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I just set up an Ubuntu 14.04 server on Digital Ocean. One "apt-get install mail-stack-delivery", and one edited line in /etc/postfix/master.cf later (just to get 587 submission working) and I have my own mail server including STARTTLS on smtp and imap. Made me wonder, will we see sync options on Ubuntu Phone to sync mail/calendar/own-cloud with one (SSH) account? Seems to me the possibilities are endless and very ex…
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The specs on that Xiaomi are really nice value. I'd been looking at the 2nd gen Moto E or G for my parents, but the Xiaomi beats it, although at a higher cost. It just amazes me how cheap tech has become. The other day I was looking through the Microsoft Store, saw a $90 ish tablet that had various discounts at times bringing it down to an absolutely ridiculous $60-70 range. I checked out some reviews and they were g…
Wasn't personal computing ubiquitous for two decades now?
And while it was already large two decades ago, it's not ubiquitous in the sense of finding $70 star trek like tablets in remote villages in central Africa, like happens today. Ubiquitous in the sense that outside of the 10-20% upper-middle class of the US/Europe, who've indeed had personal computing for decades, we're seeing computing arrive en masse to an additional 1-2 billion people, and probably billions more not long after, now that you get full desktop software, with complete hardware including input and a screen and battery, at $70 retail, and sub $50 second hand. That's insane.
You guys remember the $20 smartphone media talk last year? Should have arrived by now. In any case, this decade is something special. Chips are using so little energy nowadays, low res screens, too. Things are sturdy, cheap. The electricity costs per year are a tiny fraction of the device's costs (which is on its way to 5 to 10c a day per device) Computing is actually going to become accessible to 4-5 billion people by the end of the decade, that's something really new. And we're seeing a lot of initiatives in terms of free, global-coverage connectivity in the form of internet, too, for low-data applications like messaging, banking, wikipedia etc. e.g. FB & Google's initiatives.
Does it run Whatsapp? No? What is this, a cellphone? Oh, cool, but we stopped using cellphones a while back, we now use portable computers the size of a cellphone which run widely adopted social apps. It's for a niche market you say? Oh, cool. Sarcasm aside: I am still waiting for an official FFOS Whatsapp version, meanwhile I am using my ZTE Open as a PC+camera+GCM dongle to run some fun hacks, kindda like a Tessel…
WhatsApp actively stops people from making apps for new platforms, so keep on waiting for that FFOS version
I hate to be that guy, but I believe I need to share this. I was amongst the "lucky" ones who managed to get one of the phones of the first batch they sold (my Serial Number is lower than 1500). After using the phone for 20 minutes, I realized that the OS is _very_ far from being usable. I was able to spot more than 10 bugs that would prevent any regular smartphone user to use Ubuntu Phone as a replacement of a rudim…
No, you really don't. Because if that was the case, instead commenting here, why won't you go to Ubuntu phone bug tracking or whatever and give your feedback there where would be actually useful? Just a though.
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It's not just that. TLS setup is additional effort.
Let me walk you through it: $ openssl genrsa -out $server.key 2048 $ openssl req -new -sha256 -key $server.key -out $server.csr Get the CSR to a CA and get the cert in your email inbox. Compose the cert into a chain (the most painful part of the process). Put the cert and the key in /etc/ssl/certs/example.com.crt and respectively /etc/ssl/private/example.com.key; In your nginx config add the following: server { liste…
All web servers just do HTTP by default.
BQ main office is just 50 meters away from my office. They are like 70-80 people, all very young ( Pretty useless comment, I know.
They also make an e-reader [1] with open source software. I'm somewhat obsessed with the idea of using it for ssh/mosh as a portable terminal. It would be very cool to hear if someone has tried this, before ordering one. I mailed some random guy at BQ and he said he never tried it, but also found it interesting. If you find it interesting too, maybe you could run down and ask around! :) [1]: http://www.bq.com/gb/prod…
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4G has much better latency than HSPA+ for me. Video streaming is much smoother and breaks up less. FaceTime is much better than on HSPA+. If I see 4G in my status bar, I know my connection is going to be at least as good as coffee shop WiFi. It contends better too, which affects everyone. I have unlimited LTE for £15/mo (Three UK) so I don't need to worry about paying for the data.
You have unlimited until they decide you're using too much.
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(I don't know but...) I like the idea of an e-ink terminal, however I fear the slow refresh rate would make editing difficult. I guess someone somewhere has tried it though... The specs of that particular one show no bluetooth (and no OTG usb), so can't connect a keyboard. It also has no wireless apart from wifi; and only 512MB (though that's plenty for ssh!)
Ah, I didn't realize the Micro-USB port wouldn't accept a keyboard. There are Android e-ink tablets with Bluetooth; I'll probably end up trying that. Also, difficult schmifficult! I bet ed, the standard editor, will work just fine. Shouldn't be much worse than, say, a 300 baud terminal!
Beats a line printer! Can relate - I'm ecstatic that (70s era) unix utilities are blazing instant on a phone. I'm sure vim would also work on an e-reader, if you don't need to find the cursor.
I should research this. Working on e-ink/e-paper would be so much better on the eyes - and incredible battery life (they claim 2 months for the Kindle).
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The protocol is published, and the client is open source, but the protocol has a whole bunch of design issues, and that's the real problem with Telegram.
But the server isn't free software, so it's untrustable, even if the protocol didn't have known design issues.