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Yet another bloated distro based upon ubuntu with no tangible value brought to you by a company who (for the longest time) required a support package to be installed on top of stock ubuntu. I suspect them rolling this distro is due to the fact that many of their offerings have discrete graphics and non-free wifi.

How is Lineage OS a "fledgeling" project since it has original roots going back more than 8 years? While Lineage OS does not work on all "Android" devices, it does still support a wide range of them.

> As a central body it can still retain the ability to shutdown ID of non-acceptable content like ...

The problem with that is who gets to choose what is acceptable and what is not? If I make criticisms about something or someone's actions, is that "non-acceptable" content? During these discussions, the lowest common denominator is used, but the reality is that definitions change or people try to expand the definition to include what one does not like or agree with. The price for free speech and expression comes a great price with many risks, but it is worth it. We have seen centralization fail time and time again with platforms like Facebook and Youtube censoring (demonetizing) unfavorable opinions or ideas.

> I’d happily donate to have such an unbiased body.

As soon as you start picking, choosing and expanding what is acceptable and what is not, it is no longer unbiased.

> User-settable keys also compromise the security of the device.

Not if a physical modification to the hardware, a set of button presses, a hardware token or a fuse is needed to set said keys.

> And in general it's risky to introduce stuff like this because the potential for unforeseen security compromises is very high

There is little to no risk if physical interaction with the hardware is required for setting keys. If you have physical access and enough time, all bets are off anyway.

> ...and the upside is very low (the number of people who'd actually take advantage of this is extremely low relative to the number of iPhone users).

There are many people who dream of having the freedom to roll their own firmware on a particular device and it can be done without compromising the security of said device. This was not just about iThing users (who might/not take advantage of this), this was about people spreading FUD about the tivoization part of the GPLv3. Root signing keys don't need to be shared and the only requirement is that the user can take the sources, compile them and then run the result on the target device. As long as the OEM distributing the GPLv3'ed program gives a clear path for running the compiled code on the target device, then it is not a problem.

> According to that, if Apple accidentally ships any GPLv3 on iOS then they'll have to release their root signing keys to the world, which would be disastrous (it would destroy the security model of the OS).

Stop spreading this FUD. They would not need to release their root singing keys in this case, just provide a mechanism to allow for other keys to be used (there are various ways to go about doing this without compromising security). The main requirement is that the compiled software can be run on the device.

> There are ways to build anonymous but auditable voting schemes.

I have yet to see one that involves a digital voting system. Many of these voting systems are insecure and F/OSS(free and open source) won't fix that. You are giving too many people physical access to these systems at every step of the chain. Many have proposed a "blockchain" based voting scheme, but that takes out the anonymous aspect of voting.

> Same goes with money, these things called crypto currencies are digital money offering various levels of anonymity.

Yes and none of them provides any anonymity since they all at one point or another reveals too much about a given transaction.

With paper ballots, it's really difficult/infeasible to track who voted for whom and is a bit more tamper resistant on a large scale.

edit: a word.

Can you trust that you won't be punished for voting the "wrong" way? Or maybe you won't get that raise that you were seeking out because you belong to the wrong party. Paper ballots keep things anonymous and make it difficult to track who voted for whom. With "digital money" it does not mater as much if people can see who exchanged monies.

> "Net Neutrality" in its final form did not solve or fix any problems with the Internet.

I'm against it because it as an idea has failed in both its proposal and implementation. If people are going to whine and rally for a "fix", they should at least propose an action that will actually fix things instead of complaining. Proposing new legislation (which I'm not fully in favor of) or expanding rules would be doing something.

"Net Neutrality" in its final form did not solve or fix any problems with the Internet. The definition of "Net Neutrality" is poorly defined, too vague and does not have any proposed legislation attached to "fix" things. Even when new rules were implemented, ISPs still throttled torrents and manipulated traffic. The only way to fix the Internet is to do so from a technical perspective, not by adding more regulations that ISPs won't obey (they work that into their business model). The "Internet" has never been free and has always been controlled by a handful of entities. The only fix for the Internet is if everyone actively participates in the Internet's infrastructure and we work to create technologies that thwart active threats from ISPs or that gives ISPs competition.

;TLDR I don't support Net Neutrality.

Another garbage article brought to you by Ars Technica. People seem to have this habit of complaining about projects that are gratis, have few developers and little to no funding. People should be grateful that these projects exist or work at all. All of these drive-by hit pieces are getting really pathetic and Ars Technica is not the only "tech news" tabloid doing this.

I personally support the work of the Haiku project and have not had as many issues as the writer of this article. Maybe if so many sites were not bloated with garbage, the web browser would not have fallen over. Sites should have a fallback mode in case of situations where js is not turned on or the browser is not HTML5 compliant. As for the email client falling over, I think there is more at play than the author is letting on.

> Not sure how hobby or volunteer work has anything to do with that. A bit strawman-y.

It's not a hobby or volunteer work if the end goal is to start a successful business. Some of us are (again) not lucky to be born with a silver spoon in their mouth or have some VC drop money in our laps to start something.

> ...where I live it's also not allowed to volunteer at e.g. a home for the elderly

I'm very glad that I don't live where you do since it seems like a place that is hostile towards humanitarian efforts and kindness.

>...because the union would feel you are taking their work.

So what if the unions feel that you are taking their work? After being a part of a union for several jobs, I am very much against them since they took a large portion of my pay for nothing in return.

I'm sure that there are many founders out there who worked long hours with little to no pay to start their companies since they lacked investors or bootstrapping funds. These minimum wage laws only drive up the cost of living, drive out jobs and make it even more difficult to start a business. My stance is that there should be no minimum wage and if the pay is too low, go find a job where the pay is not too low.

So I guess I should just give up and stop working on anything since I don't get paid for what I do and it might be "..an unacceptable competitive edge".

> he'd likely close the business and she (my family member) would end up being worse off.

>>This is exactly the train of thought I think is incorrect: Businesses that can't pay workers a living wage should have to shut down.

So are you saying that no business should ever start or get off the ground because they don't have all the funding they need to do so (including paying proper wages)? Many of these minimum wage jobs were not suppose to be a full-time career path. These jobs were intended for people getting their first job, people in retirement or those seeking just a little bit of extra cash.

I don't see why everyone here would be in favor of this bill. Not only does it expand civil forfeiture, it also turns almost everyone who works or runs a legitimate business into a criminal. Everyone here seems to want more government, laws and regulations that will be used against regular people who would otherwise be law abiding citizens.

They are not forcing you to listen to anything. You can a) delete the message or b) change voicemail systems so this does not work. These problems can be mitigated from a technical perspective.

> The guy who did Silk Road was involved in the deaths of 6 users. He got life without parole.

Kind of funny since that is not how things went down [1] and we don't know who really started Silk Road.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)#Arrest...

You mean the ethernet port that will break off and the power button that is not recessed so it does not power on in your bag. Great. Who puts a power button on the side of a laptop?

> I grew up in New Hampshire in a very rural town with a population of 4,000. Rural life sat well with some of my peers, but I loved tech and quickly left through college enabled by my parents ability to point me in the right direction, which many of my peers didn't have.

Just because other people don't go off in the same direction that you did, does not mean they went in the wrong direction. New Hampshire has a large number of tech companies and new ones are always being created. Anywhere there is people, there will always be opportunity; it just might need to be created or found.

> I've enjoyed my life as I've explored more of America and ended up in the Bay...

YOU and others like you are the problem. If you leave an area to find more "opportunities", then you are not helping to solve the lack of them in a given area. We are at the best point in time to create a company or startup almost anywhere in the US, but too many elitists pricks think they must go to the Bay Area or other major cities just so they get a nice payout.

If you are looking for an easy out, then go help fund the next bubble but don't try to say that "..I would love to solve this problem..." when you and many like you had the power to do so.

You missed the point. It is all about giving credit to those who do the work and make discoveries. It is in poor taste to exploit people in the case of taking their work and not giving any credit to those that made their business model possible.

What's with the free advertising? They were not the ones to do the original work with coreboot or removing the non important parts of the ME. If anything, Purism has lied, taken credit for other peoples work and given people a false sense of "privacy" and "security". "Almost completely removed the ME" is not good enough and there is way too much room to do malicious things.

Yes, but it will not have PPC or Rosetta support. It is only able to provide facilities to run Universal or x86 mach-o binaries.

QEMU [1] has had full emulation support for about a year now (three if you count it in a broken state).

[1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC