I did. I then saw that it was being written by a company in China, and noped in the opposite direction.
China, both it's gov't and it's citizens, are so breathtakingly corrupt that I do my best to avoid them where at all possible, whether it's cyberspace or meatspace. I wouldn't trust any software that comes out of there, for the same reasons that I refuse to eat any produce that they make. If they arn't being duplicitous in their intentions, then they are cutting every conceivable corner to give them a price advantage, even if they know full well that those cuts can cause people to die.
Unfortunately that is true. Everything revolves around having a mobile version of WhatsApp first. I also recently discovered that only one desktop can be 'active' at a time. If you switch to another machine, then the first one is disabled.
But regardless, WhatsApp was just the example I used cause I happen to use it. There are plenty of other options available. A google search shows that there's an absurd number of choices available now. I found this while searching for most "popular messenger apps by country". And that's not even an exhaustive list of all options. Just the ones that people are gravitating to the most.
Secondly, there is exactly one and only one reason why Edge would play in 1080p but everyone else plays at 720p. Settings. There is nothing technical about Edge that the others lack. This whole thing screams of Microsoft yet again playing some shifty game, most likely involving backroom deals that would be very interesting to read about if made public. This isn't a new thing. It's how Sony won the BluRay vs HDDVD war, after all.
And for people that find setting up things like XMPP too onerous, there are other tools available, such as Viber.
Also, there's a new tool out called Franz, which is basically a very clever container that wraps the web APIs for various services including Slack, Whatsapp, and a bunch of others. It's desktop only, but I've been using it on my Mac and have so far been very happy with it.
For desktop use I can't recommend it enough. No separate accounts to set up like Trillian, and you get full access to whatever each service provides within their web API.
I look at this, and the only I can think of is that Skype must be losing market share. Otherwise why would Microsoft care about maintaining it's commitments?
Now that things like WhatsApp are available for the desktop as well as mobile, people no longer need to have to put up with the way Microsoft mutilates Skype more more and more.
I know I stopped using it shortly after Microsoft laughably botched the MSN-Skype merger. The only reason I even still have the client installed is for "just in case".
There are plenty of business that survive just fine without freeloading on content that was produced almost a century ago. If you are unable to do that, that's a problem with your business and you *deserve* to go under. In fact, we wish you would so that better businesses can be built upon your stinking rotting corpse.
I read this, thinking, "What hack?" cause I haven't had any issues at all. Then I realized the what actually happened. This sounds like the same thing that happened with the supposed hacking of Teamviewer. It was a matter of people reusing the same credentials in multiple locations, so as soon as one low-security place is compromised, you're still screwed in other places even if they have high security.
All I can say is that, today, you *have* to use either MFA, a personal password database, preferably both. I use 1password to store all my passwords, and Duo Security (free for personal use) for MFA. There are other options as well, such as Google Authenticate for MFA, or keypass for password storage.
1password is relatively expensive, but it's virtually hassle free and will let me sync my db across all my devices (Linux is read-only, unfortunately) and integrates with all major browsers. I don't use Keypass, but IIRC it works on all platforms including Linux, but it's browser plugins are lacking.
The most important aspect of password databases, is that they let you generate a very long, random password that is unique to the site you visit. You don't care what the password is, because you can just call it up from the database, but it makes your account essentially unhackable (provided the site you're accessing doesn't do something stupid like store the passwords in plain text).
This is 2016, not 1970. People can no longer afford to be naive about password management anymore. It would be nice if articles like these could take a couple moments out of their breathless handwaving to let people know that these options exist.
One time I forgot my keyfob when I went to the bathroom and got trapped outside. So I used morse code to spell SOS on the front door buzzer until someone came and let me in.
The article refers to Java EE, not Java specifically. EE is a whole other kettle of finish on top of Java, and it's used primarily by large companies who have the resources and manpower to figure out how to use EE in the first place.
Oracle wants sole control of Java EE, because there would be a great deal of money to be made. At least there would be in the short and medium term, for as long as Oracle has these companies by the balls, in the same way they do with their database and other software.
Unfortunately, they can't just "take control" of Java EE, cause it's a community-based system, so they were hoping to just quietly abandon it and roll a completely different - and proprietary - stack instead. Apparently it occurred to someone at the last minute that this would be a monumentally idiotic decision, and doing so would destroy Java in the same way Oracle has already completely fucked up MySQL, OpenOffice, Hudson, etc.
Except that Facebook has already discontinued XMPP integration. It was discontinued in... April I think? I'm not sure what's happened since then however. There was a whole lot of complaining about Facebook stopping working, and then trillian started working again, so I'm thinking Trillian has cheated somehow to get around Facebook discontinuing XMPP. Probably interpreting facebook's webclient or something.
I've been using Trillian for years too. Even had a Pro subscription at one point, but it really feels like Trillian's dropped the ball lately. They chronically allow their non-windows clients to fall behind, and they still haven't added support for other major systems, despite these systems being hugely popular and having publicly accessible APIs (ie: WhatsApp, Telegram, etc)
I'm not sure what Cerulean is doing, but at this rate they won't be around much longer.
How many more hundred megabytes will this feature add?
Honestly, I've stopped using messenger cause it's the single most inefficient POS I've seen in ages. People used to complain that Microsoft Office was bloated. How about a simple mobile messenger application that consumes hundreds of megabytes? I'm still having trouble understanding the level of incompetence required to do that to a simple messaging application.
The most laughable thing of all is that Facebook actually wants people to trust them with financial transactions. Yeah, no.
Blah blah blah. Why is it when someone gives people like you information you don't wanna hear, they're immediately "Trolls"?
Have you actually paid attention to what happens when you migrate apps to SD card? They don't get completely migrated. The amount that is moved depends on the app, and that amount can very greatly. Sometimes it's so little that it's not even worth trying. This is a fact. Period. Reality Distortion Fields arn't limited to Apple devotees, apparently.
Maybe Android has done a better job of it in it's most recent incarnations, but I stopped caring at approximately v5 when Google changed a whole bunch of stuff around but still hadn't done jack to deal with Android's overwhelmingly greatest faults, namely non-existent privacy, and power management so poor that the user had to manually babysit their device in excruciating detail just to get a days worth out of it.
But I'll take a guess and assume your android reality distortion field means you refuse to acknowledge those problems exist either.
I don't doubt it. I had thought the same thing when I got my iPad. Combined with a bluetooth keyboard, it actually *is* halfway decent. But "halfway" is still the key word, especially something as simple as an SSH client is a revolving door of apps where todays amazing app stops getting updated, and eventually disappears off the app store entirely. So I can get a reasonable amount of work done in a pinch, and it's possible to do basically everything, but you still end up finding it somewhat annoying compared to a regular laptop.
Why do people always feel the need to give such ridiculous longevity estimates? Especially when you factor in the real world, that sort of longevity simply doesn't happen unless you're etching into a plate of metal (gold?) that doesn't corrode readily.
What kind of administration do you do that would let you do meaningful work on a 5 inch screen? I'm not trying to be snide here... I'm just thinking about all the things I do, and virtually none of them are so simple that I could do that work on a miniscule mobile device.
Some kind of GUI front end with pre-configured for various common tasks?
This is great news. Now when I'm comparing AV test suites, I now only have to skip past one column of wasted space rather than 2. That will leave more room for AV software that isn't substandard.
Having used android devices with SD Card slots, I will never again consider an SD card slot to be a worthwhile feature. Not being able to offload applications was a big one. Having to play games like "Where the f__k is my data?" was another.
The hoops you had to go through to work with the things was just awe inspiring, and even then they didn't work reliably. I'd rather pay the premium and get more internal storage to begin with. At least then I know what to expect.
I understand that the most recent versions of android deal with external storage in a much more sane way, but that doesn't mean much when said versions of android have 10% penetration despite having been out for over a year.
I was pissed that the only options for the iPhone SE was 16 and 64. It struck me as a cheap cash grab.
Wasn't pissed enough to not get one, mind you. But it was still annoying. Of course, it wouldn't be an issue if current apps weren't so breathtakingly bloated.
I mean, Facebook alone, with it's separate client and messenger apps, can easily hit a *gigabyte* all on their own. I can't even fathom how breathtakingly badly you have to code something to end up needing that much space.
So I am making due by configuring itunes to autoconvert all my music down to 128-bit AAC from the ALAC (Apple's version of FLAC, because they're a special snowflake). The quality is still perfectly good enough for when I'm walking about, and the compression bluetooth uses negates the benefits of a higher quality source file anyway.
They screwed up in a breathtaking way by losing their domain, and they arn't even going to fix it, putting countless people at risk of unknown bad actors?
I've never used these autoconfig domains myself, and I recently stopped using a TP-Link router I had because I just happened to buy an Asus instead. But with this news, I will *never* buy another TP-Link router again.
Decent network security is hard enough to maintain as it is, without having this sort of gross incompetence happen on top of it. Between this and the fact that TP-Link announcing that they will no longer permit 3rd party firmware on their devices, TP-Link is now a non-starter for me.
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China is worried that the rest of the world is trying to do to them what they are trying to do to the rest of the world.
I did. I then saw that it was being written by a company in China, and noped in the opposite direction.
China, both it's gov't and it's citizens, are so breathtakingly corrupt that I do my best to avoid them where at all possible, whether it's cyberspace or meatspace. I wouldn't trust any software that comes out of there, for the same reasons that I refuse to eat any produce that they make. If they arn't being duplicitous in their intentions, then they are cutting every conceivable corner to give them a price advantage, even if they know full well that those cuts can cause people to die.
Exactly. This is what I was talking about, but I guess I wasn't clear enough in my post. Thank you for clarifying.
As an FYI, I just looked into Viber. It works the same way as WhatsApp.
Unfortunately that is true. Everything revolves around having a mobile version of WhatsApp first. I also recently discovered that only one desktop can be 'active' at a time. If you switch to another machine, then the first one is disabled.
But regardless, WhatsApp was just the example I used cause I happen to use it. There are plenty of other options available. A google search shows that there's an absurd number of choices available now. I found this while searching for most "popular messenger apps by country". And that's not even an exhaustive list of all options. Just the ones that people are gravitating to the most.
https://www.similarweb.com/blo...
First of all, big 4? Hardly.
Secondly, there is exactly one and only one reason why Edge would play in 1080p but everyone else plays at 720p. Settings. There is nothing technical about Edge that the others lack. This whole thing screams of Microsoft yet again playing some shifty game, most likely involving backroom deals that would be very interesting to read about if made public. This isn't a new thing. It's how Sony won the BluRay vs HDDVD war, after all.
And for people that find setting up things like XMPP too onerous, there are other tools available, such as Viber.
Also, there's a new tool out called Franz, which is basically a very clever container that wraps the web APIs for various services including Slack, Whatsapp, and a bunch of others. It's desktop only, but I've been using it on my Mac and have so far been very happy with it.
http://meetfranz.com/
For desktop use I can't recommend it enough. No separate accounts to set up like Trillian, and you get full access to whatever each service provides within their web API.
I look at this, and the only I can think of is that Skype must be losing market share. Otherwise why would Microsoft care about maintaining it's commitments?
Now that things like WhatsApp are available for the desktop as well as mobile, people no longer need to have to put up with the way Microsoft mutilates Skype more more and more.
I know I stopped using it shortly after Microsoft laughably botched the MSN-Skype merger. The only reason I even still have the client installed is for "just in case".
There are plenty of business that survive just fine without freeloading on content that was produced almost a century ago. If you are unable to do that, that's a problem with your business and you *deserve* to go under. In fact, we wish you would so that better businesses can be built upon your stinking rotting corpse.
Sincerely,
Everyone.
I read this, thinking, "What hack?" cause I haven't had any issues at all. Then I realized the what actually happened. This sounds like the same thing that happened with the supposed hacking of Teamviewer. It was a matter of people reusing the same credentials in multiple locations, so as soon as one low-security place is compromised, you're still screwed in other places even if they have high security.
All I can say is that, today, you *have* to use either MFA, a personal password database, preferably both. I use 1password to store all my passwords, and Duo Security (free for personal use) for MFA. There are other options as well, such as Google Authenticate for MFA, or keypass for password storage.
1password is relatively expensive, but it's virtually hassle free and will let me sync my db across all my devices (Linux is read-only, unfortunately) and integrates with all major browsers. I don't use Keypass, but IIRC it works on all platforms including Linux, but it's browser plugins are lacking.
The most important aspect of password databases, is that they let you generate a very long, random password that is unique to the site you visit. You don't care what the password is, because you can just call it up from the database, but it makes your account essentially unhackable (provided the site you're accessing doesn't do something stupid like store the passwords in plain text).
This is 2016, not 1970. People can no longer afford to be naive about password management anymore. It would be nice if articles like these could take a couple moments out of their breathless handwaving to let people know that these options exist.
One time I forgot my keyfob when I went to the bathroom and got trapped outside. So I used morse code to spell SOS on the front door buzzer until someone came and let me in.
The article refers to Java EE, not Java specifically. EE is a whole other kettle of finish on top of Java, and it's used primarily by large companies who have the resources and manpower to figure out how to use EE in the first place.
Oracle wants sole control of Java EE, because there would be a great deal of money to be made. At least there would be in the short and medium term, for as long as Oracle has these companies by the balls, in the same way they do with their database and other software.
Unfortunately, they can't just "take control" of Java EE, cause it's a community-based system, so they were hoping to just quietly abandon it and roll a completely different - and proprietary - stack instead. Apparently it occurred to someone at the last minute that this would be a monumentally idiotic decision, and doing so would destroy Java in the same way Oracle has already completely fucked up MySQL, OpenOffice, Hudson, etc.
Except that Facebook has already discontinued XMPP integration. It was discontinued in... April I think? I'm not sure what's happened since then however. There was a whole lot of complaining about Facebook stopping working, and then trillian started working again, so I'm thinking Trillian has cheated somehow to get around Facebook discontinuing XMPP. Probably interpreting facebook's webclient or something.
I've been using Trillian for years too. Even had a Pro subscription at one point, but it really feels like Trillian's dropped the ball lately. They chronically allow their non-windows clients to fall behind, and they still haven't added support for other major systems, despite these systems being hugely popular and having publicly accessible APIs (ie: WhatsApp, Telegram, etc)
I'm not sure what Cerulean is doing, but at this rate they won't be around much longer.
How many more hundred megabytes will this feature add?
Honestly, I've stopped using messenger cause it's the single most inefficient POS I've seen in ages. People used to complain that Microsoft Office was bloated. How about a simple mobile messenger application that consumes hundreds of megabytes?
I'm still having trouble understanding the level of incompetence required to do that to a simple messaging application.
The most laughable thing of all is that Facebook actually wants people to trust them with financial transactions. Yeah, no.
Blah blah blah. Why is it when someone gives people like you information you don't wanna hear, they're immediately "Trolls"?
Have you actually paid attention to what happens when you migrate apps to SD card? They don't get completely migrated. The amount that is moved depends on the app, and that amount can very greatly. Sometimes it's so little that it's not even worth trying. This is a fact. Period. Reality Distortion Fields arn't limited to Apple devotees, apparently.
Maybe Android has done a better job of it in it's most recent incarnations, but I stopped caring at approximately v5 when Google changed a whole bunch of stuff around but still hadn't done jack to deal with Android's overwhelmingly greatest faults, namely non-existent privacy, and power management so poor that the user had to manually babysit their device in excruciating detail just to get a days worth out of it.
But I'll take a guess and assume your android reality distortion field means you refuse to acknowledge those problems exist either.
I don't doubt it. I had thought the same thing when I got my iPad. Combined with a bluetooth keyboard, it actually *is* halfway decent. But "halfway" is still the key word, especially something as simple as an SSH client is a revolving door of apps where todays amazing app stops getting updated, and eventually disappears off the app store entirely. So I can get a reasonable amount of work done in a pinch, and it's possible to do basically everything, but you still end up finding it somewhat annoying compared to a regular laptop.
Why do people always feel the need to give such ridiculous longevity estimates? Especially when you factor in the real world, that sort of longevity simply doesn't happen unless you're etching into a plate of metal (gold?) that doesn't corrode readily.
I don't understand how anyone can post stuff like this on every news story, day after day, without getting sanity-snapping bored....
Or are we simply long past the "sanity-snapping" part?
What kind of administration do you do that would let you do meaningful work on a 5 inch screen? I'm not trying to be snide here... I'm just thinking about all the things I do, and virtually none of them are so simple that I could do that work on a miniscule mobile device.
Some kind of GUI front end with pre-configured for various common tasks?
iOS 10 lets users write a message in their own handwriting
Does this mean Nelson will finally be able to beat up Martin? Although I guess Martha will be dissappointed.
You're right. It was a crap vendor. It was Samsung.
This is great news. Now when I'm comparing AV test suites, I now only have to skip past one column of wasted space rather than 2. That will leave more room for AV software that isn't substandard.
Having used android devices with SD Card slots, I will never again consider an SD card slot to be a worthwhile feature. Not being able to offload applications was a big one. Having to play games like "Where the f__k is my data?" was another.
The hoops you had to go through to work with the things was just awe inspiring, and even then they didn't work reliably. I'd rather pay the premium and get more internal storage to begin with. At least then I know what to expect.
I understand that the most recent versions of android deal with external storage in a much more sane way, but that doesn't mean much when said versions of android have 10% penetration despite having been out for over a year.
I was pissed that the only options for the iPhone SE was 16 and 64. It struck me as a cheap cash grab.
Wasn't pissed enough to not get one, mind you. But it was still annoying. Of course, it wouldn't be an issue if current apps weren't so breathtakingly bloated.
I mean, Facebook alone, with it's separate client and messenger apps, can easily hit a *gigabyte* all on their own. I can't even fathom how breathtakingly badly you have to code something to end up needing that much space.
So I am making due by configuring itunes to autoconvert all my music down to 128-bit AAC from the ALAC (Apple's version of FLAC, because they're a special snowflake). The quality is still perfectly good enough for when I'm walking about, and the compression bluetooth uses negates the benefits of a higher quality source file anyway.
They screwed up in a breathtaking way by losing their domain, and they arn't even going to fix it, putting countless people at risk of unknown bad actors?
I've never used these autoconfig domains myself, and I recently stopped using a TP-Link router I had because I just happened to buy an Asus instead. But with this news, I will *never* buy another TP-Link router again.
Decent network security is hard enough to maintain as it is, without having this sort of gross incompetence happen on top of it. Between this and the fact that TP-Link announcing that they will no longer permit 3rd party firmware on their devices, TP-Link is now a non-starter for me.