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ironically (or extremely well fitting?) the most excellent content with an not so great slides format

Free with donation/extra for features.

I don't know why people even consider ads for games.

If a game/application has the "have ads" under the install button, i don't even install it to check it out. Because I know that even if i am not seeing ads, the framework is underneath the game, collecting data just the same.

your experience is more than 20yrs out of date. And i am not even exaggerating.

Drivers in linux normally gives you less problems than OSX or Windows (latest graphic cards model excluded)

If that was true, they would be using AMD or ARM. Seems to be a matter or price/stock only.

yes. But they are so insane about talking like it is a innovative OS that this is probably the biggest reason most people consider their laptops for linux and give up, afraid they won't work well with ubuntu or fedora.

Lol. And this pipe dream of magically converting apps to phone doesn't even address this use case of sharing the data. They assume the linux applications will be cloud locked-in like traditional ios/android apps.

> An aside - I'm not sure I'd use GTK+ for this. Why not Qt, or something like Flutter?

This is why ubuntu phone tanked. Trying to be too smart and centralizing. Librem5 phone will probably succeed on this but not for the reasons their marketing people think (convergent apps with magic! ha!). PureOS will be as irrelevant tomorrow as it is now. But their phone, being a proper linux phone like android never was, will have some small chance of success after the community buys into it and start porting a decent effort to the applications.

Everyone in this thread complaining about phones without keyboard and Blackberry had a keyboard android phone flagship for a decade but nobody cared.

You all deserve crappy media-consumer-only phones. :(

How bad is it without a desk? can you type a SMS reply while walking?

heh. I actually take notes with vim on my phone. It's convenient if you have a hardware keyboard.

I bought a libre13 DESPITE pureOS.

PureOS is just a distraction. instead of adding a usbC port to their already outdated computer line, or lowering the absurd price (there is a reason their clientele is exclusively in california and germany) they are fiddling with linux distros like it is 1995.

This is the same old a phone-just-need-a-browser idea of 10 years ago. This will fail, for the same reason firefoxOS failed: There is no whatsapp (or lock-in chat app du jour) website.

"Fedora is primarily designed as a distro for developers and power users, and while I don't consider myself belonging to either category"

This gate-keeping by linux UX people is so silly. "for power users" usually mean "we will ignore documentation". While the opposite means "we will dumb everything down and remove features, but we will add a welcome message".

Exactly.

That's believing in the trickle down gig economy.

it does have room for some pain if you end up not liking any of the frames in their agreement. i ended up passing because of this.

Does it matter to the victim who is at fault?

...also, there's a $1,200 delivery fee. Is this the new "restock fee"? it is conveniently left out of the marketing materials.

Wonder how much of his profits went to pay-pal and other payments processing from the early 2000s.

and your closed source ISP mode+router combo probably routes traffic in both directions. An attacker just have to put your public IP as the gateway for 192.168/24 and he probably can access all those devices.

or wait for google to "anonymize" the data and release it internally for their researchers.

the problem is not the update per se. it is the content. Which completely surprises you after the reboot!

Windows always peak at some new version and then goes downhill when changes are introduced for no good reason. 95/98, then 98+IE6 all over the place (even the desktop wallpaper!). XP, then vista. 8.1, then 10...

Now, after windows 10, the downgrades are incremental!

For example, surface tablet without a keyboard. When you wake the device the touchpad keyboard was always there. After some update, you have to touch the PIN input box to get a keyboard. And sometimes it doesn't show up. You have to lock and unlock the screen and then touch the pin input again. And that is just a very minimal example. Another example is that the first updates completely removed the windows 8.1 window theme, which was perfect for touch based systems. Another one i recall, an update removed the landscape/portrait toggle button and replaced it with a "lock screen rotation" one, that doesn't work in all orientations!

Thanks for sharing this. Helped me understand what i was reading before.

It honestly took me a while to realize the article wasn't an April fools post!

I am still upvoting the submission for its comedic value.

Even as a proof of concept.

This is like a car show showing a prototype car with just a new engine throw in the trunk. So amateur.

> ignoring the fact that a password manager makes this as convenient as microformats (which we never got, ironically) for stealing secrets.

Does that comment means you would you be ok with the "spam canon" one too?

This post on the HN FP highlights some gripes i have with moderation here.

1. old, but not a repost should be OK and not really need a date (dates are good when it is a repost or notorious. this is as obscure as it can get)

2. not linking to the original source, but to a insightful discussion instead. I often link to slashdot discussions which contain not one, but 3 or more source on the summary with disparate point of views, plus the slashdot discussion, which is extremely relevant (for hardcore network stuff at least). and the post get deleted by not linking to a original source.

those folks normally have a PPL and do that to "fly" big planes.

Also, outside of the US, a PPL is pretty damn expensive!

and the only open source flight sim, in desperate need of more contributors :)

http://home.flightgear.org/

This is a great use case for AR.

you talk for 15s about it on that video. I will try to read the secondary paper on this... but doesn't look like it can protect against someone just generating hashes for multiple accounts from the same stored data.

P and (the fake) P2 can both reply to V with perfectly normalized storage.

But regardless if the protection works against bad actors, it definitely "works" against good actors if you take into account storage prices. E.g. P1 and P2 are two distinct good actors. They both pay cloudProviderA for storage. P1 and P2 bid on the same filecoin storage contract. They store that independently of each other, but cloudProviderA normalize the storage (with their own backup and consistency solutions). But with this protection scheme, since the cloud provider can't normalize, the cost will eventually go up because their normalization margin got erased. Over time, the data storage cost for good actors will go up, while for bad actors (assuming they are possible) the profit will increase.