It may not have seemed like an important point to Marketing. But the first
post of the Reddit thread linked above, by their engineer, mentions it by
name.
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No argument there.
Even so, this alone is enough to put System76 in first place when it comes to
replacing my laptop in a few months. (Puri.sm is charging several hundred
dollars more for a comparable IME-disabled machine.)
Here's hoping ZAReason, ThinkPenguin, et. al. follow suit
“Hyperbola is a Free Software and Free Culture project aiming to provide a
fully free as in freedom GNU/Linux distribution called Hyperbola
GNU/Linux-libre. It is based on the packages of the Arch GNU/Linux plus
security and stability patches of Debian GNU/Linux, with packages optimized
I bought me a TPenguin.
I bought a Francis X200 too.
But when the jxself laptop comes out, I promise to buy two.
: )
Comprehensive podcast-based review of Trisquel 7.
These guys are definitely not libre purists. While they praise the distro on
certain scores, the main utitlity of the review is in seeing how smart people
from the outside view what Trisquel is trying to accomplish.
Enjoy.
I completely agree on the Klein and Snowden thing. But given all that
bullshit, I'm not sure that the buggy features of this or that chip are worth
debating.
If they're pulling a copy of all our traffic (and it seems clear that they
are), then running a compromised chip is only represents
If anything, you have to worry more. They just love letting themselves off
the hook by saying we're only really putting our major effort into tracking
those foreigners.
You do know how the Internet works, right?
And that ambassadors are paid to say that stuff?
It probably is, for most of us.
But you live in Canada and run an adblock add-on, so you probably have
nothing to worry about anyway. Problem solved.
: )
(Seriously, if and when I find anything out, I'll post it.)
I agree that this is a feature I'd rather not have around.
I agree that there's no particular reason to trust Intel.
On the other hand, it's (maybe/probably) not designed with nefarious intent.
There's a pretty obvious answer to your why the hell would you do that!
question, and it's hinted
Very useful discussion, Fabian. Thanks for the post and the linkage.
It was passed, but they've pushed back the deadline a few times to give the
marketers more time to comply or some crap.
(For those who don't know, this sub-thread is talking about an internal US
regulation.)
Thanks QG. Your opinion is more generous than most people, who seem to think
that because they can't Friend me or Like me or Tweet me, I must be
some kind of cave-dwelling luddite.
Of course, I might be!
But either way, no pictures of my cave remodelling project will ever hit the
social
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. --Barry Goldwater, of all
people.
Bruce Perens was instrumental in writing the Open Source Definition, and
somewhere I read once that his idea was to bring Stallman's concepts out of
the closet in a way that would have wider marketing appeal
I'm an extremist because:
--I usually agree with RMS, and I'll spend plenty of time and money and
effort into protecting and preserving my freedoms, and deny myself many
popular functionalities (Facebook for example) in that effort.
I'm a moderate because:
--I didn't throw away my Mac
If Mark actually were an evil occultist with a hidden agenda ...
I'd probably like him better than I do.
: )
Yup.
To let *anyone's* list decide for you what is ethical (or not) is to make
the same mistake that fundamentalist religionists make all the time--to take
a text as gospel and turn off your brain.
The FSF's strict standards are a good thing. I support them, and they have a
use.
But
I just watched the Stallman vid on Ubuntu spyware that someone linked again
in another thread.
He says, roughly, that most distributions contain some ethical flaws.
A much more precise and accurate thing than saying Not On The List =
Unethical.
You're right about the Strata being Fifteen-Six (and coming w/ an optical).
Source: I just measured the one in front of me.
I think Chris misspoke on that detail. He's probably right on the rest, if
histtory is any guide.
Blue J:
I think there's a lot of people around here that share your feelings about a
Debian-based Trisquel being the best thing ever ... I'm certainly one of
them.
But it's clear that this is very unlikely to happen anytime soon, and it
seems to be mostly related to the workload involved
The hero Snowden, who threw his career away so that you might know this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P_0iaCgKLk
Not caring whether they track you is beside the point.
Whether you care about the nearly complete perversion of your constitutional
rights in this case is what matters.
Also, if you think that Adblock Plus is saving you from the three-letter
agencies, you're very poorly informed on the
Local used bookstore and media exchange.
No connection worries, no time limits, no ownership hassles, few and
skippable ads, no premiums for getting the latest, extra content, and it's
as Green as it gets. What's not to like?
Yep.
And the major difference between this administration and the last is that the
first guys just didn't care about the law ... and the new guys are putting
all their effort into doing the same unconstitutional bullshit and trying to
make the law bless it, when they do it. Instead of
I heard someone say the other night that Americans tend to fear government,
while the rest of the developed world fears corporate power. I think that's
generally right.
In many ways the federal government is the only protection left to people
without power. That's why business is all over
Yes you are, Dave, and you shouldn't have to say it for it to be true.
We're all impaired (not impaled, Telstar, for f's sake ... :)) and regardless
of the flavor of our impairment, any project should take Real Accessibility
seriously. From what I've read and watched, that's more true of
Regarding the free vs. evil freeloaders problem: If you want to keep it
screened yet anonymous, there are ways. Money orders in a very small amount,
for example, might be sufficient to rid yourself of the drive-by spammer
types, at least. Or you could use the riseup model of write me an
D'accord.
Yes, limiting yourself to hiding is ultimately pointless and self-defeating.
And complete transparency in one's struggle is generally only possible for
true saints.
Most of us occupy some point in between, and this is where I'm hoping that
Chris's efforts will be useful.
Chris, I would almost certainly sign up.
Although ...
I'd want a way to pay for the services I use, and not just plunk down c.$300
a year for a bundle.
What you're probably looking at is tiered service levels, like most places
have. Micro/Small/Med/Large, or something like that.
For the
Thanks for the tip Horgeon. Checking it out.
WRT privacy: No online service is going to protect you 100% of the time. With
enough money, or abused power, or both, you will get got, if they want you
got. By court order, or by bribery, or by hacking, or multiple other vectors.
Best you can
Yes to your first question. By default (after you clean out the whitelist),
JS is disabled everywhere.
Then you gradually build your whitelist back up, for your banking sites and
other mission-critical browsing ...
Simplest and easiest way to do so is hovering the small NoScript button
If I can eat local and organic, instead of at a corporate factory chain ...
If I can support craftsmen who love what they do, instead of shopping at
Walmart ...
If I can have a digital life that runs on collaboration and community instead
of the profit motive ...
Then that's one less
Came in tonight on the old Mac.
Good old Little Snitch popped up: Do I want to connect to 2ip.ru?
Hell no.
End of story. You got nothin'.
I really, really wish there was an active Linux project doing that same
thing. It's the main little piece of software that I haven't been able to
find
Thanks mYself. I have links saved for those two softwares, and a few others.
Need to dig a little deeper on them as I have time over the summer.
My first impression was that they don't have the kind of functionality that
would allow me to choose on-demand to block emerging threats like the
Yes thank you.
Any pointers/tips/links on how to break/neutralize said features?
From your lips to god's ears; amen. I hope your guess is right, and I hope
Canonical knows it.
It's my understanding that you have to go out of your way to enable the
non-free repos in vanilla Deb.
And that the Debian Project developers have voted several times on bumping
themselves up to FSF levels of purity, though the proposal has always failed.
That said, I think your first
So it did take over two weeks--and they did screw up one of my distro
requests (got vanilla Debian 7 instead of the requested XFCE)--but:
I'm satisfied with the Strata so far. It's much heavier, and a little bigger
than I was after, but it does have a solid and polished feel to it so far.
Interesting discussion.
I'm glad that there are people in this world like Richard Stallman. I'm glad
there's a distro like Trisquel. I'm glad there is a company like
ThinkPenguin. We need them all.
And, I'm not in a position to live that purely 100% of the time, personally.
Yet.
the distro is dead
You can certainly be forgiven for thinking so. It seemed the same to me.
But we were wrong!
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07871
FWIW I feel pretty much the same vague sense of dis-ease with the idea of
basing on a Canonical product. However, I appreciate that Ruben is
Hi Chris, and thank you for the response.
I have great respect for what you're doing, both as an ethical small business
person, and in your pro bono work within the Trisquel community. Most of it
is outside my skillset (especially balancing capitalism and freedom!) ... we
need people like
I'll give you the tl;dr first. 1) I'm very happy with the available software
choices within Free Software, including Trisquel. 2) Hardware, under the
hood, pretty much the same.
But: 3) Form factors and external build quality are still almost
deal-breakingly bad out there.
Now the (very)
Thanks for the reply, ahj. I think your advice is sound.
Cory Doctorow made kind of the same point last July, if you read his review
carefully enough:
http://boingboing.net/2012/07/06/zareason-a-computer-company-w.html
ZaReason doesn't really do a laptop for road warriors (yet) ... Though I
A lot? I suppose ...
Definitely not all.
http://www.debian.org/social_contract
As for your kernel example, I'd say: you can have (corporate) money flowing
around you in a number of different ways without profit being your End Goal.
Conversely, you can have people dressed up like noble
I appreciate the clearly experienced advice. Thanks Andrew, I'll have a
closer look.
My Mac-transitioning strategy so far has basically been: download all the
XFCEs, move the main Panel to the top edge (and draw in a few more
freestyle), and then pack on a Docky/AWN/Cairo dock down below.
Gracias quiliro. I do think there's a pretty wide distinction between
including and recommending. The first seems felonious, I agree ... the
second is more open to interpretation in my book. I know this makes me a less
than perfect FS(F) partisan. I will take Gnash over Flash any day, for
DuckDuckGo recommends non-free software to me all the time in its little ads.
I ignore them, of course, but I still use it, because it's the best available
tool for the job (general search with some privacy).
I'm a big boy. I know the risks and responsibilities of enabling a nonfree
repo,
I'm not saying Burn The Witch. I'm not even sure I'm criticizing, though RMS
basically did both WRT Canonical in December. Quote:
please remove Ubuntu from the distros you recommend or redistribute ... tell
people that Ubuntu is shunned for spying.
On balance, it probably IS a good thing,
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