"An open internet ensures that hundreds of millions of consumers get the experience they want, over the broadband connections they choose, to use the devices they love, which have become an integral part of their lives,"
BUT Apple needs to make sure that they retain tight control over their devices......
I am glad that Apple wants to support net neutrality, but it did just give me a small jab in the ribs as to how hypocritical that sentiment is.
I understand the need for Snap and Flatpak for closed source. It makes it much easier for say Spotify to distribute their app, but there is NO FREAKING REASON to package up open source apps that are being maintained by a distro. They are MUCH larger, and you can't theme them. WTF is Ubuntu thinking. This *has* been my distro of choice, but I guess it is time to start looking elsewhere.
The reason is simply every commercially used Linux distro switched to it. We're stuck going along for the ride.
THIS! So much THIS!
I am fortunate enough to work for a company that stuck with Debian 7, and is now switching to Devuan for all new builds. They saw the writing on the wall when the systemd virus started spreading. We also have a few CentOS boxes that will stay on 6 until we can migrate those applications to work on Devuan.
It is my hope that Devuan isn't a "one hit wonder", but just in case, we are prepared to use it as a base in house distribution.
My personal workstation and all of my home boxes have been switched to Arch without systemd. OpenRC is a great init system, that is capable of everything that systemd (the INIT part) is, and more. As for udev, resolver, logger, ntp, etc..etc... Why is the world would I want to use anything other than known -- PROVEN daemons? What do they plan to try and suck in next?
And really, Lennart, take logind and shove it up your ass.
Let's hypothetically say that Netflix had peering agreements with Level 3, AT&T, Centurylink, etc. (the Tier 1 providers), and I also had peering agreements with the same. With net neutrality gone, those backbone providers can charge ME *AND* Netflix extra to carry our traffic. So, I am sure you will say: "HEY, there are multiple Tier 1 providers, so they can compete for your business!". OK, so I am supposed to peer with EVERY Tier 1 provider? Unrealistic. I don't think you understand the cost involved.
Let's get to something a little more down to earth though. There was an article on here recently where Comcast tried to take down a site that was promoting comments for net neutrality. If net neutrality was gone, they could have just throttled them down to nothing, and there would be nothing anyone could do about it.
Don't like Verizon (and plenty of people don't), and you throw up a boycott Verizon site -- NOTHING can be done about it. It isn't the government, so the 1st amendment doesn't apply.
Ahhh, so let's get to the meat of this. There is a site that has some political commentary that is derogatory to the current administration. Scratch some backs, hand over some payola, and what do you know -- no one can reach those sites.
Bank of America really wants customers -- simple -- pay to have all other major online bank sites slowed to a crawl.
I could go on, and on.
The Internet is a PUBLIC utility. The airwaves that Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, etc use are PUBLIC. They need massive amounts of regulation since they are a scarce resource.
I am all for keeping government out of local affairs. I am all for small government when you have alternatives. In this case, unless you are rich, you have no alternative for the most part.
Well hell, I might as well call up Verizon (or Frontier, if the dark fiber was part of the deal), and buy some fiber. I work for a telco that has peering agreements with L3 and Centurylink, and it just so happens I could have them light it up all the way from the front of my house to the front of our data center.
But wait, just like I don't have money to start a WISP, I don't have money to pay for that fiber (I am sure my employer would have no problems with me terminating in the DC -- so at least that cost is out).
As for your other suggestions -- really? Even if I could afford a T1 - 1.544mbits or... wait for it... T3 - 45mbits. Blazing fast./s
Bottom line, it isn't a matter of "willing to pay for" (I would LOVE my fiber idea), it is a matter of *capable* of paying for.
You got that backwards. Netflix is so big that a ISP that does not provide access to Neflix will be without customers.
I don't know about where you live, but I have exactly *one* choice for high speed Internet where I live. I am sure I could get ADSL -- maybe even 3mbits, but I don't think I will be streaming Netflix on that.
So if my ISP doesn't want to pay the "Netflix carriage charge" to the backbone provider that they use, Netflix is thrown back to the "buffering 90s", and I drop Netflix -- not my ISP -- because I have NO CHOICE.
Wait, I do have a choice, I could move. Yea, that is a realistic choice.....
Better hope that congress has some common sense, and when the FCC tries to show that there has been a drastic enough change to warrant the removal of title II status that they laugh in Ajit's face.
If (and it IS still an if) net neutrality is removed, I am going to laugh my ass off when the backbone providers tell Netflix that BECAUSE they are so big, they can pay out their ass.
I do appreciate the CEO being honest, but he is not thinking about the big picture. He may think that Netflix can handle the extra payola that will be required, but with that kind of hubris, I don't think he has really thought it all the way through.
Tell them to piss off and block Austria from Facebook. I hate Facebook, but I can't stand it when some country (be it the USA, some member of the EU, or Austria) tries to enforce their laws on another country. Someone is going to have to eventually show them the middle finger.
Even non-technical Facebook users know that it is a privacy nightmare.. so why keep one?
You want to stay in touch with friends and family -- EMAIL. At least there are some modest privacy protections in place for email accounts.
-- RN
Good god, fuck no. Sorry but comparing email to a social network is like comparing a telegram to a video conference. The use cases are different. The presentation is different. The way it works is very different. What you can do with it is different.
You know what email is good for? Sending some long text to one person.
God you bring back nightmares of people trying to share something as simple as a few family vacation snaps via email. 30 people all getting nothing but messages that a sender has tried overloading your inbox, only to have it get resent in a format so badly compressed that no one can make out anything. Not to mention the persistency of things posted to facebook and the ability to modify collections of posts give it features that just aren't possible with email which are none the less great for when you're communicating with family and friends.
I'm not going to say you're comparing apples to oranges here. You're comparing apples to a medium rare pepper steak with mushroom sauce, and a side of wonderfully spiced wedges, yes you could eat the both but you wouldn't use one in place of the other.
I don't believe that I said that they were remotely equal. As for your "You know what email is good for? Sending some long text to one person." -- I guess you haven't heard of distribution lists? As for sending attachments -- uh, no. If I take a video of my niece, and upload it to Dropbox, I can get a link that I can paste into an email and send.... viola -- the family all has a copy, and Facebook (or anyone else for that matter) can't do shit with it.
Now, you are correct about the fact that isn't as efficient as Facebook, but again, I guess you don't care about your privacy -- I do.
Thank California for that. Because apart from the landslide in California, she lost handily in the rest of the 49 states....and if you remove the Trump landslide in Texas, he would have handily lost the election. But at least you believe that being blatant biased is more important than being a patriot.
And if you take away both California and Texas, then she still loses, but now she loses the popular vote as well. You can't take away one state that a candidate won, without taking away one for the other.
Windows was important in the 90s. Wake up that is so last century.
Some of us grown-ups have to use our computers for *work* and can't just choose whatever OS has the prettiest icons, you know. That's why Windows still runs the vast majority of the world's workstations.
The company I work for is on track to be Microsoft free by Q3 2017. We are already MS free on the workstation side, but there are things like Great Plains, that they got backed into a corner YEARS ago, that are a lot harder to let go of. Even that will be gone Q1 2017, the two biggies are the SQL server clusters, they will be the last to go.
So don't cry me a river about it isn't possible to run a big corporation without sucking on the MS teat. I have helped several companies shed at least the MS workstation weight, and this will be the first that has decided to go *entirely* MS free.
Now I am not a graphics person. But I can still see that in the professional gfx world, Photoshop is still king. However, the shops that have custom software, and don't have the source code -- well they were just stupid.
If you want to sell your soul to play the latest worthless piece of shit "game" -- go for it. There hasn't been a new revolutionary game in well over a decade.
But for those times that I must play something that isn't available on my OS of choice, I have a PS4.
So we ended up with the MS of the mobile world. Don't get me wrong, I use an Android phone, and I think things are OK right now, but if Google decided to become a super dick -- the battle starts all over again.
In the year 2169, Bennu has a 1/2700 chance of Earth impact. It is too small to be an ELE, but it would be thousands of times bigger than the Chelyabinsk meteor.
We will all be dead long before then. I mean didn't anyone on the team that developed this thing watch The Andromeda Strain (the original, not the remake)?!?
No, I don't actually think that will happen, but then again, sometimes life imitates art:)
Ross Ulbricht is serving life in prison building a website to buy and sell shit that should be legal (well, most of it) anyway.
Didn't he try to have someone murdered?
If that was the case why wasn't he convicted of 1st degree murder? Honest question....
I believe in innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The charges that he was *CONVICTED* of do _NOT_ warrant a life sentence. If he had been convicted of 5 attempts at murder for hire, THAT would warrant a life sentence. You can't (well obviously you can, or he wouldn't have gotten life) sentence someone based on what you THINK they did. The sentencing should be based on the crimes they were charged and convicted of.
But I'm a Libertarian, and I will be feeling the Johnson come November, so what do I know....
I don't really consider myself an ideologist (evangelist?) when it comes to operating systems -- or at least I didn't. I had used an MS OS on my PCs since DOS 2.11 up to and including Windows 7. At first I used MS because there was no reasonable alternative -- there was so much that you HAD to have Windows for. When XP came out, I used it because I liked it. Same for Vista, and then Win 7. When 8 came out, I decided it was time to get my mouth of the MS teat. What I found was that I could accomplish my normal "consumer" tasks with ANY OS. GNU/Linux, *BSD, OS X, Android, iOS, etc...etc... The world had become OS agnostic *finally*. It is a real shame that most people still think they NEED an MS OS. Errrr -- nope. For the average consumer you can use any OS you want. Hell, for most people they will find that Android or iOS will serve them better. I have a wireless charger, wireless display, BT keyboard/mouse. I plop my phone on the charger and it pairs up with everything, and that is what I use for 95% of my computing needs. When I need to do development work, I have a workstation (running Mint) that I use VNC to connect to.
TL;DR: Except for a few enterprise applications, you NO LONGER need Windows -- PERIOD! I wish more companies would offer their products without an OS.
My issue isn't getting Mint or FreeBSD to run on it, it is the fact that I will NOT give MS another dime. Supposedly I can get a refund... blah blah blah. That has never worked out for me. The only hardware I buy now is MS free from the start.
You can choose to mute all notifications per app, or to allow priority notifications per app. Unfortunately in 5.x the developer decides what is a "priority" notification, so your millage may vary if you choose that route. Google is working on updating this to allow YOU to decide what is a priority notification.
As for the Gmail widget, you are correct, you have to create a widget per mailbox. I am still looking for a good email widget...
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BUT Apple needs to make sure that they retain tight control over their devices......
I am glad that Apple wants to support net neutrality, but it did just give me a small jab in the ribs as to how hypocritical that sentiment is.
Open Internet! Walled Garden for Apple!
I understand the need for Snap and Flatpak for closed source. It makes it much easier for say Spotify to distribute their app, but there is NO FREAKING REASON to package up open source apps that are being maintained by a distro. They are MUCH larger, and you can't theme them. WTF is Ubuntu thinking. This *has* been my distro of choice, but I guess it is time to start looking elsewhere.
Supporting commercial software on top of Linux and you're quickly out of options, old rehl6 based stuff is pretty widely supported but also very old.
RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 does not reach EOL until 2020.
I hope the Debian devs come to their senses and at LEAST release a server version without systemd.
The whole point of systemd was to improve boot times, something you most certainly do not need on servers.
The reason is simply every commercially used Linux distro switched to it. We're stuck going along for the ride.
THIS! So much THIS!
I am fortunate enough to work for a company that stuck with Debian 7, and is now switching to Devuan for all new builds. They saw the writing on the wall when the systemd virus started spreading. We also have a few CentOS boxes that will stay on 6 until we can migrate those applications to work on Devuan.
It is my hope that Devuan isn't a "one hit wonder", but just in case, we are prepared to use it as a base in house distribution.
My personal workstation and all of my home boxes have been switched to Arch without systemd. OpenRC is a great init system, that is capable of everything that systemd (the INIT part) is, and more. As for udev, resolver, logger, ntp, etc..etc... Why is the world would I want to use anything other than known -- PROVEN daemons? What do they plan to try and suck in next?
And really, Lennart, take logind and shove it up your ass.
Is that 5 simultaneous streams? Or 2 Netflix, a Hulu, and HBO? Is that 4k?
Yea, didn't think so.
Not to mention it is nice being able to use the Internet for something besides video at the same time.
Cord cutting .... look it up.
You still don't get it.
Let's hypothetically say that Netflix had peering agreements with Level 3, AT&T, Centurylink, etc. (the Tier 1 providers), and I also had peering agreements with the same. With net neutrality gone, those backbone providers can charge ME *AND* Netflix extra to carry our traffic. So, I am sure you will say: "HEY, there are multiple Tier 1 providers, so they can compete for your business!". OK, so I am supposed to peer with EVERY Tier 1 provider? Unrealistic. I don't think you understand the cost involved.
Let's get to something a little more down to earth though. There was an article on here recently where Comcast tried to take down a site that was promoting comments for net neutrality. If net neutrality was gone, they could have just throttled them down to nothing, and there would be nothing anyone could do about it.
Don't like Verizon (and plenty of people don't), and you throw up a boycott Verizon site -- NOTHING can be done about it. It isn't the government, so the 1st amendment doesn't apply.
Ahhh, so let's get to the meat of this. There is a site that has some political commentary that is derogatory to the current administration. Scratch some backs, hand over some payola, and what do you know -- no one can reach those sites.
Bank of America really wants customers -- simple -- pay to have all other major online bank sites slowed to a crawl.
I could go on, and on.
The Internet is a PUBLIC utility. The airwaves that Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, etc use are PUBLIC. They need massive amounts of regulation since they are a scarce resource.
I am all for keeping government out of local affairs. I am all for small government when you have alternatives. In this case, unless you are rich, you have no alternative for the most part.
Well hell, I might as well call up Verizon (or Frontier, if the dark fiber was part of the deal), and buy some fiber. I work for a telco that has peering agreements with L3 and Centurylink, and it just so happens I could have them light it up all the way from the front of my house to the front of our data center.
But wait, just like I don't have money to start a WISP, I don't have money to pay for that fiber (I am sure my employer would have no problems with me terminating in the DC -- so at least that cost is out).
As for your other suggestions -- really? Even if I could afford a T1 - 1.544mbits or ... wait for it ... T3 - 45mbits. Blazing fast. /s
Bottom line, it isn't a matter of "willing to pay for" (I would LOVE my fiber idea), it is a matter of *capable* of paying for.
You got that backwards. Netflix is so big that a ISP that does not provide access to Neflix will be without customers.
I don't know about where you live, but I have exactly *one* choice for high speed Internet where I live. I am sure I could get ADSL -- maybe even 3mbits, but I don't think I will be streaming Netflix on that.
So if my ISP doesn't want to pay the "Netflix carriage charge" to the backbone provider that they use, Netflix is thrown back to the "buffering 90s", and I drop Netflix -- not my ISP -- because I have NO CHOICE.
Wait, I do have a choice, I could move. Yea, that is a realistic choice.....
Better hope that congress has some common sense, and when the FCC tries to show that there has been a drastic enough change to warrant the removal of title II status that they laugh in Ajit's face.
If (and it IS still an if) net neutrality is removed, I am going to laugh my ass off when the backbone providers tell Netflix that BECAUSE they are so big, they can pay out their ass.
I do appreciate the CEO being honest, but he is not thinking about the big picture. He may think that Netflix can handle the extra payola that will be required, but with that kind of hubris, I don't think he has really thought it all the way through.
UGH - some *other* member of the EU. One word makes all the difference ... sigh.
Tell them to piss off and block Austria from Facebook. I hate Facebook, but I can't stand it when some country (be it the USA, some member of the EU, or Austria) tries to enforce their laws on another country. Someone is going to have to eventually show them the middle finger.
Even non-technical Facebook users know that it is a privacy nightmare .. so why keep one?
You want to stay in touch with friends and family -- EMAIL. At least there are some modest privacy protections in place for email accounts.
-- RN
Good god, fuck no. Sorry but comparing email to a social network is like comparing a telegram to a video conference. The use cases are different. The presentation is different. The way it works is very different. What you can do with it is different.
You know what email is good for? Sending some long text to one person.
God you bring back nightmares of people trying to share something as simple as a few family vacation snaps via email. 30 people all getting nothing but messages that a sender has tried overloading your inbox, only to have it get resent in a format so badly compressed that no one can make out anything. Not to mention the persistency of things posted to facebook and the ability to modify collections of posts give it features that just aren't possible with email which are none the less great for when you're communicating with family and friends.
I'm not going to say you're comparing apples to oranges here. You're comparing apples to a medium rare pepper steak with mushroom sauce, and a side of wonderfully spiced wedges, yes you could eat the both but you wouldn't use one in place of the other.
I don't believe that I said that they were remotely equal. As for your "You know what email is good for? Sending some long text to one person." -- I guess you haven't heard of distribution lists? As for sending attachments -- uh, no. If I take a video of my niece, and upload it to Dropbox, I can get a link that I can paste into an email and send.... viola -- the family all has a copy, and Facebook (or anyone else for that matter) can't do shit with it.
Now, you are correct about the fact that isn't as efficient as Facebook, but again, I guess you don't care about your privacy -- I do.
-- RN
Even non-technical Facebook users know that it is a privacy nightmare .. so why keep one?
You want to stay in touch with friends and family -- EMAIL. At least there are some modest privacy protections in place for email accounts.
-- RN
Thank California for that. Because apart from the landslide in California, she lost handily in the rest of the 49 states. ...and if you remove the Trump landslide in Texas, he would have handily lost the election. But at least you believe that being blatant biased is more important than being a patriot.
And if you take away both California and Texas, then she still loses, but now she loses the popular vote as well. You can't take away one state that a candidate won, without taking away one for the other.
Windows was important in the 90s. Wake up that is so last century.
Some of us grown-ups have to use our computers for *work* and can't just choose whatever OS has the prettiest icons, you know. That's why Windows still runs the vast majority of the world's workstations.
The company I work for is on track to be Microsoft free by Q3 2017. We are already MS free on the workstation side, but there are things like Great Plains, that they got backed into a corner YEARS ago, that are a lot harder to let go of. Even that will be gone Q1 2017, the two biggies are the SQL server clusters, they will be the last to go.
So don't cry me a river about it isn't possible to run a big corporation without sucking on the MS teat. I have helped several companies shed at least the MS workstation weight, and this will be the first that has decided to go *entirely* MS free.
Now I am not a graphics person. But I can still see that in the professional gfx world, Photoshop is still king. However, the shops that have custom software, and don't have the source code -- well they were just stupid.
If you want to sell your soul to play the latest worthless piece of shit "game" -- go for it. There hasn't been a new revolutionary game in well over a decade.
But for those times that I must play something that isn't available on my OS of choice, I have a PS4.
ANY OS is an alternative to the malware, adware, crapware that is Windows 10.
Don't like Linux, get a Mac, or a Chromebox / Chromebook.
Windows was important in the 90s. Wake up that is so last century.
So we ended up with the MS of the mobile world. Don't get me wrong, I use an Android phone, and I think things are OK right now, but if Google decided to become a super dick -- the battle starts all over again.
I think my next phone will run Ubuntu.
In the year 2169, Bennu has a 1/2700 chance of Earth impact. It is too small to be an ELE, but it would be thousands of times bigger than the Chelyabinsk meteor.
We will all be dead long before then. I mean didn't anyone on the team that developed this thing watch The Andromeda Strain (the original, not the remake)?!?
No, I don't actually think that will happen, but then again, sometimes life imitates art :)
-- RN
Ross Ulbricht is serving life in prison building a website to buy and sell shit that should be legal (well, most of it) anyway.
Didn't he try to have someone murdered?
If that was the case why wasn't he convicted of 1st degree murder? Honest question....
I believe in innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The charges that he was *CONVICTED* of do _NOT_ warrant a life sentence. If he had been convicted of 5 attempts at murder for hire, THAT would warrant a life sentence. You can't (well obviously you can, or he wouldn't have gotten life) sentence someone based on what you THINK they did. The sentencing should be based on the crimes they were charged and convicted of.
But I'm a Libertarian, and I will be feeling the Johnson come November, so what do I know....
So, they want to kill Snowden -- or at the very least lock him away for life, and he is an American hero.
Ross Ulbricht is serving life in prison building a website to buy and sell shit that should be legal (well, most of it) anyway.
Hillary Clinton commits treason, and goes free.
But this dude, sells military secrets to the Russians, and 10 years.... yep ... seems legit to me.
I don't really consider myself an ideologist (evangelist?) when it comes to operating systems -- or at least I didn't. I had used an MS OS on my PCs since DOS 2.11 up to and including Windows 7. At first I used MS because there was no reasonable alternative -- there was so much that you HAD to have Windows for. When XP came out, I used it because I liked it. Same for Vista, and then Win 7. When 8 came out, I decided it was time to get my mouth of the MS teat. What I found was that I could accomplish my normal "consumer" tasks with ANY OS. GNU/Linux, *BSD, OS X, Android, iOS, etc...etc... The world had become OS agnostic *finally*. It is a real shame that most people still think they NEED an MS OS. Errrr -- nope. For the average consumer you can use any OS you want. Hell, for most people they will find that Android or iOS will serve them better. I have a wireless charger, wireless display, BT keyboard/mouse. I plop my phone on the charger and it pairs up with everything, and that is what I use for 95% of my computing needs. When I need to do development work, I have a workstation (running Mint) that I use VNC to connect to.
TL;DR: Except for a few enterprise applications, you NO LONGER need Windows -- PERIOD! I wish more companies would offer their products without an OS.
My issue isn't getting Mint or FreeBSD to run on it, it is the fact that I will NOT give MS another dime. Supposedly I can get a refund ... blah blah blah. That has never worked out for me. The only hardware I buy now is MS free from the start.
Can I get it with an operating system that isn't Windows? No? Nevermind then.
settings -> notifications -> apps
You can choose to mute all notifications per app, or to allow priority notifications per app. Unfortunately in 5.x the developer decides what is a "priority" notification, so your millage may vary if you choose that route. Google is working on updating this to allow YOU to decide what is a priority notification.
As for the Gmail widget, you are correct, you have to create a widget per mailbox. I am still looking for a good email widget...