Since you are requested to confirm an account with an SMS, and the mobile phone number used (which is associated with an actual person) is permanently stored and associated with every Signal account, you only have partial privacy with Signal. What you say cannot be read by anyone, but who you are, when you talk, and who you talk to is divulged. This is highly valuable (and sensitive) meta data, and a serious privacy breach.
There is no valid technical reason for requiring the revelation of a mobile phone number for enabling an account instead of f.e. using e-mail, and since the application is not monetized in any way - no ads, no end-user costs what so ever - people should ask themselves what the true gain is from pouring millions of dollars into SMS costs etc. to keep Signal running without a single end-user dollar going back to the operation.
Why not? I don't understand why you assume that smartphone filming absolutely must be the painful epileptic portrait-oriented garbage every moron with a phone shits out on instagram and youtube. It's entirely possible to mount a phone on a gimbal or dolly to get even steadier and smoother movement/capture.
It reads more like typical leftist liberal reasoning; an efficient tool to exclude and shut people down on the vaguest of merits, with complete disregard to a future victim's intentions behind what they said or did. Really, it's not very far from a fascist manifesto in disguise.
No, it doesn't mean *buying* a new OS at all - Apple made OS X / macOS free of charge about 10 years ago, and you can download any version you want directly from them without cost or registration. If you want a physical copy that will obviously cost you a small spot of cash ($25, believe).
Your old iMac will likely run El Capitan, and possibly even Sierra. You normally can't find these older versions in the AppStore since Apple only offers the current version of macOS in the search results, but you can access the downloads from here:
10.11 El Capitan: https://support.apple.com/en-a...
10.12 Sierra: https://support.apple.com/en-a...
Yeah because 2018 is finally The Year, right? Tired song;) Don't get me wrong, I use linux for the desktop in my line of work, and it gets the job done, but it's just not the same polished desktop experience that macOS is, even by a stretch.
Of course you can DIRECTLY install 10.13 (read: fresh installation), or any other compatible version, but you can't UPDATE a 10.6 installation to 10.13. In my opinion doing a single fresh install is a lot faster and tidier than jumping through several intermediate updates to land where you want.
I fully agree with "picking one that will make your life easier", meaning he should stick with OS X / macOS by simply updating to a current version. The original author is suffering the misunderstanding that he cannot update to anything beyond what was on the laptop when he bought it 8 years ago.
I'm not sure why you think it's "capped" to 10.6 - that's just the version that was current at the release of your Macbook model. It will happily install and run El Capitan (10.11), and that's bound to be a more compatible and pleasant desktop experience than putting anything Linux on it.
I see a problem with Bitmovin's comparisons (linked in the article) not telling us which encoder was used for the H.264 and H.265 tests. This matters tremendously - there are shitty encoders producing bad H.264/265, and there are amazing encoders producing excellent H.264/265, at one and the same bitrate. It's like comparing a new audio coded to MP3 and using Xing MP3 instead of LAME, and calling the test legit.
...and someone who has the bad habit of using their laptop in bed: yes, it helps. It's a medically and scientifically established fact that blue light stops production of melatonin while triggering production of serotonin. I've used F.lux for 5-6 years now, and while it doesn't solve all of my problems it has made great differences in my ability to mentally and physically "wind down" before sleep.
Niantic's first game, Ingress, is quite similar. Run around in the real world, GPS on, game constantly updating Google/Niantic's servers about where you are. Niantic is a Google enterprise, btw., and here's the kicker: once you're hooked on the game and you are about to level up to level 3 (maybe 15 hours of playing or so), you are required to "verify" your account to be able to continue playing, by giving Google your phone number to get a "confirmation SMS", effectively linking your real person to all past and future movement data of where you have been, at what times, during what days. How's that for creepy and treacherous?
If this isn't the equivalent of having a GPS tracker on your person, I don't know what is. Boycott that shit. Surely Pokemon Go is the exact same stuff? Just one step further, with your phone letting "them" see what you see, in addition to engaging a shitload of more people to keep track on.
...always swear themselves free of participation in this, in particular Android users. Not a troll post. Just think about what camp it is always bringing this up, in particular with fingers pointed on Apple, never Samsung, never LG, never HTC etc.
It's about the vantage point, the perspective and the curiosity and exploration from seeing your surroundings from high up. These people have no interest in playing around in a gymnastics hall or an abandoned hangar.
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...or it gets the hose again.
Since you are requested to confirm an account with an SMS, and the mobile phone number used (which is associated with an actual person) is permanently stored and associated with every Signal account, you only have partial privacy with Signal. What you say cannot be read by anyone, but who you are, when you talk, and who you talk to is divulged. This is highly valuable (and sensitive) meta data, and a serious privacy breach.
There is no valid technical reason for requiring the revelation of a mobile phone number for enabling an account instead of f.e. using e-mail, and since the application is not monetized in any way - no ads, no end-user costs what so ever - people should ask themselves what the true gain is from pouring millions of dollars into SMS costs etc. to keep Signal running without a single end-user dollar going back to the operation.
Why not? I don't understand why you assume that smartphone filming absolutely must be the painful epileptic portrait-oriented garbage every moron with a phone shits out on instagram and youtube. It's entirely possible to mount a phone on a gimbal or dolly to get even steadier and smoother movement/capture.
It reads more like typical leftist liberal reasoning; an efficient tool to exclude and shut people down on the vaguest of merits, with complete disregard to a future victim's intentions behind what they said or did. Really, it's not very far from a fascist manifesto in disguise.
You can just go to https://support.apple.com/ and search for "how to download os x" (or ditto for "macOS"). Here's f.e. the download for El Capitan: https://support.apple.com/en-u...
No, it doesn't mean *buying* a new OS at all - Apple made OS X / macOS free of charge about 10 years ago, and you can download any version you want directly from them without cost or registration. If you want a physical copy that will obviously cost you a small spot of cash ($25, believe).
Your old iMac will likely run El Capitan, and possibly even Sierra. You normally can't find these older versions in the AppStore since Apple only offers the current version of macOS in the search results, but you can access the downloads from here: 10.11 El Capitan: https://support.apple.com/en-a... 10.12 Sierra: https://support.apple.com/en-a...
Yeah because 2018 is finally The Year, right? Tired song ;) Don't get me wrong, I use linux for the desktop in my line of work, and it gets the job done, but it's just not the same polished desktop experience that macOS is, even by a stretch.
Of course you can DIRECTLY install 10.13 (read: fresh installation), or any other compatible version, but you can't UPDATE a 10.6 installation to 10.13. In my opinion doing a single fresh install is a lot faster and tidier than jumping through several intermediate updates to land where you want.
I fully agree with "picking one that will make your life easier", meaning he should stick with OS X / macOS by simply updating to a current version. The original author is suffering the misunderstanding that he cannot update to anything beyond what was on the laptop when he bought it 8 years ago.
I'm not sure why you think it's "capped" to 10.6 - that's just the version that was current at the release of your Macbook model. It will happily install and run El Capitan (10.11), and that's bound to be a more compatible and pleasant desktop experience than putting anything Linux on it.
Really? This was nothing else than a dumb, shallow and biased summary.
I see a problem with Bitmovin's comparisons (linked in the article) not telling us which encoder was used for the H.264 and H.265 tests. This matters tremendously - there are shitty encoders producing bad H.264/265, and there are amazing encoders producing excellent H.264/265, at one and the same bitrate. It's like comparing a new audio coded to MP3 and using Xing MP3 instead of LAME, and calling the test legit.
It means that the source code is openly available. The end.
You may have misunderstood what "open source" means.
...and someone who has the bad habit of using their laptop in bed: yes, it helps. It's a medically and scientifically established fact that blue light stops production of melatonin while triggering production of serotonin. I've used F.lux for 5-6 years now, and while it doesn't solve all of my problems it has made great differences in my ability to mentally and physically "wind down" before sleep.
Niantic's first game, Ingress, is quite similar. Run around in the real world, GPS on, game constantly updating Google/Niantic's servers about where you are. Niantic is a Google enterprise, btw., and here's the kicker: once you're hooked on the game and you are about to level up to level 3 (maybe 15 hours of playing or so), you are required to "verify" your account to be able to continue playing, by giving Google your phone number to get a "confirmation SMS", effectively linking your real person to all past and future movement data of where you have been, at what times, during what days. How's that for creepy and treacherous? If this isn't the equivalent of having a GPS tracker on your person, I don't know what is. Boycott that shit. Surely Pokemon Go is the exact same stuff? Just one step further, with your phone letting "them" see what you see, in addition to engaging a shitload of more people to keep track on.
54 mbps is only the raw link speed of 802.11g. The actual data transfer rate maxes out at just over 20 mbps.
Given the rather invasive abilities this "solution center" has I'm surprised people just don't uninstall that piece of malware once and for all.
Really, this should not be a problem for anyone who gets paid for doing this kind of work.
These are the same factories that utilize slave-labor for making products for Samsung, LG, HTC, and a hundred others.
...always swear themselves free of participation in this, in particular Android users. Not a troll post. Just think about what camp it is always bringing this up, in particular with fingers pointed on Apple, never Samsung, never LG, never HTC etc.
It's about the vantage point, the perspective and the curiosity and exploration from seeing your surroundings from high up. These people have no interest in playing around in a gymnastics hall or an abandoned hangar.
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...seems to have its bar lowered every year by mainstream journalism and wannabe computer "aficionados".