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by William Morder

It occurs to me that this thread is starting to go off-topic, but I am also curious to know what might happen. Thus the new thread ... On Wednesday 11 November 2020 08:50:33 Michael via tde-users wrote: > What went wrong? Do you remember the time when computers > > > > were a tool to help you, not to spy on you? > > > > > > Nik > > > > Yes, one can read about such a computer here: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus > > Funny story (not), > > I was working at Dell at the time when Windows 95 was beta released (mid > ‘94 ish). The network group (being real IT geeks) did some ‘testing’ > (using the pre-cursor to wireshark) and found that if the Win95 install had > network access then Win95 1) did a full disk scan, 2) packaged that up and > sent it to a Microsoft server, and 3) deleted all traces of the disk scan. > > Why I remember it, is it amused me that they were in their lab yanking the > plug out of the wall half way through an install then sticking the drive > into another PC (Unix!) to see what Win95 was doing. > > So, probably, the last time Windows didn’t ‘spy on you’ was probably Win > 3.1. Only because it couldn't. > > Best, > Michael As soon as they could be connected, either through a network, or through "sneaker-net", or sharing information between them, that is about when they because surveillance tools. About the only way to escape them is to go back to the Stone Age and make our own tools. I got into a conversation awhile ago when somebody described Orwell as a futurist. No, I said, he was very bad at guessing about the technological side of the future; but what he did guess was that those new "computing machines" that were used in the "war effort" would soon be used for controlling citizens rather than fighting an external enemy. Orwell worked writing and broadcasting for the BBC during the war years (which he called propaganda), and had an insider's glimpse of what was in store for us in the future; the future which is now. Bill

4 years, 2 months

Restructuring of main modules in TGW

by Michele Calgaro

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to the TDE announcements ML and use their own copy of the TDE source code, please take note of this message: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… Cheers Michele

4 years, 2 months

Re: pmount vs. udisks2

by BorgLabs - Kate Draven

> Hi all! > > Is it just me or can sombody else replicate this behaviour: > > 1) pmount installed, udisks2 not installed: I get the "device inserted .."-dialog, but the device icons do not show up. Mounting and unmounting works. After removing all external devicis I still have /media/ populated with "interesting" folders, each containing one file ".creaded_by_pmount". Zhese survive a reboot, so I have to remove them by hand. > > 2) udisks2 is installed, pmount not instaled: I get the "device inserted .."-dialog, and all device icons as expected. Mounting and unmounting works. /media/ is working as expected, i.e. folders disappear when the device is removed. > > So ... save to say "install udisks2 and forget aboult pmount" ? pmount i used in exegnulinux, that's why I ran into it. > > Nik > > > -- Hi Nik I don't use pmount, so I can't speak to its behavior. udisk2, as you described, is how it works for me. udisk2, at least for me, works perfectly. However, I would wait for the remaining collective to speak. We might just learn something. Cheers, Kate

4 years, 2 months

Re: d.moat Best Home Network Security And Home Firewall Device

by BorgLabs - Kate Draven

> On Tuesday 10 November 2020 06:48:00 amlidajame25(a)gmail.com wrote: > > Another commercial that has zero to do with trinity. nuke this sub. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > ____________________________________________________ Aye captain! Kate

4 years, 2 months

d.moat Best Home Network Security And Home Firewall Device

by amlidajame25＠gmail.com

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4 years, 2 months

QTcurve & Dark themes

by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp

Just a quick note to all dark theme lovers out ther: whoever has problems with invisible checkmarks and sliders (like myself) should take a look at "tde-style-qtcurve-trinity" :) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

4 years, 2 months

TDE screenshot for upcoming release

by Michele Calgaro

Hi everyone, R14.0.9 will be out very soon. I know it is a bit late for asking, but if any of you is willing to send through some screenshots of their desktop, we may include them in the release notes. Thanks in advance! Cheers Michele

4 years, 2 months

Survey: distros with KDE?

by Steven D'Aprano

Hi all, I'm currently running Fedore 29, but I will soon need to upgrade or reinstall a new distro. I'd like something with TDE available. Can we do a short survey of: - which distro you are running - whether it provides TDe from the official repos; - and whether you had trouble installing and running TDE. Thanks in advance. Steve

4 years, 2 months

Are you interested in arm64/armhf packates for Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy)?

by Slávek Banko

Hi, are there users among you who use Ubuntu and RPi? Because Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy) mentions RPi4 in the release notes, I noticed an interest in arm64 and armhf packages for Groovy. Currently, we have built only armhf packages only for LTS versions of Ubuntu. That's why I'm now deciding whether to build arm64 and armhf packages for Groovy as well. Are there anyone else who would welcome such packages? Cheers -- Slávek

4 years, 2 months

What happened to kdocp, the GUI dcop browser?!

by Stefan Krusche

Hi, sometime there was a GUI program called kdocp to browse the dcop objects tree. I can't find it neither in the repository (apt/devuan) nor on my system. Does anybody know where or how to find it? Thanks and kind regards, Stefan

4 years, 2 months

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