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I own a Galaxy Note 2 and decided quite soon after I would never buy Samsung again even though I think it is a great piece of hardware. The issue is they promised to release sources for certain drivers and never actually did, CyanogenMod said they would not officially support the device[1]. Samsung feel like an anti-consumer company, them pulling a stunt like this would not surprise me[2].

[1] Thankfully they did just recently release a stable version.

[2] I also made the same decision about Sony years ago when they released rootkits on their CD's.

Looking at it, I have about 10k files and it is only using about 12% memory, perhaps not as bad as I thought. 50k should be absolutely fine I would think. Here is the output of top showing btsync at idle:

    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    2993 btsync    19  -1  122m  60m 2988 S  11.9 12.4 610:05.84 btsync

I have noticed that the CPU takes a beating during any sync operations, tends to grab 100%. I limit the CPU for the btsync process to 60% max and also overclocked the Pi up one level (after installing a heatsink kit). Here it is during typical filesync operations:

    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    2993 btsync    19  -1  122m  60m 2988 S  63.8 12.4 612:51.33 btsync

To limit the cpu I use cpulimit and put this in my /etc/rc.local

    /usr/bin/cpulimit -e btsync -l 60 -b >> /dev/null

Thanks for your detailed reply. It pretty much mirrors things I've heard elsewhere, it seems file sync is one issue in particular which can be slow and prone to errors, it is a shame as an all in one solution would be great.

Funnily enough I have both Baikal and BitTorrent Sync running on a Raspberry Pi (model B/512) and it is handling it surprisingly well, I even use it as a destination backup server for some VPS's and local computers (using duplicity). I just wish the Pi had more RAM as BTSync is a bit of a memory (and CPU) hog when you start to hae a lot of files involved, it is under strain. My compromise has been to tar a lot of folders I rarely access to cut down the number of individual files it needs to track, not ideal. I was thinking of buying one of the Intel Next Unit of Computing I think it is called, which is more powerful but still power effecient enough to be left on 24/7.

How do you find Owncloud, is it reliable enough? I have heard it has a lot of bugs, can be very slow and in rare instances deletes data at random which would be unacceptable to me. I am using Baikal for CardDav and CalDav which has been very reliable so far, and BitTorrent Sync for Dropbox replacement which is less reliable and has some bad bugs (one of which is it being closed source).

I think they could really get an edge over other email providers if they went all out as a pro-privacy/non-US email alternative. They would need to exit the US though to take such a claim seriously, which is unlikely.

So far I've looked into 1984hosting.com and orangewebsite.com, both pricey compared to what I'm used to but I guess that is the price of better privacy. There is a cheaper one called icelandvps.com but they are owned by a UK parent company so I am little unclear about what that means for Iceland law, privacy etc. It may be cheaper to go to a German host, I am not yet decided.

I'm currently looking into setting up a VPS in Iceland or Germany and running my own mail server from it, moving away from Fastmail. It saddens me as I both dislike managing my own mail server and really like Fastmail, but having my email routed through the US is no longer feasible.

Totally, let me just go and tell my lobbyist to petition them... oh wait.

Giving the government hell is all well and good, but it is unlikely to cause much in the way of change. If businesses start to feel the pain on the other hand, then they have the incentive to challenge the government about the massive monetary losses they face because the government fucked up the internet. Both giving the government hell and boycotting compromised services are valid ways of fighting back.

Guess I should have been more specific, it is an official D-Notice by the MOD relating to Tempura:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-m...

http://order-order.com/2013/06/08/d-notice-june-7-2013/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

There is a gag order on the media against any reporting of GCHQ. Ministry of Truth is in full effect in the UK right now.

Good collection. iOS7 is an obvious improvement over previous iOS versions (perhaps with the exception of the icons) and has done a good job of bringing iOS up to date visually. Worth remembering that there are a lot of inconsistencies in Android, a good article is here:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/09/18/ux-things-i-hate-abo...

Don't get me wrong, I much, much prefer Android and can't ever see myself moving back to iOS, but always good to measure things in balance, nothing is perfect.

It is weird how a business phone caught on just because of BBM.

By the way read this specifically the DA-Notice, UK has been gag ordered so the Guardian is nothing but a distraction at this point as they are complying with the notice. Sure, they have revealed some interesting stuff but they cannot also be completely trusted as they are compromised.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

Well, go and look at the Wikipedia entry for PRISM and follow the leads to the UK coverage, anything to do with GCHQ is gag ordered. Nobody is talking about this fact, yet we should all do a kumbayah around the fire because Google have released a FOSS product "for the children". This stinks of PR. As I say, I have faith that those on the ground at Google have nothing but good intentions and want to change the world for the better, but we now live in a world where you cannot trust them. This is exactly the same as if Nestle released an open source solution for breast feeding, nothing but a PR repair strategy. I hate to be the one saying this by the way, because I have for years loved Google and put almost everything in their cloud solution.

Edit: Oh and I have exactly zero to gain from trolling Google, I am not promoting Skydrive or Spideroak because they are both equally dubious, why does my reaction to a company deeply tied into the recent revelations about all out data being processed by the US gov have to be considered non-relevant?

Edit edit: I believe I am contributing to this story because my comment is about the company involved in creating it and the relationship of trust they have (in the sphere of computer geeks and Hacker News this is particularly poignant). If you believe things should only be 100% related to the article, to never deviate and discuss things such as the the company, fair enough to downvote me.

+1. I think a lot of people just want this thing to "go away", be happy and remember the great stuff the US does, just admire the philanthropic endeavours this multi-billion dollar company is doing, all in the name of education and access to bash. I am not surprised by the downvotes on my comment. The US Gov has burnt all their bridges, the world trusted them as a thought leader on anti-censorship, pro-freedom. At this point I feel the rest of the world needs to cut the cable (literally) and leave the US alone, you want to monitor every fucking email, go ahead, we route around you. You stood up and gave yourself the role of steward of the internet (I know Al Gore invented it), and you did a great job un until the NSA fucked it all up. Mission accomplished?

Sorry to be so cynical, but seriously you need to make your Gov. accountable for the insane fuck-up they have perpetuated here, I would go so far as to say the NSA is now a terrorist organisation and needs to be stamped out.

Edit: just to make it clear, I admire the USA and love the core values of your country. I am British, and my country is way worse than yours in many ways (Mr Douche Cameron introducing filtering for example because "think of the children"). You have been bestowed stewardship of the internet (you invented it after all, Darpa etc) but have done a terrible job in recent years. This is due to the terrible FISC/FISA rubber stamping allowing those who would always seek more power to get it. Your bad example of stewardship however only gives countries like China and Iran more excuses to enforce their disgusting filters and firewalls. You can still do something about this by telling 'them' it is not OK. Oh, and never allow them to take away your guns, that is a good thing to have.

Yes, I guess my comment was about how ridiculous it is that this was my feeling and reaction, that the situation we are in makes me jump to such conclusions. I have a lot of faith that the ground level sys admins and engineers at Google are actually good people who probably are as angry about all this as I am, they do not design their systems with agendas or back-doors, only the few are compelled to. Unfortunately the well has been poisoned and all trust is now gone, I can only view the actions of the company Google with cynicism and skepticism.

Great, but to be honest this all feels almost cynical at this point coming from Google, headline might as well read:

> NSA unleashes Coder for Raspberry Pi as kid-friendly tool

Don't get me wrong, I have a Raspberry Pi and think it has great educational potential, I think it is great that Google is doing this, but I have lost all trust in them that anything they do they actually give a shit about anymore, this just feels like a crappy PR move.

-- Sent from my MacBook Pro

For someone who lives more and more on the command line Pass looks really nice. The only issue I have is that the lastpass importer is not working for me, tried it with 2 different version of Ruby but always get a NoMethodError. Adding 400+ passwords is going to be a huge pita.

This is good news for Mailpile, and an interesting project I have donated. Anyone looking to raise funds needs to take note however that the decision was only reversed by PayPal because of the bad publicity, they wouldn't give a shit otherwise and they aren't going to change. Just don't consider PayPal as an option, they have proven time and time again to be complete scum merchants. how they have managed to dodge any serious regulation is a complete mystery to me.

The lack of privacy is a bug which needs to be fixed, I don't believe the OP means a users right to privacy is a bug.

Linux on the Desktop was a bug until Mark Cuban closed it (controversially). I'm not sure why referring to it as a bug is disturbing.

It is not as polished as Dropbox yet, but since this is Hacker News one solution would be to have BitTorrent Sync running on a home server then you could just SSH/sFTP to retrieve files. I have a Raspberry Pi running 24/7 on my home broadband with DDNS + BitTorrent Sync on it.

I am not assuming and I agree about the magical box, but I have little sympathy for user ignorance and tire of this as an excuse. In the UK we are facing massive internet censorship because the masses of 'computer is magic' users are outraged about Facebook and Twitter posts, and accept filters to be put in place etc My mum thinks it's a great idea. It is complete bullshit caused by utter ignorance and failure to comprehend what is at stake etc. Sorry to rant but I get upset that this is somehow an excuse.

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. You're using a web based email service and you're sending postcards when you should be sending letters. Both this and Lavabit feel like distractions.

> you’re trusting an advertising company with all your personal data :-)

Although this is probably my single biggest gripe with Android, you should employ just as little trust in any of the big tech companies at this point; Apple, Microsoft, Amazon etc are all openly deceiving their customers. As Steve Gibson says, trust no one.

> Good artists copy, great artists steal. Pablo Picasso

To the devs, congratulations on a truly stunning OS, I think I will be swapping out my Linux Mint install very soon.

Do as I say, not as I do.

(though not to say I approve of phone tracking).

As icebraining says, there is no reason for the 2 to be mutually exclusive.

I would mind less if there was more universal consistency, for example in France you have lemonde.fr, in Germany you have spiegel.de, in the UK you have independent.co.uk, Japan is japantimes.co.jp.