I decide my passwords manually. They're not random, but based on random
phrases. A fake example:
G2ye$4a^
(This example stands for go to the money for a carrot.)
They're not easy to remember, but if I use the password often, I'll end up
remembering them fairly quickly. In the meantime, I
The ones from http://libre.thinkpenguin.com are your best choice. The
Wireless G adapter will work out-of-the-box. The Wireless N adapters won't
work out-of-the-box with Trisquel 6 (this is because the firmware required
used to be proprietary before it was made free recently), but the Think
Oh, well, on YouTube, you just need to go to youtube.com/html5 and opt-in to
the HTML5 trial. It doesn't work on videos with ads, though.
What do you want to use Flash for on other websites, though? YouTube is the
only website I'm aware of where Gnash actually works, excluding some really
I don't know if a USB CD drive will work, it didn't work on my old laptop
that had its optical drive broken. But you can make a live USB stick from
Windows or OS X. There's more info on this page:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-create-liveusb
It's not worded wonderfully, but it just means that it'll install Trisquel on
the USB stick from an ISO, resulting in a live USB stick. The instructions
for Windows work on any computer that runs Windows; there's no other
per-requisite.
It's because it depends on ia32-libs, which is broken. See this bug report,
there's a fix toward the bottom:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8155
That PRISM Break page has has this dumb idea flow in that being based on
Ubuntu makes a distro dangerous because Canonical can't be trusted. This
is nonsense; if a program is free, you can study the source code and find out
if it is malicious or not. Flash Player, included in Linux Mint
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages#Educational
why is he (and others, like Onpon4 and Quantumgravity for
example, who have done the same before) always wasting
their time harassing a new user who disagrees with them,
instead of trying to help the members?
I didn't harass[1] anyone. (You have the burden of proof, because your
claim
As I pointed out in the other thread which is now rightfully in the Troll
Hole, I never even posted in that topic, yet you're acting mad at me. Why are
you mad at me?
Your posts currently come across as (pre-)teen angst.
https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SILOFL
Trisquel has a free culture standard, too, and AssaultCube doesn't fit that
standard. Many of the art assets are under proprietary licenses. It doesn't
really matter; the AssaultCube in Ubuntu's repos is years out-of-date, so you
aren't able to connect with many people.
I don't know about
h.264 is patented, not proprietary, and MP3 is patented, too (and it's an
audio format, not a video format). The major non-patented, non-secret formats
are the Ogg formats (usually Ogg Theora/Vorbis), Matroska, and WebM.
It sounded like you were suggesting that MP3 was a non-patented alternative
to h.264, which isn't true. They're both patented, and serve different
purposes.
There's differing opinions on this. The FSF's position is that non-functional
data only needs to be sharable, but some people think that all culture must
be free.
Personally, I think that all culture must be free, but I don't think it's an
urgent enough issue for me to refuse nonfree
Don't use the proprietary drivers. They might or might not boost performance,
but it's not worth it to run nonfree software to play a free game (and that
doesn't make much sense).
If it works with the free driver, great. If not, oh well; there are plenty of
other games to choose from.
You probably want a much newer kernel than 3.2. Nouveau works better with
newer kernels, so using the latest version of Linux might solve your problems
(also might not, but it's worth a try).
Have you thought of getting a USB wireless adapter from Think Penguin?[1] All
of Think Penguin's hardware works with 100% free software setups, and two of
the USB wireless adapters have the respects your freedom certification from
the FSF. Also, if you use that link to go there, some amount
Openbox comes with LXDE (it's what LXDE uses by default) or KDE (it's an
alternative to KDE Plasma), and I suppose it might come with some others.
They already did. As of GNOME 3.8, Fallback has been removed and replaced
with GNOME Classic, which uses GNOME Shell + certain extensions and a
different theme.
Red Eclipse might use the Cube 2 engine, but it plays nothing like
AssaultCube. I like Red Eclipse for different reasons.
I think GNOME Shell would be a good choice. It's reliable, easy to use, and
fast. People who are still resistant to the changes and aren't satisfied with
Classic mode or some other combination of extensions can install KDE, MATE,
Xfce, Cinnamon, or whatever their choice of DE is themselves,
Trisquel Desktop
Trisquel Netbook
Trisquel Media Center
Trisquel Tablet
Except for the Media Center interface, GNOME has all that covered, too. The
big difference is with GNOME, they're all the same interface. GNOME Shell
works great on a PC or tablet, on big screens or small screens.
It's unfortunate that just about everyone speaking against SOPA spoke out
only against the nasty side-effects and methods and even often explicitly
said that the intent was good. The intent of stopping sharing is not good,
either. Sharing is good, and the war on sharing needs to end.
By
I suppose if the FSF stopped trying to be gentlemanly and insisted on
calling the system just GNU, people would stop rabidly opposing GNU/Linux
and it would become the go-to neutral term, like FOSS is for free software
and open source.
I suppose you can't really fault Wikipedia for saying Linux instead of
GNU/Linux.
I also once saw a writing style that gave more authority than deserved to
Linus Torvalds, when combined with the tendency for Linux to be used to
refer to GNU/Linux: Among those critical of the new version is
You mean the IWADs? For PrBoom (that's the only Doom engine in the repo),
it's in something like /usr/share/prboom/wads, I don't know the exact
directory but it's easy enough to find.
The Freedoom in the repo is actually out-of-date; the latest version is 0.8,
which made some major changes
It can't be that difficult to remove that feature. The main reason not to use
Unity is if you think it's a crappy interface. In all honesty, I think it
would be decent if you could open the menu with the Super key (I don't know
if you can now, but you couldn't with the version I last tried
I meant just GNU as opposed to GNU/Linux. The FSF insists on GNU/Linux,
not just GNU by itself. I think if they did insist on just GNU by itself,
GNU/Linux would morph into a compromise terminology.
No, that was a reply to GNUser.
I don't know if it's possible to do the fix while the system is broken or
not. If not, look at what packages are conflicting and remove them (all at
once), that will fix the problem.
If you install ia32-libs-multiarch, it breaks the system because there's
something wrong with SDL and I think OpenJDK. More info and a fix here:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8155
The best choice is always hosting your own e-mail. If you can't, though, and
you don't want to pay for the service, there's Riseup.net.
I kind of have to agree that Wikipedia is doing its job properly. It's not
Wikipedia's fault that the misnomer Linux is more popular than the more
correct name GNU/Linux. The way to fix this is to make GNU/Linux, or some
other more correct term, more popular than Linux.
Well, language is a funny thing in that whatever is most popular is
correct; if everyone is talking about apple juice when they say water,
water means apple juice, regardless of how silly it is.
I agree entirely, but I don't think Wikipedia is the right place to address
the problem. The problem needs to be addressed at the source. If GNU/Linux
becomes more popular than Linux, Wikipedia will follow. If by some freak
accident LiGNUx becomes more popular, Wikipedia will follow. It's
That's... ridiculous. That guy is trolling or intentionally spreading
disinformation. Sudo is free software; it can't have a backdoor without
being well-known, and such a backdoor would have been fixed years ago.
Sudo is a useful tool on multiple-user machines. It allows you to choose
I'm kind of surprised by this, but I want to quote someone from another
forum:
Calling it Linux is a misnomer, and like a lot of
misnomers, we seem to be stuck with it. The thing about
languages is that they change and warp all the time.
Whether you call it Linux or GNU/Linux doesn't
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376431
Debian-legal may provide you with a clause-by-clause analysis, but
let me point out just one particular gem:
the moment you use openwatcom to compile any work-related piece of
software (thus not Personal Use), you need to make the
Ehm... is this trolling? The FSF didn't approve of the license in question.
Only the OSI did. The FSF's reason for rejecting it is a damn sound one, too.
I tried QEMU once, and it seemed like it was decent, though I didn't figure
out how to actually use it.
Something Richard Stallman said (I might be paraphrasing a little, since this
is from memory):
If you use software which doesn't have freedom 2 [the freedom to share exact
copies], you can be faced with a moral dilemma which can happen at any
moment. If your good friend says, 'That program
The Windows and OS X binaries are proprietary, but the source code is free.
Maybe the Ubuntu binary is proprietary, too (it wouldn't be surprising).
In any case, it really doesn't matter, since everything in Trisquel's repo is
compiled in-house anyway.
There's a key difference between this and the search-sent-to-canonical
feature: this one requires participation from the user. As long as they don't
make it look like it's required, it's fine.
That collection of software utilities you're talking about is an operating
system. It's just how Unix is designed. The kernel is a part of that
collection of software utilities; it's the program that manages
communication between the other software and the hardware. If you just had
that, I
I don't see any information about Vladimir Lenin being a mass murderer in
any fashion. I see nothing about any purges during his time, nothing about
using police force against his political enemies, and no other cases of
murder that he was responsible for. When and who did he kill?
Ah, I didn't hear of the Red Terror before. That's pretty bad.
Just want to point out, though: just because he committed atrocities doesn't
make everything he said invalid. That's association fallacy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is about totalitarianism, not necessarily fascism or
socialism. The origin of Oceania is left intentionally vague, as is the
original claimed ideology of Ingsoc (it's shot for English Socialism, but
note that the Nazi party called itself national socialist when the
Psychopaths aren't necessarily sadists, either. Psychopathy is just the lack
of ability to feel empathy. It's a perfect description for corporations.
Note that many politicians are psychopaths. It makes perfect sense;
psychopaths are better than most people at projecting false images of
If Debian were to replace the GNU system with something else, we would just
have to call it Debian. Not Debian GNU/Linux, but not Debian Linux
either; just Debian. Or maybe the replacement system already has a name, in
which case that system's name would be appropriate (e.g. maybe it's BSD,
Honestly, I never used the arrow buttons, so I didn't notice that they
weren't there.
1984 Hosting is called that as a reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four,
obviously. It's obvious what the name means: that it's the hosting service
you use to stay away from such a government as in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Anyway, what you linked to isn't even 1984 Hosting, it's Mailpile. I'm not
We don't live in Oceania. The closest thing to that in the world is North
Korea, which I'm certain none of us live in because the Internet is heavily
censored there (or more appropriately, they have their own Internet). There
is no reason to believe that we have fake movements and
I know that there are problems, and I know that people want power. But any
assertion that someone already has enough power to do that kind of deception
is baseless.
...Or, you're making baseless speculation that isn't supported by evidence at
all.
The disguised butterfly symbol, that appears in the logo of the
(apparently)
cynically named FreedomBox company - in the Our Community section, in
Mailpipe's web page - is a mind control symbol
I stopped reading after this.
You can't expect people to take you seriously with crap like
Actually, most computers will work fine with Trisquel. The big problems are
AMD video cards and integrated graphics, which don't support hardware
acceleration; new Nvidia cards, which might be crappy or not have support at
all (support for them comes from reverse-engineering, which takes
I don't know about keylogging, but viruses are a curiosity at best on Unix
systems, and that includes GNU/Linux. They need root access to do damage to
the system outside of your home directory (which is something you don't tend
to routinely grant to programs), and GNU/Linux users use all
Can you please, please try to put yourself in the shoes of someone who is a
part of a huge conspiracy that you don't want anybody to find out about?
Think. You don't want anybody to find out about it. If they do, the
conspiracy is destroyed. If you are connected to it, your life is
You should complain to those responsible that they are not using standard
file types and ask them to please use standard PDF, not some DRM'd bullshit
that only works in Adobe Reader.
is there any way that I can easily convince my friends to atleast try to
not
use Micro$oft Windows and proprietary software?
I'm not sure. Personally, I had read articles on gnu.org for years before I
really took notice, and then it was a while after that before I started
actually
I don't fully understand what's going on with this website; you can download
the songs, but you aren't able to preview them? It wouldn't be that hard for
them to support playing the previews with HTML5.
One thing you should always check in a situation like this: disable Gnash
(and
Not all free software is open source. As an example, the original BSD license
is discouraged by the FSF, but it is approved as a free software license.
That same license is not approved as an open source license by the OSI.
It is true that most open source and free software licenses overlap,
Conspiracy theorist is a label. It's been built to be used to shut down
open
debate. It may work temporarily from time to time, but it will not change
the
underlying facts--true or false--that are not being addressed.
To be perfectly frank, conspiracy theorist is a term of endearment.
YouTube forbids downloading videos too.[0] It's a stupid, unjust rule,
especially because all streaming is is downloading and showing the video at
the same time. Basically, the rule means you are not allowed to choose where
the video is saved or when it is deleted unless we give you
Well, it's the right link (I verified this). Must be inaccessable right now,
try again later.
Most people prefer to believe in what they /want/ to be true, rather than
face
the possibility that what sounds /horrible/ might actually /be/ the truth
The irony is that the conspiracies you believe in are exactly this. They're
things you want to be true, because you can't stand the
gNewSense is really only useful if you have a MIPS computer (like the one RMS
has), since Trisquel only supports x86. Like others have said, it's old
(though not quite outdated yet; it still keeps upstream support for another
half a year or so). I don't know the version numbers or anything,
In fact, any phone is connected in a way that your position can be learned.
Traditional phones are always in one location, and cell phones can have their
location detected by triangulation.
Actually, it's not a bad thing that your position can be detected,
necessarily. It's good in
Hardware acceleration is available on older Nvidia cards that have been
reverse-engineered, too.
What's preventing that is the phone needs to communicate with towers. There's
no way around that.
You also can't hypothetically work around the problem by connecting via some
other phone network because people communicate with you in a way that
requires your phone to identify itself (each
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
So change that to: airplane mode needs to be something that people use
routinely (not just when airplanes are taking off) and as easy to activate as
silent mode, and the OS needs to be free software so we can be sure that it's
truly never attempting
There's an extension called Flash OnOff that gives you a button.[0] The
Mozilla addons database doesn't tell you what license it's under, but I
investigated and it's under the MPL 2.0.
[0]
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/388711/addon-388711-latest.xpi
Cool. That's not perfect (it would be better if it became detected as a
microphone, so that other programs that record sound could be used), but it
would work.
That and other screencasting programs (like SimpleScreenRecorder) grab sound
from the microphone. That's why I would like the output to be treated as an
input as well.
I know about that; it's basically just a less powerful and keyboardless
version of the OpenPandora (even though it's made by different people), and
it shares all the same problems: no wireless or hardware acceleration without
nonfree software, designed to play nonfree games via emulation,
Trisquel includes emulators too, like Zsnes and Scummvm.
Yes, but the Trisquel community isn't centered around them. Take a close look
at the OpenPandora website and you'll notice that emulators are heavily
flaunted; it's the main purpose of devices like these.
Also these pc's are very
I'm not convinced that people would be receptive to embedding anything into
themselves in the near future, outside of small niches. Especially embedding
a chip into the brain seems like it would be an extremely invasive, dangerous
surgery.
Now, if that were to change in the future, we
Well, the main difference is the DE, so I guess I use neither. I installed
from the regular GNOME Fallback liveCD, but I use GNOME Shell.
If it's designed to play nonfree games, removing nonfree firmware and drivers
is not that huge of a difference.
I don't really think SteamOS is going to have a positive impact. I suspect is
will include a lot of nonfree software and eventually become a whole new
proprietary OS that happens to have some free components and is marketed as
open because of those components. Kind of like the Ouya, but more
Since I had to get rid of the Play Store app and for some reason
downloading
apps through the online play store no longer works, I can't install any
applications unless I have the .apk on the phone. But that's the price of
freedom, I guess.
So, F-Droid didn't work?
Free graphics drivers, Linux-libre, etc.
That definitely isn't going to happen. With Valve's audience, they need
SteamOS to work with AMD and (current) Nvidia cards. Virtually nobody in this
audience would ever consider Intel integrated graphics or Nouveau-supported
Nvidia cards to be
You can have whatever you want in the sent from field if I'm not mistaken,
but I think that can also get your e-mail filtered as spam, so I'd advise
against it. Just change the reply-to field. I don't know how you do it in
evolution, but in Thunderbird, you add another e-mail address click
Only the client of Desura is publicly available (the server software is not
shared), and the Desura server doesn't have any way of filtering out
proprietary software. If they were to make that kind of filtering possible on
the server side, it would be possible to have a client that only
You see the license when you click on one of the download links. It's a
generic proprietary license. I guess this is a recent development, because
there's a post on the Replicant site about it.[0]
It seems like what you should use is the Replicant SDK.[1][2]
[0]
The FSF recently stopped calling it SaaS (Software as a Service) and
started calling it SaaSS (Service as a Software Substitute), to be less
ambiguous.[0]
[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
It doesn't say anywhere that it includes only free software. Did you check
the packages?
Rewrite them. Look at the code, and write similar code in Python. There is no
magical converter tool from BASIC to Python that I'm aware of.
Python is pretty easy. In Python 3 (what you ought to use; Python 2 is being
phased out), you print with the print function (e.g. ``print(Hello,
world!)``) and get text input with the input function (e.g. ``a =
input(What's your name? )``). I don't know what gosub does. As an aside,
Looks like some sort of a function. Just define functions in Python. The
keyword for defining functions is def; look at the docs for more specific
details.
IDLE is the basic native IDE (sudo apt-get install idle3). gedit will work
just fine as well. If you're more into larger IDEs than basic ones and text
editors, probably Eclipse.
ia32-libs-multiarch being broken (caused by a couple 32-bit packages) is a
known problem, and there's a way to fix it on an individual system. See:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8155
It sounds like you panicked and removed basic system packages. Bad idea in
general; better to deal with
It's just using URLs.
All hyperlinks on Amazon are fixed with a ref variable (or whatever it is
those things are called in URLs) that is some sort of unique identifier. So
Amazon stores your browsing history by associating it with that unique
identifier, and links are presented to you with
I wouldn't call it sneaky, and it's not new either. Websites have been doing
that for a long time.
I'm not familiar with any of those games you mentioned, but how about
Naev?[0] It's actually in a very incomplete state and in desperate need of
some love (for the best experience, stick to the Empire; lots of dead-ends
exist with everyone else), but it's a game that sort of comes to mind
I haven't checked, but I'd bet on KeepVid's Java code being proprietary.
I usually use UnPlug to watch YouTube videos. I used to sometimes use
ViewTube, but ViewTube has been constantly having problems with watching
YouTube videos lately, so I don't usually try with it on YouTube anymore.
For videos that are age-restricted, UnPlug isn't able to find the video
Sadly, only HP printers normally support free software (though some of them
don't; there are a few dozen (I think 50 or so) printers in the Laserjet line
that require proprietary firmware, and some other printers that only have
partial support).
The list on h-node only shows vendors that
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