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New iteration on the Emacs homepage

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From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
To: Yoni Rabkin <yoni <at> rabkins.net>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, emacs-devel <emacs-devel <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:22:43 +0200

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Yoni Rabkin <yoni <at> rabkins.net> writes:

> The new emacs site at www.gnu.org/software/emacs links to
> emacsrocks.com. But emacsrocks.com has non-free javascript on it in the
> form of Google Analytics.
>
> From the source of emacsrocks.com:

It has just been removed.

Nico

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Message #12 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Yoni Rabkin <yoni <at> rabkins.net>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, emacs-devel <emacs-devel <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:30:59 -0400

Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin <yoni <at> rabkins.net> writes:
>
>> The new emacs site at www.gnu.org/software/emacs links to
>> emacsrocks.com. But emacsrocks.com has non-free javascript on it in the
>> form of Google Analytics.
>>
>> From the source of emacsrocks.com:
>
> It has just been removed.

Thank you for the extremely prompt action and reply.

-- 
   "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"

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From: Yoni Rabkin <yoni <at> rabkins.net>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, emacs-devel <emacs-devel <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:46:35 -0400

Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin <yoni <at> rabkins.net> writes:
>
>> The new emacs site at www.gnu.org/software/emacs links to
>> emacsrocks.com. But emacsrocks.com has non-free javascript on it in the
>> form of Google Analytics.
>>
>> From the source of emacsrocks.com:
>
> It has just been removed.

As long as we are on this topic, someone has just pointed out to me (on
#fsf IRC) that the CSS files are being served from third-party servers,
namely:

https://code.cdn.mozilla.net/fonts/fira.css
https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css

I feel like it would be better if those CSS files would be served from
fsf-controlled URLs like static.fsf.org, so that the FSF has control
over them.

This would have the additional benefit of not leaking information about
anyone visiting fsf.org to third-parties.

-- 
   "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, yoni <at> rabkins.net, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:10:27 -0400

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

Our policy is that it is ok to link to a site that has some nonfree
Javascript code, as long as the page works even if the visitor blocks
execution of that code.  Not executing the Google Analytics code
won't make anything important fail, so ignore that please.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.

Message #23 received at 23152 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Yoni Rabkin <yoni <at> rabkins.net>
Cc: 23152 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, nicolas <at> petton.fr, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23152: New iteration on the Emacs homepage
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:11:28 -0400

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > I feel like it would be better if those CSS files would be served from
  > fsf-controlled URLs like static.fsf.org, so that the FSF has control
  > over them.

Absolutely!

  > This would have the additional benefit of not leaking information about
  > anyone visiting fsf.org to third-parties.

Yes -- even more important.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.

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