I’m a big fan of MWL’s tech books. (Can’t speak to his fiction as my brand of ADHD doesn’t really let me consume much fiction).
But I think he has struck a chord with the tech community on this one. Those of us that do sysadmin things, personally or professionally, are getting increasingly frustrated with getting pushed around by big tech. It’s nice to have a bit of a guide on how to grab back some of the infrastructure.
I figured no one made money off the in-app purchase because so few vendors even give the option anymore.
I make a living off software development myself, and I love the "pay to remove ads" model. I play a game a while with ads to decide if I like it, then I pay a couple of bucks. It's like a demo to me. And ads drive me nuts.
I'm really interested in hearing more of what people have to say about this.
It seems I often hear/read the general thought on security is that you should use open systems (ie: Cyanogenmod w/o GApps + Debian), but the author makes a good point that without Cyanogenmod on a device that is well supported, Android is going to be missing security updates.
Yeah, I've done it, and it is harsh. Easier to do a clean Jesse install and manually set things up. Basically you would want the dotfiles from /etc/skel on a crunchbang install, and then several of the custom scripts (I think from /usr/bin) like conky-wonky, cb-printers, etc. A bunch start with cb-.
I had a feeling this was coming, based on the fact Corenominal is mostly running Jessie with Gnome in some of his recent posts, and the lack of development around the Jessie based version.
I think Corenominal is a stand-up guy in general, and great for the GNU/Linux community. I think he is also leaving the project at the right time, before he has to face the demons of init that are in Jessie, and now that vanilla debian with xfce or lxde is much closer to the user-friendly and complete desktop that #! was so great for.
All that positive stuff said, this kinda sucks. I was really looking forward to the next version. I agree with many others that it isn't pointless yet, there still isn't anything quite as polished while still being super lightweight.
yeah, the point isn't so much to make it readable, but to allow you to write JSON (as a python dev I love the interoperability with JSON) and then use the capabilities of the DataPower to do stuff with it.
I expect many people were doing this by hand since JSON has replaced XML in a lot of peoples minds, and IBM has created a way to standardize it to make it easier to work with other teams.
This sounds smart. And I'm pretty pragmatic. I don't think Google and Apple and Microsoft are really trying to ruin my privacy.
But something about this makes me uncomfortable. The fact that when this appeared on the front page of HN it was with posts from Google and Dropbox about how they support this.
Google that Assange is releasing a book about, and Dropbox that went a day where it didn't matter what password you entered and has former Secretary Rice on their board.
I have a feeling this organization might help keep things like the recent celebrity iCloud break happening, but as someone else said, real security is not easy. And false security is worse than no security.
This is pretty fascinating, but all the text piled on the right (in FF) and links to articles about Sims 2 and Far Cry make me feel like I've wandered off into the part of the building I'm not supposed to be in.
This is link bait. HP is just doing what we used to do until the 90's, making an OS tied to the hardware to optimize things. They have done this before.
Banks are still heavily run off of mainframes and IBM Power servers that aren't standard x86 running Windows or GNU/Linux.
This isn't a plan to destroy Windows, I expect most of the market that would be interested in "the machine" is currently running a mainframe or some unix variant/clone right now.
But I think he has struck a chord with the tech community on this one. Those of us that do sysadmin things, personally or professionally, are getting increasingly frustrated with getting pushed around by big tech. It’s nice to have a bit of a guide on how to grab back some of the infrastructure.