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by krn 8y ago
It seems to be actively used (150+ active pull requests, ~2000 open issues), but not actively maintained, since there is a single person behind the project, who probably took a long break from it. And to be fair, it's just a modular la
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by krn 8y ago
I see Vi as the best text editing interface , and Emacs as the best text editor . Spacemacs[1] is a combination of both of them. [1] http://spacemacs.org/
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by krn 8y ago
The Guardian has published more facts about Russia's interference in Brexit and the US presidential election than probably any other newspaper in the world, and has been owned by a non-profit organization since 1936[1]. [1] https:&#x2
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by krn 8y ago
I think, BSD / MIT / Apache should be used for open source libraries , and MPL / GPL / AGPL for open source products . This way, a developer can build a new product using open source libraries without sharing its sourc
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by krn 8y ago
If you want to understand how Russia works, there are plenty of international sources. "How Russia won the World Cup" by the The Guardian[1] is a one of them. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun
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How Russia Won the World Cup(theguardian.com)
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by krn 8y ago
> I remember when Romney was running for president, he kept saying that Russia was a big threat, and that we were underestimating them. That's why Russia didn't want Mitt Romney to become Trump's secretary of state: "
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by krn 8y ago
If a company wants to operate in a certain jurisdiction, it has to respect its laws, whether it agrees with them or not. There is simply no way around it. And you could argue, that Chinese democracy is better off with iOS devices even as th
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by krn 8y ago
There is also MoKee Open Source Project[1] with OTA updates and monthly security patches. [1] https://www.mokeedev.com/
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by krn 8y ago
> I would advice against using Chromium on Android. CopperheadOS had a different take on this, and recommended Chromium for FLOSS-only Android[1]: "Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox. They’re significantly less secure and are a
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by krn 8y ago
I find such things as email, maps and streaming services to be proper use cases for native applications, because they either require non-standard connectivity / caching implementations, or hardware features which are not equally availa
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by krn 8y ago
I like to think about it this way: web is for documents , apps are for tools . If it can be linked to universally, it is a document. If it cannot, it is a tool. Would I install facebook.exe on my PC in order to browse it? No, it would fee
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by krn 8y ago
It turns out, that Luminati Networks Ltd sued UAB Tesonet over patent infringement in "Large-scale web data extraction products and services with residential proxy network (oxylabs.io)"[1] in July 2018. [1] http://litig
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Data mining company behind Hola VPN sues data mining company behind NordVPN(litigation.maxval-ip.com)
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by krn 8y ago
> These stories were first fabricated by Private Internet Access, a competitor who has been feeling pressure from ProtonVPN lately. This is a lie. Private Internet Access is probably the largest paid VPN provider in the world, and Prot
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by krn 8y ago
Finally, the IP blocks, which belonged to Tesonet and were used by ProtonVPN just a few months ago – despite the co-founders of ProtonMail publicly denying any technical partnership between the two[1] – now belong to ProtonVPN[2]. [1] http
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by krn 8y ago
Furthermore, after it was pointed out by the co-founder of PIA, that the CEO of Tesonet is the director of ProtonVPN UAB, the company was renamed multiple times in two months[1], with its director now hidden from the public view. [1] https
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by krn 8y ago
That's the problem. I haven't found any of his statements, that would be only half-true. I even discovered a conference held in Lithuania in 2017, where one of the speakers was presented as the head of B2B sales at Tesonet, workin
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by krn 8y ago
Related: has anyone published an Android app with ClojureScript and React Native? How much did the fact, that React Native for Android is incompatible with 3rd-party 64-bit libraries[1] affect the development? [1] https://github.
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by krn 8y ago
As a Eastern European myself, I chose not to single out Lithuania, because most of the region is now in the EU.
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by krn 8y ago
ProtonVPN is no competitor to Private Internet Access in terms of the size and the number of users. If you were a co-founder of PIA, would you risk your reputation by publicly providing false accusations against a company 1/100 of the
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by krn 8y ago
Eastern Europe, from which ProtonVPN is operated as a legal entity without the knowledge of its users, is an entirely different jurisdiction from Switzerland in terms of privacy and data retention laws.
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by krn 8y ago
Tesonet denies to its customers[1], that it is running both, a VPN service, NordVPN, and a data mining service, Oxylabs, from its HQ in Vilnius, Lithuania, even though both of these facts can be easily verified by anyone with the internet c
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by krn 8y ago
> There is nothing wrong with data mining itself. It's completely neutral technology. Tesonet's Oxylabs offers "10+ Million Mobile IPs in Every Country and Every City in the World"[1], which might explain why ProtonVP
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by krn 8y ago
> Im inclined to distrust both of you. It's neither religion, nor politics. It's tech. You don't need to believe in anything you cannot verify yourself. I have checked most of the statements provided by the co-founder of P
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by krn 8y ago
The section from the "About" page of Tesonet (26 Apr 2018)[1], which got removed soon after that HN thread: "For the latest project, Tesonet is working together with an international brand from Switzerland to create a securit
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by krn 8y ago
> Please, that's not a verified claim[0], and you shouldn't trust any VPN service that isn't operated by you in the first place. The co-founders of ProtonMail were caught providing multiple inaccurate statements about thei
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by krn 8y ago
I have zero trust in Proton<anything> after learning, that the free ProtonVPN service is provided by a data mining company from Eastern Europe[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203 (please turn on &quo
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by krn 8y ago
As far as I am aware of, Medium is not supported by ads, and its popularity depends on the web.
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by krn 8y ago
Why does Medium need an app in the first place? Is a web browser not a good enough app for reading content on the internet?

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