Community guidelines question
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Hello admins/moderator folk,
Basically I made a pilot episode for a free software-themed podcast over the weekend. I advocated Trisquel pretty hard in it! Is posting a link in a single forum post in case anyone's interested (or wants to point out mistakes to me) considered spam?
I read through the community guidelines document but I get the impression it's potentially a bit of a grey area, particularly for someone like me who's fairly new for the forums! I though it was probably best to double-check before annoying people. :)
Since the episode deals with Trisquel, I do not see how linking to it in the forum could be considered off-topic.
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Fair enough. It doesn't deal *exclusively* with Trisquel, so I'll err on the side of caution and keep it in this thread so it can be buried/deleted if needed.
Link: https://bobstechsite.com/bts-podcast-season-1-episode-1/
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You are good at it. your voice is pleasant. Also, I kept thinking about Snowden all the time while listening to you :P
+1
Youw website is also good but may I ask (genuine question) why do you think so many people use google fonts api? Is there really no alternative?
One more compatible, and alternative, way of using fonts in websites
(instead of (Google fonts API): use generic-family mainly. ;)
2018-01-16T13:25:19+0100 name at domain wrote:
> You are good at it. your voice is pleasant. Also, I kept thinking
> about Snowden all the time while listening to you :P
>
> +1
>
> Youw website is also good but may I ask (genuine question) why do you
> think so many people use google fonts api? Is there really no
> alternative?
>
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SuperTramp83 said:
You are good at it. your voice is pleasant. Also, I kept thinking about Snowden all the time while listening to you :Pwill put
If his voice is pleasant, Ill guess my voice is like snoring in a quiet almost noiseless room and you are trying to sleep off your hang over, and your headache is aggravated with my loud snorting , lets not forget, my continuous smelly silent farts in motion.
to think of snowden, Are you wanting to have legal problems with the feds? This could be happening at the end of the month, when the democrats will try to shut down the government because of the new fiscal budget. and that is no joke For millions of Americans.
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Thank you SuperTramp83! :)
I can't speak for other people, but in my case the reason I'm using the Google fonts API is because it was already bundled with Ghost and the MIT-licensed theme I use with it.
The fonts themselves are licensed under the SIL Open Font License (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License), so I guess the main question that needs answering is whether fetching the fonts from Google's servers has an impact on privacy.
In my case there's some damage limitation because they're probably being fetched from Cloudflare's caches rather than directly from Google's mirrors! But if there is a compelling reason to replace them then I'm guessing it'd need me to learn Node, do some dev work and take a visit to the Open Font Library (https://fontlibrary.org/)
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You are welcome, keep it up snowden-voice m8 :)
EDIT: oh, and to answer your question, you might read this -> https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/60464/are-there-privacy-considerations-in-using-google-web-fonts
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Noted! I've added a section to my blog's privacy policy accordingly: https://bobstechsite.com/privacy-policy/
Hopefully the fix just involves hacking the theme package I'm using to use locally-hosted versions of the fonts. :)
If I remember well, I used https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts to download from Google the Open Sans font I self-host and use on http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf
(By the way: anyone knows what to write to get 1) the banana staying below the menu and 2) the presentation text always vertically centered with the banana... even on cell phones where the width of the screen is tiny?)
> (By the way: anyone knows what to write to get 1) the banana staying
> below the menu and 2) the presentation text always vertically centered
> with the banana... even on cell phone where the width of the screen is
> tiny?)
Magic Banana, is this still an issue, or did you manage to find the
answers for both of these?
It is still an issue (on small-width screens). Apparently, "bootstrap" provides a solution but I was trying to stay away from frameworks. Also, the version of Midori in Trisquel 7's repository get the alignment wrong (whatever the width of the screen). It may be that more recent versions would properly display the page (if so, it is fine).
If you find a reliable solution, there is pasta for you the next time you go to Belo Horizonte!
> (By the way: anyone knows what to write to get 1) the banana staying
> below the menu and 2) the presentation text always vertically centered
> with the banana... even on cell phone where the width of the screen is
> tiny?)
I hope you forgive me for being late, but I managed to make some
improvement to the current situation of your homepage. I have attached a
patch to this message (if you don't see it in the forums, look for it in
the archives of the trisquel-users mailing list).
Happy hacking! ;)
Thank you very much! I was not expecting anything! I will apply that patch tomorrow and see if I can understand your magic.
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> Youw website is also good but may I ask (genuine question) why do you think
> so many people use google fonts api? Is there really no alternative?
Copypasta JS magic is easier than actually, you know, hosting everything
you want people to see.
You can have the font files on your website and embed them in pages. No
big deal.