Re: Firefox "shield"

2017-12-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Sun, 2017-12-17 at 11:09 -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 12/17/2017 04:09 AM, Till Hofmann wrote: > > > > > > On 12/17/2017 01:11 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > > > Sorry if this was discussed already, but it looks like Firefox 57 > > > on > > >

Firefox "shield"

2017-12-16 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
Sorry if this was discussed already, but it looks like Firefox 57 on Fedora 26 (and I assume 27 but have not checked) in the Fedora repo has "extension.shield-recipe-client.enabled = true". 1) Is there a reason this is not turned off by default? This is being used to install extensions without n

Re: Call for testing - Firefox 57

2017-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 11:11 -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > If someone wants to package an addon, no problem - but they should > keep it > up-to-date. > > One issue that I think is problematic is test cases for addons within > bodhi > for firefox itself. > You should not hold the release of the bro

Re: Call for testing - Firefox 57

2017-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 21:55 -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Adam Williamson ect.org > > wrote: > > > > (I don't understand why we package Firefox addons at all, it seems > > like > > a silly idea. But oh well.) > > > > > > +1 - Yeah, especially with the current a

Re: Call for testing - Firefox 57

2017-11-16 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
Hi, I just installed this; it breaks the versions of AdBlockPlus, HTTPSEverywhere, and Noscript I installed from the Fedora repo. Can we revert to 56 until 57 at least does not break our own packages? -- Ben On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 20:17 +0100, Silvia Sánchez wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Firefox Quant

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-07 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 16:34 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > > On 06/06/2016 03:56 PM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > > > >   It took me three days to find the problem the last time systemd > > caused > > unexpected behavior on my system. > What was this hard

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-06 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 12:28 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 01/06/16 12:19, Howard Chu wrote: > > > > > This is still looking at the problem back-asswards. The problem > > isn't > > that screen and tmux are special cases. The problem is that some > > handful > > of programs that got spawned in a GU

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-06 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Mon, 2016-05-30 at 12:05 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > The changed default here is really about defining the lifecycle of > unprivileged code by privileged code, and thus about security. Security against what?  Who is the attacker?  What is the threat model? Bandying about the word "secu

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-06 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Sat, 2016-06-04 at 19:36 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 06/02/2016 01:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > > Well. Let's say you are responsible for the Linux desktops of a > > large > > security-senstive company (let's say bank, whatever), and the > > desktops > > are installed as fixe

Re: Re: Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

2014-11-23 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 02:59 -0800, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > Personally I prefer data over knee jerk reactions because honestly this is > what I see going on. I don't see a demand from users that want a different > default I see developers who want to choose a different default based on > their ow

Re: Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

2014-11-18 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 17:14 +, Nikos Roussos wrote: > On November 18, 2014 7:08:47 PM EET, Benjamin Kreuter > wrote: > >How about an opt-in requirement? > > Yes, that would make more sense. > But I didn't opt-in to see commercial websites on gnome-shell either (a

Re: Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

2014-11-18 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 15:12 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: > This is a moral judgment, so it's irrelevant for making a policy > decision (from Fedora's point of view). Money or not, we need a > consistent policy on advertisements for all upstream. How about an opt-in requirement? -- Ben signatur

Re: Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

2014-11-18 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 11:15 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: > >> I'm talking about the "advertisement" part. Some people seem to be > >> bothered by this alone. Tiles feature indeed promotes some websites, but > >> we already do that. > > > > No, actually we don't. We promote websites because we hones

Set fedora-cvs flag?

2012-11-26 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
Hi everyone, I am trying to follow the procedure here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_SCM_admin_requests#Package_Change_Requests_for_existing_packages But I cannot set the fedora-cvs flag. Am I missing some sort of permissions? What should I do? Thanks, Ben -- Benjamin R Kreuter U

Re: Looking for the Coq package maintainers

2012-10-26 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:30:54 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: > I sort of got the impression that Benjamin was looking for the > *upstream* maintainers ...? Actually I was looking for Jerry; I took the rest of the discussion off-list. -- Ben -- Benjamin R Kreuter UVA Computer Science brk..

Looking for the Coq package maintainers

2012-10-26 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
I have tried to contact the coq and emacs-common-proofgeneral package maintainers directly, but have not had much luck. If any of those maintainers can shoot me an email, that would be great. Thanks, Ben -- Benjamin R Kreuter UVA Computer Science brk...@virginia.edu KK4FJZ -- "If large numb

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 23:30:00 Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett said: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:03:02PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > > However, I still think that changing memcpy away from years of "it just > > > works" is an ABI change that should not be taken

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 23:27:48 Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:26:31PM -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:59:54 Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Pretty sure it doesn't point them out. It just breaks them. > > &g

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:59:54 Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:42:56AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Because it's NOT a bug in glibc, because what glibc does is CORRECT, > > because it actually POINTS OUT bugs in applications which are > > portability issues and can hur

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 16:43:48 Magnus Glantz wrote: > On 11/17/2010 10:18 PM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > >> 2) Create a work-around for the end-users (as has been done by several > >> people in the BZ #638477-thread) > > > > This pretty much erases whate

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 15:58:28 Magnus Glantz wrote: > I'm not saying that a broken Adobe Flash would stop Fedora from shipping. > > But.. if we notice that it's broken, we can: > 1) Notify Adobe about it, so they -can- provide a fix. If they do not > know, they can't fix it.. The Adobe dev

Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 15:21:55 Magnus Glantz wrote: > On 11/17/2010 09:09 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:57:20 +0100, > >> > >> Hans de Goede wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> For those who do not know i

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-10 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 09:21:24 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 11/09/2010 01:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > X will run as a Wayland client. That means all applications that support > > X will be able to run remotely without change. Since QT and GTK both run > > on X and virtually all