* Posts by j-g

5 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2010

A perfect marriage: YOU and Ubuntu 16.04

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Re: Apparently snaps are insecure as hell

When using X11, Snaps do not provide much *additional* security, which means they are almost (but not quite) as insecure as installing the same software through apt-get, .tgz, self-compiling, or any other means.

Snaps do not introduce more risk, they just don't magically solve all your security issues as long as you keep using X11. When not using X11, the sandboxing provided by Snaps does make them a lot more secure than traditional installation methods.

It's amazing how that analysis was misinterpreted and turned into complete and utter FUD.

Hordes spaff cash on Chip titchyputer to rival Pi (maybe)

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Re: Looks good, but...

If it's for IoT style things, the domino.io board looks better: http://domino.io/ and https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706167548/dominoio-an-open-hardware-wifi-platform-for-things/

Lower power consumption, more gpio, really open source afaik, likely to ship in the next few weeks rather than in a year, ...

Virtual reality WHIPLASH CHAIR in shutdown scare

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Re: This is MWC. It has become a CeBIT replica

They did some demos finally (with the girl in the photo, no regular visitors), and it looked quite fun. I'm definitely looking forward to trying it.

While true that it's not very "mobile" (apart from using your phone as a controller), they have the excuse that they are a Catalan startup and as such were present in the section sponsored by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Google chief: Nexus One was 'so successful, we killed it'

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he might be right

Although they didn't sell a lot of them, I think the Nexus One had a role in putting pressure on other manufacturers of Android phones.

Without it, there would have been no reference of how good a clean, non provider-modified, and easily updateable phone can be. It's the phone that shows everyone when a new Android version is out and that they should be getting it on their phone, too.

While most manufacturers are still pretty bad about updating their phones, at least the high end ones can't afford to not be updated, and that's largely due to the existence of the Nexus One.

Scotland Yard mulls Google Wi-Fi slurp

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no offence

There is (according to Google) (a) no intent, and (b) no disclosure.

The "no disclosure" part is clear, and the "no intent" seems far more plausible to me than the alternative, i.e. that they actually wanted to illegally obtain random snippets of possibly personal data that they could not use in any meaningful way.

So far nobody has been able to produce even one possible benefit Google could have from collecting that data, and it is absolutely clear to anybody that collecting it intentionally is illegal in many places. Why would Google possibly want to do so?