alexkavon

How many roads must a man walk down? What is 6 x 7? How many Vogons does it take to change a lightbulb? What's yellow and dangerous? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27...

They're working on a browser, so yes... I believe PWA will be possible since they're just rebranded HTML+JS apps.

I've preordered and have no doubts in my mind that it'll be pushed back to Q4 or Q1/Q2 2020. I'm not really concerned about it releasing I think if they don't release it will be detrimental to the Purism image. Also I'm fine with the money I put down if it helps develop adaptive UI for Gnome and some better Linux driver support and nothing else. Hopefully we get a small Linux computer with a touch screen at the very least!

Yeah worst case scenario Gnome will be better off with some adaptive UI work.

It looks like the UI is coming together nicely. My only question is what battery life will look like on these phones. I'm guessing terrible for the first gen.

> On that latter one, I really don't see how they'll fix the problem.

I don't understand what the problem is exactly. There already exist phones that have the latest apps. I don't think Librem is trying to be a market leader, just build a device that's more open, so to say. The demographic isn't Google or Apple users, it's those who wish more control. They're not going to fix the app gap problem because it's not a real problem, it's a meaningless metric for phone advertisements. These videos are to demonstrate that they are working on filling the mobile usability gaps as well as building a phone that can run Linux software, not just mobile UI software.

I believe they're working with the Gnome team on this, as well as support for Plasma Mobile.[0]

[0] https://puri.sm/posts/gnome-and-kde-in-pureos-diversity-acro...

Damn they're growing fast. Last September I tried to setup it up but there was no service because the trees in Tompkins Square Park. Will have to give another looksie.

Come again? The “Windows”-button is just a super/command key that exists on many other keyboards and OSes outside of Windows.

Or just buy a second mouse.

I see it as a combination of that and no incentive to review the code you require. We live in a “I need it to just work because everyone wants the dream of tech seemlessly working” age. This will probably become more and more common as the market opens up and the easier jobs (work?) become more and more blue collar. JS lends itself well to entry level devs that just want to write code and not understand needs or how an application works and why code is needed...and the exacerbation continues.

Ah good to know. I assumed they were lined with lead and/or tinfoil

Someone could wrap a phone in tinfoil pretty quickly or have one ready-made in the shape of a pouch. Or start carrying a special pouch that stops signals.[0]

Either way once you remove the phone from sight, the suspicion is probably over. The only next step is to kill the signal.

[0] https://www.overyondr.com/howitworks

Any press is good press...

How I actually avoided spell-check before publishing a post

> Stop trying to make strategic decision making into an illegal or unethical thing. That's absurd.

What? Could you please explain this and point out when it happened?

Specifically why I left morality out of it. If one brings morals into it, you end up using phrases like “it’s not personal, it’s business” to justify morals or disregard responsibility from actions.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with adding “force”, or “force majeure” in some cases, behind ideas. Just don’t pretend that it doesn’t cost anything or that doing so is not having an effect by slinging around meaningless apologies like “sorry, it’s not personal, it’s business.”

> Not personal, just business.

Ah yes, the oldest way to get out of responsibility for actions. "It's not personal, I just personally want my business to succeed even if it comes at a cost to you."

How about Cooking-As-A-Service but you have to use my tiny NY kitchen and it’s barely sufficient utensils/ware.

> We're moving to a state where only the rich can afford good information and everyone else is in the dark.

Please explain this dramatic conclusion more.

That’s an interesting question in itself. Since different processes kick off in the brain in handwriting vs typing on a keyboard. Does this effect quality and therefor economics?

Yes the “Similar to other stories you’ve interacted with...” has introduced a nice new level of spamvertising.

Until a rearchitecture is needed. Then you’ll either need all your developers in ops or vice versa.

(Assuming your response implies iRobot uses serverless)

IMO, deciding to go “serverless” or not usually ends up with about the same amount of work as far as writing code and configuration goes.

Things like “serverless” or firebase data stores or even html hybrid app frameworks, for example, are designed more so for simple proof of concept apps. As soon as you begin any sort of serious pipeline development, deep configuration for special case, scaling, etc. you’ll find these easy to use services and ideas limit your control overall. Vendor lock-in is just a benefit of “configuration-free” systems which is a side effect of people not willing to rtfm.

No you misread.

> that Facebook is the sole perpetrator of this issue

Perpetrator. I'm saying we should hold the organizations publishing articles about this kind of stuff accountable as well. They use Facebook tools (like buttons, share buttons, login integration, etc) and encourage use of Facebook to interact with their articles. This is how Facebook sips up and tracks a good portion of the web. The orgs publishing these articles are also perpetrators.

> The logical fallacy is your own, nobody in the article, or the comments believes Facebook is the only party doing this.

I'm not proposing there's a narrative convincing society that Facebook is the ONLY organization tracking us, that's just silly. I'm saying there's a narrative that is similar to "tracking people is so shocking we just don't know what to do!"

Today it's Facebook, tomorrow the article will be about Google, Microsoft, or maybe Amazon. Can you believe no one's going to budge a muscle about it?

This isn't entirely true. There is a way out. Media outlets who publish things like "Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It" could also remove the Facebook scripts and widgets from their sites and write articles to the effect that it's a good decision. The way out of it is to stop with trying to shock people with the fact that they're being tracked and start taking proactive measures to prevent it in the future.

There's some logical fallacy at play when people truly believe that Facebook is the sole perpetrator of this issue.

Oh you're right. Silly Mozilla adding protections to their browser for their user-base.

That's it everyone. Shut down Mozilla and have all the users switch over to Brave. Brandon Eich's got everything covered.

Also interested.

I see a lot of criticism of the idea, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.

More like Go’s building comes building-agnostic, whether you have 20 stories or not. Anything you need (such as a generic elevator) can be added on. No need to walk 20 stories every day because you can just add what you need in through reusable packages.