Submission + - OpenWRT One
dumfrac writes: The OpenWRT One router has been released according to the Software Freedom Conservancy. The intent to build the device was announced on the OpenWRT forums earlier this year. It is based on MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) SoC and MediaTek MT7976C dual-band WiFi 6 chipset and the board is made by Banana Pi. A poll to select the logo was run in April on the OpenWRT forums, and now the hardware is available for purchase. Oddly, the device is only available from a few retailers like AliExpress. Also, support is only available in the snapshot version of OpenWRT.
Comment Pixel (Score 1) 97
I doubt that the new Pixel phones will be used by billions of people daily. Who knows, though.
Comment Re:um (Score 1) 111
OMG! Don't forget about the ponies!
Comment Re: Nexus 7 (Score 2) 85
And the Galaxy Nexus.
Comment Re: Buy a better device? (Score 1) 74
At least on T-Mobile, only carrier ROMs have Wi-Fi calling.
I have T-Mobile and my Nexus 5X has wifi calling.
Submission + - Draconian Aussie Science Censorship Law Begins Next Month (theconversation.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Conversation reports from next month Australian scientist and engineers face 10 years imprisonment for communicating without a government permit on biotech, robotics or manufacturing. Geoffrey Roberston QC says the laws are "sloppily drafted" and threatens research with "no sensible connection to military technology". But the government is barreling ahead, despite warnings from Defence Report it will kill Australia's High-tech economy. The law is opposed by Civil Liberties Australia where scientists are petitioning against it.
Submission + - Crypoto gurus Diffie, Hellman win 2015 Turing Award ("Nobel Prize of Computing")
alphadogg writes: Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, whose names have been linked since their seminal paper introduced the concepts of public key encryption and digital signatures some 40 years ago, have been named winners of the $1M A.M. Turing Award for 2015 (a.k.a., the "Nobel Prize of Computing"). The work of Diffie, formerly chief security officer of Sun Microsystems, and Hellman, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University, has had a huge impact on the secure exchange of information across the Internet, the cloud and email.
Comment Re:It is already too late (Score 1) 127
Comment Re:Yes I'm old.. (Score 1) 267
My static IP is served from a DHCP server (which seems like a sensible way to go to me), and as somebody pointed out later in this thread, there are ways to customize your resolv.conf file with NetworkManager hooks. The lazy approach (aka, just use the tools) mostly just works for me these days.
Comment Re:Yes I'm old.. (Score 1) 267
I haven't been able to convince my multiple monitors not to work with GNOME 3. I guess they are lazy too :-)
Comment Re:Yes I'm old.. (Score 4, Informative) 267
I applied the same lazy philosophy with NetworkManager. I simply just started using it. Actually, it improved my life on my laptop.
Comment Re:Yes I'm old.. (Score 5, Interesting) 267
I'm too lazy to change, so when Debian Wheezy shipped with GNOME 3 as default, I just used it. Now I am very comfortable with GNOME 3, and my productivity hasn't suffered. Hooray for laziness! (Oh, and I'm old too.)
Comment Elite? (Score 1) 277
100+ comments, and no mention of Elite?
Comment Re:File manager without file, edit, view.. (Score 0) 442
I have been using Gnome 3 on Fedora for about a couple years now, and I honestly can't understand why people don't like it.
I completely agree. It took a while to get used to it, but once over that stage, I found that it didn't get in the way of what I was doing at all. The interface is simple and clean.
