Re: media.libreplanet.org non-requested confusing auto download issue

2021-05-08 Thread Miroslav Rovis
On 210508-17:43+0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Miroslav Rovis  [2021-05-08 01:42]:
> > I also like the JQuery's original non-evil-use clause. None
> > of those is really against either _real_ freedom or _good_
> > freedom or freedom for good which I subscribe to. So those
> > should be alowed, in my opinion. Not imposing my opinion
> > though...
> 

> Example of non-free, proprietary software is AVideo or formerly known
> as YouPHPTube: https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo
> 
> Where it says:
> 
> ,
> | First thing...
> | 
> | I would humbly like to thank God for giving me the necessary
> | knowledge, motivation, resources and idea to be able to execute this
> | project. Without God's permission this would never be possible.
> `
> 
> I don't mind of people being religious, but I doubt that
> such statements have place in a planetary available,
> accessible and usable software. Mixing religions with
> software distribution is just a bad tast, lack of empathy
> for human on this planet. Like everybody must be
> Christian, Buddhist, etc... 
> 
And much more. But my other work suffers. I've carefully
read all you wrote, but I have no resources of time and mental
effort needed to discuss any more.

Regards!

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Re: media.libreplanet.org non-requested confusing auto download issue

2021-05-08 Thread Miroslav Rovis
Allow short top-posting: you are right agein, Greg. Sorry!
Also confirming reception of Jean's email in the same tune
(his is already on ML web, as are both of my emails).
Thanks!
Nothing else new in this email from me.

On 210508-12:17-0400, Greg Farough wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, May 08 2021, Miroslav Rovis  wrote:
> 
> > Hi! See below when I sent the message! At the time of
> > sending it does not appear on:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2021-05/index.html
> > I.e. I sent it more than 15 hours ago.
> 
> We actually manually approve every message that comes through
> libreplanet-discuss. They won't appear in the archives or on the list
> until we approve them, hence the delay.
> 
> > Also, no fixing of the bug:
> > https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/5625
> > has happened yet.
> 
> We're still discussing what to do about this issue internally.
> 
> > And also no contact appears on pages of
> > https://media.libreplanet.org/ (didn't check all pages, but
> > the front page, and the
> 
> We've decided to move ahead with this part, and add a contact address
> to the page. Both the tech and campaigns teams are very busy, but
> we'll get to this as soon as we can.
> 
> -g
> 
> -- 
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> Free Software Foundation
> 
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Boxer syndrome

2021-05-08 Thread Ali Reza Hayati
I really believe my new blog post is related to what is happening to the 
free software world today.


Boxer syndrome
https://alirezahayati.com/2021/05/09/boxer-syndrome/

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Re: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

2021-05-08 Thread Dennis Payne
On Sat, 2021-05-08 at 20:52 +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Dennis Payne  [2021-05-08 19:20]:
> > Connecting at a lower level would probably give worse results. For
> > Gnome software for example, I don't believe they write text using
> > the X
> > Windows functions. Instead they handle that themselves and send the
> > image result to X. Additionally X Windows is generally on the way
> > out
> > with Wayland being the new thing.
> 
> I get it.
> 
> But I don't think that blind users would like to switch to bleeding
> edge software.

RHEL, Fedora, and Ubuntu use Wayland right now. X Windows is basically
in maintenance mode. The proposal I was referencing suggested moving
the accessibility layer lower in the X windows stack. If you started
working on that now, it probably wouldn't matter because X Windows will
have a small market share. (If it even worked which as I said is
unlikely because of the way libraries make use of X Windows.)

But if you think you can do better, I'd be happy to be proven wrong. I
just don't think Wayland is bleeding edge anymore.

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Re: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

2021-05-08 Thread Jean Louis
* Dennis Payne  [2021-05-08 19:20]:
> Connecting at a lower level would probably give worse results. For
> Gnome software for example, I don't believe they write text using the X
> Windows functions. Instead they handle that themselves and send the
> image result to X. Additionally X Windows is generally on the way out
> with Wayland being the new thing.

I get it.

But I don't think that blind users would like to switch to bleeding
edge software.




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Re: media.libreplanet.org non-requested confusing auto download issue

2021-05-08 Thread Miroslav Rovis
Hi! See below when I sent the message! At the time of
sending it does not appear on:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2021-05/index.html
I.e. I sent it more than 15 hours ago.

Also, no fixing of the bug:
https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/5625
has happened yet.

And also no contact appears on pages of
https://media.libreplanet.org/ (didn't check all pages, but
the front page, and the
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/keynote-by-fsf-president-geoff-knauth-and-executive-director-john-sullivan/
do not have any contact to my understanding).

I'm resending this email but only with the one layer of
citation removed, so it contains text identical to the sent
message.

If it does not appear for longer, then, because it could be
outside filtering, I am thinking of doing what I said I
would previously (see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2021-05/msg5.html):
> > take out all the relevant messages, use my frozen lurker
> > little set of scripts to convert them for web and post
> > them for perusal.

What worries me is: new material has been added to
https://media.libreplanet.org/, but the bug has not been
fixed (the same 'Video preload is set to preload="auto"'
i.e. non-requested confusing auto download into browser
cache still happens. I checked: traced and casted).

The difference btwn the message of the hereby contained
identical text (all after the first "wrote" line below), and
this message, is I added these three recipients that were
not recipients of that not-showing on ML web email:
Michael McMahon, Greg Farough and Ian Kelling via RT.

Moderation mistake, or outside filtering/cancelling or
something else?

Regards!

On 210508-00:42+0200, Miroslav Rovis wrote:
On 210506-21:32+0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Miroslav Rovis  [2021-05-06 19:38]:
> > > You use Vim for browsing?
> > No, I don't. I'm at intermediate level in programming.
> Yes, which languages?
Bash, Perl. And other languages I'm at less than
intermediate like C, Python, Javascript, but anything in
programming is slowly starting to be more accessible to me
and slowly open up.

But I think other than the need for TLS-decryption in a
completely libre browser, we should conclude our tangent
discussions.

I want to thank you, however for having informed the folks
here on the list on the issue of GNU Assembly splinter group.
It has been a necessary and valuable thread for this
community, not a tangent topic.

> > And I browse with Pale Moon, because it has
> > TLS-decryption available for setting up (which Iceweasel
> > and Debian packaged Firefox do not offer) and I trust
> > Pale Moon way more than Firefox nightly (which also
> > understands the SSLKEYLOGFILE env var) which I have to
> > use for websites that do not support Pale Moon.
> 
> Problem with Pale Moon is that binary is proprietary
> freeware, thus not free software by definition. Only if
> branding is removed it could be free software, but I doubt
> it, as I looked into that license. They are complicating
> things just as Mozilla:
> https://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml -- I don't want to
> analyse it as it looks anti-free software, for example
> they forbid charging, etc. Nonsense, I will not look into
> it.
I have sometimes used CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons
Non-Commercial Share-Alike, for casual readers of this list,
such as from the Web),

I also like the JQuery's original non-evil-use clause. None
of those is really against either _real_ freedom or _good_
freedom or freedom for good which I subscribe to. So those
should be alowed, in my opinion. Not imposing my opinion
though...
> 
> So such browser would probably not qualify to be included
> in the free GNU operating systems.
A moot point. 

> > But I can tell you Firefox is horrendous by the shear number of
> > connections it makes and which the user didn't ask for. It's
> > connections to all kinds of places that Firefox makes just
> > when you start it...
> 
> Yes, that is so. I wish we would have nice and quick browser, but we
> don't have.
> 
> > That's tracking... And it's hard to analyze because of the
> > shear diversity and number of those connections...
> 
> On the other hand Firefox does have now good privacy features. But for
> GNU as free operating system the core browser does not qualify
> to be included..
Firefox is tracking you. Pale Moon does not, or if I did see
a minimal phoning back in a rare network trace, it was
utterly negligeable in comparison to what Firefox does. And
just think of what the world's top unofficial spying agency
Schmoogle's Schmrome does... That's against freedom more
than anything in any user's boxen. Apart from straight
malware.

The privacy features it offers?... C'mon! If you track me,
what privacy do I really have left?
> 
> > Pale Moon is a real friend in comparison, it does not
> > connect to big surveilling tech... Easy to analyze, but
> > not on complex sites like Facebook (hate it, but
> > sometimes go because of friends)... 

Re: media.libreplanet.org non-requested confusing auto download issue

2021-05-08 Thread Jean Louis
* Miroslav Rovis  [2021-05-08 17:07]:
> Also, no fixing of the bug:
> https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/5625
> has happened yet.

We have to be patient, as not every person uploading is in the same
time developer, we cannot know what is in background. People need
their time to handle issue. Not everybody is slick. 

The Website Revision Systems are mostly complicated, not every person,
even if in charge of organization may know every single piece of code
or HTML held on the organization's servers.

> What worries me is: new material has been added to
> https://media.libreplanet.org/, but the bug has not been fixed (the
> same 'Video preload is set to preload="auto"' i.e. non-requested
> confusing auto download into browser cache still happens. I checked:
> traced and casted).

Yes, however, uploaders and users of one instance of software need not
be related to developers. The uploader may not even have server rights
to go and manually switch it off before the official change
comes. Systems are multi-user. There are various roles, such as
developer of software, administrator who installed the software,
uploaders, and users.

As a side note:

Before I have been building Website Revision and Publishing Systems
that usually created a series of pages together at once in a
bunch. And then a change in one page required to proccess all other
changes, that is also today similar, but I made a system that I can
update and change single page and its template as much as I wish. In
fact every page could have a different template and different
lightweight markup or no markup at all.

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Re: media.libreplanet.org non-requested confusing auto download issue

2021-05-08 Thread Miroslav Rovis
On 210506-21:32+0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Miroslav Rovis  [2021-05-06 19:38]:
> > > You use Vim for browsing?
> > No, I don't. I'm at intermediate level in programming.
> Yes, which languages?
Bash, Perl. And other languages I'm at less than
intermediate like C, Python, Javascript, but anything in
programming is slowly starting to be more accessible to me
and slowly open up.

But I think other than the need for TLS-decryption in a
completely libre browser, we should conclude our tangent
discussions.

I want to thank you, however for having informed the folks
here on the list on the issue of GNU Assembly splinter group.
It has been a necessary and valuable thread for this
community, not a tangent topic.

> > And I browse with Pale Moon, because it has
> > TLS-decryption available for setting up (which Iceweasel
> > and Debian packaged Firefox do not offer) and I trust
> > Pale Moon way more than Firefox nightly (which also
> > understands the SSLKEYLOGFILE env var) which I have to
> > use for websites that do not support Pale Moon.
> 
> Problem with Pale Moon is that binary is proprietary
> freeware, thus not free software by definition. Only if
> branding is removed it could be free software, but I doubt
> it, as I looked into that license. They are complicating
> things just as Mozilla:
> https://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml -- I don't want to
> analyse it as it looks anti-free software, for example
> they forbid charging, etc. Nonsense, I will not look into
> it.
I have sometimes used CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons
Non-Commercial Share-Alike, for casual readers of this list,
such as from the Web),

I also like the JQuery's original non-evil-use clause. None
of those is really against either _real_ freedom or _good_
freedom or freedom for good which I subscribe to. So those
should be alowed, in my opinion. Not imposing my opinion
though...
> 
> So such browser would probably not qualify to be included
> in the free GNU operating systems.
A moot point. 

> > But I can tell you Firefox is horrendous by the shear number of
> > connections it makes and which the user didn't ask for. It's
> > connections to all kinds of places that Firefox makes just
> > when you start it...
> 
> Yes, that is so. I wish we would have nice and quick browser, but we
> don't have.
> 
> > That's tracking... And it's hard to analyze because of the
> > shear diversity and number of those connections...
> 
> On the other hand Firefox does have now good privacy features. But for
> GNU as free operating system the core browser does not qualify
> to be included..
Firefox is tracking you. Pale Moon does not, or if I did see
a minimal phoning back in a rare network trace, it was
utterly negligeable in comparison to what Firefox does. And
just think of what the world's top unofficial spying agency
Schmoogle's Schmrome does... That's against freedom more
than anything in any user's boxen. Apart from straight
malware.

The privacy features it offers?... C'mon! If you track me,
what privacy do I really have left?
> 
> > Pale Moon is a real friend in comparison, it does not
> > connect to big surveilling tech... Easy to analyze, but
> > not on complex sites like Facebook (hate it, but
> > sometimes go because of friends)... No browser would be
> > easy to analyze for such sites.
> 
> Good privacy browser is GNU IceCat
> https://www.gnu.org/s/gnuzilla
Well, it offers me garbage in network traces (though I
didn't check in years by now [*]), can't use it.
 
> > Does Emacs offer setting up TLS-decryption (repeating
> > the link I gave before:
> > https://wiki.wireshark.org/TLS )?
> 
> If Gnutls library can do that, then maybe, who knows. You
> could ask on GNU Emacs Help mailing list:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/
If I had time, but I'm way too involved with other
time-consuming tasks that I have to solve these days...
But I'm sure they are aware of this issue.

> > Can anybody say if it is at least present in somebody's
> > mind that it would be good to do that?
> > 
> > I'm not going to be browsing anywhere with something
> > that leaves junk to see in network traces instead of
> > decrypted traffic.
> 
> Those are just SSL connections over HTTP protocol, almost
> each browser can tell what is being connected to. What you
> download is what you are getting, test and media.
No! It's more that that! You get binary junk in your traces
instead of decrypted content and you can't really tell what
happened, no! Can be MiTM, or other attacks, and I've seen
spoofing and things, but that would be a drift to tell, and
a drift that I do not have time for.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=  Just: TLS-decryption is badly needed in fully libre
=  browser, and until it is done, Pale Moon, being
=  Mozilla-level libre, is a really good choice.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=



[*] I can tell that some libre software have started to
TLS-decryt connections since 

Re: media.libreplanet.org non-requested confusing auto download issue

2021-05-08 Thread Jean Louis
* Miroslav Rovis  [2021-05-08 01:42]:
> I also like the JQuery's original non-evil-use clause. None
> of those is really against either _real_ freedom or _good_
> freedom or freedom for good which I subscribe to. So those
> should be alowed, in my opinion. Not imposing my opinion
> though...

I did not know this. 

In general, software freedom means that it can be used for any
purpose, otherwise it is not free. It is very fundamental to
understand this liberty. 

And there is no way also to ensure that somebody use it for good or
bad, neither there is no universal way to judge about that.

There are too many issues entangled when one attempts to judge what is
bad or wrong. Is it evil in this country and jurisdiction but not in
other?

Can a prostitute in German use free software for reminder
appointments? Maybe her profession is legal and considered alright in
Germany? Same cannot be said in those countries who will deem
prostitute a criminal.

Can a criminal use software to conduct illegal acts? Of course. We
cannot impose restrictions on criminals. They would neither respect
licensing conditions.

Can software be used to direct missiles and invoke new world wars? Of
course.

Example of non-free, proprietary software is AVideo or formerly known
as YouPHPTube: https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo

Where it says:

,
| First thing...
| 
| I would humbly like to thank God for giving me the necessary
| knowledge, motivation, resources and idea to be able to execute this
| project. Without God's permission this would never be possible.
`

I don't mind of people being religious, but I doubt that such
statements have place in a planetary available, accessible and usable
software. Mixing religions with software distribution is just a bad
tast, lack of empathy for human on this planet. Like everybody must be
Christian, Buddhist, etc... 

,
| For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be
| glory for ever. Amen. Apostle Paul in Romans 11:36
`

I guess that author would not agree to the 770 Bible inconsistencies
found here:
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~mvz/bible/bible-inconsistencies.pdf

And now for the final licensing issue:

,
| This Software must be used for Good, never Evil. It is expressly
| forbidden to use AVideo Platform Open-Source to build porn sites,
| violence, racism, terrorism, or anything else that affects human
| integrity or denigrates the image of anyone.
`

The author wants software to be proprietary. However, GNU GPL would
make such additional conditions invalid. 

I don't know so far somebody who watches online videos that has never
been interested in porn videos. Then I do not know any medium size
video website where violence has not been shown. People are interested
in violence and watch such movies and videos. Racism issues are all
over the Internet, even if not, something could be capriciously
considered racism and author would like to play God or Boss to revoke
the license, but GNU GPL protects users. 

"Anything else that affects human integrity or denigrates the image of
anyone" -- is such a vague description that author could play God or
Boss at any time to try revoking the rights, but GNU GPL does not
allow it.

We can see here that author is Christian, would somebody now promote
770 Bible inconsistencies, he could say "that affects human integrity
and denigrates image of God or Christians" -- and that is problem. But
not real problem, as Richard Stallman made the license clear, that it
may be simply ignored:

From GNU GPL 3:

,
|   All other non-permissive additional terms are considered "further
| restrictions" within the meaning of section 10.  If the Program as you
| received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is
| governed by this License along with a term that is a further
| restriction, you may remove that term.  If a license document contains
| a further restriction but permits relicensing or conveying under this
| License, you may add to a covered work material governed by the terms
| of that license document, provided that the further restriction does
| not survive such relicensing or conveying.
`

So we can safely ignore such restrictions. 

Additionally author license it under 2 licenses:
https://avideo.tube/AVideo_OpenSource#OSAV

Where one is not compatible to GNU GPL, as CDDL license says "that
Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of this
License".

Users should not care as GNU GPL does allow to remove such further
restrictions right away.


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Re: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

2021-05-08 Thread Jean Louis
* Arthur Torrey  [2021-05-07 23:42]:
> As a sighted user I don't really feel competent to make a list - as
> doing so would be similar to the issues I have with all the various
> engineering / design student projects that attempt to create a
> 'better' wheelchair without ever really understanding the day to day
> needs of actually having to live in a chair...  This usually results
> in a chair that "solves" whatever they see as a 'problem' but is all
> but unusable for doing anything else

OK.

That means that there is no particular issue to verify or focus. There
are many references to accessibility and I know that Hyperbola
GNU/Linux-libre speaks in console from the start, if user wish to have
it so. Many Gnome and other X applications have accessibility
features, I know that since long time. 

But I am not impaired, you are not impaired, you don't know what would
be wrong, I don't know what would be wrong.

> That said, what *I* would think important is a screen reader that
> could read any text being displayed on the screen as a minimum...  

OK but did you verify if such already exists?

I know that it exists, and I have been hearing them. I have already
mentioned something I have experienced. 

Here is a collection of hyperlinks, straight from my Hyperscope
dynamic knowledge repository regarding screen readers and
accessibility on GNU/Linux.

Debian Accessibility Console screen readers packages
https://blends.debian.org/accessibility/tasks/console

YASR home page
http://yasr.sourceforge.net/

BigBlueButton - Free Software Directory
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/BigBlueButton

Attic/LSR - GNOME Wiki!
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/LSR

Development/Tutorials/Accessibility/Screen Reader Setup - KDE TechBase
https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Accessibility/Screen_Reader_Setup

Accessibility - KDE UserBase Wiki
https://userbase.kde.org/Accessibility

Orca Screen Reader
https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/

Text to Speech on GNU/Linux Part 3: Orca on KDE
https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2018/12/text-to-speech-on-gnulinux-part-3-orca-on-kde.html

Screen Readers | American Foundation for the Blind
https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/assistive-technology-products/screen-readers

fenrir-screenreader · PyPI
https://pypi.org/project/fenrir-screenreader/

Announcing Tdsr: A Command Line Screen Reader For Macintosh And GNU/Linux | 
AppleVis
https://www.applevis.com/blog/announcing-tdsr-command-line-screen-reader-macintosh-and-gnulinux

As if there is no particular problem that you have, then there are
particular solutions that exists. So your problem should be in
contradiction to some of the already present solutions.

On this Parabola GNU/Linux-libre system there are two applications,
one is Orca, already mentioned above, and Speakup:

The Speakup Project
http://linux-speakup.org/

> A very useful addition would be some sort of navigation assistant
> that could find the menu items on the page and just read those.  

We can research of those applications already do something like that.

> A 'nice to have' but probably not realistically possible would be
> some sort of AI that could recognize enough graphics to read things
> like 'photos of text' and (much harder) do descriptive audio
> captioning on pictures

I find that quite possible, as there exists such AI. I know there is
face recognition as free software:
https://www.goodfirms.co/blog/best-free-open-source-face-detection-software-solutions

I could think of reading programmatically whole screen, finding
boundaries and recognizing parts of the screen.

Please explore the above software and see if it can help.

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Re: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

2021-05-08 Thread Dennis Payne
Connecting at a lower level would probably give worse results. For
Gnome software for example, I don't believe they write text using the X
Windows functions. Instead they handle that themselves and send the
image result to X. Additionally X Windows is generally on the way out
with Wayland being the new thing.

On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 21:57 -0400, Arthur Torrey wrote:
> Jean Louis pointed at Vinux - which I had found and looked to me like
> a near-dead project - The home page is non-https, and is skeletal at
> best...  The Wiki is talking about the 'latest version' as of 2015,
> and while it says the last update was in 2019, the download site
> doesn't connect (Firefox times out w/ can't find site error) and
> there have only been about 2 changes to the wiki since it was created
> in 2013 according to it's history page...
> 
> I found a few other low vision projects and they seemed similarly
> moribund.  I asked on another site and the response I got was either
> similar pointers to seemingly dead projects, or that because most of
> the mainstream distros now have some level of accessibility built in,
> the low-vision / blind specific projects have mostly died.
> 
> As a non-programmer, who has listened to a few presentations at
> Libre-Planet and read articles here and there I can't contribute any
> code, but as a 'partly baked idea' my thought about how it might be
> possible to do a better job on accessibility might be to try and tap
> into the system at a much earlier level
> 
> What would happen if instead of trying to put accessibility in at the
> window manager (KDE / Gnome / etc.) level, there was instead an X-
> Windows driver that provided input to a screen-reader as a "display
> type"?  How about having an "accessible keyboard" option (probably as
> an intermediate layer between the usual keyboard choices and the rest
> of the system as that would make it easy to use any desired key-
> mapping underneath it?)
> 
> It seems to me that the closer the accessibility options are to the
> "bare metal hardware" the less they would be relying on window
> managers / programs to do the "right thing", and the more universally
> consistent they would be.
> 
> Possibly less universal, but still coming in at a fairly low level,
> what if there was an "accessible" option for choosing the
> internationalization when setting up?
> 
> As I said this may be something that wouldn't work for reasons that
> are above my pay-grade to understand, but perhaps might just be
> something that hadn't been considered.
> 
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Re: media.libreplanet.org non-requested confusing auto download issue

2021-05-08 Thread Greg Farough
Hi,

On Sat, May 08 2021, Miroslav Rovis  wrote:

> Hi! See below when I sent the message! At the time of
> sending it does not appear on:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2021-05/index.html
> I.e. I sent it more than 15 hours ago.

We actually manually approve every message that comes through
libreplanet-discuss. They won't appear in the archives or on the list
until we approve them, hence the delay.

> Also, no fixing of the bug:
> https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/5625
> has happened yet.

We're still discussing what to do about this issue internally.

> And also no contact appears on pages of
> https://media.libreplanet.org/ (didn't check all pages, but
> the front page, and the

We've decided to move ahead with this part, and add a contact address
to the page. Both the tech and campaigns teams are very busy, but
we'll get to this as soon as we can.

-g

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