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> Funny that your link includes WhatsApp as a social medium. I don't see it like that at all. For me it is just a free alternative to SMS. You can post status updates (images, message, videos, ...) with WhatsApp: https://
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8y ago
IIRC DXVK is written in C++ while WINE is written in C.
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Because a 1080 Ti can't do 144 FPS at 1440p or 60 FPS at 4K in all current gen titles with maxed out settings.
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8y ago
Okay I was wrong: AppArmor is part of the mainline Linux kernel. I think it were some Ubuntu-specific patches then which were required for some of the sandbox features. I will try to find where I read it again.
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Yes, because Snap doesn't support different repositories easily and everything atm is based on Ubuntu base-images. Also the license is GPL+CLA allowing Canonical to relicense it under a proprietary license. Furthermore they require App
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8y ago
My Dell XPS 13 9370 is completely silent (fans turn off) when browsing or watching video.
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8y ago
Encryption is opt-in, not the default.
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8y ago
The Play services run as root IIRC and listen to commands from Google's servers (e.g. to push updates to the devices). Even if they don't have enough priveleges to intercept the keyboard, Google has all the signing keys to replace
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8y ago
> more of it not all of it
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Sure, but the Play services make it A LOT easier for them.
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> That's not how Android app signing works. Google has root, so it can change how app signing works at any time. > Both have their pros and cons, and both have legitimate reasons to exist. I just looks to me like whenever someone
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8y ago
It could do that.
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> Security wise, Apple iOS is superior in any possible aspect to Android. One aspect where Android is superior is that more of it is open-source.
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8y ago
Why? Let's compare it to F-Droid: He isn't saying that Signal should be distributed via F-Droid by default , just that there should be the option. So the article doesn't seem to say that the defaults are what matter.
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8y ago
> In an article about "trust", can you explain how exactly you trust F-Droid packages and not Google Play ones? It's easier for Google to manipulate a package on Google Play than on F-Droid. > Signal has introduced stat
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8y ago
It allows Google to easily circumvent any end-to-end encryption since it's a rootkit.
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Apple has root access to every device just like Google has to Android phones running Google Play Services.
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8y ago
Because for some that's not a show-stopper.
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8y ago
Let's also not forget XMPP+OMEMO.
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8y ago
Signal doesn't need to solve it, because F-Droid would.
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8y ago
Telegram doesn't federate either, but at least they allow forks to connect to their main servers. And it's also available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/
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8y ago
That's always the case due to different software versions.
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8y ago
Well you put up the three bullet points making it sound like that these are the only options, sorry that I misunderstood you. > You ask "why", well look here at the features the open source tool we use provides: https:/&#
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8y ago
You're are assuming that not using tracking will automatically result in a bad website. > We could remove Piwik completely Yes, please do that. > But then it'd be much harder to improve our website. Why?
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8y ago
How can I develop for macOS without a Mac?
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8y ago
Thanks for the link, I stand corrected! :)
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8y ago
> super easy C/C++ FFI There's a HUGE difference between a C FFI and a C++ FFI. I doubt that Nim makes the latter easy (name mangling, exceptions, STL, ...).
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8y ago
Logitech G810
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> and don't wanna do C/C++. Give C++17 a try :)
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8y ago
HDMI, Displayport and 3.5mm TRS will all be replaced by USB-C at some point. It's a little too earlier to force it though.
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