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Re: Centralised EU censorship blocks mails !? - background info
by William Morder 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

On Wednesday 06 October 2021 17:20:43 you wrote: > On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, William Morder wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 October 2021 16:35:20 you wrote: > >>> RMS gets a bad rap these days, but he was right about one basic idea: > >>> that our data ought never be collected in the first place. Once it is > >>> collected, with or without our permission, whether it is legal or > >>> illegal, then *somebody* out there will want it, and will have the > >>> means to get it. > >> > >> Who is RMS? > > > > Oh, sorry for the shorthand. > > > > Richard Stallman, one of main persons behind GNU/Linux. (Or, he would > > probably say, the *only* one, the sole creator ... ) You can discover > > more for yourself, as there are a lot of pages out there either written > > by him or about him. The FOSS or Open Source movement is rather a > > watered-down version of his original idea. > > Oh, I know him. I went to a presentation he gave at the ETH Zürich a long > time ago. At the end of his presentation he put on a gown and introduced > us to the "Church of Emacs"! He was certainly an inspiration. Sorry to > hear he gave himself a bad rap. > > Gianluca > > > He annoying at best, a jerk or asshole most of the time, and nowadays has > > got himself a bad reputation, and some of it is deserved. He says a lot > > of things that are, um, politically incorrect or worse. But he was right > > about this one idea, which is that we must stop these problems at their > > root. > > > > Bill Yes, it is too bad. My sense of him is that he is one of those stuck-back-in-the-1960s hippies who never moved on. I mean, he was still living in student residence dormitories (I believe it was) at his university until a couple years ago (aged in his mid-60s, but still living like a university student). And, like many a crusty old hippie I know from the generation before myself, he doesn't recognize that what sounded cool and hep back in the 1960s sounds, to a younger generation, inappropriate or offensive. People don't talk like that any more, but he is tone-deaf. He is one of that original pantheon of MIT geeks and hackers (in the "pure" sense of the word), and created emacs (I think it was), and other stuff that is fundamental to our present technology. So I give him due respect, but I can also see how he upsets some people, because he irked me, too. Still, on this basic idea, he is right, and it's getting harder to evade that point. Users can own their data only if they own their machines, and if the software is free/libre; to protect our communications and data, and to preserve our privacy, we must use encryption. Otherwise, we will slip gradually into having no privacy at all, then attempts to preserve our privacy are criminalized. It really comes down to a choice between one or the other. Then he fell into trouble with the "cancel culture" and Me-Too movement, etc., because he said some things that were objectionable. In any case, if he had thought twice about his words, he might have saved himself much pain and suffering, as his indiscretions got him removed from some positions (though now semi-rehabilitated and reinstated?), and also he lost his student housing arrangements, and now is living who knows where; although according to his home page he is now giving talks in Europe. Bill

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Screenshots for upcomming relase ..
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

May I submit a dark themed screenshot for the upcomming release? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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twin-style-suse2 for openSUSE Leap 15.2
by Gianluca Interlandi 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Dear TDE users list, I see that the SUSE2 theme has been packaged for Trinity thanks to Philippe: https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/twin-style-suse2 https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/56#issuecomment-… I wonder whether there are any plans to package it for openSUSE for the current version of Trinity R14.0.10? If not, is it straightfoward to extract the binaries compiled for another distribution and move the files to the respective folders? Thanks! Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu +1 (206) 685 4435 http://gianluca.today/ Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------

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TDE R14.0.11 is coming soon
by Slávek Banko 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hi all, if you are not subscribed to the tde-announcements list, you can find more information in the web archive: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… Cheers -- Slávek

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Re: [tde-devels] TDE R14.0.11 is coming soon
by Michele Calgaro 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

On 2021/10/04 09:26 AM, Slávek Banko wrote: > Hi all, > > as developers, you are probably more involved, so you probably keep in mind > that there is a plan for release R14.0.11 at the end of October. Therefore, > only a small reminder, if you are not subscribed to the tde-announcements > list: > > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… > > Cheers > Also a good time to send in screenshots that could be used for the release notes :-) Cheers Michele

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Removing menu items
by Edward 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

I have an interesting problem. I have the Thunderbird and Firefox builds from the Ubuntuzilla repo for Ubuntu/Debian installed on both of my desktops. I've discovered that once these packages are uninstalled, either via Synaptic, or the command line, the app's entries are not removed from the TDE Internet menu. I have a second desktop environment installed (LXQt, which is what was used to install Debian from the image) and I noticed the same thing on their Internet menu. There is no easy way to remove the entries from LXQT as there is no GUI to edit the menu that I am aware of. Does TDE have something like this? The only other option I see is to wipe out everything on the computers and reinstall Linux from scratch, which is something I would rather not do. As for Ubuntuzilla, they have a support forum at Ubuntu, but I am not creating an Ubuntu One account just for this. Thanks in advance. -- Linux. A Continual Learning Experience. TDE: R14.0.11-pre - Debian: 11 (amd64)

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Removing SpamAssassin wrappers from an email item
by J Leslie Turriff 02 Oct '21

02 Oct '21

When SpamAssassin misclassifies a piece of mail as spam, it wraps a bunch of stuff around the original message. When I use the Classify as NOT spam filter it changes the classification, but leaves the wrapper intact. Does anyone out there know how to write a filter stage to strip that junk off again? (See attachments) Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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Is it possible to modify the TDE Menu search function keybinding?
by Brian Durant 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

I have been digging around the TDE documentation, as well as the TDE center to see if there is a way to change the TDE menu search function keybinding. I am pretty sure that there is an answer, as there must be others as well, using a non-US/UK keyboard layout. Any ideas?

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TDE battery icon & 2 batteries ...
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Hi all! I just ran into an interesting problem on a T460 with 2 batteries: tdepowersave shows only the status of the currently drained battery, but not the overall status. So 10% might tell the user "10 minutes till sutdown" or "5 hours to go" - which is quite confusing. This only affrects the systray icon. Has somebody else seen this and is there a quick fix that I've missed? Nilk -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Writing a live ISO to a flash drive?
by J Leslie Turriff 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

I know that I've seen instructions for writing a TDE live ISO to a flash drive, but now I can't find it anywhere on the Trinity website. Help? Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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