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Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Re: Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Post by justinlardinois »

zeveb wrote: post #46
tim333 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you can't trust anyone 100% but as organizations go I don't have much problem with Google having access. There was a recent report of 1 in 10 people in England and Wales being victims of cybercrime last year including 2.5m incidents of bank and credit card fraud. That's what I'd worry about which Google are probably better at blocking than most.

> Well, you can't trust anyone 100% but as organizations go I don't have much problem with Google having access. Which means you trust every Google executive, manager, employee & contractor, as well as every agency of every government Google is beholden too. I trust myself, and myself alone.

Do you have any tin foil left so the rest of us can make hats too?

Re: Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Post by romanovcode »

ld00d wrote: post #50
romanovcode wrote: post #48

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Pokemon Go is an app.* Visual Studio is an actual program. * Technically "app" is also a program. But I think people got what I meant.

Pokemon Go is a game. The point is, I don't see any reason why you can't make productivity programs for iPad or an Android tablet. There are plenty out there. However, I wouldn't use an IDE on there because I prefer a laptop with a bigger screen and a good keyboard for dev work.

AFAIK it's just hard to do. Imagine porting 3dsMax or Photoshop to run as a mobile/chrome app. I think it would just require too much work.

Trust me, I would love for it to be the case, but I honestly don't see it being that way in the next 5 years minimum.

Re: Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Post by Dylan16807 »

zeveb wrote: post #46
tim333 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you can't trust anyone 100% but as organizations go I don't have much problem with Google having access. There was a recent report of 1 in 10 people in England and Wales being victims of cybercrime last year including 2.5m incidents of bank and credit card fraud. That's what I'd worry about which Google are probably better at blocking than most.

> Well, you can't trust anyone 100% but as organizations go I don't have much problem with Google having access. Which means you trust every Google executive, manager, employee & contractor, as well as every agency of every government Google is beholden too. I trust myself, and myself alone.

Because everyone that walks by the google campus is given unaudited access codes to all the servers?

Re: Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Post by thesmok »

glial wrote: post #22
ralfd wrote: post #21

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Similar story here, but with iPad (good accessibility for old people eye sight). Only Apple iCloud is still baffling (my cloud storage is full? I think I forgot my password?), but many things like TouchID make it easy to use and the simplicity of the system is unkaputtbar/secure compared to a "real" computer.

iCloud storage is baffling to me too, and I work in tech!

I just don't use it for iCloud backups. Plug my iDevices to iTunes for local backup once a month and it's all peace.

Re: Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Post by zeveb »

justinlardinois wrote: post #51
zeveb wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Well, you can't trust anyone 100% but as organizations go I don't have much problem with Google having access. Which means you trust every Google executive, manager, employee & contractor, as well as every agency of every government Google is beholden too. I trust myself, and myself alone.

Do you have any tin foil left so the rest of us can make hats too?

> Do you have any tin foil left so the rest of us can make hats too?

That's not an argument; it's an insult.

Do you have any actual rebuttal to my statement that trusting Google means trusting 'every Google executive, manager, employee & contractor, as well as every agency of every government Google is beholden to,' or a rebuttal to my implication that this is unwise?

Re: Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Post by WayneBro »

marcosdumay wrote: post #34
nommm-nommm wrote: post #19

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I'm not sure there's a single task that I've found more convenient to do on a phone than a desktop.

Taking photos :) But seriously, the small screen and accelerometers viabilize different kinds of interactions. Some games manage to be fun on mobile, while they would obviously be very dull on desktops. I would not be surprised if there were serious applications exploiting those features too. And there is the "taking photos" category, where I was only half joking. There's a set of tasks that the desktop can't even ha…

My 8 inch Windows tablet which is not much larger than many phablets and runs a full desktop OS works better and gives me way more control.

Tell me, what category of tasks could it not handle?

Re: Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Post by justinlardinois »

zeveb wrote: post #56
justinlardinois wrote: post #51

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Do you have any tin foil left so the rest of us can make hats too?

> Do you have any tin foil left so the rest of us can make hats too? That's not an argument; it's an insult. Do you have any actual rebuttal to my statement that trusting Google means trusting 'every Google executive, manager, employee & contractor, as well as every agency of every government Google is beholden to,' or a rebuttal to my implication that this is unwise?

Yes: Google has internal controls on information access, and government access is subject to legal processes, and governments don't automatically share all information between agencies. Your argument is hyperbole.

Re: Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Post by anonbanker »

zeveb wrote: post #35
anonbanker wrote: post #33

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Install GalliumOS[0] on a Chromebook. Security nightmare averted. 0. https://galliumos.org/

That looks pretty cool, but why GalliumOS instead of just plain Debian?

keyboard/touchpad support, mainly. the drivers for most of the chromebooks haven't landed in mainline kernel yet.

(I maintain patches for Gentoo/Calculate)

Re: Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

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Post by konklone »

raarts wrote: post #3
executesorder66 wrote: post #2

Wow, these are really good stats. I wish my government had something like this. Was this created by the United States Digital Service[0]? I've heard great things about them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service

Close. It's 18F Digital Services Delivery. The website says the code is on github [1] [1] https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov

It's both. 18F hosts the code and led the development, but there were major contributions from USDS (such as the visual design). And the program itself is owned and directed by the Digital Analytics Program, another team in the GSA. It was a team effort.
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