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by aray 13y ago
V9FS and FUSE both enable userspace filesystem drivers. They are actually pretty interchangeable for 99% of use cases, and the rest of those cases are where you'd directly interact with both, so it wouldn't be fair to compare a F
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by aray 13y ago
What other Etherpad-type tools would you recommend? For dealing with less-tech-literate people, Google Docs is nice because they instantly recognize and understand it (and they can see me collaborating at the same time and I don't need
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by aray 13y ago
Neat project and great post. One thing I'd like to point out is that there is another mechanism for implementing userspace filesystems in Linux: V9FS. FUSE has a lot of documentation -- much of it in various stages of bitrot -- and
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by aray 13y ago
It depends on what your goals are. If you want a system that's only running open-source-built code on your device, but are willing to have your device interact with devices running proprietary software, then mobile web applications ar
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by aray 13y ago
Requiring a wipe is by design . If an attacker steals your phone, whats to prevent them from flashing a new system partition that lets them read off all the existing data? You can backup most (all?) of your data manually, then unlock and
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by aray 13y ago
If your phone is not locked, and it's physically compromised, then you're hosed already. If this is something you care about, you probably should lock your phone, and keep it physically secure. If your phone is locked, and there a
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by aray 13y ago
Radio (cellular) drivers are notoriously closed source and proprietary. Looks like they're reverse engineering the existing radio drivers and re-implementing them as open source[1]! Thats very interesting. They don't describe ho
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by aray 13y ago
Right now there's two ways to root some devices -- though the bootloader (unlock), which allows you to securely do the changeover. And root exploits, which are security holes in the operating system and can be used to persistently wri
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by aray 13y ago
It seems very analagous to a FLOSS-only desktop experience (for a while I think Fedora Linux was one). It was not a polished user experience, and certainly some things were lacking, but when I used it I was able to accomplish all the thing
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by aray 13y ago
There seems to be a lot of confusion and misinformation about what dm-verity actually does in this thread. It's the same verified boot mechanism that's used by ChromeOS[1]. This just guarantees that on a locked, signed device (i.
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by aray 13y ago
UK was asserting that Miranda was involved in espionage and terrorism, but you're asserting that it was journalism (carrying documents on behalf of Greenwald) and I don't think that's really accurate.
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Pure - Instant Companion Finder App, Launched(itunes.apple.com)
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by aray 13y ago
I have seen many product forums where threads go on and on, and useful information is buried in a avalanche of noise. On the other hand, censorship/terms-of-service removal is a grey area and by removing the information you're r
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by aray 13y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm just an amateur 3d printer and just hack with my printer and what I can get my hands on) The thing that intrigues me about fiberous ceramics for deposition printing is that no printers currently take advantage of the (
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by aray 13y ago
Looks like this is just a developer device (carriers wont be carrying it), but Tizen phones are set to launch before the end of the year. With Firefox OS, Ubuntu Phone, and MeeGo/Sailfish, it seems that other open source mobile OSes ar
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by aray 13y ago
You dont directly. Use secure communications methods. Be wary of e.g. geolocation tagging in posts and in images. Be a good steward of your private data.
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by aray 13y ago
Nice example of the power of citizenry, and that even officials are people too, but I really hope this doesn't set a precedent for all of us reporting on everything someone we're interested in does/says. The way to fight spyi
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by aray 13y ago
A few years ago mine was a 10" tablet with the apple bluetooth keyboard in an origami stand. > That I can be hacking within moments wherever I am is too appealing for me to consider anything else. This is more attractive to me than
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by aray 13y ago
The minimal-profile is something I experimented with when I made my current profile picture ( http://stackoverflow.com/users/55720/machinaut ) and really liked the look of it. Your lineup of speakers looks great! T
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by aray 13y ago
Another example is OUYA.
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by aray 13y ago
Well if you have spotify they're posting the emerging charts again on it (still really miss the discovery engine though): https://twitter.com/wearehunted/status/381496704052129792
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by aray 13y ago
I absolutely loved (and miss) We Are Hunted's music discovery engine. They recently started putting out the emerging charts again on Spotify, which is interesting (they were on twitter music, but since you only got a few second-clips o
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by aray 13y ago
Plan 9 iso [0] CD image fails Unimplemented: #GP handler Execution stopped [0] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/
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by aray 13y ago
A bit meta, but I think it's really telling that you're using a google doc (also a great collaboration tool) to compare.
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by aray 13y ago
I was gonna ask about that. Also could you just drive the TiM with the rPi? I have a TiM board lying around and this looks like a great project to throw up for decoration and motivation. Thanks!
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by aray 13y ago
Without a multi-user frame sync, this prohibits users from being near-angles from each other to the retro-reflector, which basically prevents someone from "pointing" in AR into the others' field of view. Not necessarily a bi
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by aray 13y ago
What I like best about this is that it lends itself to 3rd-person vantage views, and static fields (overlooking a map, looking into a box, etc) which tend to be more comfortable AR & VR than trying to track/render a first person vi
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by aray 13y ago
> What if some of those Bitcoins are yours, not Ulbrichts? What if Silk Road is holding some of your Bitcoins as part of some transaction? Why, all you have to do is show up and make a claim for them — in a case in which the government i
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by aray 13y ago
Will be a lot easier for tech workers to get to, though this might be less of a good thing if it brings more distractions to the entrepreneurs and engineers there. On the other hand, it's more convenient for hosting e.g. hackathons.
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by aray 13y ago
Poking around a bit, I can't see much that this adds beyond what you can do with the Linux kernel, except where it basically breaks virtualization containerization. If you care enough about workload performance to break the strong sta

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