Comment Re:Telegram and signal should merge (Score 1) 32
Telegram & Signal are both centralized. Matrix is decentralized and has all the good sides of both while being open also on server side. Check Matrix out.
Comment Matrix exists (Score 2) 46
Poor choice from EU - Using Signal does not make any sense as Matrix does everything better and is truly open. French government already adopted Matrix as their default messenger.
Comment It's really Matrix (Score 1) 36
It's almost never mentioned in the news, but France's IM is really Matrix with custom client. The security flaw was in the custom registration portal which allowed registering from non-government e-mails, not related to Matrix itself.
No clue what India's plan is.
Comment Old news (Score 2) 82
Thanks for posting about Gemini, but this is really old news. It was shipped to first backers to year ago and I received mine something like 8 months ago.
It's the best phone currently available for my use. Camera is terrible and there are some HW quality issues but nothing beats a proper keyboard. I've backed Cosmo Communicator which should fix the issues.
I consider it more like successor for Nokia Communicators and N900 as it's a phone. All modern phones have PDA functionality.
Comment Re:I think Telegram will be the better of 2 evils. (Score 1) 93
Check out Matrix, it does the same as Telegram but is FOSS and distributed also on server side. Telegram is closed and owned by a Russian company. Matrix also supports bridging TG channels to Matrix side quite easily so existing communities can be merged. Telegram is not as evil as WhatsApp or others, but Matrix goes all the way. I closed my telegram clients a couple months ago and haven't looked back since.
Comment Re:Non profit (Score 3, Informative) 93
Check out Matrix. It's growing fast and also has excellent support on bridging existing IM's into it. It's already a better IRC client than any IRC client.
Comment Skrolli (Score 1) 285
Skrolli, a Finnish tech magazine made by hobbyists for hobbyists. The mainstream tech magazines either died or started reviewing stuff like TV's and electric shavers so hobbyist scene had to start a new magazine. It has been received really well after 5 issues in over one year. Many were skeptical that a new print magazine would make any sense but they have been proven wrong.
Comment Re:Interesting idea (Score 1) 141
I share the hate to web forum UI's by many posters. That's why i wrote Siilihai web forum reader. IMO a good forum software should separate the data from UI properly and give a good API to access the underlying data. I really hope Discourse will add a API or use one of the existing ones, TapaTalk being the most popular.
Submission + - Good, relevant usability book?
osman84 writes: "I've been developing web/mobile apps for some time, and have managed to build up some decent experience about usability. However, as I'm growing a team of developers now, I've noticed that most of the young ones have a very poor sense of usability. Unfortunately, since I was never really taught usability as science, I'm having trouble teaching them to develop usable apps.
Are there any good books that make a good read for general usability guidelines for web/mobile apps? I have a couple from my college days, but I'd like something more recent, written in the era of mobile apps, etc.
Thanks!"
Are there any good books that make a good read for general usability guidelines for web/mobile apps? I have a couple from my college days, but I'd like something more recent, written in the era of mobile apps, etc.
Thanks!"
Submission + - Welcome Back Kernel.org (kernel.org)
Hummdis writes: "After more than a month of being offline due to a security breach at Kernel.org, they're back!
While they were down, they took the time to "rearchitect" the site for developers and users.
"As noted previously, kernel.org suffered a security breach. Because of this, we have taken the time to rearchitect the site in order to improve our systems for developers and users of kernel.org. To this end, we would like all developers who previously had access to kernel.org who wish to continue to use it to host their git and static content, to follow the instructions here.
Right now, www.kernel.org and git.kernel.org have been brought back online. All developer git trees have been removed from git.kernel.org and will be added back as the relevant developers regain access to the system.
Thanks to all for your patience and understanding during our outage and please bear with us as we bring up the different kernel.org systems over the next few weeks. We will be writing up a report on the incident in the future.""
While they were down, they took the time to "rearchitect" the site for developers and users.
"As noted previously, kernel.org suffered a security breach. Because of this, we have taken the time to rearchitect the site in order to improve our systems for developers and users of kernel.org. To this end, we would like all developers who previously had access to kernel.org who wish to continue to use it to host their git and static content, to follow the instructions here.
Right now, www.kernel.org and git.kernel.org have been brought back online. All developer git trees have been removed from git.kernel.org and will be added back as the relevant developers regain access to the system.
Thanks to all for your patience and understanding during our outage and please bear with us as we bring up the different kernel.org systems over the next few weeks. We will be writing up a report on the incident in the future.""
Submission + - Lots of Java Roadmap News Coming out of JavaOne (adtmag.com)
msmoriarty writes: According to this article, here's what Oracle has announced at this year's JavaOne so far: "the availability of an early access version of JDK 7 for the Mac OS, plans to 'bridge the gap' between Java ME and Java SE, an approach to modularizing Java SE 8 that will rely on the Jigsaw platform, a new project that aims to use HTML5 to bring Java to Apple's iOS platform, the availability of JavaFX 2.0, a pending proposal to open source that technology, gearing up Java EE for the cloud, and a delay in the release of Java 8."
Submission + - Autism Propels Software Testers Over Socialites (smartertechnology.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Autism is not a mental illness, but a condition that favors solitary detail-oriented work styles over the socialite mania sweeping the Internet user base. Now companies in the U.S., Japan and Europe are hiring autistic programmers to do tedious software testing and debugging. There indeed is a place, for every-thing (and -one) under the sun :)
Submission + - Facebook Confirms New Cookie Tracking Issue
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook is once again setting its datr cookie via the Like button and other social plugins on third-party websites. The datr cookie can be used for tracking users" whether you are logged in or logged out of the service. Facebook has confirmed this is indeed a bug, but says that it is limited in scope and that it will be fixed today. Talk about damage control.
Submission + - Europeans needed to create broadband performance m (telegraph.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: The European Commission has launched a project to recruit 10,000 volunteers across Europe to measure the performance of their broadband connection over two years. The trial, believed to be the world's biggest follows similar projects in the US and the UK, run by the EC's partner SamKnows. The data collected will be used to plan the next generation of services. Those interested in signing up to take part can do so at www.samknows.eu
Comment ARToolkit (Score 1) 92
I think ARToolkit could be used for input.
It uses a webcam to calculate position of
a physical marker. It could be used for
some cool method of controlling a game..
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/
It uses a webcam to calculate position of
a physical marker. It could be used for
some cool method of controlling a game..
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/
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