That is true, was somewhat of a knee jerk reaction by myself. It is more I
fear that it has the potential to be a slippery slope where blobs will slowly
creeep back in. So long as it is kept entirely in the users control it isn't
really an issue. It's like free speech in that while I don't
The fact that it does not recommend the blobs does solve this issue.
Thank you all, very much. Clear explanations. Haven't had time yet to give it
a go but I guess I will tonight.
But, if that easy way at
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en#linux works, why
torproject.org and trisquel.info recommends for Debian/Ubuntu/Trisquel the
Not all Nvidia cards have 3-D acceleration in Nouveau. It's much more common
than AMD GPUs, but it's not universal.
I think you're misunderstanding. Those links you mention tell you how to
install Tor. The Tor Browser Bundle is a web browser bundled with and
configured to use Tor. For example, the Tor Browser Bundle doesn't include an
email client connected via Tor, or a feed reader connected via Tor. To
Oh, I understand now -- When I read pipe grep earlier, I thought that
pipe referred to script instruction or terminal command that I didn't know
yet.
You're right; no need to separate out the pages. I just have to pipe grep
with a second set of words to achieve and.
Hello!
I talked to some people recently, about how Skype is bad because it's
spyware. But they said that the people who use Skype agree to being tracked,
so it's okay. I do not think this case must be exactly true, but it was still
interesting to think about.
As R. M. Stallman said many
riftyful said:
What if being in control of the software is not important to the user?
The problem with proprietary software is that you don't have that choice.
With libre software, you do. If you don't feel the need to control it, you
can just run it as is.
Personally, I don't very often
it's ok because they don't understand what's all about, if they see the
postman snoop in their envelope, read the content and then put in the mailbox
for sure they will be mad of him, it a matter of perception.
^ This. So much this.
I've spoken to people who've read all about the Snowden NSA stuff, and don't
really care. It infuriates me actually. They would be livid if someone read
their snail mail, yet in the digital realm, suddenly it's a-ok? Bizzare.
If it does not do harm to the user, is it okay?
Depends on your definition of harm.
The libre argument would possibly be along the lines that it's not harm that
registers with the user, but is still harm none the less.
Those who live by the market can be manipulated by the market. In other
Thanks. Now I am trying to download the Tor Browser from
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
as you recommended, but when I try to get
https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/3.6.4/tor-browser-linux64-3.6.4_en-US.tar.xz
I just get a page from the Apache Server saying Not
Proprietary software is always bad, there is no context which can show us the
contrary.
As R. M. Stallman said many times, proprietary software is bad because the
user does not control it; instead, the software controls the user. But is
that always true? What if being in control of the
Whereby usage is fine. Not a word I personally tend to use, though; I had
to look it up in a dictionary to be sure of what it meant.
Thank you a lot, onpon4, for checking. :-)
Perhaps by which would have been better suited but I had to try.
The script writes the basename-matches.pdf file to the same folder where
the script and PDFs are, right?
I can't find that matches file. Is it a problem if my PDFs have spaces in
the name? (Particularly the last PDF, that the script uses to create the
matches.pdf file name)
I've been having this problem for a few weeks now in 6.0.1. I'm concerned
about my system not being up to date.
Attached is an image of the update manager. The screenshot program actually
failed to capture one detail accurately: the curser in reality is the round
spinning curser, not the
Modification of another quote I know:
Software freedom doesn't matter until it does
With regards to Skype, for many years it continued to be a useful, P2P
VoIP network, despite being proprietary software. At the start its
encrypted connections attracted use by people who couldn't use phone
Thanks for sharing this info on BadUSB jxself. Is there a site you'd
recommend to learn more about this BadUSB? Thanks
I ran sudo apt-get upgrade as suggested by Magic Banana and this fixed the
problem *for me*. Thank you Magic Banana :)
Please don't anyone close the bug report on the basis of SVTony's and my
experience!
There are lots of non-technical users who don't know any other way to update
hi
Are Here Any person Have an account on Diaspora*??
Yep, a few of us are. I'm onp...@nerdpol.ch.
Diaspora* is a cool gathering place for us free-software lovers. I am
mtl...@joindiaspora.com.
I'd like to point out that Skype users did *NOT* agree to being tracked.
Let's explicitly state a fact that in our hearts pretty much all of us
already know:
Having clicked I agree or whatever to 50 pages or however much dense
legalese in order to use a free program does not validly
Thanks to everyone who works on Trisquel!
Some feedback:
The most important priority for any operating system should be security. I
think it's pretty obvious that no one wants their system remotely tampered
with by bad people.
If a supported Trisquel release is not getting all the
The script writes the output PDF in the working directory (i.e., the
directory where you are). Notice that you can have, in argument, PDFs that
are in different directories. For instance to process all PDFs in the
sub-directories dir1 and dir2 of the working directory:
$ pdf-page-grep
gnuser wrote:
I would say that a keyboard's firmware could be dangerous (maybe
logging your keystrokes and sending it somewhere over the internet)
but is it true for any firmware? Or is a matter simply of freedom,
not so much of security?
Also, Intel's proprietary Wi-Fi firmware stops a
Many good points were made. However, in my opinion, one important point is
missing. Skype is a communication software, communication involves at least
two users, and Skype can only talk to Skype. Forcing the interlocutor to give
up her freedoms so that she can talk with you is being a bad
Also, Intel's proprietary Wi-Fi firmware stops a user from being able
to change their MAC address
Er, maybe driver actually, I'm not too sure. The GNU/Linux drivers for
Intel Wi-Fi cards are apparently free but the firmware is not:
https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi
The quote from Intel that it
magicban...@gmail.com wrote:
The whole community is harmed: users of Skype reinforce Microsft's
monopoly and impede the rest of the group from switching to free
software. And the problem propagates down to the operating system
because, as far as I understood, Skype for GNU/Linux is technically
Look guys, I'm aware and have thought of all the individual solutions for
individual pieces of hardware, but I specifically chose not to mention a
particular system because I don't know ahead of time what It will be using it
on. I am just looking for a solution I can use in a redistributable
I'm aware you can update the installation manually.
I would like, obviously, for it to be up to date as of the time I install it,
like usual, not the last time I got around to manually downloading packages.
The updates were just an example - there are infinitely more reasons to need
the
If you read the OP, you would see that I already have linux.
Please read the question before answering.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Thank you for clarifying this for the others on the thread - I'm keeping this
in mind when I make my custom version but find it tedious to explain to every
participant that comes in.
Actually, I'm a big fan of your essays.
Would that not install linux in the same way my method did (albeit a later
version)? My problem is not getting the kernel but having it hot-swappable
with linux-libre in GRUB.
It would be nice to not have to use Ubuntu repos - where are these official
Linux PPAs?
What he said.
Also, I can't use trisquel 7 because it's not out yet and I want to
redistribute only a stable version to friends and family. However, it's
tempting to try, I just fear a clean install would be required once it does
officially release.
...Or installing the binary blobs so you can reverse-engineer them and make a
free variant :)
Just curious, in what way would blobs “creep” back in?
The users may put some back in, but
A. That's on them, and
B. You (or the devs) would never know.
By your statements I'm guessing you originally assumed it might not be in the
user's control. What other way could it be? I'm not asking if it
user friendly is debatable on who you interpret the user to be
perhaps, but it's unequivocally more user-friendly than the lack of this
feature.
“comprises a purely free system and adds restrictions to the system as
well”
I disagree. Adding this feature (Bring Your Own Blob, if you will)
I'm trying to compile Captcoin, a free software fork of Bitcoin. I installed
the dependencies listed in the ReadMe file and got a good way into the
compilation, but compilation stops with this error:
cd /home/linus/CaptCoin; /bin/sh share/genbuild.sh
/home/linus/CaptCoin/build/build.h
Literally right after I posted this I found the fix. I installed the wrong
version of Boost; you need 1.48.
Okay, new problem. I got almost everything compiled with that library, but
right when it comes to combining the generated binaries, this happens:
g++ -m64 -fstack-protector-all --param ssp-buffer-size=1 -Wl,-O1 -o
CAPTcoin-qt build/bitcoin.o build/bitcoingui.o build/transactiontablemodel.o
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