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by scotu 15y ago
So you are willing to commit to cloud-only, controlled by a random corp and subject to network availability but you are not going to trust the hardware you can carry in your pocket? Notice that no one is saying that a secondary cloud-tier i
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by scotu 15y ago
Because email sucks. Hosting email sucks. Email clients suck. (Bonus: email spam sucks). On Gmail it sucks a bit less. I'm sorry for myself in the first place, but until I can code my dream of an email killer (or email client fwiw) that doe
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by scotu 15y ago
My patched version of all the variants of Ubuntu Mono https://github.com/scotu/ubuntu-mono-powerline/
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by scotu 15y ago
I would rather say that revoking the packaging license is laughable and sad at the same time
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by scotu 15y ago
you should migrate to official java distributed by Oracle. I know, it's stupid. I suppose we can thank Oracle, the non-tech-but-lawyer company for this. Sigh
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by scotu 15y ago
I think there's no way to adhere to open source definition and restrict that. And it is a good thing
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by scotu 15y ago
The effects of this accounting practice looks a lot like the claimed effect of piracy...
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by scotu 15y ago
It's also not healthy for your eyes to stare at a lamp... we already do it long hours in front of a pc. Better not to do so also for reading books...
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by scotu 15y ago
So they should kill silverlight, right?
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by scotu 15y ago
the problem in the real name policy, to me, is more related to the fact that they want your ID name while they claim to need the name you go by usually. Would google accept _why as a name for a user? Probably not unless this _why is a well
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by scotu 15y ago
you can edit hosts without root with adb, if you don't want to root. If you want to live in a post-pc world you can simply grant root privileges to one single app for one single session... I bet that if you don't trust any app on the market
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by scotu 15y ago
I think you don't know what are you talking about: Android is linux and you can edit /etc/hosts as you wish. You can even get in an ssh session as simple as an app... And for b) : what an app can do is stated before install. "English, my
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by scotu 15y ago
I don't think anyone wants a monopolist (a part from the monopolist itself). The most dangerous in the mobile space able to gain (regain?) a monopoly is Apple. Google seams far less dangerous to me, just build on android (the open source pr
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by scotu 15y ago
Google fulfills the requirements of the licenses of android, that are open. So it is open. Do I like the way they do so? Not so much, but it was necessary to do something against uglifications from the device makers, since seams that goog
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by scotu 15y ago
> "Android was supposed to be FREE and open; yet developers can’t choose their billing solution" Maybe I'm going off topic, but dev can choose their billing solution, distributing their apps outside android market that is not part of
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by scotu 16y ago
In fact it works perfectly fine with wine until linux version is out
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by scotu 16y ago
fortunately my wallet's content will not be impacted by this news. Being in Italy helps you spend less money, Yay! :(
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by scotu 16y ago
as far as I can tell from the quotes, no curator is going to implemented, it seams a simple speculation from appleinsider. I might be very wrong but to me seems like a statement that google is strengthening his efforts started with the mark