Akonadi, Nepomuk, Strigi, Baloo drove flocks of users away from Kontact and even KDE.
Indeed they did. This stuff was a large setback for KDE, perhaps as bad as the early 4.x releases. At one point there was an entire MySQL database instance hidden in $HOME. Pretty unbelievable. Users became adept at disabling that stuff. I've never used the Kontact suite; Thunderbird and other tools sufficing independently, so once I had Akonadi and Nepomuk shut down the rest of the DE worked great for me. I believe this is how almost everyone that stuck with KDE dealt with the problem. Akonadi and Nepomuk are both gone in 5.x; KDE did eventually recognize the problems with these components and acted appropriately.
I've never had any struggles with Strigi or Baloo and they don't appear to be generating a large number of complaints.
Bit of a false dichotomy there; it runs fine and it pulls in an avalanche of dependencies. Up to you to decide if it's worth the space, but it runs fine.
Actually it works fine without a GPU. You just have to turn off desktop effects (which you won't miss; they provide nothing of value) and turn off compositing. With that stuff off KDE is efficient, even over remote protocols like VNC. KDE and Mint are the two full featured non-"lightweight" desktop environments available today that you can tune to run well over remote connections, primarily because you can turn off compositing.
is that Fedora does a much better job with their KDE build.
I've found Kubuntu is working well in recent releases. I plan on committing to 18.04 LTS for many years when it appears in April. I've tested Kubuntu 17.10 thoroughly and I haven't found anything that disappoints me except maybe the still young GUI package manager, a low priority issue given apt. This is relative to my experience with OpenSUSE KDE which has been the most polished KDE distro since forever.
KDE has earned these results. For years now KDE development has been thoughtful and conservative; no iconoclasts have been permitted to blow up everything in another doomed attempt to reinvent the desktop. Small but crucial things have survived incessant pressure from well meaning but short sighted people, such as the fact that you can still turn off fucking compositing. I hope they can stick to this pattern for a few more years and continue earning trust.
Oh for gods sake, Fuck. That. Noise! It's just more lawyers and more minders and more lawsuits and more levers for the Powers That Be to pull to stifle, shape and control all the things they don't like and shut out the people they don't like. Does it even occur to you that the crap you're dreaming up necessitates that basically everying is going to have to be recorded for evidentiary purposes? And all because you and your betters are upset with an election.
No, it isn't. Define "secure." (Not really, because your definition doesn't matter.) I'll do it the way LE will do it; march panel after panel of federally funded university professors and paid consultants up to the hill and expert 'splain away all the doubting Thomases; the few remaining outsiders that aren't aligned with the official definition of "secure" becomes the designated crackpots, safely dismissed.
If that's all the terrain we have to work with then we're fucked. The Powers That Be know how to get past the vulnerability argument; they fund lots of academics and can push them where needed, including arguing that talk of vulnerabilities is crackpot and must be ignored on pain of ridicule. They'll have zero difficulty stocking panel after panel with "experts" that will parrot the necessary lines at hearing after hearing until they've lined up the necessary votes.
We're not required to record a private verbal conversation, in person, on the phone or otherwise. Despite this we've somehow we've managed to survive the parade of horribles for hundreds of years sans the ability of LE to rifle through all the things criminals say to one another that weren't recorded. I believe it is 100% legitimate and reasonable to assert that communicating via strong, un-backdoored cryptography is a right every damn bit as much as conducting a private verbal conversation. Further, the fact that LE believes they're owed some backdoor is simply a symptom of the mentality that emerges when there are too many of them with far, far too much funding.
I'm much less impressed with this. Wyden has as a premise that a backdoor is legitimate if only the mechanism can be made secure. Wyden does not assert that we are supposedly free people and may use whatever algorithm we wish, but that they should have such a backdoor capability once they can convince him that their backdoor can't be exploited.
Nope, see, you have it wrong as well. I am forever amazed at the rarity of reading comprehension.
Montana's terms require a provider to practice net neutrally. Not just on behalf of Montana, but on behalf of all of the providers customers, including "average person." Extrapolated to many states and other large institutions it could mean NN becomes a defacto requirement for all ISPs and all of their customers.
This is fine; you might want to actually read beyond the pure BS clickbait title and into at least part of the summary. All Montana is doing is setting contractual requirements; ISPs are free to accept the terms or not. If the state can't find anyone willing to accept the requirements they can change them or do some other thing that makes them happy. Either way it's all volitionary and entirely reasonable.
Indeed. I can't understand how this is happening. Makes me worry about my future shill checks; I mean if our corporate masters can't rely on republicon trumpanzee states to do their bidding why pay? Won't anyone think of the corporations??!
Apple is to be admired... for the simple reason that it makes things people want to buy
So do meth cooks. And like those scofflaws Apple bends a lot of rules and fosters a lot of bad shit in this world. They don't get absolution just because they're cool.
Yesterday we saw Apple fanbois bemoan the "Apple Shaming Society" when a story appeared about the shameful working conditions at less visible suppliers in China. Today, however, the fanbois will find very little to like about this news; validating Trumpanzian tax policy is not what they want to see from their gadget god.
I didn't swallow the Airbus hype and I didn't shut down my critical thinking ability out of deference for all things European. In the several years before the A380 announcement the decline of 747 sales was entirely evident; airlines were shifting to large twins and away from large four engine jumbos. Many voices shared my view at the time, but the enthusiasm for an Airbus superjumbo as a Boeing rival drowned out anything that wasn't in tune with the fanboi echo chamber. The skeptics were right and the A380 is a dead end; it achieved its dubious goal as a prestige plane and now the market is putting it to bed.
Airbus is prone to this; Concorde is another example. Builders and airlines that actually had to consider the market value of supersonic aircraft killed off their development efforts because it didn't make sense. Only the state supported golden boy outfits like Airbus/AF/BA and Tupolev/Aerflot that could build and run SSTs at a loss persisted.
Several people have provided anecdotes about their A380 experiences and observations about successful A380 operations. I never claimed the plane was useless or that airlines aren't utilizing them. My point is that the plane's reason for existence is about EU/Airbus prestige as opposed to market demand, and the limited sales are mostly the result of European pressure to move the limited production. Unless the EU and UK step in again and squeeze someone to buy more then production will end.
There was never much business case for the A380. It's a prestige plane, built to prove that Airbus is a world class manufacturer. Boeing had a legitimate reason to build the 747 and the market rewarded that with 40+ years of sales. It was easy for rational people to see at the time the A380 was announced (and as demand for the 747 was tapering off) that the A380 wasn't really needed. But they built it anyhow and cut a bunch incestuous deals leveraging EU trade to move them (which is why so many A380s are operated out of Asia.)
All the trade deals are signed so that bargaining chip is gone, no one actually wants the plane.
Those who build "desktop" machines for gaming are in a bad place right now; mining has doubled the price of new GPUs; a GTX 1070 is ~$900+ right now anywhere that actually has them in stock. You can sell a used 970 for more than you paid new. Then you have GPU manufacturers sending a huge chunk of their foundry capacity to big ML cloud operators. The key piece of hardware for Desktop machines, a GPU, has become a costly and difficult to obtain part.
So there really is no hope here: the influx of ANC voters will push out the DA and ruin the Western Cape as well. You could read a thousand MSM stories about this and never learn what you have explained.
Nope. Still there. Same spammy looking site it's been for 15 years. Still a pain to find the link to source code as well, when code should be what appears in front, on top, by default. Want to see changes? Can't find that list anywhere either.
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Akonadi, Nepomuk, Strigi, Baloo drove flocks of users away from Kontact and even KDE.
Indeed they did. This stuff was a large setback for KDE, perhaps as bad as the early 4.x releases. At one point there was an entire MySQL database instance hidden in $HOME. Pretty unbelievable. Users became adept at disabling that stuff. I've never used the Kontact suite; Thunderbird and other tools sufficing independently, so once I had Akonadi and Nepomuk shut down the rest of the DE worked great for me. I believe this is how almost everyone that stuck with KDE dealt with the problem. Akonadi and Nepomuk are both gone in 5.x; KDE did eventually recognize the problems with these components and acted appropriately.
I've never had any struggles with Strigi or Baloo and they don't appear to be generating a large number of complaints.
Mint
I meant MATE.
Bit of a false dichotomy there; it runs fine and it pulls in an avalanche of dependencies. Up to you to decide if it's worth the space, but it runs fine.
Actually it works fine without a GPU. You just have to turn off desktop effects (which you won't miss; they provide nothing of value) and turn off compositing. With that stuff off KDE is efficient, even over remote protocols like VNC. KDE and Mint are the two full featured non-"lightweight" desktop environments available today that you can tune to run well over remote connections, primarily because you can turn off compositing.
is that Fedora does a much better job with their KDE build.
I've found Kubuntu is working well in recent releases. I plan on committing to 18.04 LTS for many years when it appears in April. I've tested Kubuntu 17.10 thoroughly and I haven't found anything that disappoints me except maybe the still young GUI package manager, a low priority issue given apt. This is relative to my experience with OpenSUSE KDE which has been the most polished KDE distro since forever.
KDE has earned these results. For years now KDE development has been thoughtful and conservative; no iconoclasts have been permitted to blow up everything in another doomed attempt to reinvent the desktop. Small but crucial things have survived incessant pressure from well meaning but short sighted people, such as the fact that you can still turn off fucking compositing. I hope they can stick to this pattern for a few more years and continue earning trust.
more likely to a brailed person-burger in a plane crash
Grammatical misadventure.
We need to get our police under fucking control.
Maybe, but you're going to have to stifle your left wing instincts and reign in some public sector unions to do it.
at the 1-800 number
Which, ironically, will be answered by "Becky" at an Ethiopian call center run by a Chinese multinational.
I'm just making it up off of the top of my head
Oh for gods sake, Fuck. That. Noise! It's just more lawyers and more minders and more lawsuits and more levers for the Powers That Be to pull to stifle, shape and control all the things they don't like and shut out the people they don't like. Does it even occur to you that the crap you're dreaming up necessitates that basically everying is going to have to be recorded for evidentiary purposes? And all because you and your betters are upset with an election.
Freedom, bitch. That's the answer.
That's a very strong argument.
No, it isn't. Define "secure." (Not really, because your definition doesn't matter.) I'll do it the way LE will do it; march panel after panel of federally funded university professors and paid consultants up to the hill and expert 'splain away all the doubting Thomases; the few remaining outsiders that aren't aligned with the official definition of "secure" becomes the designated crackpots, safely dismissed.
choose a terrain that is favorable to you
If that's all the terrain we have to work with then we're fucked. The Powers That Be know how to get past the vulnerability argument; they fund lots of academics and can push them where needed, including arguing that talk of vulnerabilities is crackpot and must be ignored on pain of ridicule. They'll have zero difficulty stocking panel after panel with "experts" that will parrot the necessary lines at hearing after hearing until they've lined up the necessary votes.
We're not required to record a private verbal conversation, in person, on the phone or otherwise. Despite this we've somehow we've managed to survive the parade of horribles for hundreds of years sans the ability of LE to rifle through all the things criminals say to one another that weren't recorded. I believe it is 100% legitimate and reasonable to assert that communicating via strong, un-backdoored cryptography is a right every damn bit as much as conducting a private verbal conversation. Further, the fact that LE believes they're owed some backdoor is simply a symptom of the mentality that emerges when there are too many of them with far, far too much funding.
thank you Mr. Wyden
I'm much less impressed with this. Wyden has as a premise that a backdoor is legitimate if only the mechanism can be made secure. Wyden does not assert that we are supposedly free people and may use whatever algorithm we wish, but that they should have such a backdoor capability once they can convince him that their backdoor can't be exploited.
Nope, see, you have it wrong as well. I am forever amazed at the rarity of reading comprehension.
Montana's terms require a provider to practice net neutrally. Not just on behalf of Montana, but on behalf of all of the providers customers, including "average person." Extrapolated to many states and other large institutions it could mean NN becomes a defacto requirement for all ISPs and all of their customers.
this is embarrassingly stupid
This is fine; you might want to actually read beyond the pure BS clickbait title and into at least part of the summary. All Montana is doing is setting contractual requirements; ISPs are free to accept the terms or not. If the state can't find anyone willing to accept the requirements they can change them or do some other thing that makes them happy. Either way it's all volitionary and entirely reasonable.
Indeed. I can't understand how this is happening. Makes me worry about my future shill checks; I mean if our corporate masters can't rely on republicon trumpanzee states to do their bidding why pay? Won't anyone think of the corporations??!
The old gentry doesn't like being pushed out by the new gentry.
Apple is to be admired ... for the simple reason that it makes things people want to buy
So do meth cooks. And like those scofflaws Apple bends a lot of rules and fosters a lot of bad shit in this world. They don't get absolution just because they're cool.
Yesterday we saw Apple fanbois bemoan the "Apple Shaming Society" when a story appeared about the shameful working conditions at less visible suppliers in China. Today, however, the fanbois will find very little to like about this news; validating Trumpanzian tax policy is not what they want to see from their gadget god.
Not at all.
I didn't swallow the Airbus hype and I didn't shut down my critical thinking ability out of deference for all things European. In the several years before the A380 announcement the decline of 747 sales was entirely evident; airlines were shifting to large twins and away from large four engine jumbos. Many voices shared my view at the time, but the enthusiasm for an Airbus superjumbo as a Boeing rival drowned out anything that wasn't in tune with the fanboi echo chamber. The skeptics were right and the A380 is a dead end; it achieved its dubious goal as a prestige plane and now the market is putting it to bed.
Airbus is prone to this; Concorde is another example. Builders and airlines that actually had to consider the market value of supersonic aircraft killed off their development efforts because it didn't make sense. Only the state supported golden boy outfits like Airbus/AF/BA and Tupolev/Aerflot that could build and run SSTs at a loss persisted.
Several people have provided anecdotes about their A380 experiences and observations about successful A380 operations. I never claimed the plane was useless or that airlines aren't utilizing them. My point is that the plane's reason for existence is about EU/Airbus prestige as opposed to market demand, and the limited sales are mostly the result of European pressure to move the limited production. Unless the EU and UK step in again and squeeze someone to buy more then production will end.
There was never much business case for the A380. It's a prestige plane, built to prove that Airbus is a world class manufacturer. Boeing had a legitimate reason to build the 747 and the market rewarded that with 40+ years of sales. It was easy for rational people to see at the time the A380 was announced (and as demand for the 747 was tapering off) that the A380 wasn't really needed. But they built it anyhow and cut a bunch incestuous deals leveraging EU trade to move them (which is why so many A380s are operated out of Asia.)
All the trade deals are signed so that bargaining chip is gone, no one actually wants the plane.
Shhh! Just keep chanting "wind and solar, wind and solar."
Those who build "desktop" machines for gaming are in a bad place right now; mining has doubled the price of new GPUs; a GTX 1070 is ~$900+ right now anywhere that actually has them in stock. You can sell a used 970 for more than you paid new. Then you have GPU manufacturers sending a huge chunk of their foundry capacity to big ML cloud operators. The key piece of hardware for Desktop machines, a GPU, has become a costly and difficult to obtain part.
So there really is no hope here: the influx of ANC voters will push out the DA and ruin the Western Cape as well. You could read a thousand MSM stories about this and never learn what you have explained.
Nope. Still there. Same spammy looking site it's been for 15 years. Still a pain to find the link to source code as well, when code should be what appears in front, on top, by default. Want to see changes? Can't find that list anywhere either.
Nope. Nope. Nope.