Re: New animated video: Fight to Repair (alternative storylines)

2021-01-21 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On 2021-01-19 9:15 p.m., Paul D. Fernhout wrote: * Hospital suffers a malware incursion or ransomware extortion due to their unpatched proprietary software, and all their vital equipment shuts down. Panic ensues. I'm not sure I like this angle.  It frames the discussion to be about the "quali

Re: “Get rid of digests” (was: I support removing the footer & keep the poster's email address in the From: header)

2019-10-31 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Thu., Oct. 31, 2019, 10:01 a.m. Dmitry Alexandrov, <[1]321...@gmail.com> wrote: "J.B. Nicholson" <[2]j...@forestfield.org> wrote: > Any plans to also get rid of digests (either all subscribers converted to undigested subscriptions or new subscribers can't turn digests

Re: ‘censorship’

2019-10-11 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 4:28 AM Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: > > El 2019-10-10 21:05, Adam Van Ymeren escribió: > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:48 PM Dmitry Alexandrov <[1]321...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > > > > David <[2]postmas...@customer-opinions.net&

Re: ‘censorship’ (was: libreplanet-discuss Digest, Vol 114, Issue 8)

2019-10-10 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:48 PM Dmitry Alexandrov <[1]321...@gmail.com> wrote: David <[2]postmas...@customer-opinions.net> wrote: > Calling such actions "censorship" is a very extreme reaction IMHO as the very same core points could have been made in a less excitable mann

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Manufacturer and model of computer now being used by rms!

2017-10-03 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html According to his site he uses a Thinkpad X60 with libreboot. On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Don Saklad wrote: > Looking for the name(s) of the a) manufacturer(s) and b) model(s) > of c) desktop and d) laptop computer(s) now being used by rms! > > _

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Replicant or LineageOS or ???

2017-06-14 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Is there anything like GTA04 in the pipeline that supports LTE / 4G > though? I saw it was discussed[4] for GTA04 but it is not clear. > Not that I know of. I think the project is almost dead. While the latest revision GTA04A5 is curren

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Replicant or LineageOS or ???

2017-06-14 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On June 14, 2017 9:00:35 AM EDT, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >With CyanogenMod gone, more and more people are looking at which OS to >use next. > >LineageOS[1] is the most well known successor, but how does it compare >to Replicant[2] when it comes to security and privacy? > >Are there other alternativ

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Potential of the Sleepycat License

2017-04-16 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Nicolás A. Ortega < deathsbr...@themusicinnoise.net> wrote: > Not necessarily. The MIT license gives the user the same freedoms as the > xGPL, however it is more relaxed and preferred by some developers. > Therefore, this would allow those developers to use such a

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] talos

2017-01-13 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
Most of it is on their crowdsupply page. https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstation/updates Also on Raptor Engineering's homepage https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php Would have been a cool system. On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Charles C

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] ownership of software invention

2017-01-13 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Charles Cossé wrote: > I think you should refer to the paperwork you signed when you became > employed there. Usually they say that they own everything you do on their > time and you could get in legal trouble releasing if it's technically > theirs. But see what

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] talos

2017-01-12 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 12/01/17 15:22, Adam Van Ymeren wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Fabián Rodríguez >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 12/01/17 03:12 AM, Catonano wrote: >>>> Today, jan

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] talos

2017-01-12 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Fabián Rodríguez wrote: > > > On 12/01/17 03:12 AM, Catonano wrote: >> Today, january 12, only 454 pledges have been made to the Talos proect >> crowdunding campaign page. >> >> https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstation >> >> Thi

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-09 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
IceCatMobile is in F-Droid which is a liberated version of firefox. Non-free addons are still available through the Mozilla add on directory but IceCatMobile directs you to a FSF directory of addons instead. On January 9, 2017 4:31:00 AM EST, Lyberta wrote: >Does Gecko pass free software guidel

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Products you want to see in the 2016 Giving Guide?

2016-11-01 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Isaac David wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > > Le lun. 31 oct. 2016 à 15:20, Zak Rogoff a écrit : >> Hi everyone, >> >> The FSF's Holiday Giving Guide is scheduled to launch in November, so >> I'm putting out a call for product suggest

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] GNU GPL vs Consumer Guarantees Act

2016-09-15 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 6:06 AM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 08:24:36PM +1200, Kesara Rathnayake wrote: >> Hi Cascardo, >> >> Thanks for the reply. >> Your explanation makes sense. >> I think I have to looked into see how NZ Consumer Guarantees act applies >> to

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] Misleading information in EOMA68 news

2016-08-25 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Christopher Waid wrote: > On 2016-08-25 10:44 PM, Adam Van Ymeren wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic >> wrote: >> >> On 26.08.2016 05 [1]:22, Christopher Waid wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] Misleading information in EOMA68 news

2016-08-25 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic wrote: > On 26.08.2016 05:22, Christopher Waid wrote: > > The project is claiming to be a libre hardware/software project, not > > that everything has been released yet. > > Then it's not a libre hardware project yet! > > And need I remind

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Article on GRSecurity, RMS, etc.

2016-06-28 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Shawn wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:51 AM, Adam Van Ymeren wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Shawn wrote: >>> I'm not an expert of GPL compliance. I personally don't see any GPL >>> violation in PaX/Grsecur

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Article on GRSecurity, RMS, etc.

2016-06-27 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Shawn wrote: > I'm not an expert of GPL compliance. I personally don't see any GPL > violation in PaX/Grsecurity. Because of some embedded vendors pissed > off PaX/Grsecurity's authors last year and then they decided stable > patch was going to customer-only, which

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] DRM is a real problem

2016-02-20 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Fabio Pesari wrote: > On 02/20/2016 04:16 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote: >> >> That strikes me as a matter of taste and siding with power; you won't find >> Magnatune's artists or work on the more widely-advertised label releases >> either. I find it more valuable to fi

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Solving the prisoner's dilemma in crowdfunding

2016-02-19 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
Since there are more funders than developers shouldn't you favour developers instead? One of the core ideas of crowdfunding is that people would be more willing to accept risk because they only fund a small amount in conjunction with a lot of other funders. Alice still receives a large amount of