Re: Adobe Flash
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:55:47 +0000, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 17:50:18 moxalt wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +0000, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org> for
> > > > user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't subscribe
> > > > the debian-user list.)
> > > >
> > > > To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install youtube-dl:
> > > > $ apt-get install youtube-dl
> > >
> > > Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel, or watch with Google
> > > Chrome. I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those do. I
> > > watch that news-site all the time, several times a day most days, and
> > > browse over the whole site; sometimes just to see if there has been a new
> > > newsflash on an important story. Think of the disk-space needed if I
> > > were to download everything every time!
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html#SpywareInFlash
> >
> > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/adobe-pushes-drm-flash
> >
> > Fortunately YouTube no longer requires Flash. Unfortunately, it still
> > mandates the running of non-free JavaScript, and is firmly under the thumb
> > of Google.
> >
> > YouTube can be accessed and videos on it can be viewed with a free web
> > browser which supports HTML5, of which there are many. More and more
> > websites now support HTML5 (or similar) video-streaming mechanisms. This is
> > a good thing.
> >
> > For those websites which still require Flash, you should find some way of
> > downloading the video (preferably in an open format).
>
> So for perfection, don't watch the news.
> The OP is currently watching the
> news on Doze. Hardly more secure than flash
And OP should do neither.
> on Linux.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is
in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without
realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is
widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware
that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part
of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that
allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The
kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it
can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is
basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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