DoubleMalt

Sorry to be snide, but seriously?

  curl -L https://git.io/cleansweep | sh

For a security tool?

[edit] I still think it's a great idea, though [/edit]

It would be easy to dispel the accusations by open sourcing windows [/troll]

While this is true, only open source makes choice and privacy even possible.

They are obviously trying to reinvent themselves partly in the image of Google, whose motto "Don't be evil" also sounds very hollow nowadays.

But I shudder when I think of a world where Google is built upon closed software.

[To clarify: I know that Google does not open most of their software. However, with their reliance on open source software they were a big driver for the legitimacy of the movement]

Great!

Even if I'm in danger of stating the obvious, but MS really changed its approach to software.

And it is incredibly great having competition in the JS engine market.

Did you consider using a decentralized solution like https://cloudfleet.io (I am a founder). If you are interested in a PoC, send me a mail, address in my profile.

Well you can still get it for €150 if you're fast. And the base price is €240.

This story shows how important a decentralized but federated Identity system is. Something we will build into CloudFleet https://cloudfleet.io [Disclaimer: I am one of the founders of CloudFleet]

And if you sold your soul (I mean infrastructure) to oracle already, jOOQ is the least of your worries!

Also supporting Oracle is a huge PITA. So charging for that is completely understandable :)

The whole story reinforces my belief that all evil in this world comes from people taking themselves too seriously.

There are services like https://cloudfleet.io (disclaimer I'm one of the founders) that make it easy to get rid of GMail and Dropbox.

On a tangent: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/129215160011/why-trump-insults-...

Also: Linus rarely insults people, he criticizes the code, albeit harshly. http://blog.codinghorror.com/egoless-programming-you-are-not...

Just yesterday I was discussing with a friend that I'd like to use Backblaze as backend for our zero-knowledge backup at https://cloudfleet.io and that I'll ask them for a metered pricing model when we're big enough.

And voilá ... here it is.

But does it federate? (Honest question, did not see a documentation for that)

ldap, works like a charm

I did not vote. Not because I don't care, but because I agree with RMS.

We use AGPL for the code we write ourselves in our project https://cloudfleet.io (sorry for the shameless plug), so Mailpile choosing AGPL fits in nicely.

But it would not have fit less so, had it chosen Apache.

We are pretty happy with let's chat.

Nice project but the documentation is a bit terse (yet). We like https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat atm.

Things that would be essential for me to use it in a company are

- LDAP or OAUTH integration - Hubot integration

I'm not sure Zapier integration cuts it for use cases where I want a self hosted solution.

It depends on your threat model. If you are more afraid of the government than of a random script kiddie, the vastly bigger resources of Google do not matter as your (encrypted) database is just a NSL away.

And then the NSA is trying to crack it </tinfoil hat mode>

Well it might be an alternative to virtualbox for boot2docker.

Do you need Mathematicians?

Once I wrote a little PHP application to manage a clan in a browser game. I used an MD5 hash as session id that I checked with if(session_id)

When users started reporting that their logins would sometimes not work at the first time, I found out that strings that start with zero are coerced to 0 and then interpreted as false.

Never used PHP for anything important since.

More secure, while in this case is not a high bar, is just an assumption without the source code.

Tell this to the Swiss national bank. They desperately tried to keep the franc down.

When they finally saw that the position became untenable, it gained over 20% on the Euro overnight (and so did many public and private loans in Austria and other European countries that had banked on the low interest rate of loans in Switzerland)

Revealed Preferences. The US is still one of the prime targets for people to go to. This magnetism might be in decline but it's still there.

That would probably make me stop using Yahoo.

Although I grudgingly accept a similar prompt on mobile Workflowy (I use firefox there and are prompted to use Chrome for it) even though it annoys the crap out of me. There is not even a possibility to turn this off.

But for Yahoo I have alternatives for workflowy not (yet).

THX for your efforts in bringing up the next generation of hackers and penetration testers!

I wonder how hard it would be to write a Chrome Plugin that connects to Mozilla Sync ...

Just use coreOS and docker on the server and leave the init system discussion to the desktop people.

There are some fundamentally different and sometimes conflicting requirements regarding the startup process on a server and on a desktop machine and I think systemd which is obviously desktop driven will be the catalyst for a split between server and desktop distros.

I don't think classical desktop environments have much future personally, but that's just my gut feeling.

Server will definitely move further into modularization of services, and that will make init systems there less and less interesting.

We use docker at https://cloudfleet.io to separate the application logic from the data and create a simple interface for additional apps.

As we deploy on low power devices the minimal overhead of docker is crucial for us.