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I love this feature in Gnome and use it all the time, I actually miss this feature when I use macOS, would love to be able to hold command and drag a window without needing to select title bar. It sounds like System 76 are really working on a super productive desktop, I look forward to trying it some day.

Looks interesting, but there doesn’t seem to be any licence on this project, and it is not clear if the source is available via the repo linked from website. Anyone know if this is FOSS?

The amount of entitlement ringing through the comments on the issue is crazy. It really makes me frustrated to see as it just adds fire to putting companies off the idea of developing open source software.

Why do you hate snaps?

This is great to see, well done ProtonMail. I asked Fastmail if they would open source their email app on Android but was told no.

the probability of the app to be opensourced is very unlikely

No mention of Linux I see, guess market too small to care. Seems to align with the recent decision to weaken the supported filesystem sync options on Linux as well. No real loss, as there are excellent open source alternatives luckily.

I am pro net neutrality, and would like to see a completely decentralised internet. It is not nitpicking to question the integrity and veracity of the messenger.

To be clear I am not saying they’re wrong. It’s like being told to recycle everything in a magazine that is full of adverts funded by the toxic waste industry. Yes, I agree with recycling (and do so myself) but it’s hard to trust the source. I guess this is more of an idea than an organisation though, so I hope they will do some good and wish them luck.

I just loaded this article on my mobile device. An ad on the website triggered with auto playing audio that stopped background media playback of my device. I class these type of ads as a type of vermin, and generally avoid any website that contains them. Why should I trust an organisation that chooses to run user hostile ads on their site line this to make a better internet?

Yes, that is sort of the point of the EU. Whatever I wanted though, the vote has already happened, and the leavers won. We'll all be seeing what happens to the UK as a result.

The EU is far from perfect, but the UK government has proven time and time again it requires oversight. The UK governments stance on e.g. encryption is nothing short of an international embarrassment. I am woeful for the future of this tiny island (I am a UK citizen).

There was (or is) one called Mycroft which had promised big things but didn't deliver a compelling recognition and synthesis, although the recognition seems better than synthesis from what I have seen. They did open source much of the work at least initially. There is a video showing an example of how bad the UX was for a simple question asking about beans https://youtu.be/D5J7vVQNkCw.

Almost ironic really, since git was created for development of the [Linux Kernel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git).

Tl/dr Hacker News, Podcasts, RSS, YouTube and Reddit.

Perhaps because I've been on internet since early days I still use RSS (self-hosted Stringer + Unread app). I keep RSS feeds as selective and few as possible. I have a couple of dozen podcasts I listen to, some of which deliver daily episodes. I subscribe to a fair number of YouTube channels which is (mostly) good for conference talks and tutorials. Reddit I am getting close to ditching.

For me, browser integration is an anti-feature for password managers.

I'm hoping this puts a dampener or even better kills the May-driven Conservative manifesto pledge to "create a new internet".

I am a British citizen. There will not be any significant public opposition to this, a few articles in The Guardian and a small mention on the news between Trump stories. I have only experienced apathy when I discuss mass surveillance with people in this country. "I have nothing to hide, why should I care?". There is a fundamental disconnect between real world privacy and online privacy to most people in this country. At this point it is too late anyway, May has gone full frontal assault on the internet and privacy advocates and security experts don't have a hope. I just want her to go full-on now and implement maximum surveillance, maximum snooping and maximum data retention and profiling. All of this can only blow up embarrassingly in her face. It is just a question of time. Sadly I have come to the conclusion this is the only way that such powers will ever be opposed by the public.

I've built up quite a digital collection on iTunes, all purchased more than 4 years ago when I realised my investment in content was completely locked to the iTunes platform, with no legal means to transfer the purchased content to other platforms. For some movies I paid the same price as a Blu-ray disk, for lower quality and vendor lock-in. I refuse to invest any further money into content that I am only legally allowed to access on one vendors platform, so I purchase Blu-ray versions and keep a digital backup available that can be played on vendor strategy tax unencumbered software such as Emby and Kodi. Itunes, Google Play, Amazon Movies, non of these are viable options.

I use MySQL Workbench if I need a GUI, works well and is actually more powerful than Sequel Pro, however the UI is nowhere near as pretty. Still, it is an adequate replacement recommend checking it out.

Apparently Infinality has been abandoned, and can cause problems, so might want to be careful installing it. I recently had an issue where I could not log into Gnome, I took it as an opportunity to reinstall Arch as I wanted to do a fresh install anyway, but have since found out (from the podcast Linux Action Show) that the issue was very likely due to Infinality. Just a heads up.

Much like the hideous legislation passed in the UK, at this point I just think bring it. The more governments overtly undertake efforts to wrestle control of the internet, sanitise and snoop every aspect of it, and slowly destroy it, the greater an incentive to "fork the internet" becomes.

It will allow the Federal Intelligence Service and other agencies to put suspects under electronic surveillance if authorised by a court, the defence ministry and the cabinet.

I think the fact it has to be authorised by three bodies is interesting, thought it is still unclear if this would just be a rubber stamp process and/or if these bodies could just approve a dragnet approach if they saw fit. Other countries like the UK want to legally enact dragnet surveillance of all citizens without the need for authorisation, I guess the Swiss needed an olive branch to let them belive there will be oversight of this power.

I have respect for BSD and am very thankful that there is more than just Linux (my preferred OS). One thing that I've noticed is that, warranted or not, a lot of BSD users seem to suffer from an inferiority complex. On some BSD podcasts I listen to for example, hosts and guests often drop little jabs at Linux etc, it seems very immature and unnecessary. This naming choice puts me off more than anything, might as well have called it SuperiorOS or BestOS, but I wish it luck.

Says a lot about the security architecture of these boxes.

I had to demonstrate how to inverse the value of an immutable object hashed data stream whilst ensuring that the dilithium matrix array was phase decoupled.

Seriously just be yourself, don't over think it. If you don't know something, don't be afraid to so, but you're keen to learn if it is something useful. You can't know everything, no one can, just be confident in the things you do know. Nothing worse than a faker, you'll be caught out anyway, you're going to be judged on your strengths not your weaknesses, unless the employer is crappy, and you wouldn't want to work for them anyway.

Good luck.

My personal laptop is a Thinkpad, when comparing it to a MacBook Pro it's a joke. Build quality is mediocre, the screen is garbage, trackpad is only OK etc. The keyboard is miles better though. I still prefer to own it over a MacBook as I run Arch on my personal machines, but from personal experience Apple hardware has always been of superior build quality than PC alternatives.

I'm not an Apple hater, I use a MacBook Pro at work (funnily enough, either SSH remote linux server or running Linux VM through vagrant), for my personal machines I run 100% Linux. It is solid hardware, but I think the OS is becoming a hindrance to me as a developer. It seems like every iteration closes yet another door on the underlying UNIX base, making it harder and harder to get things working, Homebrew helps but seems like it needs more and more workarounds and often breaks with esoteric conflicts. Nowadays I just use OS X as a VM shell, so I might as well be using Windows. I don't use any Apple "apps", I never touch their cloud because of all the horror stories I've heard, and I fear in a couple of releases the OS is just going to be completely locked down so I'll have to move to Windows at work to get work done. The hardware is definitely the best in class, but the software is becoming unusable to me as a developer. I hope it means more linux usage but I'm not delusional and know that desktop linux is basically just a niche and probably always will be (which saddens me greatly). I think it's a shame Apple has taken this direction.

This looks really solid, I've been looking around for a lightweight alternative to Foundation. Is there a SASS version (so can pick and choose components etc)? Also, in the docs the tabs are working well but on the test page there is a bit of an issue where the image isn't aligning to the left side. Hard to describe so have uploaded a gif of it in action.

http://i.imgur.com/qmpOsnd.gifv

Indeed as kijin states, the drive itself is full disk encrypted using LUKS, and SSH takes care of encrypting everything during transport.

I did not require de-dupe but did only want to transmit only the diffs since last back up. I also wanted a something that would be of minimal resource usage on remote end (for rsnapshot was just running an rsync daemon if I recall correctly). In the case of one Ruby library I looked at, the entire system needed to be installed on each remote host to work correctly, which was unacceptable in my scenario.

Primarily, it just feels like a solid tool and seems like it can be adapted to suit a lot of use cases (I have seen a config to allow backup of AWS RDS instances for instance).

I spent a good few weeks recently researching and testing different back up systems that I could install to a Raspberry Pi with a big USB hard drive attached, to act as an extra offsite backup for some remote servers. rsnapshot was pretty much the only system I found that ticked every requirement, it has proven itself very robust in the month or so I have had it doing nightly snapshots of around 5 servers. Previously I had used a Ruby back up library which was actually really good but needed to be run from the server rather than the back up endpoint.