I am shocked, shocked, that Google extend their proactive scan of your data from Google Drive to your private disk. Shocked!
Let's all pray now for the poor souls that had "hate speech", "terrorist" material or pictures of their kids in the bathtub on their local harddrives and were "... reporting you to the relevant authorities." Amen.
Unlike the open Internet, Tor makes it easy to create real peer to peer messaging clients. All Tor nodes can create hidden services that are instantly accessible to anyone. Using a true peer to peer architecture, without hub's, there are no meta-data laying around, except on the peers themselves.
Tor Chat (which now seems dead) pioneered this approach. Ricochet is an alternative that is actively maintained.
I am working on a project to bring another peer to peer instant messenger to the onion party. I believe it matters to be able to communicate privately. I believe that it matters a lot.
Making FF more Chrome-like will not attract more users. It will just alienate more of their remaining users. I hate everything about Chrome, from calling home to to the crappy user interface. Personally, I use the Firefox ESR release under Windows and an old version under Linux . When those expire, I will find something else. Or build my own browser if I have to. *That* is how much I like Chrome!
Hi FF: I want to see the URL I am connecting to. I want dialog boxes with fine-graded control over privacy and security settings. If I mistype an url, or by accident type something else into the url widget - i *don't* want to search for it. Did you hear me? That is a feature from hell! You are losing because you are looking at Google in stead of using your own brains and *differencing* yourself from Chrome. Chrome is poison!
Every tattooed d*head in my coffee shop agree that you need to include at least a million lines of javascript, backed a hew hundred gems, including a few dozens C libraries and some Rust apps to render HTML output.
And bad-talking scrum??? What's wrong with scrum, dude? It makes the graybeards quit, and then we get to do everything our own way, without anyone/senior/ babbling around about security, response time or energy consumption. Scrum is great. Without scrum we may actually had to work hard to get something to work correctly.
Android is designed to spy on you. It is it's sole purpose. So the fact that an android variant collects data about you and call home is not an issue. People who value privacy don't use android. It's that simple.
For me, one of the most crucial parameters when choosing my next CPU is to get one without a backdoor in the chipset (after the vulnerabilities discovered in Intel Management Engine). Intel is no longer a player. AMD has had similar "features" in the past. Does anyone know if they have carved that crap out of this new series of CPU's?
Safari is a great service with lots of books. But their Android app is a disgrace!
For example - if it works at all, it will connect to safaris defunct back-end upon start-up, and then block the UI thread until the connection times out(!). More times than not, I have to switch off wi-fi on my tablet in order to read downloaded content at all.
Whenever I need new books, I often end up searching for the book on safari, and then on Kindle. By the time I have found my book on the Kindle shop, read the reviews, purchased and downloaded the book - the safari search has still not displayed the first matches. This happens more often than not. If I/get/ lucky and find a book, there is a 70% chance that I the first 5 download attempts will fail. There is no re-try if I start several downloads - so I have to search for the books again all over.
If I really need to find something on Safari, from the Andrioid app, I usually start / kill the app around 20 times before I get any luck with the safari back-end.
Last time I looked, they had more 1 star reviews in the Google store than any other app I have ever installed. And the sad thing is that they (Safari) don't give a shit. The problems are only getting worse over time. I have used the service for 4 years - but I don't think I will renew it when the current subscription expires.
If we assert that human brains are nothing more than complex state machines with lots of individual properties and variations - then it's obvious that if someone have the data and algorithms to predict how to alter the current state of individuals into a more desired state - and the infrastructure to deliver state-altering stimuli, then that's exactly what they will do. That's a predictable move. To say that those who do this is evil or saints is just a matter of perspective about the desired outcome.
AFAIK, OwnCloud was forked by the original developers, after some policy disagreements with greedy investors. I was skeptical, but after listening to a FLOSS weekly pod-cast about nextcloud, I'm actually quite exited about the project. The version of OwnCloud shipped with Debian stable has been rock solid to me for years. For hosted OwnCloud, there are many alternatives: https://owncloud.org/providers.... The same goes for nextcloud: https://nextcloud.com/provider....
Thunderbird works well with standard IMAP servers.
Many years ago, I administered the Courier mail suite for a company that hosted emails for lots of local businesses. I wrote a few small programs to simplify domain and use management, and it was really a pleasure to use (http://products.jgaa.com/?menu=566).
I hope you are trolling.
If not, have you heard about nextcloud?
No need to be Faust just because you want modern facilities.
There are open source alternatives to mail, calendar, online docs, cloud storage and pretty much anything else. If you sell your soul to the Devil, you do so because you want to. Not because you need to.
As it does for telegram, signal, threema and much more. Why do you think they will be there forever? I guess most of them will be gone when icq is still around.
I don't.
That's why I run my own XMPP server, and that's why I embrace a pure p2p, server-less (in the word's real meaning) architecture for my own IM implementation:)
Personally I prefer XMPP. That is an open standard. Anyone can choose to use it.
The biggest concern with XMPP is of course that you need to access a public service, which may be shut down at any time - unless you run your own XMPP server (I do). Another concern is privacy. Even if messages can be encrypted, meta-data about who is communicating with whom may leak to those who have the powers to listen in on the IP packages to the server(s).
For whistle-blowers, journalists, and anyone living under repressive regimes, there are not too many options today. I am working on my own solution, allowing IM over the Tor network, using the legacy Tor Chat protocol (https://github.com/jgaa/darkspeak). This takes care of the privacy concerns - but it adds another protocol to the mix.
I have been skeptical to GitHub for quite some time.
GitHub has been very eager to comply with take-down requests in the past. For me as a developer - that is scary. I put thousands of hours into my projects. I don't want to risk loosing them. As someone who release free software for Windows, I also need to host binaries somewhere. Windows users in general does not know how to compile a program from source. I vaguely remember that GitHub removed their support for hosting binaries a long time ago. Then there is the current "anti-talent" activist senior managers that seems to do their best to get rid of all the talented people at GitHub as fast as they can.
SourceForge has suffered form evil owners and their pursuit of quick and easy money. That failed, and then they sold the company. Personally, I am willing to give the new owners a fair chance to restore SourceForge.
SourceForge offer more and better project management tools than GitHub. They also provides binary downloads. Some of my own projects have been hosted there, without any issues, for 15+ years. It will be interesting to see if GitHb still provides free hosting for my projects there (yes - I use both, some projects on SourceForge, some on GitHub) in 15 - 20 years time.
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He believe he is intelligent, so he is excused.
Is there a difference?
... in the future, when only the AI's have a job?
Forking Chrome?
It's a huge project. That someone needs lots of devoted developers and resources.
Bye bye Chrome
Bye bye Edge
Bye bye Opera
The Jolla phone had an Android emulator that worked just fine. So you could run Jolla apps (Qt/QML) and most Android apps.
Let's all pray now for the poor souls that had "hate speech", "terrorist" material or pictures of their kids in the bathtub on their local harddrives and were "... reporting you to the relevant authorities." Amen.
Tor Chat (which now seems dead) pioneered this approach. Ricochet is an alternative that is actively maintained.
I am working on a project to bring another peer to peer instant messenger to the onion party. I believe it matters to be able to communicate privately. I believe that it matters a lot.
On Github
On Google Play
If I wanted Chrome, I would have used Chrome.
Making FF more Chrome-like will not attract more users. It will just alienate more of their remaining users. I hate everything about Chrome, from calling home to to the crappy user interface. Personally, I use the Firefox ESR release under Windows and an old version under Linux . When those expire, I will find something else. Or build my own browser if I have to. *That* is how much I like Chrome!
Hi FF: I want to see the URL I am connecting to. I want dialog boxes with fine-graded control over privacy and security settings. If I mistype an url, or by accident type something else into the url widget - i *don't* want to search for it. Did you hear me? That is a feature from hell! You are losing because you are looking at Google in stead of using your own brains and *differencing* yourself from Chrome. Chrome is poison!
Every tattooed d*head in my coffee shop agree that you need to include at least a million lines of javascript, backed a hew hundred gems, including a few dozens C libraries and some Rust apps to render HTML output.
And bad-talking scrum??? What's wrong with scrum, dude? It makes the graybeards quit, and then we get to do everything our own way, without anyone /senior/ babbling around about security, response time or energy consumption. Scrum is great. Without scrum we may actually had to work hard to get something to work correctly.
Android is designed to spy on you. It is it's sole purpose. So the fact that an android variant collects data about you and call home is not an issue. People who value privacy don't use android. It's that simple.
They just wanted to get in the guinness book of records...
If a restaurant don't want my cash, I'll just go somewhere else.
For me, one of the most crucial parameters when choosing my next CPU is to get one without a backdoor in the chipset (after the vulnerabilities discovered in Intel Management Engine). Intel is no longer a player. AMD has had similar "features" in the past. Does anyone know if they have carved that crap out of this new series of CPU's?
I am in Europe however. May be they simply don't have the bandwidth to serve international users.
For example - if it works at all, it will connect to safaris defunct back-end upon start-up, and then block the UI thread until the connection times out(!). More times than not, I have to switch off wi-fi on my tablet in order to read downloaded content at all.
Whenever I need new books, I often end up searching for the book on safari, and then on Kindle. By the time I have found my book on the Kindle shop, read the reviews, purchased and downloaded the book - the safari search has still not displayed the first matches. This happens more often than not. If I /get/ lucky and find a book, there is a 70% chance that I the first 5 download attempts will fail. There is no re-try if I start several downloads - so I have to search for the books again all over.
If I really need to find something on Safari, from the Andrioid app, I usually start / kill the app around 20 times before I get any luck with the safari back-end.
Last time I looked, they had more 1 star reviews in the Google store than any other app I have ever installed. And the sad thing is that they (Safari) don't give a shit. The problems are only getting worse over time. I have used the service for 4 years - but I don't think I will renew it when the current subscription expires.
If they want my participation, they'll have to march into Oslo again. Or not. If they do, I'll probably join the resistance :)
If we assert that human brains are nothing more than complex state machines with lots of individual properties and variations - then it's obvious that if someone have the data and algorithms to predict how to alter the current state of individuals into a more desired state - and the infrastructure to deliver state-altering stimuli, then that's exactly what they will do. That's a predictable move. To say that those who do this is evil or saints is just a matter of perspective about the desired outcome.
AFAIK, OwnCloud was forked by the original developers, after some policy disagreements with greedy investors. I was skeptical, but after listening to a FLOSS weekly pod-cast about nextcloud, I'm actually quite exited about the project. The version of OwnCloud shipped with Debian stable has been rock solid to me for years. For hosted OwnCloud, there are many alternatives: https://owncloud.org/providers.... The same goes for nextcloud: https://nextcloud.com/provider.... Thunderbird works well with standard IMAP servers.
Many years ago, I administered the Courier mail suite for a company that hosted emails for lots of local businesses. I wrote a few small programs to simplify domain and use management, and it was really a pleasure to use (http://products.jgaa.com/?menu=566).
I hope you are trolling. If not, have you heard about nextcloud? No need to be Faust just because you want modern facilities. There are open source alternatives to mail, calendar, online docs, cloud storage and pretty much anything else. If you sell your soul to the Devil, you do so because you want to. Not because you need to.
As it does for telegram, signal, threema and much more. Why do you think they will be there forever? I guess most of them will be gone when icq is still around.
I don't.
That's why I run my own XMPP server, and that's why I embrace a pure p2p, server-less (in the word's real meaning) architecture for my own IM implementation :)
The biggest concern with XMPP is of course that you need to access a public service, which may be shut down at any time - unless you run your own XMPP server (I do). Another concern is privacy. Even if messages can be encrypted, meta-data about who is communicating with whom may leak to those who have the powers to listen in on the IP packages to the server(s).
For whistle-blowers, journalists, and anyone living under repressive regimes, there are not too many options today. I am working on my own solution, allowing IM over the Tor network, using the legacy Tor Chat protocol (https://github.com/jgaa/darkspeak). This takes care of the privacy concerns - but it adds another protocol to the mix.
I have been skeptical to GitHub for quite some time.
GitHub has been very eager to comply with take-down requests in the past. For me as a developer - that is scary. I put thousands of hours into my projects. I don't want to risk loosing them. As someone who release free software for Windows, I also need to host binaries somewhere. Windows users in general does not know how to compile a program from source. I vaguely remember that GitHub removed their support for hosting binaries a long time ago. Then there is the current "anti-talent" activist senior managers that seems to do their best to get rid of all the talented people at GitHub as fast as they can.
SourceForge has suffered form evil owners and their pursuit of quick and easy money. That failed, and then they sold the company. Personally, I am willing to give the new owners a fair chance to restore SourceForge.
SourceForge offer more and better project management tools than GitHub. They also provides binary downloads. Some of my own projects have been hosted there, without any issues, for 15+ years. It will be interesting to see if GitHb still provides free hosting for my projects there (yes - I use both, some projects on SourceForge, some on GitHub) in 15 - 20 years time.