Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-06-26 Thread greatgnu
it's just that Ruben is pretty much the only person who does everything here. that part? That is not true. In fact several dudes work on Trisquel and everyone can help.

Re: [Trisquel-users] ar9285 free software hardware?

2015-06-26 Thread greatgnu
tonlee: that wifi adapter will work perfectly with a libre OS. cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?

2015-06-29 Thread greatgnu
http://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/44610176 is fine too

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless card advice

2015-06-29 Thread greatgnu
they don't.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Could systemd be an inconvenient on portability?

2015-06-29 Thread greatgnu
4chan is full of idiots. The original post is from 4chan.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Choice of DE in Graphical Install

2015-06-29 Thread greatgnu
clearly nice!

Re: [Trisquel-users] unetbootin fork

2015-06-29 Thread greatgnu
..

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to create a mail server?

2015-06-30 Thread greatgnu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeIWD_Dr-Tk That is for Bunnuntu 14.04 but it might give you an idea. Triskello is based on Bunnuntu 14.04 so the process shouldn't be much different.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-07-01 Thread greatgnu
ha! it hasn't yet been updated, Gnu? btw: nice nick!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-07-01 Thread greatgnu
Nice Tomlukey! And very nice wallpaper! Btw I heard that the dude who made that wallpaper is a very talented genius.. X-)

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to shut up Windows users

2015-07-01 Thread greatgnu
I'm not gonna click on that link. I don't care much about windo$e users. I find them boring. You shouldn't waste your time with those who don't care and don't listen. I will tell you the big points you should use to educate someone you care about to switch to the magnificent GNU OS: - free

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-07-02 Thread greatgnu
YAYY ICECACT! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-07-02 Thread greatgnu
Howdy I am the Icecactus and thou shalt have no other browsers before me!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat 31.7.0

2015-07-03 Thread greatgnu
:)

[Trisquel-users] A mail provider based in Bulgaria, using 100% open source software, Tor-friendly and no javascript friendly.

2015-07-03 Thread greatgnu
I know many of you use openmailbox. I think you may be interested in this alternative. Bulgaria seems better then France (the level of surveillance machinery in France nowadays is like in the USA). This mail provider works great with Tor and has a .onion hidden instance. It works perfectly fi

Re: [Trisquel-users] A mail provider based in Bulgaria, using 100% open source software, Tor-friendly and no javascript friendly.

2015-07-03 Thread greatgnu
Jei: sure! But many don't have the knowledge or just don't want to take the trouble of setting their own server. But I agree that it is the best possible solution. I personally trust and use riseup. But this one seems pretty decent too (the ruggedinbox mail). I didn't try it (yet) but this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rejected games list

2015-07-03 Thread greatgnu
good idea pizzaman! If only your pizza was half as good as this list you made.. arr :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] bypass uk school censorship

2015-07-03 Thread greatgnu
well, there is an option that pops up when you first launch Tor that asks you if the network you are on is censored, firewalled or whatever. Did you try to check "yes" and see if Tor sets its self up properly as to take care of your issue? Just an idea..

Re: [Trisquel-users] A mail provider based in Bulgaria, using 100% open source software, Tor-friendly and no javascript friendly.

2015-07-04 Thread greatgnu
Hi lap4fsf! I think you are right. In fact I just sent them a mail. Hopefully ruggedinbox will get added to the list. Cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] A mail provider based in Bulgaria, using 100% open source software, Tor-friendly and no javascript friendly.

2015-07-05 Thread greatgnu
glad you liked it lloydsmart! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-05 Thread greatgnu
very nice indeed. thx for the screenfetch tdlnx! Btw it's in Debian's repo.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rejected games list

2015-07-05 Thread greatgnu
It is true that the Debian main repo includes packages with Artistic License 1. In fact I went to read the license and then I went to check each package that I have installed on my computer (Debian 8) with the command grep -i '^License:.*Artistic' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright Every installed

Re: [Trisquel-users] No JS Support

2015-07-06 Thread greatgnu
how to go JS free? Very simple! Install noscript and don't allow javascript on any site ever! I have a "1 javascript allowed policy on the entire web I use" and currently and for several months now that javascript was "orkz.net" (diaspora). cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreBox small computer

2015-07-06 Thread greatgnu
Correct me if I'm wrong. How can a computer that has proprietary BIOS and firmware (to my knowledge) be libre? This reminds of that other scam, the Purism Librem.. Respectfully..

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreBox small computer

2015-07-07 Thread greatgnu
well said danieru. And also I really don't like those companies (like this one and purism) that profit from terms like "free" or "libre" giving people the mere illusion of freedom. I found it immoral. An immoral way of doing business. My laptop is as "libre" as any of these laptops they sell.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreBox small computer

2015-07-07 Thread greatgnu
The first high-end laptop that respects your privacy, security, and freedom. YEAH, RIGHT.. A computer that has a proprietary BIOS and firmware but claims to be The first high-end laptop that respects your privacy, security, and freedom. is a SCAM! They make money from selling laptops th

Re: [Trisquel-users] No JS Support

2015-07-07 Thread greatgnu
lembas is right. I've been doing this since I've started using noscript, which was a long time ago when I was still using the windo$e. I've recently found out about this and was glad that I always did so.. -> https://thehackerblog.com/the-noscript-misnomer-why-should-i-trust-vjs-zendcdn-net/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on Trisquel 7.1 based off of Ubuntu 14.04.3 with release in July or August

2015-07-07 Thread greatgnu
There certainly aren't many developers on Trisquel. That's true. It is also true that Ruben is not the only one working on it. There are several people helping with code. And if you (generic you) want to help you are very welcome! https://devel.trisquel.info/groups/trisquel

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreBox small computer

2015-07-07 Thread greatgnu
yes. I was talking about Purism Librem. I say Librem is a scam. Not this LibreTrend thing. I only said that this Libretrand reminded me of that other thing (the other thing is a scam - Purism librem). Saying "this laptop is free software friendly" is ok. Impling that it contains 100% free s

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweak your browser to enhance security and privacy

2015-07-07 Thread greatgnu
Excellent pizzamen! +1 and another +1 ! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweak your browser to enhance security and privacy

2015-07-08 Thread greatgnu
pizzaiolo. I've been working on the about:config preferences for several hours some months ago. In fact, at some point I was thinking about writing some kinda list and place it here in the wiki. But, for some reason, I didn't. I know I changed a lot of things. Every single setting I double

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweak your browser to enhance security and privacy

2015-07-08 Thread greatgnu
As promised, here you will find a trimmed list with only the relevant entries and a brief description of what they do. https://paste.debian.net/280285/ I'm sure there are many others I ignore. I will give it another look one of these days. cheerZ

Re: [Trisquel-users] What kind of email services are you using and recommend and why?

2015-07-09 Thread greatgnu
I use riseup. I recommend riseup and https://ruggedinbox.com/ ruggedinbox is great for many reasons and it's a better option (IMHO) than openmailbox.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Radio Talk Show covering Free Software : Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock

2015-07-09 Thread greatgnu
thx

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-09 Thread greatgnu
Nice Techbuddy! I like conky very much. It is a very useful thing to have on the background. I will include mine. If you have a quadcore you can easily add the other two cores by editing the file (I have a dual core).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-09 Thread greatgnu
:)

Re: [Trisquel-users] What kind of email services are you using and recommend and why?

2015-07-09 Thread greatgnu
first time I send or reply to an email I always sign it. That way I make it clear that I prefer using encryption. If it is only one time or two times generic, boring, impersonal mail communication, I don't care too much, but if it is personal and private I insist that the recipient installs e

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to get an opendesktop.org account?

2015-07-10 Thread greatgnu
hmm..not being able to login into a site in my experience has been almost always caused by the cookies not being allowed at all (my default setting) or not allowing also the third party cookies. Some sites require that you accept both in order to login. Just an idea.. Give it a try maybe.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-10 Thread greatgnu
yes! numix circle. Actually I merged three icons theme into one but the big part is numix circle.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-10 Thread greatgnu
cooloutac: is the cop still waiting in the car in front of your house trying to crack your wifi? :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-07-11 Thread greatgnu
I see. cooloutac, or grinchier on IRC. I find your answer a little bit rude. Maybe I will just ignore your posts here from now on and your endless blabbering on IRC. Have a nice day.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Replace ethernet chipset in Thinkpad x201?

2015-07-13 Thread greatgnu
ThinkPad X201: this will likely never be supported in libreboot, due to the Intel Management Engine. However, it is possible to “convert” an X201 into an X200, by replacing the mainboard and palm rest. Send your X201 to the gluglug, along with an X200 (note: not X200S or X200 Tablet) mainboar

Re: [Trisquel-users] SELinux and an interesting Warning on Blag

2015-07-15 Thread greatgnu
right..

Re: [Trisquel-users] SpyBlock doesn't work - IceCat 31.8

2015-07-15 Thread greatgnu
what exactly do you mean by "doesn't work"? Icecat's spyblock addon function is not to block ads but the trackers and thus only those adds that track the user will be blocked. If you want it to block all adds you need to add a filter to its filters list. If I may recommend a filter: "fanboy u

Re: [Trisquel-users] SpyBlock doesn't work - IceCat 31.8

2015-07-16 Thread greatgnu
No. aslacker - as far as I know it is much like privacy badger in this sense. The both think that only the ads that track you are a bad thing and should be blocked.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 57 etc.

2015-07-16 Thread greatgnu
yeah, but can it play Crysis 1? :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 57 etc.

2015-07-17 Thread greatgnu
I would be very interested in understanding which part of the sentence "yeah, but can it play Crysis 1?" do you find to be sarcastic?

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-17 Thread greatgnu
As lembas pointed out, it seems to me that you are running out of mem. Check your mem and swap. If you don't like it, you can disable the reader thingy by toggling this to false in about:config-> reader.parse-on-load.enabled

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 57 etc.

2015-07-17 Thread greatgnu
No. Really no sarcasm was intended.. I was just joking on the well known fact that the first Crysis (2007) was and is so heavy (and graphically beautiful) that on ultra settings even recent and good computers show some stuttering! I played that game on my laptop from 2010 (medium/hugh gpu) and

Re: [Trisquel-users] A mail provider based in Bulgaria, using 100% open source software, Tor-friendly and no javascript friendly.

2015-07-18 Thread greatgnu
The gentleman who answered my mail told me that he informed the guy responsible of the mail list and that they should update the website to include several new services (rugged included hopefully).

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-18 Thread greatgnu
I'm on Iceweasel and icecat and thankfully don't have this "reader" or several other bloatware entries in my about:config :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-19 Thread greatgnu
I hear Icecat is better anyway.. ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are all Atheros Wifi cards libre?

2015-07-19 Thread greatgnu
As far as I know all the Atheros wifi cards series AR9xxx and AR5xxx work just fine. I have a couple (I bought one more and keep it ready for the future..) of AR928X and they work splendidly! Cost 15 dollars for 2 wifi cards. You can find them even for 5 bucks. cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat not compatible with Trisquel site?

2015-07-20 Thread greatgnu
librejs... aka time and effort waste...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Help! Touchpad suddenly stopped working.

2015-07-21 Thread greatgnu
yeah..many laptops have that. Mine has it. A little rectangular button near the touchpad. I'm sure he checked that out though.. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Updates: Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) version 57 etc.

2015-07-22 Thread greatgnu
No. Not FLOSS but FREE SOFTWARE or LIBRE SOFTWARE.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is this Librem13 fully free this time?

2015-07-22 Thread greatgnu
very well commented chris!

Re: [Trisquel-users] italian reading who can translate a court decision?

2015-07-23 Thread greatgnu
damn, you posted this in the trollium and I wrote I would give it a look and completely forgot about it. Give me a day or two and I'll make a tiny compendium for you. cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] italian reading who can translate a court decision?

2015-07-24 Thread greatgnu
Year 2005. Marco Pieraccioli demands the money of the unused winowns license returned to him. HP disagrees saying that the software and the hardware are inextricably joined together on the computer they sold to Pieraccioli. Pieraccioli did not accept the terms of the EULA. He did not click o

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-24 Thread greatgnu
sudo ufw enable sudo netstat -tulpn and see what is listening to the internetz. Remove everything you don't use/need. Relax. If your suntzunnoy enemy is not the NSA, you are perfectly fine.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Conky acting wierd!

2015-07-24 Thread greatgnu
Strange. When did this start? Did you change anything recently?

Re: [Trisquel-users] italian reading who can translate a court decision?

2015-07-25 Thread greatgnu
Evenienza - a tal punto concreta da essere già stata fatta oggetto sotto vari profili di interventi restrittivi e sanzionatori da parte degli organismi antitrust USA e della stessa Commissione UE - che può essere esclusa solo interpretando la clausola in oggetto in termini di autonomia, e non

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Noob Here

2015-07-25 Thread greatgnu
I personally think Trisquel's graphical installer is a piece of shit, and would always use a netinst CD, so I can actually install what I want, and have a decent installation experience. It is not. The installer is exactly and perfectly what it was meant to be: extremely user friendly. Trisq

Re: [Trisquel-users] Conky acting wierd!

2015-07-25 Thread greatgnu
Well, some of the changes you did obviously caused this strange behavior. Check the conky config and try to understand where is the misconfiguration. Also, killall conky and restart it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Conky acting wierd!

2015-07-25 Thread greatgnu
Hmm.. not really, but it seems to me as you are running two instances of conky. ps aux | grep conky and see if it so. Also, do you have your DE save the session on logout? That would explain the double instance and the overlay, I guess, as the old conky and the new one that is creating on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best secrity tools to defend my Trisquel system against douchebags?

2015-07-25 Thread greatgnu
abosolutey wrong, the NSA is the least likely people to be targeting you. But you definitely have to worry about everyone else paranoid much, ha? Who do I have to worry about. The occasional script kiddo cracking my setup? Yeah, right.. GNU is very secure by default. Just chill and relax.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Conky acting wierd!

2015-07-26 Thread greatgnu
yayy :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] good free program for translating languages?

2015-07-26 Thread greatgnu
There are no programs that can translate any language *properly*. Languages are very complex systems. Especially, resolving the ambiguities in the text is something a machine promptly fails to do. Machines can't translate idioms, which are an essential and very frequent part of every human la

Re: [Trisquel-users] Many applications can't connect to Internet when OpenVPN is activated

2015-07-26 Thread greatgnu
Hmm..a free as in beer and without bandwith limitation VPN provider hosted in the USA by "a group of privacy minded individuals" (no other info), advertising partner google. Hmm..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is this Librem13 fully free this time?

2015-07-27 Thread greatgnu
We can not and must not believe anything this dude Todd says. He's obviously a deluded, unethical opportunist. His claims have absolutely no value at all. He has earned some money with the Librem 15. But that's it. The fiesta hopefully and very probably ends here for Todd. The librem 13 fundi

Re: [Trisquel-users] A mail provider based in Bulgaria, using 100% open source software, Tor-friendly and no javascript friendly.

2015-07-28 Thread greatgnu
As promised, ruggedinbox mail service was added to the list of Free Software Webmail Systems yayy :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Masalla Icon Theme

2015-07-28 Thread greatgnu
NC

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-28 Thread greatgnu
you *can* watch gifs without js. stay libre!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-users Digest, Vol 73, Issue 121

2015-07-28 Thread greatgnu
but why?

[Trisquel-users] Firejail sandbox

2015-07-28 Thread greatgnu
Very simple to use and to make custom profiles, works great and adds a little bit to your sec. I use this primarily with Iceweasel, which already uses apparmor (the two are compatible). https://l3net.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/firejail-a-security-sandbox-for-mozilla-firefox/

Re: [Trisquel-users] SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 2 WITHOUT KIERS

2015-07-28 Thread greatgnu
RosieLukeywood can't you ask this to Tomlukeywood by email or something?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firejail sandbox

2015-07-28 Thread greatgnu
sure and if you have any suggestion on the iceweasel apparmor profile please do tell me. in the attachment.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A mail provider based in Bulgaria, using 100% open source software, Tor-friendly and no javascript friendly.

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
openmailbox is subject to the Charlie law. It requires javascript to open an account. It has a google tracker. It requires you to provide an email address for you to open an account. It doesn't have an onion hidden instance. Ruggedinbox has a few limits: - 30 outgoing emails per day - 1 outg

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
try SMTube for streaming YT vids and also set it so the right click of the mouse downloads the vid with youtube-dl. simple, fast and comfortable!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rowhammer.js: A Remote Software-Induced Fault Attack in JavaScript

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
thx for the link!

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
jdenz -> sudo netstat -tulpn will give you the info. If I recall correctly the process tor on Trisquel *is* indeed running all the time but it only listens to local host so, no biggy.. cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
SMTube is not a plugin for your browser but... SMTube is an application that allows to browse, search and play YouTube videos. Videos are played back with a media player (by default SMPlayer) instead of a flash player, this allows better performance, particularly with HD content. You will

Re: [Trisquel-users] Advertising Trisquel & FLOSS

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
Well, the list of computers you can install libreboot on is growing -> http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_list The greatest thing about the gluglug's X200 however is not libreboot but the fact they managed to successfully remove ME and AMT, the Intel's Management Engine

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
I think trusting ppas and external (to your OS repository) .debs is a naive way of doing your computing. Giving root privilege at the installation to some random software is not a very bright way to go. But then again that's just me. SMTube just like minitube (which now requires a google api

Re: [Trisquel-users] A mail provider based in Bulgaria, using 100% open source software, Tor-friendly and no javascript friendly.

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
>Let me add one that you may not be using or have heard of... >posteo.de CalmStorm: posteo is the first in the list on the website we are talking about! :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icecat question

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.0.0.0

Re: [Trisquel-users] Conky weather, RSS etc.

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
Yes.. The idea of having in my conky something pinging to a server and revealing my approximate position doesn't make me feel good.. That is why my conky contains only date, time, ram, cpu and network usage and the top processes. It's all I need. If I want to know what's the weather like I op

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
Yes. We are talking about Icecat and its tor implementation. Abrowser doesn't have it. The tor package gets installed when you install Icecat. You can remove it if you don't want it though, and keep Icecat. Tor browser bundle is much better anyway.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
I was not talking about youtube-dl. I know that package is in the repos. I was referring to smtube. The version of smtube in the repos doesn't work. He will have to compile it or trust the deb.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-29 Thread greatgnu
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl to download a vid from any of the sites supported (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html), you just need the url of the vid and in terminal: youtube-dl url example youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpGdG27K9o This is how you compile

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Abrowser' behaves strangely after a system update.

2015-07-30 Thread greatgnu
I am myself not much experienced with apparmor profiles, but being Icecat (or Icecactus as I recently started to call it, hmm..) based on FF (just like Iceweasel and Abrowser) the profiles shouldn't differ much. In Icecat your connection gets routed through Tor when you are in private brows

Re: [Trisquel-users] Advertising Trisquel & FLOSS

2015-07-30 Thread greatgnu
sure jxself but it is no more available. You can't purchase one anymore. You can still buy one and then pay for the libreboot installation service though.. I wonder if this service includes the removal of the ME and AMT or just the libreboot installation.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-30 Thread greatgnu
+1 for **used**

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-30 Thread greatgnu
You are welcome! https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install

Re: [Trisquel-users] Advertising Trisquel & FLOSS

2015-07-30 Thread greatgnu
Hmm..you are right hack and hack. The X60 doesn't have AMT and the ME is disabled. I should have checked that before posting my previous comment. My bad. The question applies to the X200 - if I buy an X200 on ebay or somewhere else for cheap and send it to the gluglugs guys, is the removal of

Re: [Trisquel-users] Must be nice to have a notif feature here for the forums members.

2015-07-30 Thread greatgnu
notification, I assume.. But notification where and why? It's not very clear.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-30 Thread greatgnu
the first result in searx.me :P http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qmake-manual.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Complete solution for online privacy

2015-07-30 Thread greatgnu
wow. that's alot of info! Bookmarked to read later. thx

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is this Librem13 fully free this time?

2015-07-31 Thread greatgnu
Well, I don't if it is wise, but I'm really sick of this, so I just sent a quite long mail to RMS with the explanation, the links and the call for an article on fsf. I feel better. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Data protection vs useability

2015-07-31 Thread greatgnu
There's a setting to not use the cookies. And my internet connection is routed through a VPN all the time so, it's fine for me. But yeah, you are right. cheers

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