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Comment Re:Okay, this is a great idea (Score 1) 647

You should have seen the Talk page. The page was closed as it was deemed "clearly promotional". Here is the text of the page that I managed to get up in about 10-15 commits before it was deleted:

Devuan is a fork of the Debian Linux distribution created as a response to the inclusion of systemd in Debian[1], and thus will include SysV Init as the default[2][3]. Thus Devuan will join Slackware and Gentoo as a mainstream Linux distro without Systemd[4]. More gerneally, Devuan ensures that "Debian packages won't become dependent on any single init system"[5]. Devuan is intended to "protect the freedom of its community of users and developers"[6]. Devuan is prononuced as "DevOne"[7]. The initial Devuan release is expected to be ready by the time that the next Debian release is ready, in order to provide a seamless upgrade path [8].

Comment Re:Okay, this is a great idea (Score 2) 647

But that website is atrocious suck. Top AND bottom panes which don't move and serve no purpose other than to obscure the window? What the hell is this shit?

In an attemt to make a real source for info about Devuan aside from that horrendous page, I've created a wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Please help me fill it out with information and sources. Thanks!

Comment Re:High Resolution Stills via video (Score 1) 116

If you pick up something with reasonable video resolution that can do I-Frame only then you can use multiple images to do a super-resolution still. The premise is easy... Multiple images will not cover the exact same pixel positions (unless the drone is affixed to a stationary point). You can use this fact to merge multiple images into a single one with much higher resolution than any of the single images. The more images that you can overlay, the higher the resolution you can squeeze out.

The trick is to have good alignment and warping algorithms to do the overlays. I've done this for an employer in my previous life with impressive results.

I belive that there is software used for astronomy photography available which performs this function, but I've not found anything satisfactory. Is there any software that you could recommend, seeing as you seem to have written some yourself? Thanks!

Comment Re:Ads (Score 3, Insightful) 319

Haven't seen ads since I installed adblock plus and no script. Cost me nothing.

Exactly. Now I can get off Adblock and start contributing to the websites I visit.

I would happily pay $1-3 per month for an ad-free but publishers-making-money web. I think that they found the sweet spot of enough money to fund the program vs. too expensive for most web users. I signed up before even reading the comments here, I've been waiting for this for years.

Comment Re:Moving "east"? (Score 1) 69

Where is "east" on the comet?

The comet's axis which appears to spin in a counterclockwise direction from above is its north pole. From a location in which the pole is perpendicular to the angle of view, east is the direction against the comet's rotation, i.e. the direction which appears to be rotating towards you.

Admittedly, this is somewhat difficult to imagine for a non-spherical object, but it works out.

Comment Re:Anti-Spam Measure? (Score 1) 245

MTA to MTA is still on port 25, yes, but mail submission via a MUA is no longer recommended on port 25, and many ISPs specifically block 25 as an anti-spam measure.

MUA submission is done on:
1) Port 587 plaintext, or
2) Port 587 encrypted by specifying STARTTLS, or
3) Port 465 encrypted

I've not heard that 465 is depreciated until now, and in fact I actively avoid STARTTLS so I use it.

Comment Re:Anti-Spam Measure? (Score 1) 245

I am aware of port 25 being depreciated, but not 465. Is there an RFC that I should be reading? I still submit mail specifically on port 465 so that I can avoid STARTTLS and require encryption. Of course, seeing how I manage the MTA I have that luxury.

If port 465 is no longer recommended I would like to know when and why that happened. Thanks.

Comment Re:Always RTFA (Score 1) 245

If you're relying on the MTA to keep your email communications secure, you're doing it wrong. If data is important enough to encrypt, encrypt it at the sender side first.

In this case, sending email over TLS is akin to browsing the web over TLS: You let the browser / MTA handle the encryption at a lower OSI layer than the application layer. Thus, it works transparently and without hassle to the end user. Would you suggest using GPG to manually encrypt and decrypt all your communication with any HTTPS website?

Note that the STARTTLS command is a fix for using port 587 to send encrypting mail instead of the port which is dedicated to it: port 465. It is like sending HTTPS down port 80 with a special flag. Properly configured MTAs should be using port 465 for email over TLS instead of port 587 with a "special flag".

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