If you look carefully, I didn't say "use it", I said "keep an eye on it" and "it's promising". I realize it's far from being production-ready. I am not involved in the Julia development, and I wouldn't describe myself as "FOSS people".
If the system required you to enter the FDE-password whenever you open up the screen then how would background-processes, like e.g. SMS-receiving, chat and such stuff work? They'd only be able to access the disk when you have the display open and that'd obviously make the whole thing unuseable as a smartphone in the first place.
I get your point, but I disagree on the part where you write that background operations need the disk or else they can't possibly work at all. Current smartphones are not designed to work without accessing the disk, that's true, but in theory 1GB of RAM is plenty for processes like polling a chat server or SMS to run entirely in it.
Jolla phone user here. The killer feature for me, besides the ability to run Android apps, is the security aspect (none of the Big Three mobile OS makers gets my data).
(And, on top of it, I can brag "my mobile phone arrived with vim and git preinstalled".)
I am pretty satisfied with the OS as it is, but it could use a few more quality-of-life improvements and native features (the mail app mainly). This new project is good news, because it will help them grow, gain popularity and find a niche to fill in the mobile OS market, but I hope this won't take resources away from the regular development.
MAybe HDD manufacturers should ship a hash in print along with their drives which can be then tallied with the one on the website.. they cant hack every hard disk shrinkwrap can they ?
At this point, they could simply ship their public key in print and sign all present and future versions.
Personally, I give much importance to the presence of a physical keyboard. Keyboards are what makes the students able to create original content and tinker with a device. They make the difference between a machine that you can use to write essays, program, communicate... and a device that is only able to play Angry Birds and send short KTHXBYE messages on Whatsapp.
Adblock, Flashblock, uBlock, Ghostery all pick up slightly different items to block which combined do a pretty good job of breaking things like Facebook
No, it's not. Semver mandates that the major version is bumped exactly when there are "incompatible API changes". This is a simplified (and les well-defined) version.
How exactly is systemd causing this problem? Neither you nor the author on the other thread give any sort of argument (which is the reason why he/she was accused of being a troll in the first place).
At a past institution where I still have an e-mail address, they have recently moved their mail infrastructure to Gmail "business" services. The sysadmins now advise against using Thunderbird because it uses "outdated security practices" (my interpretation: it does not support two-factor authentication). Of course, Google is very happy with that (online client = yay more ads).
As many have said, this is a non-problem if you use encryption. A more actual problem is: who do you choose to give your METAdata? If you have Dropbox permanently running on your pc, encrypted or not, they get to know when you are logged on your PC and where you are. Similarly for your mail provider and your instant messaging/VOIP provider. Hell, your NTP server of choice could probably log your location by geolocating your IP address and fingerprinting your NTP request.
Normal distributions make sense for real numbers. How are you converting "intelligence" to a real number? If you are using IQ, then it's not normal (it can't be, since it's bounded below by zero and a normal extends to infinity both ways).
What worries me about radios is the lack of variety in the represented genres. I don't know about where you live, but here all stations seem copies of the same one, and they all broadcast the same kind of pop-ish music. The less popular genres have zero chances of making it out to the public. The cycle will never be broken if it goes like (people like and choose music based on radio broadcasts) -> (artists on radios get famous and popular) -> (radios choose music based on their perception of people's taste).
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What comes next, a thread on "is Emacs better than Vi"?
If you look carefully, I didn't say "use it", I said "keep an eye on it" and "it's promising". I realize it's far from being production-ready.
I am not involved in the Julia development, and I wouldn't describe myself as "FOSS people".
Keep an eye on Julia, it's a very promising project.
I get your point, but I disagree on the part where you write that background operations need the disk or else they can't possibly work at all. Current smartphones are not designed to work without accessing the disk, that's true, but in theory 1GB of RAM is plenty for processes like polling a chat server or SMS to run entirely in it.
So the protection is only effective if someone steals my phone while it's turned off, which is, like, 0.1% of the time?
Jolla phone user here. The killer feature for me, besides the ability to run Android apps, is the security aspect (none of the Big Three mobile OS makers gets my data). (And, on top of it, I can brag "my mobile phone arrived with vim and git preinstalled".) I am pretty satisfied with the OS as it is, but it could use a few more quality-of-life improvements and native features (the mail app mainly). This new project is good news, because it will help them grow, gain popularity and find a niche to fill in the mobile OS market, but I hope this won't take resources away from the regular development.
At this point, they could simply ship their public key in print and sign all present and future versions.
He didn't die; the great Enterprise in the sky beamed him up.
Personally, I give much importance to the presence of a physical keyboard. Keyboards are what makes the students able to create original content and tinker with a device. They make the difference between a machine that you can use to write essays, program, communicate... and a device that is only able to play Angry Birds and send short KTHXBYE messages on Whatsapp.
Interesting (in a scaring way). I wish I had mod points.
Breaking Facebook is a feature, not a bug, right?
Wow. First post and you've already hijacked the thread into another systemd flame fest?
No, it's not. Semver mandates that the major version is bumped exactly when there are "incompatible API changes". This is a simplified (and les well-defined) version.
It worked well with do-not-track, right?
How exactly is systemd causing this problem? Neither you nor the author on the other thread give any sort of argument (which is the reason why he/she was accused of being a troll in the first place).
It's like a caliper, but used by non-native English speakers than me. :p Thanks for the correction, always welcome.
0.1 mm thinner than the competing models? Seriously? Is it even noticeable without a precision caliber?
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At a past institution where I still have an e-mail address, they have recently moved their mail infrastructure to Gmail "business" services. The sysadmins now advise against using Thunderbird because it uses "outdated security practices" (my interpretation: it does not support two-factor authentication). Of course, Google is very happy with that (online client = yay more ads).
As many have said, this is a non-problem if you use encryption. A more actual problem is: who do you choose to give your METAdata? If you have Dropbox permanently running on your pc, encrypted or not, they get to know when you are logged on your PC and where you are. Similarly for your mail provider and your instant messaging/VOIP provider. Hell, your NTP server of choice could probably log your location by geolocating your IP address and fingerprinting your NTP request.
The real news is, someone is still using Google Plus.
I am not an engineer (nor a zombie for that matter) so excuse me if I am wrong, but aren't you essentially describing how an AC unit works?
Normal distributions make sense for real numbers. How are you converting "intelligence" to a real number? If you are using IQ, then it's not normal (it can't be, since it's bounded below by zero and a normal extends to infinity both ways).
A convincing argument as in "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"?
What worries me about radios is the lack of variety in the represented genres. I don't know about where you live, but here all stations seem copies of the same one, and they all broadcast the same kind of pop-ish music. The less popular genres have zero chances of making it out to the public. The cycle will never be broken if it goes like (people like and choose music based on radio broadcasts) -> (artists on radios get famous and popular) -> (radios choose music based on their perception of people's taste).