Yes but the point was it will be hard for Fuchsia to provide these functions.
Also Android is so much more useful with Linux. As in it can be deployed in embedded application, industrial applications, due to Linux having so much flexibility. That is likely impossible for Fuchsia, mainly due to not able to have the breadth of device drivers.
Google used to be a company that embrassed free software. As employees have leaked they are now more obsessed than ever about competitors not just developing interesting things and then see if they sell. Maybe this was inevitable.
Android is already not free just releases tossed over the wall from Google. There is no way I can be part of Android development. Fuchsia just allows total lock down of the last open piece the kernel. Therefore better control. Some even say it will only allow network booting with caching on device, so really locked down.
Most of Android nastiness aren't the kernel's fault, e.g bloat, upgrade issues... Even with Google's resources they will never have as functional a kernel as Linux. The Linux kernel has things like SELinux, iptables, great filesystem support, device drivers for everything. Great for tinkerers, not so useful to Google (they will only implement the few bits they really need). There is no danger Fuchsia will get all this with basically in house not fully open development.
With your Personal Computer that no longer belongs to you.
The scariest statement from about 2 years ago "Over 82 billion photos viewed within the Windows 10 Photo app"
Even if w10 was the best software ever this *should* be a deal breaker. Esp for technical users, at least limit your exposure to game play etc where you actually need to use it.
People on here who say something is lost really really haven't read up to Nyquist or watch the excellent "D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell" video on YouTube.
They are true science deniers. They say it's better but can point to no measurement of why this is. The best they can come out with is frequencies above 22KHz, which are likely noise and even if not, most cutting heads cut ultrasonics to avoid overheating the cutting head anyway. Yet they still claim their medium that is crackles, gets worn out, is likely mono at low frequencies to avoid the needle jumping out of the groove (above the subwoofer cut off frequency) is better.
A few reasons to like vinyl, the art work, avoiding the loudness war and nostalgia. Best to digitise vinyl of first play and never play again, this digital recording will always be the best one.
The analog is always better people need to ask themselves, so why is our DNA is digital, simple, to maintain fidelity across copies.
You do have one option in Firefox and that is run your own syncserver. It's badly documented and not well packaged. But not so bad to setup. Unlike chrome/chromium you can do this at all, only Google with them.
I didn't bother to setup the Auth server for the syncserver, that is even worse documented. But you can use their Auth against your own syncserver, I hide mine behind a VPN so no real danger of data leak with this approach.
One that has the mirriad of features of the Linux kernel. The many filesystems supported, iptables, so many drivers that are easily added, standard tools to monitor and control (e.g/proc) , ability to relatively easily build standard tools and software (sshd, webservers, network utils).
Even for Google replicating all this in Fuchia with the many millions of man hours Linux has had put into it is probably impossible. But I guess most user's probably don't care about any this. But many embedded Android now in use will but it's unlikely Google cares about these too much.
I wonder if say Amazon will fork Android at Fuchia , given that one of it "functions" is probably more Google control. Do they permanently want to be in a position of taking whatever Google want to hand out, for key products like Alexa and fire TV and tablets.
I would look at some of the more open Linux phones under development out there when/if this happens, personally.
Sadly AMD has completely failed to counter the Intel PR that Meltdown/Spectre affects all CPUs when in reality Intel is massively more impacted. The press it parroting Intel PR unchallenged.
AMD doesn't have an easy way to remove their inbuilt PSP when Intel has made lots of people worry about their ME. An obvious thing for AMD to offer.
And why oh why don't AMD support ECC memory on their desktop chips. I know why Intel don't as they want to sell Xeons but AMD has no real server market share. The silicon to do this is pretty minimal. I don't get it, an easy win over Intel.
Maybe because Murdoch's Sky have a stake in Roku and use a re-branded Roku for their NowTV box they sell. But they haven't yet launched the Roku 4 in the UK and don't really push their boxes.
So if you want 4K look elsewhere....
Firesticks and Chromecasts seem a lot more common.
Now they do not do backups of these servers, but these are supposed to be backups of a home box say.
They give full shell access so I use rsync of a encrypted version of my home drive (gocryptfs in my case, cause it can handle full length Linux filenames which some of the alternatives can't but choose your poison).
I know extradition is hard but doing this doesn't say we are *that* bothered by his crime.
He committed a crime so heinous that we aren't even going to try to extradite we are just going to brood over it on the off chance he enters the country.
Surely if the US authorities had enough evidence they would have requested (and got) his extradition from the UK ages ago. Why wait until he is in the US?
Going on about fast attacks not being captured by digital (btw Nyquist says your a lier if you believe that), ultrasonics being important, double blind experiments don't work for audio etc etc
About the only reason for vinyl are to avoid the loudness wars, enjoy the experience and the better artwork. Fair enough but don't give us this it sounds better without any measurable evidence.
If you choose a closed non free OS, You have to stay on that treadmill. That maybe expensive updates or a forced upgrade.
Nobody forced you to buy this, you knew it would EOL.
Slightly more sympathy with embedded versions but to be honest it would be my first IT question when buying equipment with an embedded OS e.g can I just update the computer piece of your mass spectrometer?
I'm no MS fan but you knew what you were getting into. And if you didn't you do now!
The Linux model of having an unstable kernel ABI, to encourage HW vendors to upstream their drivers suddenly looks the best. Stuff your Intellectual Property, I'd like safe drivers. I'll even grant you the use of firmware binary blobs. So a very limited release of company secrets.
And people blame (in a corporate shilling way) Android for being unable to upgrade the kernel due to HW vendors not open sourcing their drivers. Google and phone vendors should pressurize them.
I've not seen a good iptables app on f-droid. The ones I've seen seem to allow you to block all network activity for an app, I'd like to block inbound connections but allow outbound.
Amazingly one reason some people are looking at IPv6 is that they are out of private IPv4 addresses in their CGN (carrier grade NAT) setups. Apparently mobile phone companies are hitting this.
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Yes but the point was it will be hard for Fuchsia to provide these functions.
Also Android is so much more useful with Linux. As in it can be deployed in embedded application, industrial applications, due to Linux having so much flexibility. That is likely impossible for Fuchsia, mainly due to not able to have the breadth of device drivers.
Google used to be a company that embrassed free software. As employees have leaked they are now more obsessed than ever about competitors not just developing interesting things and then see if they sell. Maybe this was inevitable.
Android is already not free just releases tossed over the wall from Google. There is no way I can be part of Android development. Fuchsia just allows total lock down of the last open piece the kernel. Therefore better control. Some even say it will only allow network booting with caching on device, so really locked down.
Most of Android nastiness aren't the kernel's fault, e.g bloat, upgrade issues...
Even with Google's resources they will never have as functional a kernel as Linux. The Linux kernel has things like SELinux, iptables, great filesystem support, device drivers for everything. Great for tinkerers, not so useful to Google (they will only implement the few bits they really need). There is no danger Fuchsia will get all this with basically in house not fully open development.
Some highlights for me are
Micro Live S02E09 - History of computer memory. Including the protein from mud that may one day store 100GB.
The computer music one "If I had a hammer"
The live hack someone did on their email account.
MIPS processor is somewhere in here and the transputer
With your Personal Computer that no longer belongs to you.
The scariest statement from about 2 years ago "Over 82 billion photos viewed within the Windows 10 Photo app"
Even if w10 was the best software ever this *should* be a deal breaker. Esp for technical users, at least limit your exposure to game play etc where you actually need to use it.
Not audiophiles but Nyquist deniers !
People on here who say something is lost really really haven't read up to Nyquist or watch the excellent
"D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell" video on YouTube.
They are true science deniers. They say it's better but can point to no measurement of why this is. The best they can come out with is frequencies above 22KHz, which are likely noise and even if not, most cutting heads cut ultrasonics to avoid overheating the cutting head anyway. Yet they still claim their medium that is crackles, gets worn out, is likely mono at low frequencies to avoid the needle jumping out of the groove (above the subwoofer cut off frequency) is better.
A few reasons to like vinyl, the art work, avoiding the loudness war and nostalgia. Best to digitise vinyl of first play and never play again, this digital recording will always be the best one.
The analog is always better people need to ask themselves, so why is our DNA is digital, simple, to maintain fidelity across copies.
There is no helping some hipster people.
A so called open source OS, that is really just a thrown over the wall every so often OS. That I can't contribute to. Great !
If you want OS innovation maybe rust OS is a better place to look.
You do have one option in Firefox and that is run your own syncserver. It's badly documented and not well packaged. But not so bad to setup. Unlike chrome/chromium you can do this at all, only Google with them.
I didn't bother to setup the Auth server for the syncserver, that is even worse documented. But you can use their Auth against your own syncserver, I hide mine behind a VPN so no real danger of data leak with this approach.
Can't agree more Quantum is very responsive. Feels equivalent to chrome for speed. They have done a really good job with it.
I got my SmartWatch as a present. I didn't think I had much need. But having one is helpful but not essential.
For me really useful to get calendar alerts for meetings when I don't have my phone in my pocket when walking around the office.
One that has the mirriad of features of the Linux kernel. The many filesystems supported, iptables, so many drivers that are easily added, standard tools to monitor and control (e.g /proc) , ability to relatively easily build standard tools and software (sshd, webservers, network utils).
Even for Google replicating all this in Fuchia with the many millions of man hours Linux has had put into it is probably impossible. But I guess most user's probably don't care about any this. But many embedded Android now in use will but it's unlikely Google cares about these too much.
I wonder if say Amazon will fork Android at Fuchia , given that one of it "functions" is probably more Google control. Do they permanently want to be in a position of taking whatever Google want to hand out, for key products like Alexa and fire TV and tablets.
I would look at some of the more open Linux phones under development out there when/if this happens, personally.
Sadly AMD has completely failed to counter the Intel PR that Meltdown/Spectre affects all CPUs when in reality Intel is massively more impacted. The press it parroting Intel PR unchallenged.
AMD doesn't have an easy way to remove their inbuilt PSP when Intel has made lots of people worry about their ME. An obvious thing for AMD to offer.
And why oh why don't AMD support ECC memory on their desktop chips. I know why Intel don't as they want to sell Xeons but AMD has no real server market share. The silicon to do this is pretty minimal. I don't get it, an easy win over Intel.
From someone who obviously doesn't understand (or takes the time to understand) cats or Linux. I get love from both!
Maybe because Murdoch's Sky have a stake in Roku and use a re-branded Roku for their NowTV box they sell. But they haven't yet launched the Roku 4 in the UK and don't really push their boxes.
So if you want 4K look elsewhere....
Firesticks and Chromecasts seem a lot more common.
I personally use Storage Servers from Time4VPS, if payed in advance for 2 years it's €11.99 per month for 4TB of data, other tiers exist.
https://www.time4vps.eu/storag...
Now they do not do backups of these servers, but these are supposed to be backups of a home box say.
They give full shell access so I use rsync of a encrypted version of my home drive (gocryptfs in my case, cause it can handle full length Linux filenames which some of the alternatives can't but choose your poison).
Looks a nice service, but seems pretty pricey. So say 4 TB of data, at 6 cents per GB, would be $246 per month.
I personally use Storage Servers from Time4VPS, if payed in advance for 2 years €11.99 per month.
Now rsync.net probably do more (backup their servers) but this is maybe unnecessary if a backup of home server data.
To single out poor Fido and Kitty for our ills when there are so many other larger contributors to global warming.
People would have us not enjoying ourselves at all....
The simple fact is there are just too many people on the planet. But no one really wants to talk or tackle the population growth problem.
This
I know extradition is hard but doing this doesn't say we are *that* bothered by his crime.
He committed a crime so heinous that we aren't even going to try to extradite we are just going to brood over it on the off chance he enters the country.
Surely if the US authorities had enough evidence they would have requested (and got) his extradition from the UK ages ago. Why wait until he is in the US?
...Of the Vinyl oficianado that gets me
Going on about fast attacks not being captured by digital (btw Nyquist says your a lier if you believe that), ultrasonics being important, double blind experiments don't work for audio etc etc
About the only reason for vinyl are to avoid the loudness wars, enjoy the experience and the better artwork. Fair enough but don't give us this it sounds better without any measurable evidence.
Still waiting for the VHS hipster....
If you choose a closed non free OS, You have to stay on that treadmill. That maybe expensive updates or a forced upgrade.
Nobody forced you to buy this, you knew it would EOL.
Slightly more sympathy with embedded versions but to be honest it would be my first IT question when buying equipment with an embedded OS e.g can I just update the computer piece of your mass spectrometer?
I'm no MS fan but you knew what you were getting into. And if you didn't you do now!
I'm not sure I buy any of this. HW vendors couldn't afford to ignore Android. Its just to big.
An opportunity missed to force some level of driver GPL ing
I Wonder what this means in the kernel.
But a shame as this would seem to remove a lever to help push hw vendors to GPL their drivers.
Why don't Google push vendors to open source if they want to be part of Android. Which is a pretty big stick.
The Linux model of having an unstable kernel ABI, to encourage HW vendors to upstream their drivers suddenly looks the best.
Stuff your Intellectual Property, I'd like safe drivers. I'll even grant you the use of firmware binary blobs. So a very limited release of company secrets.
And people blame (in a corporate shilling way) Android for being unable to upgrade the kernel due to HW vendors not open sourcing their drivers. Google and phone vendors should pressurize them.
I've not seen a good iptables app on f-droid. The ones I've seen seem to allow you to block all network activity for an app, I'd like to block inbound connections but allow outbound.
Amazingly one reason some people are looking at IPv6 is that they are out of private IPv4 addresses in their CGN (carrier grade NAT) setups. Apparently mobile phone companies are hitting this.