Thanks, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blend-in/?src=search
confirms that navigator.platform is indeed a JS property, which is thus not
supposed to be "served" (by the browser) if JS is disabled.
Has anyone any idea how to do that? It is a much more obvious fingerprinting
target than the =trisquel referral.
What do you get if you do:
$ ls ~/.mozilla/abrowser/f6ev4g1w.default-release
and then
$ ls ~/.mozilla/abrowser/y760ypce.default
My bookmark backups are stored in my home folder under:
~/.mozilla/abrowser/123xyz.default/bookmarkbackups
If you have many of them, it could be a good idea to export them as json
files from the Library ("Show All Bookmarks") window.
It is strange to be able to spoof the userAgent string, but not the
navigator.platform string.
Well I would need to staff up my legal team in order to examine that issue
thoroughly.
At first glance, it seems that pointing to a meta-searx service querying
random instances would solve the problem at once, and a few other ones,
whatever arguments could be leveraged for or against any
This is no bug, no malware, this is a feature. This is routine takeover by
the FSF (or GNU, depending on your timezone) of all Trisquel GNU/Linux
machines. It will disappear soon after they got all your passwords and keys
in order to use your machine as a propagation bot, and you as a
> It looks so: https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/t/
Right, and Trisquel is indeed listed here:
https://help.duckduckgo.com/desktop/linux-distributions
But the partnership with DDG is not listed on the abrowser-help page, so I
might add it, so users can choose to willfully contribute to
Looking for some mention of this default behavior somewhere else in this
forum, I found this discussion from a couple of months ago (1) :
"> Would it be viable to run a Searx instance at search.trisquel.info to be
the default search option in Abrowser? Or search.fsf.org, then it could be
>> Every (major/modern) browser I know of does it to earn income, maybe not
IceCat, not sure about that one.
> Ungoogled Chromium does not. Not sure whether that qualifies as "major",
but I would say the same about Icecat.
That's good to know.
I find the argument: "all the big ones do it,
> Us users need to watch out for ourselves.
Sure, that is exactly why I rose the issue.
Thanks, they only need to read navigator.platform.
I need to find where to modify this entry.
Sorry, I have not been precise enough. I was not trying to hide my IP, I was
simply connecting from a different place to the same account. I am not able
to connect to that account if I am using Tor.
What triggered their email was most probably the different IP. I am not sure
why they sent
...but still wow:
"Abrowser's default search command adds that parameter. My understanding is
that Trisquel receives a cut of the ad revenue when Trisquel users view ads
on DuckDuckGo, and this parameter is used to indicate to DuckDuckGo that a
user was referred from Trisquel."
I am sure
Thank you very much, I understand now.
I am now landing here if I search "banana": https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/
At least one other website seemed to get some info about my system, they sent
me warning emails that I had been connecting from a "Linux" machine from a
different IP address.
What url do you land on if you try to search "banana"?
If I do that, I land on https://duckduckgo.com/?q=banana=trisquel=web
Duckduckgo is my default search engine.
I fail to see how this relates to Trisquel. One could use sneakernet on any
OS.
If I fake my user agent as in the attached screenshot, I still get "trisquel"
mentioned in the duckduckgo query url. Where does it read that from? If
duckduckgo can get it, it means everyone else can get it too. Combined with
any faked user agent it makes you as stealth as a mountain troll
The wikipedia page on El Paquete Semanial says: "Some have theorized that the
lack of pornographic material and lack of anti-government views in the
package may indicate the Cuban government is involved in its production".
I disagree. Lack of pornographic material is a well known source of
As an update, I realized that the problem did not actually happen while I was
pressing two keys (N+Left) but three (Up+N+Left) since the Up key has to be
pressed most of the time. Sorry for this overlook.
The xev output when pressing the Up+N+Left combination shows that the Left
keypress
I have found this: "If you can and its stable, boot Memtest86 from the
Trisquel live distro and let it run to rule out RAM failure".
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreboot/comments/etw2cf/x200_boot_issues/
But again, testing the RAM is a blind guess, I have never used this
configuration
As a blind guess, did you test your RAM?
Thanks.
As I wrote, this is happening with the built-in laptop keyboard only and I do
not always have an alternative keyboard at hand. Changing the game settings
or using my USB keyboard when applicable are both effective walk-around but I
thought there might be an underlying cause which
Thanks, indeed only STK seems to be creating the discrepancy between the two
keyboards.
I get exactly the same, except of course for the "root" line values and the
"KeyPress" lines that read KeyPress event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window
0x401, on both keyboards.
When I get tired of haunting the Troll Lounge, I sometimes indulge into
SuperTuxKart on Trisquel 8.
'N' is the default key for adding extra fuel while 'Left Arrow' is quite
self-explanatory for a karting game.
I sometimes found myself in tricky situations when using the laptop keyboard
> If it only happens after checking mail from your proprietary email program
I am not sure whether we can strongly test this against the opposite
situation, given the information we have.
The discussion in the link provided by jxself shows that some proprietary
mobile device is highly
Just as a side note, you can also install trisquel on your old [some_fruit]
laptop.
I would first check whether the Thunderbird interface is configured to show
all messages or to show unread messages only.
If this is not what is causing your problem, more knowledgeable people might
be able to help you, I have not been using IMAP for a while.
> The first one should arrive after 10 seconds (if the definition of PERIOD
is left as in the script above).
Right, this is indeed what I am getting if I insert the "Battery OK" line at
the proper position in the script.
Else, increasing the sound volume with every occurrence of a grating
I was able to reproduce the notification glitch occurring with the modified
script after modifying the value of HIGH in the scrip, saving and running the
script.
Each time I do that, nothing happens until the HIGH value is reached. When
the HIGH value is reached, the sound is played and
Thanks for the script, it is more convenient than the default battery
notifivation applet (battstat-applet).
I added this line just before the end of the first 'if' statement in order to
check its activity:
else notify-send "Battery OK"
In its current form, I am getting the proper visual
From the EFF website(1), you can learn this:
"(Added 2017) Reminder: it appears likely that all recent commercial color
laser printers print some kind of forensic tracking codes, not necessarily
using yellow dots. This is true whether or not those codes are visible to the
eye and whether
> I do not know what "everything non human, data or hardware in computing"
comprises. :-)
That is most probably because the quoted expression emanates from an overly
simplistic view.
Note that my view has already moved on from its original simplistic position,
thanks to your hints and
> Well, a (formal) language is defined as a set of words. Using that
definition all valid regular expressions (as given to grep) are a language,
all valid AWK programs are a language, etc.
In my simplistic view I had always considered that everything non human in
computing had to be either
> What should I do?
You might wish to turn to steganography instead.
I vacuumed the processor's fan and the dust monster gave way. Temp is now in
the vicinity of 40°C with Abrowser running.
I might still go for a fanless configuration next time.
> Yes, it can: the processor reads a sensor and shuts the computer off
(bypassing the OS)
Thanks, this looks exactly like what happened, though the first two or three
occurrences triggered a restart. The last occurrence to this hour triggered
something uglier.
Then I guess it must have
Three times in a row, my laptop just powered off while I was manipulating it,
with both battery and power cord plugged in. Never experienced this situation
before. The battery was around one third up or higher when it happened.
Can some sort of overheating trigger a power off? I noticed that
Which suggestion? I merely provided some historical experience of successs.
You are indeed wellcommodore rare.
You are welcommodore.
The worm in the apple might have a philosophy, but I am not sure about the
apple.
I do Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V, then I move the copied area around until it reaches
its destination. Then a left click pastes it if I remember well.
If I got something similar to your attachment, I would try to modify the
layers, merge them or modify their order.
If it is an option, I would suggest a fresh install of Trisquel 8 (if this is
what you have been using).
It is almost impossible to diagnose your problem if you cannot easily access
the files on the computer, through a live system for example. One could only
make bling guesses.
If you do not hit any key, what happens?
> The highlighted entry will be executed automatically in 21s.
What happens after the 21s are gone or 'Enter' is pressed?
In Xfce, synaptic-pkexec in a terminal gives:
Password:
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized
The desktop
I just noticed that I need to sudo in a Terminal in order to launch Synaptic
from Xfce, while in Mate I get a prompt to enter priviledged mode without
having to use a terminal.
Is that the expected behavior? Maybe I should have installed
Xfce4-pkexec-something in order to get the prompt? I
That sounds great.
I was wondering whether/how this would interfere with AppArmor, and found
this:
http://forums.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.tor2web.to/t/system-wide-sandboxing-framework/9008
Arguably more on topic, I just found this article about the choice made by
Debian about systemd at the beginning of this year:
https://fossforce.com/2020/02/the-verdict-on-systemd-is-in/
I can't wait for the first release of Triscuit 1.0 xyz
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/return-son-show-your-desktop-again?page=1#comment-149934
How do you plan to name your release versions? Following the Chinese calendar
would give Triscuit 1.0 Metal Rat.
How could we check that there is no relationship between this:
https://libreplanet.org/2018/sponsors/
and the fact that PureOS has been added to the fsf list in December 2017, if
I am not mistaken?
I see, thank you.
I guess I had been using fat32 on small USB drives by default for all these
years (i.e. without wondering what other options were available, because my
needs mostly involved transfers from GNU/Linux to proprietary systems), so
when I decided to use a former live system
I tried this:
[1] Used GParted on the GPT formatted 4GB drive.
[1.1] Formatted the partition in Ext4 and could not write.
[1.2] Formatted in FAT and could write.
[2] Using Disk, formatted drive as MBR, which is the default option. Tried to
create and format an Ext4 partition. Disk crashed,
I still do not understand why it has been necessary for the OP to change the
rights manually on the newly formatted disk if there has been no specific
options given to GParted (or to Gnome Disk, in my case).
I am glad that the problem was solved thanks to a better knowledge of access
right
Daydreaming.
Just today I erased a small (4GB) thumb drive which had some live system on
it, in order to use it for file transfer purposes instead. I could not
copy+paste anything on it because of write protection until I formatted it as
GPT instead of MBR (which is the default option in the Discs
Wrong photo again. Here is François Perrin:
...and might now as well be moved to the Troll Lounge.
If systemd does not even get in the way of rebootless kernel upgrades, then
this thread might have already come to its conclusion.
I think he means François Perrin.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068655/
I see.
1. Sorry, I must have been chewing cabbage for too long so I got tired and I
skipped the most technical section and missed these crying examples. I
normally try not to skip relevant sources on these heated topics but I had
been reading quite a load of nonsensical discussions about
Obviously, the main point of contention is about the nature and the scope of
systemd. From what I could get, it is more than an init system but the
optional nature of the extra components is debated. If it is its function as
an init system which should be improved, why would it not be
There were two separate questions raised by the OP:
1. "can anyone explain in detail (or link me to somewhere) about problems
with systemd"
2. "if Trisquel will have(or plans to have) systemd free variant in future?"
The answer to the second question is indeed probably negative. It is not
What about runit? Has runit development actually stalled in 2014?
https://www.slant.co/versus/12956/12960/~systemd_vs_runit
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/debian-installer-images/installer-amd64/current/images/SHA256SUMS
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/debian-installer-images/installer-amd64/current/images/MD5SUMS
> What can I do??
Create your own online language course platform and use libre software only.
That way you can free yourself, the tutors and the students altogether.
Not sure what you are talking about, but surely it is unfair to call Windows
machines viruses.
It is an unfair comparison for biological viruses, who are in all respects
similar to us: we also strive for the continuation of ourselves as individual
beings, and eventually as genetic streams
I tend to compare all the data created by human activity to the status of
land in Henry George's analysis:
"The term land embraces, in short, all natural materials, forces, and
opportunities, and, therefore, nothing that is freely supplied by nature can
properly be classed as capital. A
I have a feeling that this thread is now on the brink of stretching slightly
beyond its expiration date.
@chaosmonk: thank you very much for your input, you have fully addressed my
concerns.
@stripey: we disagree on the definition of the synaptic package manager. You
might wish to open
A documented false positive usually explained by a combination of NoScipt
settings, DDG redirecting to the non-javascript page if a NoScript blocking
is active and possibly Tor.
You should be able to find the line you added or modified in this file, in
your home directory:
~/.mozilla/abrowser/32k3it6h.default/prefs.js
and modify it according to your previous settings.
I think the OP is asking for an automatic method to unplug the touchpad when
an external pointing device is plugged and vice-versa.
I know, people often make that deplorable confusion. I always get spam offers
to go and catch my own smugglers.
You are right. I made the opposite mistake of choosing a too personal user
name without any reference to my team.
Could someone please change my username from "boba" to "bobba_the_hutt" so
other hutts can join the party?
> I tried using the "Origin" tab in Synaptic, which shows a list of installed
packages available from each repo on the system. But for some reason the
deb.nodesource repo doesn't show up there (all my other default and added
repos are there).
Is the corresponding line in sources.list
What if the aforementioned dates have decided to side with the package names
and keep escaping you?
Many times I gave up on "cleaning" my packages because I had no clue about
what/when/how I had installed some exploratory stuff. There was no world
ending, of course, and the situation was
In your case, this might do the job: sudo ppa-purge -s deb.nodesource.com -o
node_8.x -p dists -d xenial
ppa-purge will let you know about what it is intending to do anyway.
I would try it and replace the respective options according to the name of
the /var/lib/apt/lists file:
-p [ppaname]PPA name to be disabled (default: ppa)
-o [ppaowner] PPA owner
-s [host] Repository server (default: ppa.launchpad.net)
and following this:
I might try:
sudo ppa-purge [options] [/ppaname]
> Apt can be used without Synaptic, but if you were to somehow install
Synaptic on a system that did not have Apt installed, Synaptic would do
nothing.
Since we are talking from the user's perspective, indeed installing synaptic
without installing apt is not helpful, that's why it is a
Enjoy!
My internet connection was down since Monday, that feeling of having the
lights back and flashing is not to be underrated.
Surely snorting soda is undesirable.
I mean, indeed this belongs to the troll lounge.
Since I am not highly literate in English, I used that opportunity to improve
my skills and found these to be accepted meanings for "illiterate":
"Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge:
musically illiterate."
"Displaying a marked lack of knowledge in a
I have experienced much more glitches sending ods/odt files than sending
xlsx/docx files to MS Office users.
I see.
I have been using xlsx and docx files for similar purposes to yours, in a
similar situation. My experience is that if there is no heavy formatting, the
program you used to create them will most probably be transparent to the
recipients. I have sometimes also experienced unexpected
Do the recipients of the data need to modify them?
If not, would a pdf file do the job?
@stripey: please cf. my answer to your previous post below, if you had missed
it (I am presently writing directly on the forum, not through the mailing
list), and in that case please ignore the remainder of this post.
In case you had already read my answer but decided to go ahead anyway:
> restart stopped the process.
Indeed, "disable" is only effective after restart, I should have mentioned
it.
The "start", "stop" and "restart" commands are usually what you are looking
for if you need an immediate, but not permanent effect.
You might use "stop" then "disable" if you
>> I personally value the freedom to choose what the software I use does, for
instance the freedom to turn off any Sync-like functions in my browser.
Abrowser already ships with that freedom, so I'm fine with it.
> By this logic, the Amazon lens spyware shipped in Ubuntu was not a problem,
>> Is it a good idea to limit the packages that will be manageable through a
package manager?
> Synaptic is not a package manager. It is a graphical front-end for the Apt
package manager.
I confess that the subtle nuance you seem to establish between an Apt-based
GUI package manager and
...which indeed solves the mystery.
By the way, thank you very much for your work forking gnome-app-install to
trisquel-app-install (and of course more generally for all your work on
Trisquel, but that would require much more than one sentence).
I see, indeed it makes more sense.
In order to be sure that I am getting things clear, I quote the origianl
thread (with stripey's question and your answer) :
>> As mentioned in that older thread, I still think that CLI programs ought
to be installable only from a terminal. Would it be
If I understood well, it has been suggested that some packages will not be
available through Synaptic in Trisquel 9:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-9-graphical-iso-available-testing?page=2#comment-148309
Is it a good idea to limit the packages that will be manageable through a
> For me, this is a freedom issue. In the same way not being able to replace
Abrowser as the default web browser in Trisquel would be a freedom issue. Not
in the shallower sense of licensing and such, but in the deeper sense that
what we value (as I understand it) is the user's freedom to
> For me, this is a freedom issue. In the same way not being able to replace
Abrowser as the default web browser in Trisquel would be a freedom issue. Not
in the shallower sense of licensing and such, but in the deeper sense that
what we value (as I understand it) is the user's freedom to
> I suggested in a forum thread a few years ago that the graphical Add/Remove
Programs tool needed to only offer a select list of end user apps, which are
a) graphical, and b) as user-friendly as the Add/Remove Programs tool itself.
If you are writing a custom script for selecting its
> store the pointed structures in an array and the positions in the array
(rather than pointers) in unsigned integers of 32 bits. I do that at least...
and it indeed saves memory and can save time thanks to fewer cache misses.
Thanks for sharing that elegant memory management device...oh you
> The only exception to this rule is Abrowser, which is the only package in
Trisquel with a rolling release cycle.
Indeed, Abrowser now appears to be the main source of unexpected changes. The
default start page configuration keeps changing with new versions, usually at
the very moment
My bad, I should have found that article before asking here. I guess I got
used to search on the Trisquel pages before searching more broadly.
Thanks for pointing to it.
So the question somehow comes down to how critical processor cache use
efficiency is for a given user, all other things
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