Re: [Trisquel-users] proper/practical use of tor
So you have JS still disabled though tor browser has it enabled by default? I don't really know what's the right thing to do here. At the moment I really do a lot of reading on tor and start to use tor browser for my every day browsing, but I'm still a bit skeptical about it (like about any new technology I'm using). Somehow I'm a bit afraid that I may get accused for something someone else did due to a technical phenomenon, since tor is certainly used by a lot of criminals. But with the information I found at the moment this seems to be impossible to me. I made sure that I'm not running a server by enabling client only mode in torrc and hope things will work out this way. Unfortunately I can't even contribute to the tor project by running an not-exit relay because my isp (it's basically the university) forbids to run any kind of server. About archive.org... it sure is a great platform, no doubt about that, but it could be a bit more easy to browse. I'm having a hard time finding good stuff though it's certainly there. Mediagoblin sounds very promising, but we both know that they are in an early level and have some problems. I don't understand why they don't implement a search feature. With this, we could start using it like youtube. Unfortunately, not every video on youtube is playable with html5 or more specific: with html5 and the webm format. Maybe things will change in the future. Beside of this, I'm really surprised how fast the browsing with tor is. They improved in this point. And I'm ready to make some sacrifices since I'm really pissed off ab out everyone knowing what I'm doing online. It's none of their business.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
You probably want WebRTC. Here are some demos with the source code: https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
why this is a bad idea, it's SaaSS. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve
Re: [Trisquel-users] Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. I think the webrtc experiment is the most promising solution I heard of by now. It's a bit confusing since there is a project with a similar name (I think its website is webrtc.com or something like this) which gets developed by google, mozilla and opera. I checked the license file of this project and it seems to be non-free, in contrast to the webrtc experiment which has a proper MIT license. I will check it out in a few weeks. Any further comments are appreciated.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:30:29PM +0100, shiret...@web.de wrote: Either you didn't get what I am looking for or you didn't get what SaaSS is all about. I don't want to use any foreign service on a server, I want to host the software on my own server and use it. It's the best thing you can do and quite the opposite of SaaSS. For you, sure. For your friends it'd be SaaSS...
[Trisquel-users] What is the 'Add/Remove Applications' program named?
I don't have a desktop taskbar with a menu showing applications, so i use dmenu to launch programs and therefore need to know the filename of the 'Add/Remove Applications' program in order to launch it. I don't even know if it's installed, but if i get its name i guess i can install it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
Sorry, that's ridiculous. They're using this service in order to talk to me. The worst thing I could do to them is recording everything they say during our conversation - just as I could with my telephone, with jabber and with face-to-face conversations in real life.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
Sorry, that's ridiculous. They're using this service in order to talk to me. The worst thing I could do to them is recording everything they say during our conversation - just as I could with my telephone, with jabber and with face-to-face conversations in real life. Audio data is flowing from them to me - it doesn't matter if to my pc or to my server.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
Either you didn't get what I am looking for or you didn't get what SaaSS is all about. I don't want to use any foreign service on a server, I want to host the software on my own server and use it. It's the best thing you can do and quite the opposite of SaaSS.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What is the 'Add/Remove Applications' program named?
It's gnome-app-install.
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
Step 2 in that link starts with the command: sudo passwd root I executed this command before posting to this forum and was prompted to enter a new 'UNIX' password (can't quite remember the full statement. I entered my password understanding it was required to obtain temporary sudo privileges. By doing this did I inadvertently set a password for the root user/account? This is not wise, right? Thanks in advance.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
That's not SaaSS. Talking to someone else remotely is not computing you can do on your own computer. A JavaScript client isn't SaaSS, either. JavaScript isn't run remotely; it gets installed into the browser executed on your computer. That the installation and execution is silent and automatic is a problem, but it's not SaaSS.
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
By doing this did I inadvertently set a password for the root user/account? This is not wise, right? Yes and yes. :) To undo the damage, run sudo passwd -l root
Re: [Trisquel-users] Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
Hallo quantumgravity, There are dozens of websites related to WebRTC but they are pretty much all dealing with the same technology. [1] AFAIK WebRTC is completely free. I remember seeing a website recently with Call me buttons for Google, Twitter, etc... but I can't find it anymore unfortunately. Maybe this [2] goes in the right direction, though I'm not sure if this is really free. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC [2]: http://s.phono.com/releases/1.1/samples/callme/index.htm
[Trisquel-users] what is the best trisquel laptop for my purposes?
I work most of the time in text terminals, with an editor session (nano) in one and my lab control program, experix, in another, and I switch back and forth with the alt-F# keys. So that switching has to be efficient and reliable, and I want the machine to boot up in text mode. experix uses the frame-buffer device to do its graphics, via a program that I wrote by deconstructing and adapting SVGAlib. Will this all be compatible with the Trisquel laptop, and assuming it is, which Linux distribution should I select?
Re: [Trisquel-users] what is the best trisquel laptop for my purposes?
What laptop are you talking about? A few different laptops I can think of are shipped with Trisquel. In any case, you can set up a Trisquel installation however you want with net install, including making it text-mode by default. Since Trisquel includes no non-free blobs, any other GNU/Linux OS with a sufficiently recent kernel version will work on a computer Trisquel works on.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What is the 'Add/Remove Applications' program named?
Wow, it is a large install. 57.9 megabyte. Is there another alternative(with pictures and descriptions) that doesn't have so many dependencies?
Re: [Trisquel-users] The NSA and the likes do use radio waves to get inside someone's computer, through the use of spy hardware
If you don’t use the Tin foil hat. You are not paranoid enough. This somehow reminds me that I heard that it is possible to read the radioactivity from electronic devices and figure out the information being used. Wrap tin foil around you’re devices. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] What is the 'Add/Remove Applications' program named?
with pictures, i don't think so. synaptic is slightly lighter, but certainly doesn't have pictures. i'd say the alternatives are apt-get/aptitude... but again lack pictures ;)
Re: [Trisquel-users] The NSA and the likes do use radio waves to get inside someone's computer, through the use of spy hardware
I agree with Fernando that there are many many attacks that can be performed against a computer (or any electrical device for that matter). I also agree with Anon in the sense that if we start focusing on that, we better starting wearing tin foil hats and pants and shirts. We end up losing our minds, go crazy thinking about that. That is also not a good thing to happen. If I might say something... and it's nothing more than my own opinion... First, thanks Fernando for disclosing that info for us, it really helps to know these things and you give us sources to investigate and decide by ourselves if it makes sense or if is something out of context with no connection to our own lives. And what you say in the end freeing computer in terms of software is not enough, is also a good good good quote, and it sums up many problems in today's world. However, we should consider how probable is it that I will get to be a target, and how much am I willing to sacrifice of my day to day usual life in order to prevent that from happening?. I can say that I don't live in the USA so I don't have to deal with the NSA thing as closely as you guys. Of course not being an american means I can get shoot by a drone at any time :P though luck. Truth is, I know WHY I decided to protect my communications and privacy (both online and offline). I remember the event that lead to me changing my way of looking at life in terms of privacy vs exposition. And because of that I can say that I know what I am trying to achieve and what I am willing to sacrifice in order to achieve it. If we were to start going crazy about the NSA capabilities, we would move to East and one day China would be doing the same and we would move to the North Pole and then the penguins would start spying on us and we would simply realize that we should seek mental treatment :P What I mean is, we can make spying/privacy-invasion harder for the agencies that want to do it. And we should. And we should continue to improve stuff like Tor and I2P and decentralized services and networks and free software that respects the user, etc etc, BUT we should put living our lives as free men above the fight to one day achieve total freedom. Because we might end up losing our lives fighting for somehting that we might not even like when we get there. Having said that, I think what is a good thing to keep from your Post Fernando, is that freeing computer from software is not enough, we should pay attention to hardware as well. For me that means Open Source Hardware should be as important to the world as free software is, and we should maybe focus a little bit more on that. Sorry for the long post, but it was just some thoughts and feelings I had at looking at your posts guys. Thanks :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] proper/practical use of tor
I didn't say that I have JS disabled ;) What I said was i tried html5 player without JS and it works ;) To your question, there is no perfect answer. Should JS be disabled or enabled by default? Tor Browser Bundle is a tool that millions of people use, and most of them need for it to be as simple as download, open, run. Most people wouldn't use Tor if they had JS disabled by default because many people don't even know what JS is. So, instead of disabling JS entirely, the Tor Team made some modifications to the browser so that it is safer even running JS. Now, of course, given what we know about JS and the attacks recently used against Tor (hidden services, network, browsers, etc) we should use it disabled. Being users who are at power user level we can manage to have temporary JS allowed in a certain site we need and set everything back to normal after that. It is safer and I sometimes use JS disabled. But I don't think it would be the right choice for Tor Browser Bundle default. Your fears are a little bit unwise. If I am correct you are from france, and france has a large community of Tor users. You will hardly have problems with using Tor. Running a relay is something different and can't really give you advice on that. You can use startpage to search media gobblin. Like this SEARCHITEM site:SITETOSEARCH an example is rms site:gobblin.se yes, it should be already implemented in Gobblin, given that they can even use startpage for it :P Tor is faster yes, a lot than it was 10 years ago. However, it is not mainly because Tor has improved. Of course, they did improved they way circuits are handled and they encryption has been strengthen as well, but speed is better now because we have communities like torservers.net who have been keeping high speed exit relays running 24/7. 10 years ago we didn't had any of that so, it is really a matter of having enough high speed relays from trusted sources so that the network is fast to handle the use we give it. Remember: fight to live, don't live to fight ;) If you start making too many sacrifices, one day you will not be using a computer anymore because it might not be safe. See Fernando last post and my reply there to get what I mean. we should improve the tools we have to be safe and we should use them wisely, but we should not stop living our lives because of the NSA or someone else.
[Trisquel-users] easy-to-follow Postfix guide?
I'm having trouble with Ubuntu's Postfix guide. dix mx yourdomain.com didn't work; I tried installing dnsutils but that didn't seem to help. telnet localhost 25 gives me this response: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^] ' 220 trisquel ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) I'm not sure what the output means. That escape character doesn't help me get back to muhammed@trisquel, so I get stuck at this step. I tried the sendmail command. I wanted to email fmaster@localhost like in the guide. It didn't work unfortunately. It's probably me and not the guide. But I thought I'd ask for some advice. Is there an easier way to make postfix work?
Re: [Trisquel-users] easy-to-follow Postfix guide?
I mean dig mx, not dix mx.
Re: [Trisquel-users] New Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) released.
New release v14. There has been work done on the random dungeon, the monster code, as-well as incidentals such as the capture/imprison system (which is useful if you have the shackles). http://sourceforge.net/projects/chaosesqueanthology/files/latest/download Direct download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/chaosesqueanthology/Rel_14/XonoticChaosEsqueAnthologyREL14.iso?r=ts=1390019172use_mirror=superb-dca2 Some screenshots and vids are here: http://www.moddb.com/games/chaosesqueanthology
