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by neilalexander 9y ago
The Gemini PDA is another such alternative in development: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-...
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by neilalexander 9y ago
There’s a distinction to be made between communication services and social media. Personal communications should of course be private, but social media is not a form of personal communication. It’s a form of broadcast, usually to a company’
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by neilalexander 9y ago
Posting to Facebook isn’t completely unlike writing to a newspaper. You send something to Facebook and it is syndicated to whomever. How and when it gets syndicated is down to Facebook, not you, and even if you delete it then you have no gu
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by neilalexander 9y ago
This is the biggest mistake that people make. Social media is NOT a private sphere. There's nothing remotely private about posting things to a public service on the Internet over which you have no control. We need to stop treating them
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by neilalexander 9y ago
As controversial as it may be, is it really that surprising to anyone that governments want this sort of information on tap about anyone, not just immigrants? We need to stop expecting social media platforms to respect our privacy. They don
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by neilalexander 9y ago
Drastic title for an incredibly weak article that barely even bothers to make a case. So Safari has a bug. Why does that warrant immediately labelling it abandonware?
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by neilalexander 9y ago
Windows 2000 wouldn't even start the logoff or shutdown process until the logoff sound had completed playing. ;-)
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by neilalexander 9y ago
> If you have a problem, contact postmaster/webmaster/root/etc. This is a very outdated 1990s mentality. Most modern web users would have no idea that such a thing exists (or should exist), and they're probably the sa
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by neilalexander 9y ago
Only bigger than you think because of the massive population of people who don't know how to change their web browser search provider, or their web browser altogether.
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by neilalexander 9y ago
Sure, wasteful RAM and CPU is a big problem with Electron, but bigger problems not addressed in the article include: - Total disregard for the user interface experience of the host operating system, as native UI toolkits are often not used
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by neilalexander 9y ago
By prioritising the platform, you also prioritise the user. As a macOS user, I am happy with how the average macOS application behaves and looks and feels and I feel like application developers should respect that. Same for someone writing
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by neilalexander 9y ago
I feel like it's still right to blame Electron - it coerces developers into being lazy as it stops them from having to actually think about how their apps behave and what resources they consume. Not to mention that it encourages platfo
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by neilalexander 9y ago
There are JPEG compression artefacts all over this page. Horrific.
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by neilalexander 9y ago
This sounds more like a comment about Bitcoin and not blockchain. What makes you think blockchain is a fail concept? Blockchain verifiably works. And that's not to say that Any Other Blockchain™ needs to use the same expensive computat
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by neilalexander 9y ago
> AFAIK the DHT routing protocol that CJDNS just replaced was not able to find optimal routes. Your packets would get to their destination somehow, but it's very unlikely that they would get there on the shortest path. Sounds like C
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by neilalexander 9y ago
What do you call a "real web browser"? I feel like Safari very much qualifies. (Please don't say lynx. I'll despair if you say lynx.)
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by neilalexander 9y ago
Funnily enough, one of the biggest issues I have observed with my parents using a desktop computer is "well where did that thing go that I was looking at yesterday". Naked filesystems are intuitive to us as power users because we
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by neilalexander 9y ago
I'm speaking like "Facebook" as an organisation.
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by neilalexander 9y ago
If anything, what's alarming about this more than anything is that Facebook are now becoming the first responder. The concern is what happens when people start to trust that Facebook will do good in situations like this and then fail t
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by neilalexander 10y ago
Near enough this exact idea is in the App Store in the form of another app called "Token".
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by neilalexander 10y ago
Yes, that's exactly what it is, and that's exactly the problem. This model teaches people to just "trust" that Chrome is right and it teaches people not to optimise.
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by neilalexander 10y ago
If anything, the problem with Electron is that it takes the wrong approach to lowering the entry barrier to application development. Rather than forcing developers to come up with more user-friendly programming languages and UI toolkits, El
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by neilalexander 10y ago
At work, yes. Internet Explorer for things on the corporate intranet and SharePoint, Chrome for any other kind of web browsing. At home, no. Safari for everything.
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by neilalexander 10y ago
On the contrary, they realise that doing so will create hype. They know exactly what they're doing.
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by neilalexander 10y ago
VyOS, based on Brocade's Vyatta platform (from which Ubiquiti's EdgeMAX platform is also derived).
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by neilalexander 13y ago
You are correct about this, and I have updated the code to include the replay protection. (Apparently I became sidetracked before!) I am not sure if the method that is used in the quicktun source to prevent replay is ideal, and I am fairly