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by vurpo 5y ago
That part is very easy to implement without all the extra cruft that a blockchain also brings with it. Git manages to do that same thing without burning a ton of coal every time you make a commit.
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by vurpo 5y ago
Getting the full benefits of E2EE (that is, protection against active attacks and not only passive eavesdropping) requires verification out-of-band in any case. Verifying is entirely optional on both Matrix and WhatsApp (not verifying doesn
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by vurpo 5y ago
There are issues that game theory can't solve. Take for example the St. Petersburg paradox. From Wikipedia: "A casino offers a game of chance for a single player in which a fair coin is tossed at each stage. The initial stake begi
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by vurpo 5y ago
Some of the most popular ThinkPads, even among diehard ThinkPad fanatics, are from well into the Lenovo era. Say, for example, the X220, X300, T420. They came out several years after IBM stopped having anything to do with ThinkPads, and the
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by vurpo 5y ago
Godot is MIT licensed. Are you saying that none of the games on the PlayStation store have even a single MIT/BSD/Apache licensed library in them?
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by vurpo 5y ago
Basically, projects shouldn't need to be profitable just to exist. Have a universal basic income, give the people the freedom to create more small and creative projects like the Playdate, which people clearly want despite it not nece
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by vurpo 5y ago
For me, it's the ability to have Firefox Sync, Firefox's tracking blocker (although ad blocking isn't available unfortunately), and the familiar visual UI of Firefox. It's not literally a "skin", Firefox on iOS
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by vurpo 5y ago
The Matrix identity server system is entirely optional to use, and basically a separate system from the rest of Matrix. The reason for that is that there's not really any way to implement that specific feature in a decentralized way, s
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by vurpo 6y ago
A computer won't tell you anything about what "should" or "shouldn't" happen. If you were to (theoretically) simulate the whole judgement process with all of its real world parameters, including whether or not
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by vurpo 6y ago
First of all, this is a standardized way (it is standardized in the XDG desktop portal APIs, which are implemented for example by Plasma and Gnome, and for wlroots-based compositors). It was also never within the scope of Wayland to provide
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by vurpo 7y ago
It's not like Chrome has an easy and user-friendly way to do the same thing. Quite the opposite: Chrome has no way at all to do this, while Firefox has a technical way to do it even if it's not obvious to most users that it's
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by vurpo 7y ago
Matrix is not a closed platform, and in fact the only one of the projects you mentioned that even makes an attempt to work together with other chat protocols and networks. It is explicitly open, not locked in to any single service provider,
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by vurpo 9y ago
Gnome's save dialog allows you to rename or delete files. Maybe MATE should take some inspiration from the newer version of their desktop environment...
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by vurpo 9y ago
Check voyager.t2bot.io for a big list of different public Matrix rooms. There are lots of active rooms, as well as bridges to the biggest IRC networks, Slack, Gitter, Discord, and more.
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by vurpo 9y ago
Matrix has a big community of people with a lot of active rooms to chat in, and beyond that it has bridges to other networks like IRC, Gitter, and Slack. See voyager.t2bot.io for a graph of a whole lot of public Matrix rooms (created by a c
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by vurpo 9y ago
Wayland may be ready for default in Ubuntu and Fedora, but they clearly didn't consider it ready for LTS. They have already said the next non-LTS version will still have Wayland as default.
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by vurpo 9y ago
wasm is not a browser plugin, it is part of the browser. That means the plugin architechture does not need to exist (which has already been removed by all major browsers). Building wasm support into browsers was not an easy task, and "
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by vurpo 9y ago
Exactly. The GameCube/Wii emulation scene does not have any of that drama like the N64 scene has, which leads to everyone in the scene being happy to work together on one single emulator instead of everyone working on their own project
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by vurpo 9y ago
You're implying that the metric system and IPv6 aren't being used in great numbers today, which is false.
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by vurpo 9y ago
It depends on the device, but at least on Nexus/Pixel devices you can just plug the phone in and `fastboot oem unlock` and it will unlock the bootloader, i.e. allow you to flash anything onto it that you want.
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by vurpo 9y ago
Many Android devices, including all the ones that Google make and sell themselves, Sony devices, Motorola devices, have an officially supported path to running any code you want on YOUR own device. Usually that path is: boot the phone into
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by vurpo 9y ago
They're both flawed, since they are easy to replicate and impossible to replace once the attacker has your credentials.
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by vurpo 9y ago
LiPo is just Lithium-ion polymer, which is basically a Li-ion battery with a specific polymer container.
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by vurpo 9y ago
For an extreme example, see the Android bug tracker. It is hopeless.
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by vurpo 9y ago
From the Open Source Definition: > 3. Derived Works > The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
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by vurpo 9y ago
As EEVBlog has shown many times, road surfaces are an extremely impractical place to put solar panels on. It needs to be kept clean to work efficiently, and you also need to make a surface with similar friction properties as asphalt, which
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by vurpo 9y ago
The Bloomberg article said that Nokia was founded near the city of Tampere. In fact, it was founded in a smaller town near Tampere, called... Nokia. Originally it would have been called something to "the Nokia wood pulp company" o
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by vurpo 9y ago
The new Nokia phones are engineered and designed by a company called HMD. HMD was founded for the specific purpose of making "Nokia" phones under the license after Microsoft sold it off. HMD is based in Espoo, with their office ri
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by vurpo 9y ago
Firefox for Android can be installed on Chromebooks. So yes, other browsers can be installed on Chromebooks.
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by vurpo 9y ago
The Internet of Things...

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