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   by nirv 9y ago

   Apparently, not: "Intel to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free in 2018"[1]. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-to-make-thunderbolt-3-roy...
2. 92.▲
   by nirv 9y ago

   Great news! I hope AMD releases a reasonably priced Intel NUC equivalent with their new APU. In the same compact, businesslike case (without gamers' ridiculousness), with a couple 40gbps USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports, powered by USB-C&#x2F
3. 93.▲
   by nirv 9y ago

   I don't know how this will end up, but thank you for taking risks supporting open-source federated comms. I hope this will give a mature, free alternative for those of us who are not enthusiastic about the ubiquitous centralization and
4. 94.▲
   by nirv 9y ago

   I have never heard of Status.im[0], but I'm glad that the Matrix protocol[1] and it's major[2] client implementation Riot.im[3]—received significant financial resources. We, a small group of tech-savvy people, tried to use Riot cl
5. 95.▲
   by nirv 9y ago

   > Nylas relicensed their code to one that is compatible (MIT) I was sure it's GPL, I missed that point. > Uh, okay? If you hadn't heard that before, that's... fine. > But, I mean, now you have. And I don't know
6. 96.▲
   by nirv 9y ago

   We can define market monopoly by market application segments of computing: desktop computers, mobile devices (smartphones, tablets), servers, embedded systems, IoT devices, etc. It's pretty clear that Intel holds nearly total monopoly
7. 97.▲
   by nirv 9y ago

   I'm less concerned about Intel's profits or its lost lawsuits. I'm wondering whether I shall receive any compensation for flawed CPUs, considering they're still under warranty.
8. 98.▲
   by nirv 9y ago

   So Intel just hit earnings records[1] for 2017Q4 despite all the vulns (AMT). And now, after recent events (Meltdown/Spectre) with no warranty losses, are anticipated in excitement to hit new records in 2018Q4 with new, apparently not
9. 99.▲
   by nirv 9y ago

   > That's a reference to their [Nylos]* attempt to donate their code and energy towards improving Thunderbird. (*My edit in brackets) You meant towards improving Nylas Mail, not Thunderbird? If not, I don't get any sense in this
10. 100.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    I dream that someday Mozilla will fully commit into developing a similar platform on the basis of the Servo/Quantum. This would allow to quickly mockup highly parallel and fortunately high-performance applications based on web-technolo
11. 101.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    There're many decent web-based proprietary mail solutions, and I was really excited once Nylas Mail showed up, even though it's Electron-based. And then instantly disappointed by its license. Later, I was considering switching to
12. 102.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    While I share your ECC preference, for today I see no reason to refuse free, reasonably secure LE support by default. ECDSA signing with LE's RSA intermediates is supported from Feb 2016, and full ECDSA cert chain will be added on July
13. 103.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    What's wrong with the Firefox on Android? Recent version is minimalistic in terms of design, while works the same way as desktop FF in terms of UX. I've never had any issues, plus "Firefox Sync", "Send Tab to Device
14. 104.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    That's interesting! Thanks for pointing out.
15. 105.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    I'm Scaleway customer and it's for sure cheaper since it offers dual cores, unmetered bandwidth and more SSD storage for the same 3 EUR/m. But these are ARM or Atom x86 CPUs, both are significantly less efficient[1] than Xeon
16. 106.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    > If I invent a new messenger protocol, how does a cryptocurrency enable me to make money on that protocol better than any other method? This is my limited understanding: 1) You want to allow users to send and businesses to receive (micr
17. 107.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    Probably. But I'm not inclined to rely on third-party companies for a core business infrastructure. The сompany behind a VPN I portray above most probably uses in-house self-hosted Gitlab/Confluence/etc instances. However, it
18. 108.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    It's true, but apparently it's getting close to be implemented into Linux[1][2]. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WireGuar... [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n
19. 109.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    Um, I'm not Google, but I think for a typical small/medium-scale tech business we're not there yet. > "The problem with the “castle” approach is that once the perimeter is breached, the entire internal network, and al
20. 110.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    I've never used WhatsApp, can't really compare. But we—team of ten tech-savvy persons—rolled back to Telegram in three days after trying RiotIM. Manual E2E keys sharing in Riot is not perfect, but definitely better than the lack o
21. 111.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    It's free for personal use, I responded to a nearby comment. In-browser is a good feature, I guess Wire can also get there in future, since both, Discord and Wire, are electron-based apps. But I believe call quality is not quite enough
22. 112.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    Wire is free for personal use and paid for businesses[1]. [1] https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/202856854-What-is...
23. 113.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    Unfortunately, to date, Matrix[1] suffers from a shortage of quality client apps. Riot.im[2][3], while the most advanced among others[4], is far from being convenient. Electron-based desktop client is subpar in terms of UX and performance,
24. 114.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    Wouldn't secure Wire[1] be a better replacement? It's crypto-audited[2], open-sourced[3], has native mobile clients[4], Swiss based[5], and pretty well known[6]. [1] https://wire.com [2] https://techcrunch.c
25. 115.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    I'm not sure what version of the map is posted in the Wikipedia article, but the official map of the Moscow metro[1] is designed[2] by ArtLebedev's studio and looks much better. Make sure to read "Process" pages. For tho
26. 116.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    There's a sane responsive interface solution to that: you get single-line layout on wide screen, and a compact multi-line layout on narrow screen. Answering a nearby comment, it's doable in CSS-only[1]. This entire discussion is n
27. 117.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    Generally not, but in this case I do. The proposed redesign[1] is essentially the same layout, but with a fancy theming. It's good practice not to break the familiar interface, but there's a lot to improve in terms of UI/
28. 118.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    There's an open bug bounty[1] for that feature[2]. Just in case. [1] https://www.bountysource.com/issues/4471419-ssh-port-forward... [2] https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/3
29. 119.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    Intel hardware (CPU, NICs, iGPU) is well supported by modern Linux kernels. AMD CPUs and GPUs are also hassle-free. NVidia is fine with proprietary blobs only, while open-sourced Nouveau is barely usable on modern GPUs. I personally run GTX
30. 120.▲
    by nirv 9y ago

    Thanks for the clarification. It's a pity that there's no complete data, as I drink mostly French press coffee.