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by jalami 10y ago
I think a lot of it had to do with being locked into your carrier. It was expensive to leave because you had to pay that early cancellation fee and two of the carriers are CDMA, two are GSM so you potentially had to get another phone. With
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by jalami 10y ago
Yeah, it's pretty bad. American telcos operate on their own terms and most people don't seem to care. It's one of those household jokes. Everyone knows they suck but everyone needs data and coverage, no viable competition in
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by jalami 10y ago
I understand and had that idea when I heard it needed sudo initially. It makes sense for a reference-ish implementation to make it quick and easy for the large userbase to adopt. If I had to trust an org to run their code as sudo on my rig,
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by jalami 10y ago
Like I said, I haven't used the their client, just going off what I've come across in researching it briefly. Something must have changed then, there are multiple ways to configure it, or what I read previously was just wrong. I t
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by jalami 10y ago
I use acme-tiny[0] and it was pretty simple to setup. The letsencryptclient requires running as root and quite a few dependencies if I remember correctly. I have acme-tiny run with its own private user privilages monthly in a cron job and i
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by jalami 10y ago
If you're talking about https://fdroid.eutopia.cz/ , I don't think that's the same thing. This isn't Moxie's and because of the name change, not completely moxie's code unless he's got a bu
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by jalami 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't he host a private repository like the Guardian Project does with his own binary signed with his own key? People would have to manually add the repo, but I believe F-droid lets you do that. Fdr
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by jalami 10y ago
I think offline encryption works fine if your XMPP server implementes XEP-0198[0]. Prosody doesn't out of the box, but there's a community plugin available[1] for it. The plugins are really easy to install if you're running p
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by jalami 10y ago
Yeah me too, I'm using Conversations[0] on Android and it's pretty awesome actually. Pretty actively developed with a smooth UI and no Play services or phone number requirement. Running a really light prosody[1] instance on my ser
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by jalami 10y ago
This is true, but it still costs you 300 dollars a year, uses the same mechanisms the market uses (no loose .ipas) and you have to give lots of trackable info to Apple (company info, devices, apps, update/use metrics). It's all ce
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by jalami 10y ago
I think having a publicly available history link that displays every TOS and Privacy Policy and the dates they were inforce isn't too much to ask. Maybe a last ten years thing is applicable (not retroactive). Users don't keep copi
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by jalami 10y ago
I would love for this to be an issue consumers could spearhead, but most consumers only care about things like this once they get into legal trouble. It's the same issue with prisoner's and privacy rights. I try to avoid mandatory
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by jalami 10y ago
I know it wouldn't really fix issues like left-pad, but I would really like namespaced packages similar to the way Github does them. I think group ownership would be more explicit and understood. Top level packages encourages sqatting
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by jalami 10y ago
Microsoft isn't the only guy doing this. I understand enterprise/professional customers have gotten exceptions for years, but for everyone else this is common practice on almost all other platforms. I still think it's a bad p
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by jalami 10y ago
I think Isis here refers to Isis Agora Lovecruft, the author of this post.
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by jalami 10y ago
I guess that depends on how you got your phone. Manufacturers make carrier-specific hardware a lot of the time since carriers buy in bulk. This is slowly going away in the US with most companies switching to pre-paid and BYOD plans, but sti
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by jalami 10y ago
I won't buy an android phone if it's not a Nexus. This isn't because I love Nexus phones, they're just serviceable. I really want an external SD card, but have to make due. I mainly want timely updates for security'
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by jalami 10y ago
I think this is being kind of pedantic. I don't think DRM should be banned and I don't think most people do. I just don't think it should be facilitated on the web or legally protected against tampering. It's one thing t
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by jalami 10y ago
I thought the same thing. You can't sensationalize hacking in the news though without a catchy name. I see them as eventual NerdCore band names. Don't forget Shellshock.
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by jalami 10y ago
I would prefer the hidden costs of using a service to vanish and for those costs to be replaced with explicit costs. I don't delude myself in thinking the majority hold my view on this though. I personally prefer $1/mo to Free* an
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by jalami 10y ago
I was really trying to make a post before the post about React because I too saw it coming. More about the fact that I saw it coming though. I didn't intend on it to come off as "React is better, lets look this way instead",
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by jalami 10y ago
I tried crouton for a day or so, didn't like it. Why run on top of ChromeOS if you don't have to. I flashed Seabios on the C720 and just installed native Xubuntu, with a little configuration and driver installation everything work
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by jalami 10y ago
The human brain will be as mentally lazy as it can be. If the computer mouse hadn't hit the scene as it did, we'd all know all these cool keyboard shortcuts to get around everything and would be much more efficient. If you use VIM
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by jalami 10y ago
I agree for the most part, not sure about your SJW rap, but the problem we have is lumping ideas/beliefs into groups and then defending those groups instead of the beleifs. The beliefs are sacrosanct because they happens to be in that
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by jalami 10y ago
To find something specific you need? probably not. Google's probably still the easiest. To go "I want to refresh myself on X's commands and syntax", read over a short cheat sheet? Maybe
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by jalami 10y ago
I like to call things people don't want to talk about "untouchables" because you can't argue them, you can't reason them out, you can't even comment on them without getting a glare or worse. Religion, politics,
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by jalami 10y ago
I realize a lot of companies flocked to Angular and it's used in a lot of places, but from the outside it seems to be fighting on two fronts. 1. Companies currently implementing it not wanting it to change or for there to be a quick an
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by jalami 10y ago
I noticed the same thing a few months ago. I live in a larger city, largest in our county, but we don't exist on the map unless you really zoom. A small town right next-door that's a lot more affluent shows up even when zoomed out
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by jalami 10y ago
I would love to buy a car with only FOSS software or at least source available software available inside. In the long run, I think it would be much safer than the status quo and with everything becoming computer-driven. I've thought ab
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by jalami 10y ago
I know a lot of the Chromebooks allow swapping out the mSata pretty easily. I've done it with my C720, swapped in a 128gb. I know the new Pixel is more locked down than the last, but haven't looked into it enough to say.

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