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I tried most of that a few months ago. The problems, as many others pointed out, is that instead of being eaten by one monster, you're being nibbled at by a few.

Stuff that worked:

- gmail/calendar -> fastmail. I still miss a few features of the gmail web interface, but in general I'm very happy with the switch.

- reader -> feedbin. Yeah, as if I had a proper choice.

Partial success:

- search -> DuckDuckGo: I find myself hitting !g often enough for more "fuzzy" searches, or ones where I'm looking for German content. Which happens often enough, as I've had wikipedia/imdb shortcuts for ages and so don't need to google that only to click on the first link popping up.

- maps -> Bing/OpenStreetMap: I'm mostly a desktop user when it comes to maps, and find myself using the !bm tag in DDG more and more. Directions are good and it zooms faster on my Linux desktop. Mobile situation ain't that great.

Failed:

- mobile -> LineageOs: I got my old Nexus 4 and put LineageOs on it. But it's hard to get by just with F-Droid apps alone. As a compromise, I'm using a cheap iPhone 5c for most stuff these days. I'm seriously considering ditching smartphones altogether and lugging my Sony reader, Sansa Fuze and an old Nokia flip phone around again...
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https://spideroak.com/one/ runs on Linux. I have not checked how it compares to DropBox pricing wise, but ticks all my security/privacy boxes
What about the chroot/Crouton route?
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Things will not pass without consequence even when you have mental illness. The sentence might be slightly different, forced therapy in a closed institution instead of regular prison, but that's about it. A crime's a crime.
> TouchID also is problematic if you're wearing gloves

And the touchscreen?
I don't see any issues there at all. The update manager specifically lets you choose your update strategy and tells you the risks/benefits of each choice. As far as receiving timely updates, they come straight from Ubuntu/Debian, so Mint is updated exactly as quickly as the mother distros.

I get that there is a lot of hate for Mint because it's not a h4rdc0re h4xx0r distro, but the accusations are simply baseless and often based more in personal convictions than anything else.

If you read the linked Reddit thread, in between the rapid haters, there are a couple of posts that lay it out in a very sensible way. Worst-case a Mint user is going to be a couple of days behind an Ubuntu user. Not exactly the end of the world. If ASAP updates are critical for your systems, you probably shouldn't be running a purely desktop-focused distro anyway.
Most code that is written has effects - null returns, error returns, exceptions, IO, etc., etc. We can write a custom function to compose every pair of functions we write, but some clever people figured out there were patterns to this madness - map, flatMap, lift, return, etc. - and it's far more efficient to write those patterns once and reuse them.

Essentially, it's DRY at a higher level of abstraction.
There are lots of them, they're usually just very tailored to a specific type of business so you've never heard of them.
> But after a while, I got tired of manually configuring everything, doing all kinds of weird house-keeping and having to randomly boot from a USB stick to rescue my system from some update with untested consequences

Honestly, this was my experience in the first months with the distro, back in 2011, but then I started feeling like I 'know' Arch, like I understand how to use pacdiff, what news to pay attention to and what commands to run, as well as what not to forget to avoid trouble and honestly, it's been the most stable OS I've known.

So yes, there's a 'bump' you have to overcome with Arch, but once you 'get it', it becomes second nature.
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Me too. For creating a simple relational database and forms that allow you to exploit the relationships, i've found it really nice.
Yeah if you're looking for easy and risk free, yiu should stay with windows or mac. OTOH, if you want linux to stop being a black box, install arch. Just don't expect it to be your stable day to day workhorse with no effort.
I'm sort of surprised LibreOffice hasn't tried to fill this gap, it would be a nice way for them to earn some income if they do it just right enough. I say this because Open Source projects need to be funded some way, somehow.
The latter.

In EVE, there are large alliances of play guilds, which do most of the governing/politicking inside of the game. It's one of the major selling points that things like which faction controls what territory is really just a function of which players can keep control of the territory.

(Well, EVE supports the primitives for such activities, by having tools for eg creating player guilds that can pool resources, but the actual guild structure and politics is controlled by players.)
Looks cool! Too bad it doesn't support russian or ukrainian, as they are my native languages, but still seems like a usable alternative. Thanks a lot!
google is just finishing its restructuring to xxvi holdings, apple has had all its cash outside of the us for quite some time.
> At least Apple stood up to the FBI when they wanted an encryption backdoor.

They also gave the FBI the last iCloud backup of the phone (a month before the attack happened), so it's not like they haven't cooperated with the FBI at all in that case. It's just that it wasn't enough to the FBI, and that's where Apple drew the line.
Crouton leaves ChromeOS in place and running, so I assumed it was out of place for this discussion. I don't know how much the chroot does to mitigate that. I assume, for example, it's still Google's kernel in place?
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I'd say that the "new Access" is WordPress or Drupal. They're often used in much the same way - create a bunch of entity types that automatically connect with forms and views.
I've used Linux as my primary OS for ~17 years now (Mandrake->Debian->Gentoo->Arch->Mint with a few experiments here and there, eg. Fedora and Elementary). I have absolutely no desire for OS tinkering anymore.

I basically need a web browser and the desktop Spotify client. That takes care of ~95% of my computing needs these days.
What problems do you find with OSM?

I am a map-data contributor and am somewhat blinkered as a result. What's missing or clunky from the perspective of general users?
Wow it got a 15/100 Pagespeed score on Mobile https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
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The difficult part is virtualization solutions aren't all optimal out of the box, so any evalution of them by someone new to a given product might be skewed.

I'd look at what the big names are, especially in paid versions as they have their business on the line, and check youtube or blogs for performance tweaks or maximizing performance, and see what those who use it day in and day out have found. There aren't any real benchhmark sites or articles I'd recommend, as it can be hard to distinguish unbiased reporting from advertising.

Personally, I would give the VMware products a trial (most have 60 day unlimited use options), but I'm also biased having been a VMware VCP5. Anecdotally, their performance (when set up properly) was better than when I ran VirtualBox or Xen.

Make sure all virtualization extension options are enabled in your BIOS, first off. Second, save some cores and RAM for your host machine. More cores is not always better when it comes to VMs, but this applies more to multiple VMs on a machine and CPU scheduling issues. Third, turn off any power saving features in the host software or guest VM. Things like CPU C states can be a silent performance killer. Fourth, make use of whatever metrics or utilities the software provides to see at the host and guest levels where the bottlenecks are. The guest may think it's waiting on CPU while the host is busy paging memory blocks on disk.
What you're seeing are two malicious actors making use of their propaganda arms. Regardless of high-horsing, everybody spies on everybody.
I see articles about Cassini's end, but they never clearly mention when the final pictures will be revealed. Any pointers please?
[flagged] US “explodes” after Kaspersky closes “CIA Backdoor” embedded in all MS Software | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15227543 (1 day ago, 57 points, 12 comments)

>	DiabloD3: Can we get a more authoritative URL over this?

> godelski: I have a hard time taking this website seriously.

>
driverdan: I'm surprised this got so many upvotes before it was flagged.

DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15240839 (18 hours ago, 71 points, 105 comments)

Not sure what new angle this Washington Post article brings that the current discussion wasn't flagged as a dupe. Maybe enough time has passed and de-duping is only done when both are on the front page?
Usually that complaint comes from those whose bubble developers == UNIX developers.

We have hardly any complaint in the office from those with access to our Mac pools for iOS and OS X development, meaning Objective-C and Swift and not UNIX CLI stuff.
What does this mean for Cygwin?
Two things:

1. Russian money (or any foreign money), if it gets scrutinized for buying disinformation advertising in the US, will just find a way to hide itself better. Facebook should have a duty to vet ad buyers to an extent, but if Russia implemented this and now reports are coming out, you can bet they're proactively going a bit deeper now.

2. Provided that Facebook ad platforms operate similarly in other countries, is there rampant disinformation and foreign influence among non-US countries? When does the US become entangled in this as a facilitator?
> Strange that you name Finland in a "basket cases of mismanagement"

You misread the comment, that's not what they claimed.
A shortage is technically defined as a situation where price cannot rise, such as the government imposing a price ceiling, preventing the price from reaching equilibrium. As long as price is able to rise, demand will wane with the rising price, and thus the supply will ultimately meet the needs of the demand.

That price is rising should invalidate the idea of a shortage, but labour shortage seems to have come to mean a situation where an employer has made their desire to hire known, but received no suitable applicants.
or you could go after the money side of the equation.

1. let sponsors host your data in an open competitive marketplace.

or

an open marketplace for goods and services that focuses exclusively on driving value to customers through:

1. require low cost guarantee from vendors.

2. vendor can't buy rank at all.

3. better way to find products and service.

(sort of like ebay that focuses on customer value not transaction volume)

do what amazon did to "best buy". you do alot of your research everywhere else but you buy from here.
That's incredible - I remember FileMaker from the 1980s. Look at the functionality of that app and the great design of the site! If that were a startup run by a bunch of hip Millennials out of San Francisco, it'd be worth a couple billion dollars, easily. (Instead we get one-off, single purpose hosted apps like Trello, and FileMaker languishes in obscurity.)
Price of storage and ease of installation isn't there yet net metering allowed a large number of home solar installations. Blocking those has slowed it down. The price of panels etc is less than half of a home installatons so panel prices coming down is unlikely to fuel much morenhome solar growth
BTW can Chromium count as an alternative to Chrome? I know it's still google, but it's open source and lacks some google api integrations
So you can change your face, and you can't change your PIN?
You mean with a web based database? I thought LibreOffice did have a local Access equivalent called "Base".
I'm working on such CRUD app builder, which might be interesting to you.
It's self-hosted and because it's written in Golang the entire server is a single binary - users can simply download the binary, run it and that's it.
The data is stored in PostgreSQL. The form builder generates JSON, which is stored in the database and the server builds the resulting app on the fly.
I'm building the first demos as we speak. So far I have an invoicing app with payments tracking, overdue invoices, etc. and a second app, which is Bill of Materials. It can calculate manufacturing costs based on recipes with different inputs like raw materials, processing, other parts and assemblies and so on.

I'll try to put the demos on the site by tomorrow.

It still cannot work with any third-party APIs though, but other than that virtaully anything can be built in a matter of a few hours (maybe a day or two for the more complex and large apps).

Also I've implemented implicit workflows, where what happens is defined in the forms based on what components are inserted into it. There isn't the traditional "when A happens, do B" kind of workflows. IMO the implicit ones are much more pwoerful and flexible.

You can check it here (demos coming soon, currently one one basic tutorial):
https://www.formbolt.com
not use faceID?
For mobile maps, have you tried https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.osmand.plus ? I'm not sure how good navigation is in there (never tried), but having local OSM maps is great
I have this wiki page where I documented everything I did to setup my arch system. Disk encryption included: https://github.com/Noah-Huppert/.dotfiles/wiki/System-Instal...
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DDG has a bang for a lot of things, because it's trivial to implement them (they just redirect you to <page.com>/<something>?q=<your_search_term_here), and trivial to make a suggestion.
Windows Mobile is honestly still (for the short term while it exists) still a very solid option. I used to try to do the Android-without-Google thing, and it was nearly unmanageable, since pretty much every app on the platform depends on Play Services. (Most location-enabled apps won't work without Google Location Services on, for instance.)

I actually have more apps available to me on a Windows 10 Mobile device than an Android device with Play disabled. And I'm able to do most everything I need to while sending drastically less information to my Microsoft account than I ever did to Google.

Microsoft still updates every Windows 10 Mobile device monthly with security updates, direct from them, on the second Tuesday of every month. (I got an update for my 2014-era Windows Mobile phone on the 12th, for instance.) In many ways, this means Windows Mobile is still a more secure choice than most Android phones. Microsoft releases the update to all devices on the same day, regardless of OEM.

I can say my phone isn't vulnerable to the BlueBorne thing that came out this week, but most Android users won't be able to speak to that.
This is what pushed me to iOS primarily. The simple fact is Google is incentivized directly to spy on you, and (increasingly) Apple is using the fact that they do not spy on you as a differentiator. They make their money on the hardware and via iTunes; they don't sell your data, and oftentimes don't even have access to your data by their own design.

Apple doesn't have 100% of my trust but of the OEM phone makers out their right now, I think by a wide margin they're the most trustworthy.
LibreOffice Base (http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/base/) fills the gap. It's a combination Access-like local database as well as a ODBC/JDBC client.
I'm sure Ubuntu delivers the same general experience, I just don't like Unity and what they've doing with their DEs in general.

Ubuntu MATE may be better for me, but I've found myself very comfortable with Cinnamon, so just like you I am not in a hurry to switch distros :-)
What does any of that have to do with a social network? I've got other ideas for commercial ventures, this thread is about the idea of a decentralized social network. In other words, separating the social from the commercial.
You still have to write each composition operator separately; writing the code to compose null returns doesn't give you the code to compose IO. Only difference is whether they have separate names.
Because you're not signalling an intention to buy so the effort would be wasted.

If your search indicates an intent to buy you get flooded with ads.
That breaks both ways: only a fairly advanced attacker could "change their face" to access your phone. So Face ID still covers the 99% of cases Troy talks about. For the rest, I'm not sure a PIN works, either, so they'd have to use a password.
What xena means is that Fedora comes with more and newer drivers compared to CentOS, this means there are new hardware that might not work with CentOS, but does work in Fedora.

(CentOS/RHEL 7.x is new enough that this isn't a big issue yet, but it normally does become a pain point the older the RHEL/CentOS major release gets - there are a lot of drivers that does not get backported to the RHEL/CentOS minor releases)
Unicode turns trivial string comparison problems into pretty much AI-complete ones. Same visual characters, different meaning. Different characters, but same visual meaning for the person who initiated the query. Up/down-case not well defined, and even if it is, it's not always reversible (i.e. tolower(toupper(tolower(string))) is not equal to tolower(string)). There's lots of that.

The longer I live, the bigger fan of simplification and standardization I become. Like with dates and times. Timezones and DST are a fucking nightmare, because politics. And then doubly so, because people enjoy themselves with their favourite regional writing formats. At this point I'm all for enforcing ISO 8601 on every communication involving dates and times.

Some people object that this is turning humans into machines, etc. So be it. Nature isn't perfect, and clear communications doesn't come to us naturally. Yet it is absolutely vital in a technological society.
> You are aware that Apple is selling your search requests to Google right?

This way of stating that Google pays to be the default search engine in Safari is inaccurate at best or disingenuous at worst. Phrasing it as you did makes it sound like Apple is hiding the fact that you're using Google and surreptitiously passing on your search information to Google.

Sure, one could argue that Apple should use a different engine by default and forgo that $3 billion. That certainly would be something. What's the trade off for them? At this point what major search engine doesn't track? (Yes, DuckDuckGo doesn't, and I use it as my default, but I also think people can reasonably disagree whether it's a major search engine, and I also recognize that the results aren't always as good as Google.) Apple does make it dirt simple to change the default, and doesn't nag you after you've changed it.
I'd play something in that space. At least to see if it is good.
Benefit of Sales/Stores are insignificant compared to proposed tax liability. All these can/will be outsourced the moment it becomes reality.

How would EU calculate profit share between US R&D and Ireland R&D ? Even if EU do tax R&D, exodus of talent will be just 2x salary increase away.
MoviePass is struggling to keep up with all its new members
Programming languages that are popular are transitioning to FOSS (even MS is doing it). Proprietary programming cannot succeed in today's crowded ecosystem. If swift was closed source but free to nobody would use it unlike 20 years ago. So swift being OSS is the only decision.
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Interesting nevertheless, appreciate your reply.

This is the first time Apple have given in to OLED displays and wireless charging (and a standardised one even) - both relatively old technologies [1] which were at their disposal during Steve's time.

From what I've seen the corporate secrecy at Apple will make such conclusive investigation next to impossible. What I often think of is NeXT and Steve's return that saved Apple in the 1990s.

[1] http://www.gsmarena.com/qualcomm_taunts_apple_list_android_f...
I fell out of love with Arch after the 3rd time I had to fix my system after an update (and this was NOT because I didn't read the release notes). I still very much like Arch's approach, but I'm a bit of a burnt child and won't use it on my main machine.
I have switched most of my phn usage to laptop. Populate the host file with any number of decent blacklists available on github. Install noscript in Firefox and use it in private mode.
With zeal docs and kiwix a lot of time I spent online has also reduced. And oh yes all news sites have been blocked as they are total waste of my time. I check the reddit most read articles about once or twice a week and that's about it.
It's not hard to keep things private if you want too.
They mentioned that it won't unlock if your eyes are closed or you are looking away. Doesn't help in a carjacking scenario, I guess.
Just for the fun of it, I tried going the complicated way in Javascript:

```

var createRange = n => Array.from(Array(n), (_, i) => i + 1);

var rem = (i, n, message) => (i % n ? '' : message);

var accumulator = (a, b) => a + b;

var insideReducer = (p, n) => accumulator(p,rem.apply(null,n));

var outsideReducer = (p, n, i) => n ? p + n: p + (i + 1);

var messageFilter = (n, filterArray) => createRange(n)

.map(i => filterArray.map((el)=>[i,...el])

.reduce(insideReducer,"")

)

.reduce(outsideReducer,"")

var fizzbuzz = n => messageFilter(n, [[3, 'fizz'],[5, 'buzz']])

```
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Because some of us have been spoiled with development environments like Smalltalk, Common Lisp IDEs, Delphi, ... with Visual Studio being one of the best.

I remember following KDevelop progress hoping that one day it could eventually match what I already had available in Borland and MS tools.
There is no shopping around because nobody will give you a price.
Conspiracy theorists on the way.

Hint: Snoden is in Russia.
How so? Virtually every linux distribution has package mangers - which mostly also have nice graphical user interfaces.
I would argue this is a much nicer user experience than having to search on the web for the installer, dealing with incomplete uninstalls, each application doing their own thing in regards to updates, etc.
I'm also curious about the Captcha. It's a great idea, but what's to say that bots won't be able to run it as well?
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I'm sure it is, just as the one of my new Android is, but it wasn't about the speed or quality of the feature. I just didn't like it.
Try goms (https://github.com/artpar/goms)

These type of softwares are now increasingly known as BAAS - Backend as a service. You can also find other similar products on the github readme.

This is still in development, and I am using this as backend for two of my other projects. The goals are similar to what you have written, plus more.
It's hard to build airplanes out of Bitcoin. That aluminium must be produced somewhere.
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Git Bash works great for SSH too. Putty sucks, imo. Especially, the bullshit associated with the certificates. Git Bash uses Linux style rsa keys.
I've met some two-faced people before.
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100% supportive of speculative tech development.

But the point of tech is to create value, ultimately.

'Decentralization' doesn't necessarily offer anyone a whole lot of value.

Ironically, it may have value in low-tech places with totally ridiculous currencies. But even in those areas, using USD or Euros, or even RMB would be a better option.