xyquadrat

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by xyquadrat 6mo ago
I'm not claiming that this shows SCION can replace the respective parts of the network stack right now, and you're right that at a global scale this is still an unproven technology. But I would argue that a technology needs a cert
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by xyquadrat 6mo ago
Hmm, I'd disagree. The fact that Anapaya Systems (the for profit company mentioned) has the only commercial implementation/adjacent software is a problem, yes. But "snake oil" doesn't quite match up with the fact th
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by xyquadrat 5y ago
Indeed, he talks about BGP and SCION in the lectures. Sadly I think the lectures aren't available to non-students. What is available though are explanatory videos by him (Adrian Perrig) on the SCION website, where he talks about the is
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by xyquadrat 5y ago
SCION looks very promising, and by now it has also been deployed in Switzerland's financial network, so it seems ready for production: https://www.six-group.com/en/newsroom/media-releases/2021/20...
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by xyquadrat 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by > the ReMarkable is even more Closed than my MobiScribe, fail. The ReMarkable is comparatively very hackable and open, see for example https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkab
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by xyquadrat 6y ago
It seems like you are confusing two pieces of software: There is Baloo, which is the KDE file indexer. And then there is Akonadi, which is the storage service for all PIM related things (so emails, contacts, calendars etc.). If you disabled
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by xyquadrat 6y ago
As a current student of Ueli Maurer and a Swiss citizen, I completely agree with you (the exam part is hard for me to judge... that's coming up in January for me). He claims that he did review algorithms for them, but only once did he
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by xyquadrat 6y ago
I fully understand that opinion - it is a big pain point for many users. Inside KDE, our VDG (Visual Design Group) is working on ironing out those inconsistencies and visual problems. It's a gigantic task, but I do believe we are makin
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KDE Plasma 5.20(kde.org)
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Ask HN: How do you have meaningful conversations?
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by xyquadrat 6y ago
To elaborate on this, we (we as in other developers in KDE, not me personally) have created KDE Neon ( https://neon.kde.org/ ) which is Ubuntu LTS + the latest KDE software. It's great for using the up-to-date KDE Plasma