Sylos

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by Sylos 9y ago
That doesn't seem like too hard of a criterion to fulfill, but well, I'm rather fond of QuiteRSS. It has all of the options for automatic filtering and tagging, and its UI is rather configurable, too. It's also open-source.
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by Sylos 9y ago
It's stable. Most of the core community even hangs out on the "experimental" upgrade channel, because even that seldomly has noticeable bugs. As for content, I'd say there's enough of it, especially if you include t
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by Sylos 9y ago
On what OS? And what are your criteria for "doesn't suck"?
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by Sylos 9y ago
Mozilla also uses this k-anonymity in their implementation of Google Safe Browsing. (As they need to ask Google's server, if the webpage you're visiting or the file you're downloading is safe, without telling Google the webpa
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by Sylos 9y ago
How does Keepass not get attention? I'm pretty sure that is the most widely used password manager among professionals. It doesn't generate as much marketing buzz on its own as a Lastpass or a 1Password does, but too many people ha
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by Sylos 9y ago
They have failed to keep it secure for as long as I can remember. They are still able to sell it despite that, because people own Windows-only applications.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I mean, it shouldn't. Humanity is perfectly capable of building secure web services without having to keep the way it works a secret. You don't publish your encryption keys with your source code, which is what your security should
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by Sylos 9y ago
"Security by obscurity" tries to keep the way that your encryption method works obscure, it does not try to keep a specific key obscure. For example, if your way to encrypt works like this: 1) Shift all letters along by 5. 2) Cut
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by Sylos 9y ago
That's like someone telling you the majority of ingredients that they put into something you're supposed to eat, but not that one ingredient. It's either their secret super sauce or it's poison. And I can tell you for fr
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by Sylos 9y ago
While that certainly does factor in, it normally just means that it takes longer for it to change. And well, people have been murdered with guns for centuries already, so I think those would cancel each other out.
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by Sylos 9y ago
That they provide OpenVPN access does not change the discrepancy in their choice of sponsoring and their own doing. And well, you should care for the US jurisdiction, whether you're from Europe or anywhere else on the globe. It means t
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, that's much harder to define than people generally assume. Cleavage, for example, is generally perceived as sexy, but seldomly as pornographic. In general, in our Western society, the whole breast seems to be fine, as long as the
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'm presuming that you're not talking about Firefox's Private Browsing mode, which comes with an actual tracking script blocker. The biggest factor for tracking without the ability to store things on the client is IP-based tr
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by Sylos 9y ago
The Tor Browser does do that by default, by the way.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, yeah, because the law does jackshit to protect people.
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by Sylos 9y ago
KDE's search, called KRunner, is pretty nice, too. It searches applications and files, mails and calendar entries etc. (if you use the KDE Kontact suite), can calculate things and convert between units, allows you to jump to windows th
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by Sylos 9y ago
I mean, Android technically supports it, if the app developer wants to. Then they can send off an "Intent", asking the OS to ask the user to select e.g. one or multiple .jpg and .png files, and then the OS hands those files back t
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by Sylos 9y ago
What they're saying is that it should be the user's choice, not the developer's. If I want to run your gallery app with only a handful of the pictures that I have, I should be able to do so. Because ultimately, developers don
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by Sylos 9y ago
You're probably seeing the App Ops menu. That appeared in 4.3, hardly accessible. Was made somewhat more accessible in 4.4 and then was patched out in something like 4.4.1 or so. I presume, some Google exec got to know of it and demand
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, there is reasons for it not being promoted by KDE itself that much. 1) They don't want to run a distro. KDE is distro-agnostic. Maintaining their own distribution would imply that this is the KDE distro, where you want to be to g
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, there is a reason why GNOME is so fractured. The lack of configurabilty and consideration for the community's opinion in GNOME. That is an argument for KDE being a better desktop environment.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Really trying hard to not sound biased here, but I have a feeling starting off with this, is not gonna help it: Compared to Cinnamon, KDE is pretty much better at everything. It's a thousand times more configurable, it's more feat
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by Sylos 9y ago
Your opinion is a perfectly reasonable one to have, but I don't understand why you seem to have hard feelings about GNOME and KDE. There's hundreds of lightweight, no-bullshit options in Linux land. GNOME and KDE are the only ones
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by Sylos 9y ago
openSUSE offers the premium experience. Long-standing friendships between the teams and openSUSE does a bunch of testing for KDE, for which KDE gives back by scheduling their LTSs to align with openSUSE releases, well, and by probably actua
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, KDE Neon is very distinct from Kubuntu 16.04. Kubuntu 16.04 comes with a really outdated version of Qt and with KDE Plasma 5.5, which was essentially still a development version of the 5.x series. KDE Neon pretty much just exists to f
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by Sylos 9y ago
I disagree. Facebook is just less clever about being evil. Google instead looms in every corner that remains too complicated for most people to understand and quietly harvests data. And the article really does a piss-poor job at trying to p
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by Sylos 9y ago
I was expecting some more points on how Google actually does scary things, too. I can recount more points off the top of my head than this article lists and the headline seems to suggest that this would be the main-point of the article. Ins
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by Sylos 9y ago
If I don't sue you, yeah. But if you're not sure that I won't have a problem with it, you should better ask me in advance. In your example, this sounds silly, but it's just not categorically different from examples where
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by Sylos 9y ago
It is an open-source system, which is decided over purely by Google. They don't have to have any fear of being forked, so they don't have to take the open-source community's opinion into account at all. The Custom ROMs that e
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'm sure, there's cases where they just didn't want to have too many prompts, as that would result in people not reading them either. But in other cases, this is also just Google that we're talking about. There's fo

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