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by pedro2 6y ago
What's the URL for Qt6 open-source code?
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by pedro2 6y ago
Open source software is more than a license and code. Nope. You are thinking "Free Software". "Open Source" is "just" that: a legal license which may or may not have ethical considerations and fuzzy fee
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by pedro2 6y ago
[2012]
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by pedro2 6y ago
Don’t start reading, it gets blurry at middle (unless you login I suppose).
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by pedro2 6y ago
There was the requirement for x86, by Microsoft, during the Windows 8 times, that Secure Boot to be possible to deactivate in the BIOS. That is no longer the case. https://www.techspot.com/news/60132-microsoft-leaving-o
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by pedro2 6y ago
They removed the requirement of Secure Boot being deactivable from OEM requirements.
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by pedro2 6y ago
That made no sense. MS is in the business of making software easier to make, so it makes all the sense. Are you sure you aren't a reverse shill? :)
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by pedro2 6y ago
I prefer the variant: "It’s not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want you to see." It's clearer on what the problem is.
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by pedro2 6y ago
They don't inject their own ads in webpages.
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by pedro2 6y ago
Not a scientist. The text is so farfetched that even being generated by GPT-3 seems out of the question.
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by pedro2 6y ago
I also use Fastmail but can’t commit to it due to Australia’s ‘new’ snooper charter: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/auhwq6/australian_... Looking at Sovereign Email now.
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by pedro2 6y ago
Android app? Which one?
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by pedro2 6y ago
TL;DR: Reverse SSH using an helper along the way?
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by pedro2 6y ago
IDK, but it's because security. Judging by the title, it helps avoiding ROP: "Return-oriented programming is a computer security exploit technique that allows an attacker to execute code in the presence of security defenses such a
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by pedro2 6y ago
What's their business model?
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by pedro2 6y ago
At least they warned.
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by pedro2 6y ago
It was not just LTS. The rumor [1] was: > As a result, they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months. > They are aware that this would mean the end of contributions via Open
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by pedro2 6y ago
From the linked email: > As a result, they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months. > They are aware that this would mean the end of contributions via Open Governance in pra
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by pedro2 6y ago
FYI, the delay of source availability of future Qt releases is not clear. Last public discussion about the subject, to my knowledge: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...
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by pedro2 6y ago
How old are you? I’m in my thirties and if someone left a mean anonymous note about me I would be pissy about that for a few years before I’d find it mildly amusing. Congrats! (in case there is doubt: not being sarcastic)
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by pedro2 6y ago
I dislike a lot Feedly, almost like Inoreader and kinda like bazqux. Not sure why though.
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by pedro2 6y ago
Depends on what you want. Personally, I use Gandi Webmail [1] which provides SOGo groupware [2]. NOTE: it is not as AJAXy as Gmail. [1] https://news.gandi.net/en/2017/01/introducing-sogo-new-webma... [2] htt
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by pedro2 6y ago
My threat model is: governments can read my email but that will incur a cost, a timelapse and a judge -- not just a point and click mega-spy interface. I want to bash Trump's latest haircut without fear of incoming, frivolous litigatio
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by pedro2 6y ago
How’s the Australian spy law [1] thing? [1] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/goodbye-fastmail.html
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by pedro2 7y ago
Yes. I shouldn’t have clicked Submit - it was out of frustration. It’s one of those things we won’t know except in hindsight. So: frustrated at the situation and at the article and at my inability to grasp what the hell is going on on marke
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by pedro2 7y ago
You assume everyone has permission to install software :)
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by pedro2 7y ago
Credit cards counts as well. Probably cards in general.
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by pedro2 7y ago
I would like to know too. I read someone on social media alleging they also used Bing behind the scenes, without attribution, but I haven’t researched further.
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by pedro2 7y ago
> but because Brave can swap my ads with its own. This is theft! AFAIK this is not true. To get in-page ads, you (the page owner) have to opt-in and will be paid over 60% of the profit.
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by pedro2 7y ago
Option 2 gives the other side time to fight back, with much more resources than you have. Option 3: pick the lesser evil, not the best option. Cut the money/power flow for the incumbent parties. Force them to compete. It is my hope for

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