Whatsapp is extremely popular in Europe, where text messages are often billed separately on phone accounts. Most people I know use it, whether they are 10, 30, or 50.
I was thinking that it should be possible to set up a file sharing system that supports plausible deniability for downloading pirated material. Let us suppose, for simplicity, that the system only allows sharing 10MB files, and that some of them are legal and some are not. Each time an user wants to upload a new 10MB file, they do not publish the file itself, but the XOR of the file and a pre-esisting 10MB chunk. In this way, each time you want to download a file, you have to download two 10MB chunks from the system and XOR them. But, this is the catch, every possible chunk belongs to more than one file: if you download a chunk that belongs to both ubuntu_16.04_amd64.iso and pirates_of_the_caribbean_XXX_subtitle.mkv, who can prove that you were interested in the second?
Btrfs is the default filesystem on my phone, and it's worked just fine up to now, for me and for most other users. The only issue I had is that it needs rebalancing every now and then, and the cron job is set up to do it only if the phone is connected to a charger when it starts (but that is an issue with the phone developers, not with btrfs).
Yes, like this, but preferably something that has been updated in the last 5 years, and in particularly tested with Windows 8 and 10, can read and write a journal, and doesn't have "Data corruption issue" at the beginning of their most recent changelog.
I wonder if it is possible to use Facebook messages as a transport layer to deliver (encrypted) content. A bit like people have written GMailFS to use GMail's unlimited storage as a generic file system layer.
Ah, modern laptops. They are thinner than ever, and they do all that the old ones could, provided you pack with them a HDMI-VGA dongle, a USB-Ethernet dongle, an external CD/DVD reader and an external hard disk for storage.
I wonder if there is a Pavlov effect tied to it by now --- do many people nowadays get aroused at the mere sight of the Chrome Incognito Mode starting window?
Git stashes (I believe) cannot be pushed to another computer, so they are useless for this purpose. So, as you recognize, the choice is between "remember to commit && push every time you leave the workstation, and then always rewrite history because otherwise git bisect won't work" or "install Dropbox, do nothing else and it just works(tm)". That is not what I do, but I can totally understand people going for the second option.
You probably don't understand their use case. This is a single person, working both from a workstation (when they are at work) or from a laptop (when they telecommute, or are away, or...). At any point in time they may have to leave the workstation in a hurry, and they want to resume coding on the laptop as if they were on the same computer. They don't want to commit, not even to a private branch, because when they have to leave the code may not even compile. Of course, their code needs to be in a git repo to interact with the rest of the world. So, what's the solution? Stick your git repo inside Dropbox. The Dropbox "Last change wins" semantic is fine, because there is a single user: they won't sit in front of two different keyboards at the same time (and it is reasonable to assume that the laptop is always going to be online). It sounds stupid, I agree, but it works for them, so who am I to disagree?
git doesn't sync continuously across machines, it syncs only when you commit. If you work on multiple computers (such as a laptop and a workstation), you may want to sync continuously à la Dropbox. I even know people who keep their git repo inside Dropbox -- I know, it sounds stupid.
That number probably refers to legal games (=sequences of moves). The result on the 19x19 board enumerates the legal positions, instead. Confusing abstract.
Was riding a horse someplace considered a privilege?
Technically, yes. Horses weren't cheap back in the day.Especially if you had to resort to a change station because you had to travel farther than a single horse could take you. That is why in the movies you see knights on horses and peasants walking on their feet.
That's only part of the picture... And why are there two different red-green sliders side to side? What are the other six obscure icons, apart from the power symbol? I consider myself an expert user, and I had to google for help to figure out what they do (and I keep forgetting). And why reinventing the UI wheel when there are native widgets that the users are comfortable with?
Better user interface? Seriously? How do you even figure out where to click on a window like this one https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net... and what all the buttons do? Oh, and of course there are no tooltips. Those are for suckers.
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Whatsapp is extremely popular in Europe, where text messages are often billed separately on phone accounts. Most people I know use it, whether they are 10, 30, or 50.
Very interesting, thanks for the link!
I was thinking that it should be possible to set up a file sharing system that supports plausible deniability for downloading pirated material. Let us suppose, for simplicity, that the system only allows sharing 10MB files, and that some of them are legal and some are not. Each time an user wants to upload a new 10MB file, they do not publish the file itself, but the XOR of the file and a pre-esisting 10MB chunk. In this way, each time you want to download a file, you have to download two 10MB chunks from the system and XOR them. But, this is the catch, every possible chunk belongs to more than one file: if you download a chunk that belongs to both ubuntu_16.04_amd64.iso and pirates_of_the_caribbean_XXX_subtitle.mkv, who can prove that you were interested in the second?
Btrfs is the default filesystem on my phone, and it's worked just fine up to now, for me and for most other users. The only issue I had is that it needs rebalancing every now and then, and the cron job is set up to do it only if the phone is connected to a charger when it starts (but that is an issue with the phone developers, not with btrfs).
Yes, like this, but preferably something that has been updated in the last 5 years, and in particularly tested with Windows 8 and 10, can read and write a journal, and doesn't have "Data corruption issue" at the beginning of their most recent changelog.
I don't care, I am a Linux user.
I wonder if it is possible to use Facebook messages as a transport layer to deliver (encrypted) content. A bit like people have written GMailFS to use GMail's unlimited storage as a generic file system layer.
Ah, modern laptops. They are thinner than ever, and they do all that the old ones could, provided you pack with them a HDMI-VGA dongle, a USB-Ethernet dongle, an external CD/DVD reader and an external hard disk for storage.
I wonder if there is a Pavlov effect tied to it by now --- do many people nowadays get aroused at the mere sight of the Chrome Incognito Mode starting window?
Git stashes (I believe) cannot be pushed to another computer, so they are useless for this purpose. So, as you recognize, the choice is between "remember to commit && push every time you leave the workstation, and then always rewrite history because otherwise git bisect won't work" or "install Dropbox, do nothing else and it just works(tm)". That is not what I do, but I can totally understand people going for the second option.
You probably don't understand their use case. This is a single person, working both from a workstation (when they are at work) or from a laptop (when they telecommute, or are away, or...). At any point in time they may have to leave the workstation in a hurry, and they want to resume coding on the laptop as if they were on the same computer. They don't want to commit, not even to a private branch, because when they have to leave the code may not even compile. Of course, their code needs to be in a git repo to interact with the rest of the world. So, what's the solution? Stick your git repo inside Dropbox. The Dropbox "Last change wins" semantic is fine, because there is a single user: they won't sit in front of two different keyboards at the same time (and it is reasonable to assume that the laptop is always going to be online). It sounds stupid, I agree, but it works for them, so who am I to disagree?
git doesn't sync continuously across machines, it syncs only when you commit. If you work on multiple computers (such as a laptop and a workstation), you may want to sync continuously à la Dropbox. I even know people who keep their git repo inside Dropbox -- I know, it sounds stupid.
Oh, they do, for paying customers. You know how the old quote goes: if you are not paying, then you are the product.
That number probably refers to legal games (=sequences of moves). The result on the 19x19 board enumerates the legal positions, instead. Confusing abstract.
You mean it now looks like a 90s Windows 95-era application instead of like Windows 3.1 like it did before?
What about male computers? Why the need to specify gender, if the difference is not gender-related?
I believe the proper way to say it here is: 2016 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
+4 insightful? Is everyone with moderation points 14 year old?
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Just a normal fission nuke? Oh, ok, we're safe then.
I am sure we would all be happy to publicly inspect Google's face recognition algorithm to be sure that it only uses authorized techniques.
Technically, yes. Horses weren't cheap back in the day.Especially if you had to resort to a change station because you had to travel farther than a single horse could take you. That is why in the movies you see knights on horses and peasants walking on their feet.
Yes, I'm fun at parties, why, thank you.
Does it support Ubuntu Satanic Edition, too?
That's only part of the picture... And why are there two different red-green sliders side to side? What are the other six obscure icons, apart from the power symbol? I consider myself an expert user, and I had to google for help to figure out what they do (and I keep forgetting). And why reinventing the UI wheel when there are native widgets that the users are comfortable with?
Better user interface? Seriously? How do you even figure out where to click on a window like this one https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net... and what all the buttons do? Oh, and of course there are no tooltips. Those are for suckers.