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Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by mcovey »

_sabe_ wrote: post #33
jarcoal wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think many people used Opera because of it's rendering engine; they used it because of the GUI and high-level features. Moving to webkit just let them focus on what actually made them unique to their customers.

I used to use Opera because of it's privacy features. Being able to have different configuration of javascript, cookies, referals, content blocking and so on. Now with Opera 16 all these features are gone. How do you increase you're competitive abilities by removing everything that made you unique when you're already the underdog? :S

Per-site preferences will be returning to Opera in a future version, so don't lose hope.

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by sigkill »

da_n wrote: post #98
sigkill wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A question re: BTSync/RPi - I've got around 40-50 gigs synced up between my x86-64 computers (might be on the order of fifty thousand plus files) and the maximum memory it occupies is around 60-70 megs. It idles at 42MB. Since you already have the set up that I am looking into, I think you're the right person to ask, can the RPi handle that much? If not, what are the signs of it slowing down? If it helps, my hypothet…

Looking at it, I have about 10k files and it is only using about 12% memory, perhaps not as bad as I thought. 50k should be absolutely fine I would think. Here is the output of top showing btsync at idle: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2993 btsync 19 -1 122m 60m 2988 S 11.9 12.4 610:05.84 btsync I have noticed that the CPU takes a beating during any sync operations, tends to grab 100%. I limit…

Sweet. I guess I'll be ordering one after all. And thanks for the cpulimit code as well. I had no idea you could do such a thing at all.

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by subsection1h »

johnnymonster wrote: post #95

Is FastMail a joke? I get more storage for free at dropbox and sugarsync. What exactly is this service bringing to the table? It feels like a 1998 business model to me...

I don't require GBs of mail storage because my mail is automatically deleted before its 180 days old. Mail that's older than 180 days can be accessed by USG employees without a warrant.

FastMail provides me with mail accounts for $10/year[2] that provide enough storage for 180 days and include required features like custom domain names, domain aliases, email aliases, etc.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/when-will-our-email-be...

[2] https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/family.html

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by sp332 »

gsnedders wrote: post #93
tripzilch wrote: post #87

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I heard that they ditched the fit-to-width feature (ctrl-F11), do you know if this is true? It's one of those features other browsers simply do not have (Opera has a couple more but this one's pretty unique) that I really do use several times a day, and I'm not "upgrading" until I know they won't take that away. Not that it matters too much, features or not, I'm thinking to switch to Firefox because these are times n…

Fit-to-width did all kinds of magic at a layout engine level — it's not that simple to just reimplement on top of a new engine. And then there's the question as to whether Google would let an implementation would ever get upstreamed to Blink.

Why would Google not want such a cool feature?

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by majelix »

tripzilch wrote: post #92
majelix wrote: post #89

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> Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit Why do you think this is? Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world covert agency?

At the scale the US is doing it? Absolutely. Tell me what "other major world covert agency" has these: - Gigantic data centres like the one in Utah - Practically all Internet data flowing through their territories - The large majority of all cloud storage user's data, and largest social network, in the world , with the added unchecked ability for this major covert agency to request query all this data - Strong influe…

> At the scale the US is doing it? Absolutely.

This sounds more like ability rather than choice. It seems odd to demonize the U.S. because practically all Internet data flows through their territories.

> So just stop, stop making excuses for the US or the NSA

I'm not making excuses, and of course it's a Bad Thing. But don't pretend that avoiding one actor is really a solution, any more than rebooting your computer is going to solve deeper issues.

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by majelix »

frenger wrote: post #53
chrischen wrote: post #40

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It's not an "oh well" attitude. In fact, I'm advocating that if you actually want your data private and secure, you shouldn't be hosting on someone else's computer at all! You shouldn't be practicing security through good-will (good will assurances by a party that they aren't snooping). I send most of emails through gmail because I don't care if the NSA reads them. For my cross-border drug deals, I use carrier pigeon…

Do carrier-pigeons count as a third-party? > It's not an "oh well" attitude. > I don't care if the NSA reads them.. Indeed. However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking that I needed to worry about what I said - I always found that very liberating, looking back. Even postcards I assumed wouldn't be read by anyone, and certainly not photographed and archived permanently against my…

> However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking that I needed to worry about what I said

This is true for the United States Postal Service as well. I've always thought it'd be interesting to look at what historically brought about the strong privacy expectations to postal mail when it's technically so easy to intercept.

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by antihero »

josteink wrote: post #65
antihero wrote: post #61

I'm looking forward to better mobile support. Currently I can't sync contacts at all because the only Android LDAP contacts app seems not to be purchasable.

I went with contact-management (and calendar-management) via owncloud. There's two apps in the Play store, one for CardDAV[1] and one for CalDAV[2]. That setup works for me. [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.cardd... [2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.calda...

I just wish OwnCloud wasn't a slow PHP script. Can FastMail sync with any cardDAV server? Because I might just write on of those or something.

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by phowat »

beagle3 wrote: post #21

If anyone at Opera is reading this: Please open source Carakan and Presto - don't let them rot, and us hackers have what to learn with them (and potentially do with them). GPL is fine, and may let you still monetize it. (And ... it's not like it's giving you any advantage - you've switched away from both)

Also Please, Release Opera 16 for Linux already. As a long time Opera user I feel completely abandoned.

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by Aldo_MX »

benologist wrote: post #17
jarcoal wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think many people used Opera because of it's rendering engine; they used it because of the GUI and high-level features. Moving to webkit just let them focus on what actually made them unique to their customers.

I agree the rendering engine isn't important, but when they threw out Presto they also threw out most of the features and innovations they created and turned Opera into a sort of half-assed Chrome.

Porting features usually mean to redesign them to match the new codebase/paradigm. It's not as simple as copy/pasting code...

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #109
benologist wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree the rendering engine isn't important, but when they threw out Presto they also threw out most of the features and innovations they created and turned Opera into a sort of half-assed Chrome.

Porting features usually mean to redesign them to match the new codebase/paradigm. It's not as simple as copy/pasting code...

Nobody said it was simple. The problem is that they shouldn't have tossed out the old code if they weren't going to be able to replace it.
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