I read : " Even starting with one of the Big Distros like Debian, you never know when/what Ubuntu (and therefore Mint, etc) will grab..." me, I abandoned Ubuntu, Mint & al, and just got back (or up) to pure Debian. OK, that was not in a quest for Desktop purity : rather to evade big monopolies, Ubuntu, IBM/redhat. But then I get this extra benefit...
Basically, at 300Km your sat is dead, unless it still contains a ton of fuel to regain altitude. The indian sat must have been at end of mission, ready to enter the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, of months maybe, and burn/land debris randomly along its last track. At 300Km, full sat or debris, you decay real quickly.
The new laws for both French-guyana and US-launched future sats now impose to keep a significant amount of fuel for 'controlled' reentry (read : you must show you'll re-enter over a given ocean, no land) and, soon, heavy pieces that wouldn't burn will be banned (although this shows difficult with metallic thing like thrusters or the thick mirrors from observation telescopes) But the old indian sat was launched well before -so outside these laws. Which means, after all, firing it was not so bad.
Last thing : I said 300Km is low, this is all the more significant than you must raise your air-air missile up there. This probably means India actually would have difficulties to kill a really active observation sat, for which the lowest altitudes start around 600Km (some are at 800...). Ok, difficulties just for now, and they indeed show they solved the targeting issues, etc.
Don't be so sad : here in France we have the guys that believe in the power of water (infinite dilutions, homeopathy etc.) and managed to get their paper published in Nature some years ago. In each and every pharmacy you find, prominently exposed, zillions of homeopathic pills, and indeed you'd better be prudent when talking about it, given the number of folks that BELIEVE...
"Good luck finding that in your distribution repo. If you're running Ubuntu you get 3.0.4. If you're running Debian Stable then you get 3.0.3." Well, I'm 60 years old, using Linux on Ubuntu (mostly out of laziness, otherwise I'd switch to Debian), and I have the latest VLC, because I am still able to copy-paste two lines from the VLC site into a terminal window. And now it auto-updates, contrary to your snaps.... Your objection only applies to people unable to copy-paste, IMHO...
This does not prevent, in any way, to upload the same images on Openstreetmap. Addtionally, this very thread would have been enormously different, and quite more important that the curent "he went on holidays and, basically, took pics in an original way (helping Google)"...
For me, the way both sentences are written actually means the system *fully halts* when you plug the USB. I leave it to you to further evolve the text:-D
You can definitely plug something that declares itself a keyboard then turns itself into something else. There are many applications, for instance my Nitrokey Storage declares itself a simple USB read-only key when plugged, and then turns itself into many other things (simultaneously) when I ask the right questions.
You can check that, and also how you can protect you, hardware side : https://github.com/robertfisk/... (disclaimer : I am not related to the device or its designer, but I own two, and they have worked fluently for two years on. I decided to buy them when, in the same week, US customers looked at me like a witch when I offered them my data on a company USB stick, and russian ones handed me a nice russian-decorated stick for doing the same...) R. Fisk is preparing an USB2 version in parallel to this original USB1.
IIRC there was a way, in any browser, to create a bookmark replacing its url with a string like emailto:?subject=interesting url&body= [here I don"t remember how to pass the url] but I used for years in my fossin macintoshes, before switching to Linux (and I forgot the bookmark;-) In the formula above I intentionally wrote "emailto" instead of mailto otherwise you just get a ink indeed, like that : mailto:?subject=blah... Anyone to help? I'd love to, well, forget about gmail... and specific addons...
You don't even need to look for überadvanced tech on today's cars.
On all new cars these last years, the use of LEDs instead of bulbs allowed to install super cool, super fancy lights everywhere -for instance the fashion for turnlights recently was to wrap a luminous line of LEDs all around the stoplights, or even with ultra-zen shape inflections. Very sillily, I just thought 'Ahh, fashion...' in the beginning.
This, until I understood that, from now on, whenever one of your stoplight or turlight dies, you cannot switch a 20-cent bulb there*. You now MUST get back to the original automaker, to politely ask for this complex plastic element, ultra-zen-shaped, that, obviously, no one else than them can provide. (Oh, and the left side isn't the same as the right side, mind you, don't confuse!)
I'd say, you'll pay it not ten times, but one hundred times the bulb cost.
Ahh, but this is for fashion, isn't it?
(*) and even, have a complete light repair set within the volume of a smartphone, slipped somewhere in the car, allowing you to repair in 5mn straight in front of the cop if need be...
My small and collaborative ISP offers a VPN to its subscribers, that I have to activate and deactivate by hand. It would be very nice if Mozilla's detection mechanism allowed autoconnecting through *my* VPN, not just the recommended one... (Even if the recommended is preset by default, which would allow some revenue to Moz...)
Specially Privacy Badger, whose authors are in the EFF and which is easily adjustable per-site if needed. For me tracking is an issue of the past -as long as Privacy badger lives
Now I wrote that, I have to consider a donation to EFF... the cat T-shirt is nice...
Some ten years ago, not understanding the key interest of (separate) RSS aggregators, the first one appearing on the macintosh OS I was using at the time, did mark for me the first time I understood I was getting old.
Some other clues did hit me since then, but really, the first hit came when I did understand that I did not even understand the sheer usefulness of these apps during ONE YEAR...
At least that's what I do. I have read here and there more frowny users that'll firejail *also the installer*, IIRC there is a detailed how-to for Steam, for instance, but at this time I cannot track it back...
You can impose, by law, polarizer filters in front of all headlights, and then you'll filter most of the light of oncoming cars with simple polarizer glasses while the light reflected by ordinary objects will be unpolarized thus visible.
You could even start this development without changing laws through another key feature, which indeed is fog : if you illuminate fog with polarized light then look at it with counter-polarized glasses, you almost damp all the fog droplets reflections, and see through it the actual scenery. This, a life saver, I proposed to my governmental lab in charge of road counter-fog measures years ago. The idea was trashed 'for imposing more power on headlights'. Imagine my gaping.
Later on I discovered it had been patented, a couple of times (yes, more than one, in different countries, this happened in the good ol' time), somtimes with glasses, sometimes with a windscreen filter. Nobody succeeded in selling it anyhow, and patents are probably dead now (my story is >10 years ago)
If you want to start a serious, significant Kickstarter for real, do this. Fog-suppressing kit, two headlight filters, polarized sunglasses just an option. Low-cost and easy to test.
I'll buy your first model. I'm too old now to restart with this -at the time I tried, internet didn't exist... But God I'll buy your first model.
I don't own a bitcoin wallet so that says it all regarding my competence, but what about buying -for about the same price- one of these open-source hardware, open-source software keys that the German Nitrokey build, originally for storing cryptography signature but now they embark Gbytes of encrypted storage on various internal volumes, one of them hidden with even plausible deniability? H.
If the procedure to update kernel looks complex, you may just use the Ukuu very simple updater (actually just a wrapper, with nice explanations, and even available within U. app store itself IIRC).
I for one am using the latest 4.17 kernel (from two days ago), installed via Ukuu, on all my Ubuntu 16 LTS machines*.
(Ukuu even explains you how to proceed if you loaded a failed kernel, with a simple action to switch back to your previous one. Which happened to me once in the last 20 updates (an obviously too small download that I would now detect), and I did switch back in something like 5 mn, reboots included.)
Mine does it. Granted, we both use Linux machines. And to get back to the point here, we'll never use Dropbox anyway. We share on Nextclouds, on community-managed servers...
With all due respect, I have almost the opposite view : I use RSS aggregators everywhere (on my website, computers, phone) with a single aim : eliminating advertisement and fancy website interfaces, leading to a simple, clean, homogeneous presentation along *all* my information channels (and I have over 100). Without aggregators I'd be terribly less efficient. Now, that FF removes this doesn't bother me at all -I love aggregated info but not all-in-one things, and I switched to dedicated apps almost when RSS appeared. There are so many of them...
What you say is true for the Leica M that Dave Barnes mentiioned, but the Leica Q definitely features a full-featured EVF. (and has for two years) : http://us.leica-camera.com/Pho...
The only difference I saw from my mirror-Nikon was the color temperature in some cases. Which is of zero importance at the time of shooting (and I use grey cards when needed). Two major advantages are the readability even at night, and the possibility to automatically zoom the image centre when in manual focus. (disclaimer : I did sell all my Nikon gear for a Leica Q two years ago. 14-bit full-frame, zero-noise obturator and pocketable, two years before Nikon)
please not that the ', please' part in the title above is not an instruction;-) Firejail, is. https://sourceforge.net/projec... It works perfectly here on U16.04, and also with Signal...
... may be that this will strongly accelerate migrations from GAFA services to independent, open and untractable systems like Diaspora / Mastodon / Pixelfed etc. Initially I thought that only 'slow-throughput' sevices could be dealt with this way, but I even discovered Peertube, a movie service. Honestly, at this moment the only final push these guys need is... a big influx of new users pushed away from GAFA by the new EU restrictions:-D
On Android, you do have a very simple option, within OSMAnd, to remove all or a selected part of these Openstreetmap icons... To me, on that platform, what you request is already done. And of course OSMAnd is available without GApps, through F-Droid (and also on the google market, for lazies)
I clearly remember, although I am not able to track the reference right now, of an ancient roman text that went somehow this way: It was during the wars of Cleopatre. The scene depicted a war field, with one of Cleopatre generals receiving orders, reading them, then turning to apply them. In any classical movie you can imagine the picture : general receives sealed package, unseals, reads, and now on to the next action scene, nothing special to be seen here.
Then, the actual roman text: written by the man dedicated to this, a clerk which you'd call today the embedded war reporter, or something like that. And that's where it goes wild : our 'reporter' actually turns extraordinarily haggard when seeing this, and his text expands at length. Thing is, the general read *silently*. And, that's the first time our 'reporter' sees this. In his life. Despite the fact he himself is a clerc.
What he is describing is not the prelude of yet another romanic battle. At all. It is a change in human mind and thinking. Romans, and then us, were on the verge of *thinking differently* -by the fact one, from then on, could read silently. Maybe, without Cleopatre, generations of commuters wouldn't anything to read during hours. The word 'education' would have a different meaning. Would you, yes you here, be reading this very text aloud? Really? Slowly?
The connected generation is just one such switch. Many have told us about the Gutenberg revolution, etc. Silent reading is another one less known. Connected people is yet another. All come with trashing various things, some *very* regrettable, and, clearly, some *irresistible* and significant too.
This switch to connected people is now a thing of the past, of the recent history at best.
My main concern today is rather, what will AI bring, and delete, in our everyday life. Not just jobs, I mean : which parts of our minds are going to change again, in my grandchildren.
Slashdot Mirror
I read :
" Even starting with one of the Big Distros like Debian, you never know when/what Ubuntu (and therefore Mint, etc) will grab..."
me, I abandoned Ubuntu, Mint & al, and just got back (or up) to pure Debian.
OK, that was not in a quest for Desktop purity : rather to evade big monopolies, Ubuntu, IBM/redhat.
But then I get this extra benefit...
Basically, at 300Km your sat is dead, unless it still contains a ton of fuel to regain altitude. The indian sat must have been at end of mission, ready to enter the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, of months maybe, and burn/land debris randomly along its last track. At 300Km, full sat or debris, you decay real quickly.
The new laws for both French-guyana and US-launched future sats now impose to keep a significant amount of fuel for 'controlled' reentry (read : you must show you'll re-enter over a given ocean, no land) and, soon, heavy pieces that wouldn't burn will be banned (although this shows difficult with metallic thing like thrusters or the thick mirrors from observation telescopes)
But the old indian sat was launched well before -so outside these laws. Which means, after all, firing it was not so bad.
Last thing : I said 300Km is low, this is all the more significant than you must raise your air-air missile up there.
This probably means India actually would have difficulties to kill a really active observation sat, for which the lowest altitudes start around 600Km (some are at 800...). Ok, difficulties just for now, and they indeed show they solved the targeting issues, etc.
Don't be so sad : here in France we have the guys that believe in the power of water (infinite dilutions, homeopathy etc.) and managed to get their paper published in Nature some years ago.
In each and every pharmacy you find, prominently exposed, zillions of homeopathic pills, and indeed you'd better be prudent when talking about it, given the number of folks that BELIEVE...
"Good luck finding that in your distribution repo. If you're running Ubuntu you get 3.0.4. If you're running Debian Stable then you get 3.0.3."
Well, I'm 60 years old, using Linux on Ubuntu (mostly out of laziness, otherwise I'd switch to Debian), and I have the latest VLC, because I am still able to copy-paste two lines from the VLC site into a terminal window. And now it auto-updates, contrary to your snaps....
Your objection only applies to people unable to copy-paste, IMHO...
This does not prevent, in any way, to upload the same images on Openstreetmap.
Addtionally, this very thread would have been enormously different, and quite more important that the curent "he went on holidays and, basically, took pics in an original way (helping Google)"...
For me, the way both sentences are written actually means the system *fully halts* when you plug the USB. :-D
I leave it to you to further evolve the text
You can definitely plug something that declares itself a keyboard then turns itself into something else.
There are many applications, for instance my Nitrokey Storage declares itself a simple USB read-only key when plugged, and then turns itself into many other things (simultaneously) when I ask the right questions.
You can check that, and also how you can protect you, hardware side : https://github.com/robertfisk/...
(disclaimer : I am not related to the device or its designer, but I own two, and they have worked fluently for two years on. I decided to buy them when, in the same week, US customers looked at me like a witch when I offered them my data on a company USB stick, and russian ones handed me a nice russian-decorated stick for doing the same...)
R. Fisk is preparing an USB2 version in parallel to this original USB1.
H.
IIRC there was a way, in any browser, to create a bookmark replacing its url with a string like ;-)
emailto:?subject=interesting url&body= [here I don"t remember how to pass the url] but I used for years in my fossin macintoshes, before switching to Linux (and I forgot the bookmark
In the formula above I intentionally wrote "emailto" instead of mailto otherwise you just get a ink indeed, like that : mailto:?subject=blah...
Anyone to help?
I'd love to, well, forget about gmail... and specific addons...
You don't even need to look for überadvanced tech on today's cars.
On all new cars these last years, the use of LEDs instead of bulbs allowed to install super cool, super fancy lights everywhere -for instance the fashion for turnlights recently was to wrap a luminous line of LEDs all around the stoplights, or even with ultra-zen shape inflections.
Very sillily, I just thought 'Ahh, fashion...' in the beginning.
This, until I understood that, from now on, whenever one of your stoplight or turlight dies, you cannot switch a 20-cent bulb there*.
You now MUST get back to the original automaker, to politely ask for this complex plastic element, ultra-zen-shaped, that, obviously, no one else than them can provide.
(Oh, and the left side isn't the same as the right side, mind you, don't confuse!)
I'd say, you'll pay it not ten times, but one hundred times the bulb cost.
Ahh, but this is for fashion, isn't it?
(*) and even, have a complete light repair set within the volume of a smartphone, slipped somewhere in the car, allowing you to repair in 5mn straight in front of the cop if need be...
My small and collaborative ISP offers a VPN to its subscribers, that I have to activate and deactivate by hand.
It would be very nice if Mozilla's detection mechanism allowed autoconnecting through *my* VPN, not just the recommended one... (Even if the recommended is preset by default, which would allow some revenue to Moz...)
Specially Privacy Badger, whose authors are in the EFF and which is easily adjustable per-site if needed.
For me tracking is an issue of the past -as long as Privacy badger lives
Now I wrote that, I have to consider a donation to EFF... the cat T-shirt is nice...
Some ten years ago, not understanding the key interest of (separate) RSS aggregators, the first one appearing on the macintosh OS I was using at the time, did mark for me the first time I understood I was getting old.
Some other clues did hit me since then, but really, the first hit came when I did understand that I did not even understand the sheer usefulness of these apps during ONE YEAR...
At least that's what I do.
I have read here and there more frowny users that'll firejail *also the installer*, IIRC there is a detailed how-to for Steam, for instance, but at this time I cannot track it back...
Arrgh, and I lost all my mod points yesterday...
You can impose, by law, polarizer filters in front of all headlights, and then you'll filter most of the light of oncoming cars with simple polarizer glasses while the light reflected by ordinary objects will be unpolarized thus visible.
You could even start this development without changing laws through another key feature, which indeed is fog : if you illuminate fog with polarized light then look at it with counter-polarized glasses, you almost damp all the fog droplets reflections, and see through it the actual scenery.
This, a life saver, I proposed to my governmental lab in charge of road counter-fog measures years ago. The idea was trashed 'for imposing more power on headlights'. Imagine my gaping.
Later on I discovered it had been patented, a couple of times (yes, more than one, in different countries, this happened in the good ol' time), somtimes with glasses, sometimes with a windscreen filter.
Nobody succeeded in selling it anyhow, and patents are probably dead now (my story is >10 years ago)
If you want to start a serious, significant Kickstarter for real, do this.
Fog-suppressing kit, two headlight filters, polarized sunglasses just an option. Low-cost and easy to test.
I'll buy your first model. I'm too old now to restart with this -at the time I tried, internet didn't exist...
But God I'll buy your first model.
I don't own a bitcoin wallet so that says it all regarding my competence, but what about buying -for about the same price- one of these open-source hardware, open-source software keys that the German Nitrokey build, originally for storing cryptography signature but now they embark Gbytes of encrypted storage on various internal volumes, one of them hidden with even plausible deniability?
H.
Why not trying by yourself?
If the procedure to update kernel looks complex, you may just use the Ukuu very simple updater (actually just a wrapper, with nice explanations, and even available within U. app store itself IIRC).
I for one am using the latest 4.17 kernel (from two days ago), installed via Ukuu, on all my Ubuntu 16 LTS machines*.
(Ukuu even explains you how to proceed if you loaded a failed kernel, with a simple action to switch back to your previous one. Which happened to me once in the last 20 updates (an obviously too small download that I would now detect), and I did switch back in something like 5 mn, reboots included.)
(*) OK, two machines ;-)
Mine does it.
Granted, we both use Linux machines.
And to get back to the point here, we'll never use Dropbox anyway. We share on Nextclouds, on community-managed servers...
With all due respect, I have almost the opposite view : I use RSS aggregators everywhere (on my website, computers, phone) with a single aim : eliminating advertisement and fancy website interfaces, leading to a simple, clean, homogeneous presentation along *all* my information channels (and I have over 100).
Without aggregators I'd be terribly less efficient.
Now, that FF removes this doesn't bother me at all -I love aggregated info but not all-in-one things, and I switched to dedicated apps almost when RSS appeared. There are so many of them...
What you say is true for the Leica M that Dave Barnes mentiioned, but the Leica Q definitely features a full-featured EVF. (and has for two years) : http://us.leica-camera.com/Pho...
The only difference I saw from my mirror-Nikon was the color temperature in some cases. Which is of zero importance at the time of shooting (and I use grey cards when needed).
Two major advantages are the readability even at night, and the possibility to automatically zoom the image centre when in manual focus.
(disclaimer : I did sell all my Nikon gear for a Leica Q two years ago. 14-bit full-frame, zero-noise obturator and pocketable, two years before Nikon)
please not that the ', please' part in the title above is not an instruction ;-)
Firejail, is.
https://sourceforge.net/projec...
It works perfectly here on U16.04, and also with Signal...
... may be that this will strongly accelerate migrations from GAFA services to independent, open and untractable systems like Diaspora / Mastodon / Pixelfed etc. :-D
Initially I thought that only 'slow-throughput' sevices could be dealt with this way, but I even discovered Peertube, a movie service.
Honestly, at this moment the only final push these guys need is... a big influx of new users pushed away from GAFA by the new EU restrictions
On Android, you do have a very simple option, within OSMAnd, to remove all or a selected part of these Openstreetmap icons...
To me, on that platform, what you request is already done. And of course OSMAnd is available without GApps, through F-Droid (and also on the google market, for lazies)
I clearly remember, although I am not able to track the reference right now, of an ancient roman text that went somehow this way:
It was during the wars of Cleopatre. The scene depicted a war field, with one of Cleopatre generals receiving orders, reading them, then turning to apply them.
In any classical movie you can imagine the picture : general receives sealed package, unseals, reads, and now on to the next action scene, nothing special to be seen here.
Then, the actual roman text: written by the man dedicated to this, a clerk which you'd call today the embedded war reporter, or something like that.
And that's where it goes wild : our 'reporter' actually turns extraordinarily haggard when seeing this, and his text expands at length.
Thing is, the general read *silently*. And, that's the first time our 'reporter' sees this. In his life. Despite the fact he himself is a clerc.
What he is describing is not the prelude of yet another romanic battle. At all.
It is a change in human mind and thinking. Romans, and then us, were on the verge of *thinking differently* -by the fact one, from then on, could read silently.
Maybe, without Cleopatre, generations of commuters wouldn't anything to read during hours. The word 'education' would have a different meaning. Would you, yes you here, be reading this very text aloud? Really? Slowly?
The connected generation is just one such switch. Many have told us about the Gutenberg revolution, etc. Silent reading is another one less known. Connected people is yet another. All come with trashing various things, some *very* regrettable, and, clearly, some *irresistible* and significant too.
This switch to connected people is now a thing of the past, of the recent history at best.
My main concern today is rather, what will AI bring, and delete, in our everyday life.
Not just jobs, I mean : which parts of our minds are going to change again, in my grandchildren.