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akerro··on Flutter for Linux
I wrote it's more pleasant to be used by programmers by giving better experience, then I wrote it's ecosystem is immature, but growing. As of now, it has its better and worse sides.
akerro··on Flutter for Linux
>It's the best multi-platform solution for mobile

They announced beta version for Windows in the last few weeks, so what to expect? I've been using it on linux desktop for 4 months so far, there were many problems, but it's absolutely the best framework so far. It's miles ahead of Qt (which I've been programming in since 2010). Dart and flutter are just years ahead of Java, C#, Qt and React Native in terms of positive programmer experience, productivity, good looking UI. There are so many bad things to say too, but all I can think about are only due to immature ecosystem, but that's changing literally daily.

akerro··on Firefox Android: Camera remains active even when the phone is locked
>By the way: You might want to try recording something while walking around with your phone in your pocket. My guess is that your clothing will muffle sound.

Many android phones detect being in pocket and lock screen automatically to prevent accidental touches.

akerro··on Germany to meet EU guidelines to ban single-use plastics by 2021
There are also other non-EU countries that are following this directive, Canada and Wales, it's a nice global movement.
akerro··on Firefox Android: Camera remains active even when the phone is locked
This! I once was in a car accident and wanted to record the conversation, I started recording, locked phone and put it into my pocket. camera app stopped recording when screen was locked, edge case but really unexpected one for me.

Web browser shouldn't be doing it tho.

akerro··on Int. students may need to leave US if classes are 100% Remote
and they will have to pay full price tuition, what a deal!
akerro··on Systemd: Don’t fallback to Google NTP and DNS
>I'm not sure I agree; Poettering isn't being harsh to his collaborators

Not accepting any discussion by blocking all community efforts is quite bad imo. Would like still like to start any discussion, put effort into making even smallest change, to be blocked? This is strong sign of ignorance.

I often contribute to OSS on gitlab and github. When a single/first MR is not merged OR commented on within a week I don't even try there again, waste of time.

akerro··on Systemd: Don’t fallback to Google NTP and DNS
This is why Linux and SystemD will struggle to find maintainers in the future: https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/30/hard_to_find_linux_ma...
akerro··on Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
Is this an attempt to fill immigration gaps after EU immigration collapses? I don't believe the government actually cares about anything that going on in HK.
akerro··on Firefox 78
>After that, we will all be able to check for ourselves whether Pocket is spyware.

Who watches the watchers? How do you know what's running on the servers?

akerro··on Firefox 78
try this for kindle https://pushtokindle.fivefilters.org/send.php?url=https%3A%2...
akerro··on Firefox 78
I said other people will call it spyware, because they don't understand how and it works and what it does.
akerro··on Firefox 78
Pocket is great and totally deserves more promotion. I know this will trigger a lot of people saying it's spyware, I used to think that too, but then I embraced it and it's great for bookmarking, syncthing tabs, reading news as podcasts on mobile etc. It's great.
akerro··on Firefox 78
Unfortunately it still has this "megabar"
akerro··on Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
I see reddit as a platform where everyone can shitpost whatever they want, and where every opinion will face criticisms. Banning right or left wing subreddits will make these people to leave to "safe harbour" where their extreme views won't be banned, but such portals will be pwoered by their extreme views and there will be no criticism or "quality control". Basically, extremists fuelling each other to do harm in real life, because there is no one to tell them "hey, this is too edgy" just like small terrorist groups start.
akerro··on Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
It's US so mobile providers, ISP very likely have such data from being voluntary provided by customers.
akerro··on We’ve decided to rename Riot
YES
akerro··on Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin
This isn't about tracing or hiding source and/or destination. It's about being able to donate at all.
akerro··on We’ve decided to rename Riot
What was the name of the other P2P IM client/net that was renamed every year?
akerro··on Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
...and we need new, more hardware for CI/CD that's just dedicated for Apple OSes. Pretty sure we won't be able to use the 5 unused raspberry pi we have.
akerro··on GDPR guide for developers
There are also these things quality I bookmarked:

https://gdpr.algolia.com/

https://gdpr.eu/

https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/

akerro··on Open Source Media Service CCTV/Video Recording/Object Detection
I found the docker images, but it doesn't explain anywhere how to deploy them:

* installation instructions for each of the images

* mountable persistent path/volume for transport and backup

* what ports do I export?

* how do the images interact? Do I need one of them or 3?

* do I need to write any config file and mount it in docker before starting?

* what features flags are available to use with environment variables?

What is `fastocloud_load_balance`? Do I need it for basic deployment with 2 cameras?

Look at installation instructions of these two https://hub.docker.com/_/traefik https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres

akerro··on Open Source Media Service CCTV/Video Recording/Object Detection
No documentation of docker images. Not going to be easy to start with.
akerro··on Open Source Media Service CCTV/Video Recording/Object Detection
IMO as ethical as ads, it just shouldn't run on mobile and laptops not connected to power. Otherwise I'm happy to run cryptominer from YOUR domain as long as I'm browsing your domain.
akerro··on Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit
Looks like the bug wasn't really in Talis but in other software they use, Firefox/Tor-Browser?
akerro··on After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
Yes, I worded it completely wrong and people are responding me by concentrating on this word rather than message :(
akerro··on After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
>What is so bad about employees at a company having a say in what type of work the company does?

No, I don't think there is anything wrong with it, that's how we can change direction of the company and produce good. I think that's a very problematic path filled with mine-lands where employees decide how company makes money. GitHub can just outsource this project to Russia, Australia or India, still make money and deliver the project. Silencing voiced of those who speak, but still, being on a path of conflict of interests between board members and workers.

akerro··on After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
>Guess what? Politics are interwoven in every aspect of our lives.

Yes, but also companies exist literally only to make money. Companies can't exist without workers. Once a company finds itself in a position of conflict of interest between political views of workers and point of existence of the company - where contracts bring money... we're going to see interesting things.

I wonder, who will break first?

The company will decide it's better to bend to political opinions of employees and end the contract == pay a lot of $money$ for breaking the contract early without delivery and set another precedent where employees decide how and with whom company makes money = uncertain company. Who will make future contracts with such company? Would you outsource your project delivery to a company where employees decide whether your project/office/political stand is good or bad?

Or maybe employees will decide they don't want to work for a company and risk unemployment? Who will risk employing a person who rebels against board members of a company and causes financial damages over broken contract?

I would like to see 100s of GitHub employees leaving GitHub and MS to prove their point, rather than working on the contract, being paid 10x salary of their immigrant desk cleaners and shouting how bad it is the contract exists.

akerro··on ZFS Removes References to Slavery
>slave workshops.

It's "unpaid labour" now.

akerro··on ZFS Removes References to Slavery
Can these project changing words at least agree on a single word to use? We're going to have 10s of different words representing the same thing that for decades of evolving technology was known as slave. It will make it confusing and difficult to move between technologies.
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