Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 72.0.1 won't load after update.
I thought it was MPL2?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 72.0.1 won't load after update.
Kinda off-topic, but what do people here think about pale moon? It's a fork of firefox esr, but they plan on keeping the javascript implementation up to date, but not support web rtc. Is there freedom concerns? If so, is there a GNUified version? It feels pretty fast on my T400. I didn't like the build of midori or abrowser bundled with the Trisquel 9 testing branch. Again, I hope there aren't any freedom concerns, though they do have some nice addons that are firefox esr compatible with the addons at least having freedom respecting licenses.
[Trisquel-users] Problems with gaming and Trisquel 9
Hey, I installed the Trisquel 9 testing build on a T400 that I just bough that I'm too scared to try to libreboot. Anyway, I noticed openarena segfaults when you try to play it and I've noticed Fceux, nestopia and higan is in the repos (along with wine) and there's very few excuses to use those programs other than cheating on your FLOSS lifetyle, maybe one exception would be running console game from github and you have the source code with a freedom respecting license and one great reason to have these programs doesn't seem to work in our builds, and that's reverse-engineering, the builds of the emulators we have don't have the debugger for the emulated cpu. This guy has a debugger in his build of Fceux and it's only one release newer than the one the repos have. https://invidio.us/watch?v=n8-6ZXYdnyU I would like the emulator builds to have the built in debugger because I would like to get into reverse-engineering and I figure the easiest way to start is from one of the simplest cpus made, it's so simple, there are videos of people making them on multiple boards and that can be done because it has under 5,000 transistors, it had a clock rate under 2mhz and the NES/Famicom could only execute code during the V-Blank (so there shouldn't be a lot of code running) and since it's 8-bit, the ints only go up to 255, so they can be easy to guess. People say you should "learn programming by solving a problem". Ok, I've got two problems, A:It's a voodoo magic black box and B: the game sucks. So I'm thinking maybe I should reimplement the program rom and call it "Quester's Fest", just something that would get me started in reverse-engineering.
Re: [Trisquel-users] My experience using Trisquel so far
>Does it really have to be in your house, or are you just exaggerating to hammer home the point about Discord? I suppose it's part exaggeration to make a point, but on the same token, you are trusting somebody else and there's no real way to see if they hold your values to heart like the fiasco with Nord VPN or they might get their asses raided like lavabit. Also how many servers run only free software and there's a lot of "cloud" providers that claim they're powered by solar, but it's either fossil fuels or nuclear. Here's what a real solar powered website looks like. And if the website is down, that's because the battery died ;) https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website.html As for pidgin, I can see your concerns, but the beauty of free software is it's fixable.
Re: [Trisquel-users] My experience using Trisquel so far
I tried parabola and it wouldn't even install.
Re: [Trisquel-users] My experience using Trisquel so far
Yeah if Eric Swartz can do that in 1995 with 4MB of RAM, trisquel could do this no problem. Hell, the best animation was all done analog and the best animators today have a very analog mindset even though they're using digital tools.
Re: [Trisquel-users] My experience using Trisquel so far
That made me think if there was a cartoon short about a Trisquel User watching Twitch in mpv and as soon as they turn on Javascript, their PC bursts into flames. Oh that would be funny. Reminds me of this short made in the 90's on an Amiga. https://invidio.us/watch?v=Sj9Lxu-pO6g
Re: [Trisquel-users] My experience using Trisquel so far
and maybe with musl too. Alpine Linux uses musl and it's pretty fast. eglibc hasn't been updated in 5 years, so since then debian moved to glibc. So I think it would be cool if Trisquel used musl, it would use less RAM and it would remove temptations to install non-free software like installing a Deb of Skype or Discord. The only problem would be I couldn't scrape pre-compiled debs of free packages made for distros that half-ass freedom and I hear getting Rust to work is a pain in the ass. Contemporary GlibC has a 8m thread stack size and using my system as an example I have 140 threads open so that would just be 1.08gigs and musl has an 80k thread stack size, so 140 threads would be 11megs.
Re: [Trisquel-users] My experience using Trisquel so far
>The modern web really is an hellscape of lazily engineering and often user-abusing Javascript. Oh, yes, I can't stand the modern web. Funny enough you can run some modern websites without Javascript like old.reddit.com or m.facebook.com. >Given your knowledge of hardware, I assume you know about Libreboot. Is this what you mean by "flash" Coreboot without blobs? Well, libreboot is like a pre-compiled coreboot without binary blobs. Instead of using libreboot directly, I plan on compiling coreboot without blobs because coreboot is more up to date. I think you can compile coreboot without any voodoo magic black boxes. >Pidgin. Convincing your family and friends to switch to a free code chat service like Wire or Signal is better for *their* software freedom and privacy, but we all know what a struggle that is Yeah though if they play fallout, they might like Finch. Just run that in Cool Retro Term and it looks like they're using a fallout terminal. I also think mumble might be convincing because it performs very well with shiternet like people throttled down to ISDN speeds on their phones. Discord only got big because open feint (Discord at that time) bribed youtubers saying it's immune to DDOS of which open feint's founder got in trouble with his previous business venture for privacy violations. But the only issue in setting up a mumble server today is boomers come in and say "hey, can you join my discord server" and I'd be like "It's not 'your' server, if it was your server, the server would be located in your house" >One downside of Pidgin though, is that development hasn't been as active for about 5 years What features does it really need? It has plugins and libpurple. >Welcome to the free world! Thanks, I feel liberated in more ways than one.
[Trisquel-users] My experience using Trisquel so far
First, I want to say my hardware specs aren't optimal, I just really wanted to get going and my tube of thermal paste is spent after putting the cooler on to test it. My CPU us a Pentium 2.7ghz with 2MB of L2 Cache and can only support SSE3 and I only have 2GB of RAM installed. That is because while I actually have the fastest Core2 Quad this board supports at 3Ghz, 6MB of L2 per dual core cluster (It's kinda like a precursor to Zen) and it supports SSE4.1 and I actually have 8GB of DDR2, the really rare and expensive kind that can get me 2x4GB and still be non-ecc intel compatible, but I'm kinda worried if something goes wrong flashing my bios chips, I might fry my RAM with it, so I figure if I do fry it, I might as well fry the cheap stuff and I'm out of thermal paste for my CPU, but I do have a graphite pad and I think those damned push pin coolers with the circular block might snage the graphite pad, so I'll save that for a bigger and better cooler that probably won't snag the graphite pad. So that's why I'm not using the most optimal config, I think I'll flash coreboot without blobs tomorrow because it's more up to date. Speaking of which, a good side ramble would be I'm curious of what I could do with a libre bios instead of disabling IME, I just use it for something else. Maybe since it's intel 8088 based maybe have it be for a hyervisor for a z80 console with libre homebrew roms or maybe an IME architecture based fantasy console. "Either the user controls the hardware or the hardware controls the user". I just want to do it out of spite. Lemons into lemonade I suppose. But anyway, after installing it, I tried upgrading to 9.0 twice following instructions found on this forum and I rather not mess with it and one of the times installing Trisquel, I was frustrated that it wouldn't install and I looked carefully at the error message and it said my optical drive was dirty, so instead of cleaning it, I threw it away because the one that came with that computer didn't even burn DVDs and I put in another one I had lying around. I also tried installing sysvinit, was a bad time, I'm lucky I knew how to chroot. I also tried installing other free distros, but Parabola and the Parabola installation on top of Manjaro didn't work for me. I'm not sure how people feel about this but I was able to get pidgin working with plugins (all GPL licensed) that hook into centralized trash "services" like discord and Skype. Yeah, I know the national spying agency looks at those logs, but if I want to talk to boomers, it's better than running their applications that could be doing heave knows what. I also installed the latest mumble. But I have to say, so far, I am quite pleasantly surprised. When I was messing with Manjaro on this machine, it used way more ram (even on xfce) and it took forever to compress a compiled package. Having midori, mumble and pidgin up with all of the plugins and chatrooms, the whole system runs on 1GB of RAM and the gaming performance really surprised me. on my Sandy Bridge Machine, Quake3 in the latest build of IOQuake3 was dogshit slow, but I cranked up everything on Openarena at 1920x1440 and got 20fps and on Sandy, I got lower numbers on lower settings in Quake3. I can see why people donate so much, you can see the care the maintainers have taken in picking optimized experience for thees experiences. The distro is a work of craftsmanship. (I use that as a gender-neutral term) My experience of installing Trisquel brought me back to the days when I first discovered GNU/Linux Distros. Having a couple issues, but figuring it out and those days when I searched the Ubuntu Repo for games and I discovered OpenArena. I think I'm satisfied with this level of computing and I feel free software is a good part of a technology diet. What makes a diet work is the lifestyle and it seems like most people's technology diet is just pop-tarts and cinnamon toast crunch. I'm going to be more analog.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GAPCOIN Math Crypto-Currency for TRISQUEL Users
Oh, you didn't know? It says it in the roadmap section.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GAPCOIN Math Crypto-Currency for TRISQUEL Users
"Go Open Source (except the mining algorithm)" Well, it defiantly doesn't respect freedom if it isn't even classified as "open source. Get your voodoo magic black box shit out of here.
Re: [Trisquel-users] An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm
Imagine of there was something like a "you must not use this for terrorism" clause, how are you really going to stop them? It would also set a bad precedent for GPL licensed software. Not only would this be GPL incompatible even for linking, but it would increase the liabilities for GPL licensed software that don't have those clauses.
Re: [Trisquel-users] An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm
It seems redundant because if they use it for harm, they can get sued anyway and even if they couldn't, people wouldn't blame the software, they would blame the user. A lot of free software users' love for freedom goes beyond the realm software and have noticed no matter what the intention to, efforts to restrict freedom for the good of the collective has usually resulted in the restriction of freedom be worse than doing nothing. You don't think RMS thought of this back in the 80's?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash
You shouldn't really care as long as it respects the four freedoms (of which it does) or if you're a developer and want to link software from another license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#Definition Might I ask, what drew you to Trisquel specifically?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash
It's like running a game in an emulator. (actually, it's exactly like that) The Emulator itself is libre, but the game more than likely isn't. Though I have messed around with compiling test ps1 programs. If you want to support libre games, if you find them, send them some coin. This NES game is GPL3 licensed: https://novasquirrel.itch.io/nova-the-squirrel
Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash
I suppose unless you use it for reverse-engineering and figure out how that Actionscript worked. But yeah, the same has been said for Javascript.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Richard Stallman Does Not and Cannot Speak for the Free Software Movement
Everybody in the free software movement speaks for free software as individuals.
Re: [Trisquel-users] I cant join the community =(
I joined this site years before I bought a system that's freedom friendly. Even then, It's not complete yet, I'm still trying to find money to complete it. When I joined, I was mildly interested about a 100% libre system. You know kinda like those people that make videos about Windows 98 and ask if it's still useful today doing daily tasks. But, now with centralized proprietary stuff constantly violating my trust, I thought "I wouldn't be surprised if my Bios was spying on me" and than I thought "Oh wait, it probably is thanks to IME/PSP".
Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommended Music players?
I use Rhythmbox, it's good if you have meta-data and you want to organize. You could also use a console based music player, but they're not really up to my standards the last time I used them and I forgot what that reason was. I think it was it lists by artist, but I want to list by album and none of the console based players I found had that feature. But Rhythmbox is great for ripping CDs, CDs are a nice experience, All copyright could be abolished and I'd still buy first party CDs.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Azure and WSL version of Trisquel
The whole point of Trisquel is to be a 100% libre Debian. Running it in WSL defeats the point. Though I would find it amusing if ReactOS implemented a WSL (or would it be an RSL in this case?) Having a libre NT isn't a bad idea, I suppose you could in theory run 100% libre code on ReactOS. If there were FOSS x4500 drivers for windows server 2003, it could work, but it's not mature in it's development enough for production use.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best browser? Also chess
I like pale moon, but there's a drama with MPL trademarks. It's really good though, It's like Firefox ESR in another direction. For browsing without Javascript, I'd recommend you use Netsurf. It's only 50MB when you launch it. I don't know much about Chess, but for an XMPP Client called "Gajim", you can install a tic-tac-toe plugin. Somebody I was chatting with had really bad internet upstream issues in mumble where he could hear us, but he would drop too many packets and somebody in mumble said he was playing tic-tac-toe in gajim. Then I thought that could be really good for people with really bad shiternet, imagine if there was a plugin for texas hold up, yu-gi-oh or chess.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thought on using guids for non-free stuff with trasferable skills to free stuff?
You mean reverse engineering? Yeah, I love reverse engineered projects like GNU was. Though Gimp was never trying to be a Photoshop clone. If I could spare the cash, I would pay the Gimp Project and Kdenlive what Adobe normally charges. Money gets stuff done.
[Trisquel-users] Thought on using guids for non-free stuff with trasferable skills to free stuff?
Example: Say if you watch a video or read a book on how to do x in Photoshop or Premiere and you're like "Hey, let's see if Gimp or Kdenlive can do that". You get the idea, you just implement the idea in something else. I know there's plenty of guides on free tools, but that's not what the experts use and there's nothing wrong with somebody using a tool not used by experts like using Crayola Markers instead of Copics. Yes, a pro can make good work with Crayola because it's mostly the skill of the pro, but most pros are going to use Copics and one could transfer that mentality to another tool. Not to say I look down at Gimp, (or Crayola because I bought some) 2.10 looks fantastic, bit's easier to find pros that use Photoshop and DuckDuckGo how to do that step in Gimp or ask on stack exchange.
Re: [Trisquel-users] PSA: Shadow Warrior is free (as in beer) today. (compatible with GPL Engine)
Oh, I didn't know how important in-engine scripting was to the FOSS community. Had I known that I wouldn't have said anything about Quake. What about a re-implementation of the asset scripts?
Re: [Trisquel-users] PSA: Shadow Warrior is free (as in beer) today. (compatible with GPL Engine)
I thought JFSW was GPL
[Trisquel-users] PSA: Shadow Warrior is free (as in beer) today. (compatible with GPL Engine)
https://www.gog.com/game/shadow_warrior_complete That's funny because just yesterday I ran a game distribution platform that will not be named in Wine so I could download all the games I bought that have free implementations of their engine either feature complete or in the works and I downloaded 42! (Of which you can't even buy those "for linux") I'm a "on the fence" free software enthusiast, but I respect the free software culture and wouldn't normally talk about purchases on a drm riddled non-free platform, but I thought I'd bring it up because it's an interesting coincidence and I would buy all of those again if they were on GOG. (some are) Pic of Games I bought that have free engines in attachment.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?
Too bad their website is down and the Github clone hasn't been updated in 2 years :( I guess nobody wants to make a GPU IPCore because the patent-free designs are too old to make into an ASIC that enough people would actually want. :/ I guess a free GPU IPCore is unfeasible at this point, (even a Free CPU is on the verge of being ready in the embedded market) but we'll eventually hit a wall where it will still be competitive enough to use expired patents on GPU design and hell, the free hardware community might even think of better shit that AMD and Nvidia haven't thought of, but that's years away.
Re: [Trisquel-users] The GIMP CMYK support
I hear they're not even messing with CMYK or NDE until they port to GTK3 and they're not going to port to GTK3 until they finish the GEGL Port.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?
I mean old PowerVR, wouldn't the patents be expired? Also, GPL-GPU uses 90's tech, so you might as well use references from 90's Voodoo and PowerVR.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?
Yeah, BSD is good, even Stallman doesn't see a problem with it because the copyleft people get to play with it. I think there will be more free IPCores that can add missing functionality. Like there could be a implementation of a fusion of PowerVR and Voodoo design for the GPU with more modern stuff added on top of it. If I know engineers, some will code for fun and they'll add in an implementation of Glide support for shits and giggles. It all trickles down. If you want to use the same process as the Pentium 4, it will cost you almost nothing and once we go to 7nm as the new hotness, we're going to be on 7nm for a while and I have no idea when we'll have graphene, so 7nm might last us a while and by the time it will be obsolete, the patents on the process would have expired and ordering a custom CPU might be more of a free market where you can make an order from a $20M Company instead of a $1T Company like TSMC
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?
It's BSD licensed. Sure that will make it open to ASIC designers to fork janky shit into it, but I can see crowd funding projects on something like Croudsupply to make a Raspberry Pi style computer and I'd like to see a UMPC-like device running it.
[Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?
For those unfamiliar, the J-Core is a free implementation of the SuperH CPU of which was used in the Sega Saturn, Dreamcast and some old RISC servers and their mindset is instead of paying for licensing from ARM to make a CPU, they just collectively dump resources into an architecture who's patents are expired and work from there and see if they can add more features that the original SuperH ASICS could dream of and they say they're working on a 64-bit implementation, (in about 4 years) but it will be a backwards compatible to SH32 unlike the official implementation that went the Itanium rout. We will be approaching the Dreamcast's 20th anniversary in a couple years (meaning they have a reference device that says "hey, the patents are expired") and before I got into free software, the gaming performance on the Dreamcast at 200mhz killed a Pentium 4 at 1ghz. (and I suppose you could still run some free homebrew on it today because the Mill-CD function was used as an unlocked bootloader) But, yeah, that machine was fast for it's day and I'm curious what a more contemporary implementation can do like if it was workstation class, had more clock cycles and IPC. As for the practicality, well, there are ASICs that will be made soon and for now, they're targeting the embedded market because of the patent situation and when you get ASICs made, you either pay an arm and a leg for the new hotness of 14nm or you could use an older manufacturing process like 140nm and get them made for like $0.04 per chip. So, I think they have a very pragmatic approach of starting small to get their foot in the door and work their way from there.What do you guys think? http://j-core.org/roadmap.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot 20160818
Well, that sucks because I feel the IPC from Core2 and pre-Zen Chips are like the new Pentium 4, they're trash. Though, I think the dual opterons can still be usable depending on how multithreaded your workload is and can afford the electricity, but there's stuff to look forward to like free IP Cores where you can have FPGA accelerated GEGL or MLT or free CPU designs like the free implementation of SuperH.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot 20160818
Will Libreboot ever support a board that supports a CPU with more IPC than a Core 2 Duo/Pre-Zen AMD?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Another free engine of a commercial Game: Serious Sam
A similar thing happened with the AGS engine, it was under an artistic license, but it was dependent on a MS Lib, so it took them a while for them to implement a replacement.
[Trisquel-users] Another free engine of a commercial Game: Serious Sam
https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine Engines almost never go free anymore mostly due to non-free middleware like Unreal and Unity where you can't free the engine even if you wanted to. Well, at least we got Serious Sam now.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Another free engine of a commercial Game: Serious Sam
I think the agreement was more complicated. I think making non-free software free is just as hard as making free software non-free, you have to get everybody that contributed to agree, but it would be a hell of a lot easier with unreal engine 1, because that's when they had less people developing it. I bet MS would love to put the NT Kernel under a GPL compatible license so they can get BtrFS working on Windows, but the NT Kernel touched too many hands making it impossible to track down. That's why when you have in house software and you want full control of it, it would be wise to add a "It's not your code, it's the company's" clause to the contract. That said, I would add money into the bounty pool to lobby every studio that contributed to the unreal engine up until the point of Deus Ex.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
With Nautilus, you just need to right click on it and go to "properties" and it tells you what codecs, frame rate, bitrate and sample rates are being used. There's also ffmpeg (or avconv) -i media_file_name.whatever
Re: [Trisquel-users] So, where do you guys get Content that's Non-free yet DRM-free? (not talking about Games unless there's a free engine)
I just found this and it pleases my inner audiophile. http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=results=1%20=382
[Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
It's been 20 years since the 1995 revision, so most the software patents should be expired by now though the last revision was made in 1998, so the latest revision is only a few years away. I find it odd that I saw on a post that's a couple years old that you don't support MP3 because of patents, but you have a x264 repo. Now what's up with that? Is that a version of x264 that has the features that violate software patents removed? http://in.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/x/x264/ On that note of x264, the expiration of the h264 baseline patents are 8 years away, so I'm looking forward to that. (Though the latest revision of h264 won't be patent-free until the baseline h265 standard is patent-free)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
Well, the software has been free, I just hear the Free Software community is scared of Software Patents. Teisquel is based on Ubuntu LTS and I'm not sure if the last LTS had patent-MP3 support. I'm not using trisquel now, but I look forward to trying it with a free bios once I save my pennies for another computer.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
I got it from this post: http://trisquel.info/en/forum/why-dont-free-systems-support-mp3 It looks like that post was made on the year that would be the 20 year mark for the initial MP3 standard, so it might have became patent-free a few months after that post.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
Oh, OK, I see. Yeah, in 2018, the last patent on MP3 should expire. Even though that codec is so shitty, the best implementation is "LAME" and even that is lame. Flac is where it's at with ogg being the king of lossy audio.
Re: [Trisquel-users] So, where do you guys get Content that's Non-free yet DRM-free? (not talking about Games unless there's a free engine)
The only reason why Boycotts fail is because it's not mainstream. My take is to make it mainstream. Make it as mainstream as #PerformanceMatters.
Re: [Trisquel-users] So, where do you guys get Content that's Non-free yet DRM-free? (not talking about Games unless there's a free engine)
They don't see political ideologies and hatred of publishers for having a 95 year monopoly on content or ogolipolizing all mainstream media. All they see is "people are consuming our content without paying because they're cheap". It's more productive to get a lot of people to exploit that greed with trending social media topics about DRM and getting people together and saying "hey, we enjoined your stuff in the past, but we won't be customers anymore as long as you have DRM". But anyway, this topic is suppose to be for methods of paying for non-free content that's DRM-free and compatible with a 100% free software stack. I'm still open to suggestions.
Re: [Trisquel-users] So, where do you guys get Content that's Non-free yet DRM-free? (not talking about Games unless there's a free engine)
Well, if you file share, you tell them you don't pay for things. If more people played by their rules and sent the MPAA letters saying you'll never buy a movie as long as it has DRM and while they have DRM, you'll refuse to add mindshare by talking about DRM Movies and not even pirate it. If enough people committed to it over a 6 month period, that would all go away.
Re: [Trisquel-users] External Graphics card for Laptop
It may not be doable and even if it is, it's probably not worth doing. Why it may not be doable: Few new Laptops have an Express Card to rig an Adaptor and hackery with the Mini Pcie Slot that the Wifi Card uses is whitelisted thanks to the infinite wisdom of the FCC. Why it may not be worth doing: Older laptops that don't have the Whitelist or are Core/Libre Boot compatible have older CPUs that bottleneck the GPU, The GPU is bottlenecked by PCIe x1 anyway, even if you still want to do it and have a non-free Bios, you'll have to go through the trouble of ripping your Bios and then looking for a whitelist flag in that binary blob and turn it off and then flash it. You're also making your system less portable though it would be nice for laptops that have M.2 where you could rig that into a GPU Dock for gaming at home. (Preferably games with free engines :D)
Re: [Trisquel-users] So, where do you guys get Content that's Non-free yet DRM-free? (not talking about Games unless there's a free engine)
We're talking about paying for non-free content that's DRM-free and compatible with a 100% free software stack. (minus wine for extracting asset files that works in free engines) We're not talking about piracy.
Re: [Trisquel-users] So, where do you guys get Content that's Non-free yet DRM-free? (not talking about Games unless there's a free engine)
You can only record unencrypted programming though. So most cable channels are a no-no. (unless you're recording analogue cable)
Re: [Trisquel-users] So, where do you guys get Content that's Non-free yet DRM-free? (not talking about Games unless there's a free engine)
I don't obey the law because the law is right nor because I'm scared of Jail, I do it to play their game. If they don't want to sell DRM-free, fine, I don't have to buy from them. I wish there was a campaign from many very mainstream sources that used twitter and facebook hashtags where they got a lot of people to pledge to purge DRM. People like the surviving Star Trek Cast (George Takei has lots of followers) and other celebrities, but I don't think we should go to them, we might piss them off. The free software community already pissed off Wil Wheaton. I think we need to start small with accepting online video personalities with an emphasis on Free Software and DRM-free living or something stupid where the FSF gets PewDiePie to play games with free engines like Doom, Quake or Morrowind. I can see him doing his usual WTF reactions by swearing in Swedish when an Imp or Ogre scares the hell out of him or when a Dark Brotherhood Assassin kicks his butt. The free software community needs more likeable/charming people to spread their influence.
[Trisquel-users] So, where do you guys get Content that's Non-free yet DRM-free? (not talking about Games unless there's a free engine)
All I know of is... Gog: They have games that are compatible with free engines and reimplementations of free engines. They also have DRM-free documentaries. Humble Book Bundle: They have two book bundles right now, Peanuts and Make. Comixology: They have a selection of DRM-free Comics, but they make it really inconvenient to filter out DRM's comics and even the URL I have that says it DRM-free is still missing DRM-free Comics. Most (if not all) Archie Comics along with the Walking Dead are DRM-free and you can which one is DRM-free by the download icon in the store page of the Comic. https://www.comixology.com/DRM-Free-Comics/page/2794 Anybody that sells MP3s: The late Steve Jobs did at least one thing we all can admire, he used his Conman powers for good instead of evil. He made all of the big music publisher agree to a change in the terms of the contract making the EULA more restrictive making it allowed to run on fewer devices of which the money hoarders in the suits loves, but they didn't read the the part that says "all music will be DRM-free" so the EULA didn't matter. Too bad his trick didn't work a second time with Movies :(
Re: [Trisquel-users] Personal Digital Assistant
oh, the prototype was $1,500. $540 sounds good :D
Re: [Trisquel-users] ThinkPenguin Looking for Web Developer Expereinced with Drupal & Ubercart
I don't know much about CMSs, but have you considered Typo3? I hear it's Enterprise Grade stuff.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Make Mupen64 work faster
I'm not talking about a MMORPG, I'm talking about "Bill's PC"==Cloud Storage for Pokemon and if you have your own private server, you use your own cloud to store your Pokemon. But, yeah, they could make an engine that "just so happens to be compatible with Pokemon Roms". Be it with a rom scan or an importer that converts the blob assets in the rom to something that's compatible with the Free Engine or whatever and I guess you could use that engine to make a non-pokemon clone. It could be like a DnD clone. There's already a pokemon clone, but it's not free. https://steamcommunity.com/app/308520/discussions/0/618457398956473202/ Another good idea would be replacement sprites or midi mod for the original non-free content.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Make Mupen64 work faster
That's pretty awesome! I hope nintendo doesn't descend from them like locust and they probably would especially since the assets are in the repo. A better free implementation would be if it was ported to C++/SDL2 and it was free/contrib where it would point to address points in a rom (ideally ripped from a retrode) or a homebrew "Lebrémon" game where you "Gotta free 'em all". Instead of "Bill's PC", you could put it on "Red's Private Server" because there is no cloud, only somebody else' Computer.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Personal Digital Assistant
I wish the Pyra would take off. I hate smartphones and I would rather have a class of mobile computing that's dead in the consumer market, a UMPC, but I don't think they can enough people willing to spend $1,500 for a dual core machine just because it's a fully open modular platform with a physical keyboard that's the size of a gameboy. It's $1,500 for the prototypes because they can't find enough people willing to spend $1,000 on it because it's such a niche product. (and the designer isn't planning on making much money on it, only a 5% margin. I think it's niche not because people don't want it, but because people want a powerful phone and don't want to pay for it so they have a contract subsidize it. Also, the market doesn't know there's a viable interest for slider phones, they haven't been selling well because the ones left had crap specs or have the narrow keyboard. But $1,500 sounds like a lot for a Pyra, (and it is) but the way it's designed, it would last me 5 years and $1,500/60 months==$25 per month. I think the creator needs to do something like a patreon and use each individual's contributions as their personal credit towards a Pyra.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What DE do you prefer for Trisquel 8?
It's based on Gnome. I'd have to say, the Manjaro implementation looks amazing! It looks like what Windows 10 should have been.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Make Mupen64 work faster
Yeah, but there are legal issues with sharing copyright & trademarked content content like the music notes, wave tables, images, dialogue, in-game scripting, etc. I've looked at the github page and except for the wave tables, (of which I couldn't find) it's all in there. Like I said, a more legal way to do it would to be to design a rom importer where it scans the rom for the asset files in that binary blob and converts it to something else like a bitmap spritesheet, midi files, wave pcm files and lua scripting.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize linux mint?
Mint==Ubuntu with even more non-free software
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?
I don't know why there aren't any nonprofit game developers that develop games with libre engines. By "non-profit" I mean they make money, but the primary goal is their mission and it could be lobbying to make cracking DRM legal and reverse engineering game engines.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?
I get what you mean, I see free software supporters as a spectrum thing instead of a binary false dichotomy. There are are people that are dependent on non-free software and can't afford the switching costs of spending downtime to learn something like Blender, but appreciate the free software philosophy and then there's people that install Coreboot and everywhere in between. While I don't have all non-free software purged from my computer, I have my fullest respects to people like you and moxalt and the people at FSF that really stick to their guns. Especially with the FSF video on User Liberation, I watched it and the first thought that came to my mind was "Phh, I bet they payed a guy to make this and he used the Adobe flash animator" and I was pleasantly surprised to find the sources for that video and that's something worth admiring. That said, I do plan on experimenting with Trisquel and I would even build a KFSN4-DRE Workstation and install Coreboot on it and document my experiment.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Miaow - The first Free/Open graphics processor.
The license sounds free. https://github.com/VerticalResearchGroup/miaow/commit/dafd39709dcc78e2a2c4f643dd7d4e4901219aa4 Also, it is software, Verrlog code is software.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?
Most Developers go for the convenience like the "I have to use Adobe" world of Content Creators. When it comes to Games, they use middleware that have re-licensing restrictions and in a lot of cases, making non-free software free is just as hard as legally making a non-free fork of GPL Code, you need the consent of everybody that ever contributed to your source code because you didn't add a "it's not your code, it's mine and I just pay you to improve it" clause in the contract. There's no middleware for developers that's convenient, exports to evil Consoles and can be re-licensed however the license wants to. I like what Id Software used to do, they made their engines libre but if a developer wanted to make it non-free, said developer would have to pay Id Software for their branch that can be re-licensed however the licensee pleases. I think said middleware that's like unity would be a great idea for a non-profit lobbying organization. Even RMS has likes the idea of libre software with paid exceptions better than BSD licensed software. All that said, I am looking forward to OpenMW and I'm glad Morrowind is on gog.com . You can play one of the best games ever made using a completely free software stack. That's no more unethical than buying a non-free Flac song on Bandcamp. "Nonfree game programs (like other nonfree programs) are unethical because they deny freedom to their users. (Game art is a different issue, because it isn't software.) If you want freedom, one requisite for it is not having or running nonfree programs on your computer. That much is clear."-RMS Now, I don't have a complete free software stack, but I would like to try it as an experiment. I want to buy that dual AMD Quad Core Opteron Motherboard, install Coreboot and get the GPU that performs the best on a free software stack and see what I can do with it. Though I do wish a newer Xeon Motherboard was Coreboot compatible, AMD CPUs aren't very good and it uses a lot of juice for the performance it has :/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do DRM free games matter even if the game is non-free?
How about a Free Philosophy page? You can have Games be a subpage on that and have sticky topics on "Evil Consoles", "Windows DRM Games is a lesser evil of Consoles", "DRM-Free/non-free Windows Games is a lesser evil of DRM Windows Games", "DRM-Free/non-free games on a free OS is a lesser evil of DRM-free/non-free Games on Windows" and "DRM-Free/non-free Games with a free engine is the lesser evil of DRM-free/non-free Games on a free OS" and just be done with it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Miaow - The first Free/Open graphics processor.
That's pretty cool, I just looked it up not even 2 hours before I saw this post.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What games do you play on your computers
Deus Ex... One of the best games ever made. A lot of people are really pissed off about the "augment your pre-order" mess with mankind divided. I really wish somebody would reverse-engineer Deus Ex, I would make monthly donations to said project.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where can I buy a liberated wifi card?
Actually, It's FCC regulations that forced IBM to Whitelist their Wireless Cards. I have a possible solution, but it involves using non-free utility once and then you can remove it once the job is done. (well, I only know of non-free utils for this, there might be free ones that I'm not aware of) Anyway, it involves hacking your Bios, my friend bought a Thinkpad T420s for his networking class and his networking card and it didn't work with certain protocols with GNU/Linux. so he bought the best wireless card he could find and it didn't work because of the whitelist, so he hacked his bios and now he uses whatever he wants. However flashing a modified bios could brick your laptop and the method I know of involves using non-free software, but if I was sure it would work, I would recommend it because your bios isn't free anyway and I would like to know if anybody here actually uses coreboot. Out of convenience and and paranoia that the process could eff up your laptop because something went wrong, I recommend the USB adapter.
