a license file
¡Thanks for sharing the script!. Even if it duplicates existing
functionality, the intention is good and so is the attitude of working in the
problems you face and sharing the solution.
I recommend licensing under the GNU GPL 3 or any later version and to follow
the GNU project licensing
In 2014 I was searching for a VPS provider committed with the free software
philosophy: one that doesn't advertises, sells, or provides specific support
for proprietary software, calls the OS by the name GNU/Linux, has a policy of
avoiding proprietary software other than proprietary JS, BIOS
What do you mean by “access it”?. That is not a definite inquiry, so I
can only guess what you intended to ask.
If you want to execute command line programs remotely, then look up
“SSH”. If you want to see a desktop and execute graphical programs you
can try to use VNC but for typical
Yes, I meant Jodiendo.
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