Why? Change introduces risk, and why have a continuous cycle of risk without reward? Fixing bugs, I get, but introducing them just to keep the upgrade train rolling?
How about all the people that live in apartments with first come first serve parking? Or people that park in the street? Or way down the street? Overnight charging is not simple for everyone.
I just bought Tomb Raider for Linux today. That came out for Windows in 2013... So delay is not a fix, just a delay. (And I bought it because I support native Linux ports. And Humble had it on sale...:) )
I would argue that there is for a traditional FOSS project. One where a few people contribute the the browser they want to use. A project like Security Onion where people contribute to the tool they need.
Widevine is "DRM and Content Protection" scheme (see http://www.widevine.com). But is it open source? The Widevine plugin appears to be a binary without any source code.
Firefox has lost the point and become a fat bloated monster. And Chrome is not far behind. (And this ignores the massive data gathering both do) So there is a fantastic market opportunity for a lightweight browser that can still render the bloated modern web... Any ideas?
This move from modularity to massive monoliths...controlled entirely by three major vendors for some reason is praised by the software development community.
What is it about freedom and control of your own systems that makes even professionals so afraid?
And I thought Firefox was a fat bloated pig before. Anyone have any recommendations for a lean browser?
The noscript plugin blocks javascript from running in your browser. That is how the EFF page got most of it's data. So with noscript active, it has a harder time identifying you. The new site does not have this problem.
But come on? How much marketable data can you slurp from a Windows VM only opened to run office? They need a spy on the real desktop! And on Linux, they only thing people run a lot form them is Skype. What do you bet that it is looking at the process list?
TAILS is a damn good start. Any Live CD will help. But this new system also tracks a lot of hardware, so it will be limited... Ideally, TAILS running in a VM on VirtualBox is probably going to be the most common thing.
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Suddenly, Ubuntu Phone is looking like a real option... If only the damn thing worked.
I can't remember one thing I ever bought where I thought "Ohh gee, this would be so much better if it didn't work".
Government?
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I remember when people expected phones to work 100% and I am not that old... (Shut up. And get off my lawn!)
Once they realized they could get read of those large and expensive testing departments and that customers would put up with it, this was inevitable.
There is no try...
Or a removable battery, which would be better!
The iPhone 9 won't have a screen. This will at least double battery life.
The screen is the iWatch... Watch it actually happen. :)
Yes, we should eliminate all those things which are working great, so there are no ports, because... reasons
I guess you never read that second sentence... It would be nice to have a phone where they can not deny all coverage because it rained once.
Why? Change introduces risk, and why have a continuous cycle of risk without reward? Fixing bugs, I get, but introducing them just to keep the upgrade train rolling?
I bought one of the early commercial switch 56 circuits from ANS+CORE. :)
How about all the people that live in apartments with first come first serve parking? Or people that park in the street? Or way down the street? Overnight charging is not simple for everyone.
I just bought Tomb Raider for Linux today. That came out for Windows in 2013... So delay is not a fix, just a delay. (And I bought it because I support native Linux ports. And Humble had it on sale... :) )
It harms nothing being there.
Technically speaking, it occupies your computing device's memory, which can be interpreted as a form of harm.
That and we have no idea what it is really doing while running, or if it really exits...
How do you know? Because the company said that is how it works and they would never do anything to harm us?
I would argue that there is for a traditional FOSS project. One where a few people contribute the the browser they want to use. A project like Security Onion where people contribute to the tool they need.
Widevine is "DRM and Content Protection" scheme (see http://www.widevine.com). But is it open source? The Widevine plugin appears to be a binary without any source code.
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/widevine
Is Mozilla putting a binary blob into Firefox, or do they have the source code for Widevine?
And queue a bunch of the beginner Linux sites releasing articles on how to pin Firefox on 48. Because "Hell no" to that crap on my system.
Firefox has lost the point and become a fat bloated monster. And Chrome is not far behind. (And this ignores the massive data gathering both do) So there is a fantastic market opportunity for a lightweight browser that can still render the bloated modern web... Any ideas?
This move from modularity to massive monoliths...controlled entirely by three major vendors for some reason is praised by the software development community.
What is it about freedom and control of your own systems that makes even professionals so afraid?
And I thought Firefox was a fat bloated pig before. Anyone have any recommendations for a lean browser?
Actually, worse then the typical kitchen sink, because they will remove support for the old standard drains. Because legacy support is bad...
Can you really call it hacking a server when there is no password? Doesn't that make it an open server, kinda like open wifi?
If you are running a Redis server accepting connections from the open Internet, you are an idiot.
Good thing we don't have too many of them! No, wait...
The noscript plugin blocks javascript from running in your browser. That is how the EFF page got most of it's data. So with noscript active, it has a harder time identifying you. The new site does not have this problem.
But come on? How much marketable data can you slurp from a Windows VM only opened to run office? They need a spy on the real desktop! And on Linux, they only thing people run a lot form them is Skype. What do you bet that it is looking at the process list?
TAILS is a damn good start. Any Live CD will help. But this new system also tracks a lot of hardware, so it will be limited... Ideally, TAILS running in a VM on VirtualBox is probably going to be the most common thing.