To be fair,they use Linux.. So, the updates are managed by the package manager. I told them to click to install them every time it asks. Should I see they cease to do that, I’m configure totally automatic updates. I can always get on their machines using ssh, any way.
Audience. Once upon a time, my audience was here on slashdot with the journals. Everyons moved, and most ended up on Facebook. I never really got the point of Reddit... I have an account, but the site just doesn’t speak to me. I’m getting old. I can just keep my thoughts to myself... or at least learn to.
Decided on a Facebook hiatus this month. Frankly, I don’t really feel I miss much and I posted frequently. Sometimes, you think “this is cool, I should share it”. That feeling usually drops away after 10 minutes. I conclude that it really wasn’t that important then.
I don’t need Exchange and Office 365 compatibly. Evolution, being part of Gnome is even worse than Mozilla. Those people
remove useful functionality because they got up the wrong side of bed...
To me it does. I don't like webmail. I like to have a locally executed email client with locally cached email. Since I don't use Windows, and thus don't run Outlook (which is a joke of an email client any way, if you're not using Exchange), I have not much modern options any more. Thunderbird is basically the email client use when you prefer the open source solutions. Thunderbird seems to be the best choice, and the fact that it was a bit neglected by Mozilla had the added advantage that they didn't fuck it up as badly as Firefox.
Well, they still did... I still wonder what was wrong with simple menus. The hamburger menu is just so dumb on desktop applications. (Hell, even on mobile it's just a cop-out)
A $1000 phone? What exactly did they expect? There are only so many fanbois. If you want an iPhone that does the job, you get an iPhone SE. I still find that a bit pricey, but on the Android side you won’t find anything decent below that price point anyway and I like to get upgrades from the manufacturer for longer than six months. Something that is not a given with most Android phones. (The Google handsets are not available in my country)
That would be my guess too. I know exactly two people having an Apple Watch. My sister, who would never have bought it, but got it as a present two years ago (or was it a year?). The second one is an Apple fan at work.
Consider it a sign of respect in the open source community. You are someone if you get your own three letter acronym. At least it was, twenty years ago.
I personally hope for NUC-like devices featuring these. They would make nice Steam Machines, at competitive pricing. NUC is trademarked by Intel, so they won't be called NUC. I'll keep an eye on Zotac Nano series and Gigabyte Brix series.
There is one other very important thing that a VPN protects you from: unwarranted surveillance.
Government agencies and in some countries ISP monitor and store everything. Law enforcement bypasses legal safeguards. A VPN doesn't make spying on you impossible, but it does stop it being so cheap and easy. It forces the proper channels and oversight to be used.
Technically, that would be my second point, but I see why you would want to emphasize this.
Do keep in mind that this might not change much and you swap one surveillance for another. Recently I got myself a 1€/month VPS to use as a VPN. The locations I could chose were two European countries that were not particularly interesting to me, but the point of this VPS was to have privacy on a certain network that I don't trust, but it's free to use (unlike cellular data). My classical setup is basically OpenVPN with DNSMasq to avoid DNS leakage.
DNSMasq is easy because it turns your endpoint into your DNS based on its resolv.conf.
One day, got a really weird error for a site I frequent very irregularly. Very weird. To verify, I disconnected from the VPN and from the untrusted network and connect using cellular. Site worked fine. I looked deeper into it and it turns out that in that country, the site I wanted to visit is on a blacklist.
I surely ended up in some log file somewhere for trying to visit that site. That doesn't mean I ended up in full surveillance, but frankly, I was miffed.
So, I uninstalled DNSMasq and installed unbound instead as a full resolving DNS. The site now works flawlessly.
The lesson is: it's not because that you are on a VPN, that you cannot run into blocklists or surveillance. I'm also not naive. If the NSA or similar state entities want to see what I do, they will find out. They'll notice I connect to that VPS all the time, and will just start monitoring the endpoint.
You can always take more measures, but it is not the VPN that does that. You can surf on the VPN using private mode only, never login anywhere, perhaps even use tor.... etc... but all that is not the VPN.
The point is that you need to understand the tool, before deciding to use the tool.
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Just refuse to work with it. Works for me. Good IT people usually can walk away with something else lined up.
To be fair,they use Linux.. So, the updates are managed by the package manager. I told them to click to install them every time it asks. Should I see they cease to do that, I’m configure totally automatic updates. I can always get on their machines using ssh, any way.
Audience. Once upon a time, my audience was here on slashdot with the journals. Everyons moved, and most ended up on Facebook. I never really got the point of Reddit... I have an account, but the site just doesn’t speak to me. I’m getting old. I can just keep my thoughts to myself... or at least learn to.
28 and counting ;-)
Sounds like a plan to me!
Thunderbird works fine for my mom.
Decided on a Facebook hiatus this month. Frankly, I don’t really feel I miss much and I posted frequently. Sometimes, you think “this is cool, I should share it”. That feeling usually drops away after 10 minutes. I conclude that it really wasn’t that important then.
I used it when it still was Pine. I do need an email client for people like my mom...
I don’t need Exchange and Office 365 compatibly. Evolution, being part of Gnome is even worse than Mozilla. Those people remove useful functionality because they got up the wrong side of bed...
Well, they still did... I still wonder what was wrong with simple menus. The hamburger menu is just so dumb on desktop applications. (Hell, even on mobile it's just a cop-out)
No idea. Sure as hell won’t be getting that one either.
A $1000 phone? What exactly did they expect? There are only so many fanbois. If you want an iPhone that does the job, you get an iPhone SE. I still find that a bit pricey, but on the Android side you won’t find anything decent below that price point anyway and I like to get upgrades from the manufacturer for longer than six months. Something that is not a given with most Android phones. (The Google handsets are not available in my country)
That would be my guess too. I know exactly two people having an Apple Watch. My sister, who would never have bought it, but got it as a present two years ago (or was it a year?). The second one is an Apple fan at work.
That can be had, much, much cheaper. Hookers aren't $500k a pop.
Could it just be those are “designer” glasses, that you aren’t supposed fill to the brim.
Dead on arrival: Nobody wants this or needs this.
Probably just a context switch, no?
Consider it a sign of respect in the open source community. You are someone if you get your own three letter acronym. At least it was, twenty years ago.
You go where the money is? Reasonable business decision, I'd say.
... he's updating his CV right now....
I personally hope for NUC-like devices featuring these. They would make nice Steam Machines, at competitive pricing. NUC is trademarked by Intel, so they won't be called NUC. I'll keep an eye on Zotac Nano series and Gigabyte Brix series.
There is one other very important thing that a VPN protects you from: unwarranted surveillance.
Government agencies and in some countries ISP monitor and store everything. Law enforcement bypasses legal safeguards. A VPN doesn't make spying on you impossible, but it does stop it being so cheap and easy. It forces the proper channels and oversight to be used.
Technically, that would be my second point, but I see why you would want to emphasize this.
Do keep in mind that this might not change much and you swap one surveillance for another. Recently I got myself a 1€/month VPS to use as a VPN. The locations I could chose were two European countries that were not particularly interesting to me, but the point of this VPS was to have privacy on a certain network that I don't trust, but it's free to use (unlike cellular data). My classical setup is basically OpenVPN with DNSMasq to avoid DNS leakage.
DNSMasq is easy because it turns your endpoint into your DNS based on its resolv.conf.
One day, got a really weird error for a site I frequent very irregularly. Very weird. To verify, I disconnected from the VPN and from the untrusted network and connect using cellular. Site worked fine. I looked deeper into it and it turns out that in that country, the site I wanted to visit is on a blacklist.
I surely ended up in some log file somewhere for trying to visit that site. That doesn't mean I ended up in full surveillance, but frankly, I was miffed.
So, I uninstalled DNSMasq and installed unbound instead as a full resolving DNS. The site now works flawlessly.
The lesson is: it's not because that you are on a VPN, that you cannot run into blocklists or surveillance. I'm also not naive. If the NSA or similar state entities want to see what I do, they will find out. They'll notice I connect to that VPS all the time, and will just start monitoring the endpoint.
Same here really... I do have a few VPSes running OpenVPN for some speciality tasks.
The point is that you need to understand the tool, before deciding to use the tool.