25 07 | 2014

Nous sommes nazaréens

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Catho-FR

Vous avez peut-être pu voir le symbole ﻥ dans les messages ou les profils de certaines personnes. Il s'agit de la lettre arabe N, du mot « nazaréen », utilisé par les islamistes en Irak pour marquer les maisons de chrétiens afin d'organiser leur persécution. Dans des profils et messages, ce symbole est utilisé comme une marque de soutien à ces martyrs, victimes d'un génocide religieux et d'une déportation organisée par l'auto-proclamé État Islamique, qualifiées de crime contre l'humanité par le secrétaire général des Nations unies.

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23 07 | 2014

GNU/Linux graphic sessions: suspending your computer

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, To remember

Major desktop environments such as Xfce or KDE have a built-in computer suspend feature, but when you use a lighter alternative, things are a bit more complicated, because basically: only root can suspend the computer. There used to be a standard solution to that, using a D-Bus call to a running daemon upowerd. With recent updates, that solution first stopped working for obscure reasons, but it could still be configured back to be usable. With newer updates, it stopped working again, but this time it seems it is gone for good:

$ dbus-send --system --print-reply \
            --dest='org.freedesktop.UPower' \
            /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "Suspend" with
signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.UPower" doesn't exist

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02 07 | 2014

PayPal cut a secure email project's funds

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Miscellaneous, Grumble

It should be no news that PayPal have made an habit of opposing to projects that fight for the respect of freedom and democracy by cutting their funds. Anyway, they have just provided us another example of such an abuse, against the ProtonMail project.

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