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by tobbyb 11y ago
I am not sure this analogy illuminates differences in productivity and resulting inequality as described. If everyone on earth had the same equal piece of land then it can be argued that the tax rate (as property taxes are) would not be on
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On the contrary he had huge shoes to fill, expectations to match and momentum to carry. Success is not an accident. You can always lose momentum, you can always make the wrong decisions, you can always fail, especially in a company as keenl
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by tobbyb 11y ago
I think the potential for the Android desktop is huge, and can threaten Intel in a serious way. Look at the Amazon Fire TV equipped with a Mediatek 64 bit quad core A72 + A53 SoC. The same SoC is scheduled to be in Chromebooks shortly. This
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by tobbyb 11y ago
I think its a bit sad that its only when we start getting older and have had time for introspection and reflection that we realise that the only thing we have of value is time. We are dying from the time we are born and our bodies are chan
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by tobbyb 11y ago
I applaud your courage! This is so great to hear. It's only when people stand up for what they believe, and nearly always at great personal cost that meaningful change begins to look possible. It's so important to have activism an
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The question is 'not a bad thing' for whom? That phrase comes across a bit of doublespeak. Can self serving advocacy by those who financially benefit from surveillance be termed a 'debate', as they are the only ones who
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by tobbyb 11y ago
I think the tech crowd is in denial about their role in surveillance. We expect professionals to behave ethically. Doctors and companies working on genetics and cloning for instance are expected to behave ethically and have constraints plac
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by tobbyb 11y ago
If your Internet needs are privacy or anonymity related perhaps. That's why I said it rules out a lot of computing. For those with a 'serious' as in life dependent need for privacy, for instance whistle blowers or persons of
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by tobbyb 11y ago
Tor is a project originally by the US Navy developed to protect US intelligence. Given that background it would be a bit of a leap to trust security or privacy to technology produced by the government unless it is reasonable or rational to
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There a particular personality that is given to self righteousness and imposing on others, and these self appointed arbiters quickly attach to these causes and use them to police other people, nevermind the cause. The internet has made this
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Given the extreme zeal for liberty and freedom espoused by the tech crowd in the early 90's its more than sad, no a complete tragedy that there is just one Snowden today and hundreds of thousands of others who 'toil' away sil
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by tobbyb 11y ago
There are many who not only remain unconcerned but often seek to diminish or dismiss concern as hyperbole or exaggerated, often by pointing to the current status quo. No one is interested in you the individual, but they are certainly intere
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by tobbyb 11y ago
I am not quite sure I totally agree with the authors view of 'giving back' but this is a much needed article and we need more of this. I think it's a bit risky to conflate start ups and businesses that are solving problems wi
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by tobbyb 11y ago
I have often appreciated your quick interventions to stop snark and abuse on this message board. But this doesn't seem right. This thread by its definition is controversial and lends itself to subjective option and heated discussion, m
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by tobbyb 11y ago
I think in discussions its useful to deal with defaults because there are always workarounds. For Docker the default is to run init less containers so you do not get a normal OS environment. For LXC the default is run init in the container
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by tobbyb 11y ago
What I find curious about all the container discussions and narrative is the strange lack of context. Sure discuss Docker but also discuss namespaces, cgroups, overlayfs, aufs, and all the other critical enabling technologies where a lot of
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by tobbyb 11y ago
LXC has supported user namespaces since 2013 and it works well enough. You could run unprivileged containers from Ubuntu 14.04. I think Nspawn supports it now too. This is different from running the Docker from a user account. With Docker y
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by tobbyb 11y ago
we have a pretty easy to use multi-domain mail server in a Debian Wheezy container [1] based on LXC. It's an integrated package with Postfix, Dovecot, a GUI admin (Vimbadmin) and Roundcube webmail preconfigured so you can start with a
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by tobbyb 11y ago
A container is just running a process or chroot in its own namespace. If you run it as it is you have a single process container like Docker uses, if you run an init in the namespaced process you have LXC or OS containers that can support m
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by tobbyb 11y ago
First he manages to 'semicrash' his helicopter in icy waters, then retrieve his life raft from beneath the sinking heli in freezing water, then survive in extreme weather for 36 hours with half a litre of water and a few protein b
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by tobbyb 11y ago
We are trying to solve this problem with Flockport [1] so users can at least get to see and try apps without needing to install and configure tons of stuff and we use LXC containers which behave like lightweight VMs and provide an OS enviro
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by tobbyb 11y ago
We had looked at a bunch of forums from the traditional forums like MyBB, PhpBB, Flux BB to newer takes on forums like Vanilla, Discourse, Nodebb and Esotalk an year ago. I liked the minimalism of Esotalk but it was being phased out in favo
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by tobbyb 11y ago
That's a bit naive. A vote doesn't mean a do what you want. Trust is not automatic. It comes from transparency and accountability which secrecy inhibits. There is no concept of trust in a democracy. Everything is about being open
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What a depressing read. Jeff Bezos needs to tell us why he is treating our fellow human beings so badly. I am willing to wait another day for my gadgets from amazon, or not even have gadgets. I didn't ask for this, no customer asked fo
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by tobbyb 11y ago
To clarify, this is a preview GUI container, more to show users how to run GUI apps in containers than a Chromium container. You are right hough, We ideally need to keep it updated but it can also be updated directly by users inside the con
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by tobbyb 11y ago
Flockport provides something similar but with containers https://www.flockport.com/store We have a fledgling app store with over 30 apps that can be deployed on any Linux server in minutes. It's completely free. The ad
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by tobbyb 11y ago
Haven't tried mbox yet but Firejail is pretty straight forward to sandbox locally installed apps. You can roll your own namespaced sandbox with unshare but Firejail does that cleanly, adds seccomp support, and is easy to use. Docker, L
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by tobbyb 11y ago
The new Firejail app [1] may be worth exploring as it is designed to run locally installed apps like browsers and games in sandboxes, as opposed to more chroot oriented container managers like LXC, Docker or Nspawn. They all use namespaces.
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Sleepwalking into a Monoculture and Lock-In with Linux Containers(flockport.com)
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Not really, Nspawn is extremely promising and is developing fast. Systemd 220 adds support for user namespaces so you can run nspawn containers as non root users. But containers need minimal OS templates, networking and a way to configure i

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