I wonder how Sopranica and Jitsi compare. Are their missions overlapping? Different use-cases? I know that Jitsi's big push is enterprise stuff whereas Sopranica seems more of a hobbyist endeavour.
That is a noble idea but it requires knowing who the spammers are and getting through to them on some sort of personal level.
Agreed. My guess is that the vast majority of people are clever un(der)employed Africans and Eastern Europeans who don't give two shits about using their knowledge for public welfare. They are either greedy organised criminals or people wanting to put food on the table for their families. Unfortunately, spam is one phenomenon emerging from a multifarious global social problem (poverty on the one hand, brilliant physicists/mathematicians/computer scientists who lost their jobs when the USSR collapsed on the other).
The Orville had a wonderful episode (S1:E7, 'Majority Rule') exploring exactly what you're talking about. Plot summary from the Wikipedia article:
An undercover team led by Grayson lands on Sargas 4, an Earth-like planet with a culture similar to that of 21st-century human civilization, to locate two missing anthropologists. There, LaMarr is arrested after a video of him dancing with a beloved statue receives more than a million "down" votes, and must convince the public to pardon him or be subjected to "treatment" for his actions. Alara and Claire locate one of the missing, but find him in an irreversible lobotomized state. With LaMarr facing a final vote to determine his guilt, Mercer brings one of the planet's inhabitants, Lysella, aboard the Orville and learns about the "Master Feed", which Isaac is able to hack and upload doctored images of John, narrowly swinging the vote in his favor. Now free, John and the others return to the ship and depart. The next day, Lysella decides against taking part in a public vote.
At some point the "States Rights," "Big Brother," "Don't Tread on Me" folks are going to have to concede the fact that they're US citizens
These folks have no problem acknowledging that they're US citizens -- when it benefits them personally. They just don't want anyone else to accrue those same benefits. In other words, they don't mind having other tax-payers provide them with benefits, they just don't want to pay taxes themselves. Try withholding Medicare and SS from a Tea Partier and you'll be facing the business end of an AR-15.
Another consideration is that FOSS projects aren't driven by marketing droids to the degree that proprietary products are. When the marketing department sets the deadlines, quality suffers drastically. Marketeers make useful servants but dreadful masters.
I'm optimistic about all of these retro implementations of legacy computing platforms. I think that any programming curriculum should involve some exposure to a modern implementation of an Apple//e, for example. That would teach frugality and perspective.
they just need to replace MS office with something web-based
They could use something like rollApp, but there's the pesky problem of Outlook, which still lacks an open-source equivalent that duplicates most of its functionality. I would say Outlook is the very last strangle-hold Microsoft has on the corporate market. Every other one of its platforms (the rest of Office, SCCM, Server/Active Directory) contains more than adequate FOSS replacements.
ProtonMail is a good option for individuals. Unfortunately, they don't yet have offerings that are suitable for business/enterprise users. They have promised to add additional service tiers in future, however.
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I wonder how Sopranica and Jitsi compare. Are their missions overlapping? Different use-cases? I know that Jitsi's big push is enterprise stuff whereas Sopranica seems more of a hobbyist endeavour.
That is a noble idea but it requires knowing who the spammers are and getting through to them on some sort of personal level.
Agreed. My guess is that the vast majority of people are clever un(der)employed Africans and Eastern Europeans who don't give two shits about using their knowledge for public welfare. They are either greedy organised criminals or people wanting to put food on the table for their families. Unfortunately, spam is one phenomenon emerging from a multifarious global social problem (poverty on the one hand, brilliant physicists/mathematicians/computer scientists who lost their jobs when the USSR collapsed on the other).
An undercover team led by Grayson lands on Sargas 4, an Earth-like planet with a culture similar to that of 21st-century human civilization, to locate two missing anthropologists. There, LaMarr is arrested after a video of him dancing with a beloved statue receives more than a million "down" votes, and must convince the public to pardon him or be subjected to "treatment" for his actions. Alara and Claire locate one of the missing, but find him in an irreversible lobotomized state. With LaMarr facing a final vote to determine his guilt, Mercer brings one of the planet's inhabitants, Lysella, aboard the Orville and learns about the "Master Feed", which Isaac is able to hack and upload doctored images of John, narrowly swinging the vote in his favor. Now free, John and the others return to the ship and depart. The next day, Lysella decides against taking part in a public vote.
Not as easy as you think when ISP's don't exactly give out static IP's like candy.
Cool beans. :)
I've heard some great things about microwave wireless. Too bad it hasn't seen wider deployment. :(
Yay, AShit Pie will squeeze out another turd of a ruling.
Roman Mir? Is that you?
Even if Allergan were the only entity to commit this nefarious tactic, signing McCaskill's bill into law has value purely as a preventative measure.
Just curious: what broadband solution did you go with at your new place?
Why not call him Gregory?
You've just rediscovered VAT (value-added taxation). I've long advocated that the US adopt this, as most Western Europeans successsfully have done.
At some point the "States Rights," "Big Brother," "Don't Tread on Me" folks are going to have to concede the fact that they're US citizens
These folks have no problem acknowledging that they're US citizens -- when it benefits them personally. They just don't want anyone else to accrue those same benefits. In other words, they don't mind having other tax-payers provide them with benefits, they just don't want to pay taxes themselves. Try withholding Medicare and SS from a Tea Partier and you'll be facing the business end of an AR-15.
Another consideration is that FOSS projects aren't driven by marketing droids to the degree that proprietary products are. When the marketing department sets the deadlines, quality suffers drastically. Marketeers make useful servants but dreadful masters.
What has been your experience with Palemoon, if any? The folks at that project say they will support the legacy extension architecture indefinitely.
I'm optimistic about all of these retro implementations of legacy computing platforms. I think that any programming curriculum should involve some exposure to a modern implementation of an Apple //e, for example. That would teach frugality and perspective.
For Chrome there's the Disable HTML5 Autoplay extension.
Primarily Outlook's large ecosystem of add-ins. Lots of line-of-business apps use such add-ins (Adobe Acrobat, Swiftpage Act!, &c.).
BeOS was designed explicitly with this goal in mind. Here is one such recollection.
they just need to replace MS office with something web-based
They could use something like rollApp, but there's the pesky problem of Outlook, which still lacks an open-source equivalent that duplicates most of its functionality. I would say Outlook is the very last strangle-hold Microsoft has on the corporate market. Every other one of its platforms (the rest of Office, SCCM, Server/Active Directory) contains more than adequate FOSS replacements.
Putin wants what is best for Putin
FTFY.
Exactly. A more recent example of civil-engineering marvels is the Empire State Building, which was massively overengineered.
This reply is off-topic, but I had to chuckle at the 'Beverly Hills Oblast of California' bit. Quite droll, good sir or madam. :)
Yay! Having exhausted the Fields of Yahoo, the Locust Marissa espies fresh prospects.
ProtonMail is a good option for individuals. Unfortunately, they don't yet have offerings that are suitable for business/enterprise users. They have promised to add additional service tiers in future, however.
Many people don't have the luxury of working with people they like.