Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I find out which mixed licenses DuckDuckGo is running under in GNUIceCat?
The only issue with search engines is privacy- and GNU like DuckDuckGo for a reason. Ruben and some other people in the free software community may like DuckDuckGo, but saying GNU likes DuckDuckGo is misleading. It's not like DuckDuckGo is the officially approved search engine by the free software community. I think DuckDuckGo is bad for privacy and there are better alternatives, such Seeks and Searx instances. We had a discussion on this recently: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/searx-metasearch-engine
Re: [Trisquel-users] MonoDevelop fails to start
You truly are a goldmine of helpful advice. Output of monodevelop --no-redirect: FATAL ERROR [2015-06-22 19:37:47Z]: MonoDevelop failed to start. Some of the assemblies required to run MonoDevelop (for example gtk-sharp)may not be properly installed in the GAC. System.Exception: Toolkit could not be loaded --- System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Mono.Cairo, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0738eb9f132ed756' or one of its dependencies. File name: 'Mono.Cairo, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0738eb9f132ed756' at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.InternalInvoke (System.Object obj, System.Object[] parameters) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type, Boolean nonPublic) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at Xwt.Backends.ToolkitEngineBackend.CreateBackend (System.Type backendType) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at Xwt.Backends.ToolkitEngineBackend.CreateBackend[TextLayoutBackendHandler] () [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at Xwt.Toolkit.Initialize (Boolean isGuest) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at Xwt.Toolkit.LoadBackend (System.String type, Boolean isGuest, Boolean throwIfFails) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Xwt.Toolkit.LoadBackend (System.String type, Boolean isGuest, Boolean throwIfFails) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at Xwt.Toolkit.Load (System.String fullTypeName, Boolean isGuest) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at Xwt.Application.Initialize (System.String backendType) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at Xwt.Application.Initialize (ToolkitType type) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at Xwt.Application.InitializeAsGuest (ToolkitType type) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at MonoDevelop.Ide.IdeStartup.Run (MonoDevelop.Ide.MonoDevelopOptions options) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 at MonoDevelop.Ide.IdeStartup.Main (System.String[] args) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 As to what it may mean, I have no clue. Wrong libcairo version or something? Yet it worked fine in Xfce. Conundrums, conundrums. Danke.
Re: [Trisquel-users] MonoDevelop fails to start
Hmmm...not sure either. Try installing libmono-cairo2.0-cil (unless it's installed already of course). If that doesn't fix it then I don't know, sorry ! Gerne Doch.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I find out which mixed licenses DuckDuckGo is running under in GNUIceCat?
To which the fanatics say- freedom over convenience.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I find out which mixed licenses DuckDuckGo is running under in GNUIceCat?
The problem with DuckDuckGo is that it's highly centralized, just like Google is - everyone connects to one provider, which means all search queries can be logged in one centralized database and associated with you. The same problem is true with Ixquick and Startpage. Seeks and Searx are better, because anyone can provide instances, so not everything can be logged by one centralized provider - search queries are more distributed.
[Trisquel-users] Group chat
Imagine a groupbot verified by all the users in the group and when users send message to the group, the message is signed by the groupbot's public key. then the groupbot does the job of encrypting the message with all user public key and sending it to everyone. but the matter here is, there should not be the need of a groupbot ond the server software should have something implemented that functions like the groupbot I was wondering if there is a similar implementation of something like this right now or perhaps a better one.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Group chat
I assume you're talking about a conceptual IM service-- if so, why have the group-bot middle-man? Just have each member accept each other's keys, and the client send the message simultaneously to every user. Since every member has accepted the sending user's key, the same outcome is reached.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I find out which mixed licenses DuckDuckGo is running under in GNUIceCat?
I believe YaCy is supposed to eliminate tracking and censorship. I have tried it for a short while. It was nice and appeared to work well, except that the results were generally very bad and uncomparable to those of DuckDuckGo and the likes.
Re: [Trisquel-users] MonoDevelop fails to start
try some options from terminal: monodevelop --no-splash or monodevelop --no-redirect ...that might show some error reports ! thanks
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
My smartphone is an Huawei G7 and unfortunately is not yet supported by cyanogenmod's team. But this smartphone was a gift so i couldn't said no. I complete stop using any google service and any playstore app. I'm using only app by F-Droid store. I'm waiting for a supported cyanogenmod rom to set it free. On my Dell inspiron 7720 notebook I'm using Trisquel with a network cable because there aren't free drivers for the integrate wi-fi card. On my Sony Vaio 13 I'm using trisquell with a bad resolution because there aren't free driver for ati video card that support the right resolution. But if is this the price for freedom I can accept it. I'm looking for sostitute the Vaio notebook with the Sanres Penguin GNU/Linux Notebook on think penguin. I'm putting money away for Christmas gift ^_^
Re: [Trisquel-users] MonoDevelop fails to start
try running it from terminal as root, as it could be an ownership issue
Re: [Trisquel-users] MonoDevelop fails to start
That was a glaringly obvious thing to do- one which I completely forgot to consider. Thanks. Unfortunately, it didn't work. - sigh - I'm stuck with using mono-devel. An IDE would be nice.
Re: [Trisquel-users] MonoDevelop fails to start
You sir, are a lifesaver. It worked. I am forever in your debt. I am not actually German btw.
Re: [Trisquel-users] MonoDevelop fails to start
I wonder why that wasn't installed as a dependency?
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
As far as I know, Cyanogen Mod is not 100% free software. I'm not a smartphone user, but from what I've learned, Cyanogen Mod may be more freedom-friendly than Android, but still contains non-free parts and firmware, which is required for most phones to work properly. I believe that the only 100% free mobile operating system is Replicant, which is supported by FSF. http://www.replicant.us/ As for computers, most of them still contain a non-free BIOS. This problem is being tackled by the Libreboot project. http://www.libreboot.org/ For complete freedom, you can purchase a laptop from Gluglug, but it is a bit dated. http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/ I personally use Lenovo B590 with Parabola. I had to buy a USB WiFi card, but now it works properly. I think ThinkPenguin is one of the best choices, though. A company called Purism crowd-funded a high-end 100% free laptop recently, but they failed at making the BIOS free, so a performant computer with Libreboot seems to remain a dream for now :/
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
Cyanogen Mod may be more freedom-friendly than Android cyanogen mod is a distribution of android as is Replicant For complete freedom, you can purchase a laptop from Gluglug, but it is a bit dated. you can also install libreboot yourself. the most modern computer libreboot runs on is the t500: its also reported that although the non-free bios blocks it after you have installed libreboot you can use quad core cpu's with the machine see here for details: http://libreboot.org/docs/install/t500_external.html#cpu_compatibility not that you need a very fast computer to run gnu/linux well i have a x60(librebooted) and it runs fine with trisquel 7
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
CyanogenMod is not completely libre; only Replicant is. CyanogenMod is more or less similar to distros like Ubuntu and Mint. Unfortunately, Replicant only runs on a limited number of devices, so a lot of the time CyanogenMod is the best you can do. For what it's worth, FSFE has a guide to maximizing your freedom in your phone, if you can't use Replicant: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
Yes I was looking for replicant os smartphone but unfortunately all devices have a problem with wi-fi because need proprietary driver, if i dont remember wrong. Isn't it?
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
Yeah. Also, Replicant is based off CyanogenMod, which means it only runs on devices that CM also supports. If your device isn't supported by CM, there's no way Replicant will support it either.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Group chat
pidgin + OTR
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
Oh, sorry, I'm suffering from a case of off-hand dismissive syndrome because of all your nonsense you've been sputtering. I wasn't reading clearly, and yes, you're right this time. (Your reaction to this is absurd, but MB already addressed that, it seems.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
i don’t know much about Pottering so i don’t know if this is his blog or a fake or something but the text HuangLao posted definitely is on the webpage:
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
Thanks for reading it Tom. So many people are quick to comment without checking the reference. That is most certainly his blog, he references it in most of his forum and iirc posts. Check the bottom also: © Lennart Poettering. Built using Pelican. Theme by Giulio Fidente on github. .
[Trisquel-users] Re : Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
Can you name one reason why an init system would do this, or even need to? For the nth time: systemd is an umbrella project and not only a pid 1. Since you like quotes from free software superstars (that you misquote, but anyway), here is one from rms, who was in the POSIX standardization committee (he even chose the name of the standard): Basically, my attitude towards standards is that they are useful. They help users figure out how to support a variety of systems, and then they help system implementors figure out how to give the users what the users will expect. But you shouldn't treat standards as though they were gods. There's no need to. We support standards in the ways that are useful to users, and we depart from them when that becomes more useful to users. http://karmak.org/archive/2003/01/12-14-99.epl.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
Welcome to the community!!!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
For those that think systemd is just an elegant modern init system, consider this from Potterings own blog: We want a unified solution that ultimately can cover updates for full systems, OS containers, end user apps, programming ABIs, and more. These updates shall be double-buffered, (at least). This is an absolute necessity if we want to prepare the ground for operating systems that manage themselves, that can update safely without administrator involvement. Pottering wants systemd to even take care of updating your entire system, so you the end user or administrator never have to! Can you name one reason why an init system would do this, or even need to? Prepare the ground for operating systems to manage themselves... Really!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
He didn't say that. Nice strawman, though!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
LOL, this has nothing to do with the prior post. Read Potterings own words, since you like references so much.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
Really onpon! So you want people to believe that a post on Potterings own blog written by him, was not actually posted by him, and that he did not actually say it? If that is not deluded than I am not sure what is. In that post, he is laying out the foundation for how systemd will be its own OS and control all features of the OS from kernel to userland, including upgrades. Read it, its write their in black and white, or what ever font choice you choose.
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
just to let you know you can install the non-free wifi firmware on replicant if you rely want to and although this is bad for freedom/privacy its better to run a system with replicant and a non-free wifi firmware than to run a system such as cyanogen-mod which has and lots of non-free firmware and some malicious features like for example sending what ever you type in the default browsers url bar to google i also recommend watching this video to learn more about replicant: http://92.19.232.58:82/files/replicant_software_freedom_on_mobile_phones.mp4
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
ciao kernellume panicoso! Benvenuto nel mondo del free software! Divertiti e propaga la buona novella!
[Trisquel-users] Offtopic: Assange on google
If you're using google's services, then you definitely should read this https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ (Apologies for offtopic, I just though this is too important to pass.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
Thanks for all the clarifications MB. https://uglyman.kremlin.cc/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=systembsd.git has not received any commit this year. The development may now happen elsewhere (or not). I wouldn't be surprised if the development on systembsd is stalled. For me re-implementing this API in a portable way is a full time work with a new release to support every two months + the fact that wasn't intended to be used outside Linux. So ideally systemd should be design for potability to other free *nix kernels.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?
Ha! It's true! You can up-vote your own posts. Just did that with the hamster and cookie. That is soo 90210! And now, if you excuse me I have some own-posts to up-vote.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1
I wouldn't keep my hopes up: 1) they keep talking about open source and open source installers 2) it is from Intel 3) I could not find source code for binary blobs that exist in their repositories If I'm wrong please correct me.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Security Enhanced Linux Kernel? Eh? What's going on here? O.o!
The Debian project as a whole is pretty big on privacy, security, and software freedom-- as much as Trisquel is, I'd say. Just because the module was written by the NSA doesn't mean it's malicious. The module's been pretty much eyed by many people, so you've nothing to worry about. well said girl!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Group chat
you are right i was hasty without thinking about the current available encryptions and simply forgot the tls connections On 22 June 2015 23:47:19 GMT+05:30, marioxcc...@yandex.com wrote: “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 address with your proposal?. If you do not know how the existing technology works, it makes no sense to think of how to improve it; instead learn how it works, and then you may have meaningful ideas on how to improve it. Anyway, it is likely that all of those ideas are obvious to the ones capable of implement them, several times. Having ideas on how to improve software is the easy part. The hard part is to implement those ideas in software and that they become widespread.
[Trisquel-users] New free user
Hi to all, My apologize if this is a wrong section. I'm Kernelpanic and i hope that nobody see me after boot. I'm a new italian Trisquel user and a new member of FSF. The FSF opened my mind regarding the real concept of Free Software that I confused with Opensource. Now i'm using only free software on my pc's and smartphone too. I'm a Gnu/Linux user since 2003 but it is only recently that I realized the true meaning of freedom (better late than never :) ) So,what else?I'm happy to be a part of this community and I will help to make known to others the true meaning of freedom. I'm sorry for my bad english. I'll be waiting for Italian section Ciao
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
Welcome old f(r)iend! ;) I found these resources on free software interesting * https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ * http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-as-in-freedom-2/ (rms bio)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Group chat
HTTPS You probably mean TLS.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Group chat
“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 address with your proposal?. If you do not know how the existing technology works, it makes no sense to think of how to improve it; instead learn how it works, and then you may have meaningful ideas on how to improve it. Anyway, it is likely that all of those ideas are obvious to the ones capable of implement them, several times. Having ideas on how to improve software is the easy part. The hard part is to implement those ideas in software and that they become widespread.
Re: [Trisquel-users] MonoDevelop fails to start
I suggest reporting it as a bug.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Group chat
Signing isn't the same as encryption. Don't confuse the two. You only need to sign a message once; it's encryption you have to repeat for everyone. I don't think it's fair to assume that centralizing encryption makes it faster. The message still has to be encrypted just as many times; it's just a matter of where it's done. And we're talking about fraction-of-a-second delays here, so the lag caused by encrypting isn't likely to be terribly noticeable. In any case, what you're asking for is nothing more than using XMPP where everyone communicating with the XMPP uses HTTPS, and the servers communicate with each other in an encrypted way as well. So just set up a private XMPP server and have everyone use HTTPS when they connect to it. (XMPP supports some kind of group chats, though I haven't actually used it.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] New free user
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.
Re: [Trisquel-users] MonoDevelop fails to start
Done. http://trisquel.info/en/issues/14721
Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : MonoDevelop fails to start
Bump.
