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Re:Secure Messaging, Anywhere on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:10PM (#27656340)
lol so if Apple decides not to support privacy enabling features like back ground services, we just can't have them? give me a break
Re:Cwtch: Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging pro... on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:22PM (#27644963)
Maybe talk to Apple, whom have made it increasingly hard to theoretically impossible for our type of privacy preserving app to run on iOS. We aren't the first, and Brair has been around a bit longer and has run into the same problem.

https://briarproject.org/news/2018-1.0-released-new-funding/

https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/issues/445

As an even smaller team with less funding, we have so far decided it would be irresponsible to risk sinking a sizable portion of our limited funds into trying to port to iOS when it may be impossible.

But if you really want it, please, donate, we need iphones, macs, dev accounts and budget for the research and work!

Re:Inside the Feminist Hackerspace on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @04:30PM (#10155447)
Hackspaces are supposed to be safe spaces to do work, you aren't there for flirting/socialzing/picking-a-mate. There, like work, it is inappropriate to be trying to "seduce" someone. Try a bar. To tell women that by being in public they have to accept endless random seduction attempts is a giant part of the problem.

Also gay guys usually don't just hit on everyone because at least they usually have the grace to know when it's appropriate and when it's not and also when it might be reciprocal (wanted) and when not.

Re:Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:14PM (#9702492)
and they will make money how? their expenses sure will go up.
Re:Hello World on Thursday June 04, 2015 @07:05PM (#9662779)
https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

"The highest level of abstraction is the SQL layer (currently not implemented)."

Re:Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in ... on Monday April 06, 2015 @04:14PM (#9330452)
‏@lex_looper

"The holocaust was legal, slavery was legal, segregation was legal. If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed."

Re:Machine intelligence, part 1 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @03:13PM (#9109235)
I'll add Ramez Naam's

The Singularity Is Further Than It Appears http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/the-sing...

Why AIs Won't Ascend in the Blink of an Eye - Some Math http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/why-ais-...

"Many people seem to believe that SMI would be very dangerous if it were developed, but think that it’s either never going to happen or definitely very far off. This is sloppy, dangerous thinking."

Or as the above posts demonstrate maybe it's really well thought out

Re:Gnome Wayland porting – the endgame on Monday January 19, 2015 @07:29PM (#8914870)
For reference, Mir is hoped to be ready for Ubuntu 16.04...
Re:Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:33PM (#8864658)
Hey, at least it's not Veriozon cloud which just told users to power down everything today in preparation for a scheduled 48 hour outage.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2865802/verizon-warns-e...

Re:TIOBE Index for January 2015 on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @06:38PM (#8854074)
Cobol is above Ruby?
Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @10:58AM (#8596091)
nothing? they are implementing windows, not c#
Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @10:51AM (#8596027)
"To further support cross-platform mobile development with .NET, as part of their strategic partnership, Microsoft and Xamarin..."

I would be pretty shocked if MS just suddenly dropped their won linux/mac implementation. Xamarin and the mono team have been working on this for a very long time. MS is just bringing them further into the "legit" fold

Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @10:49AM (#8596009)
No I think they are providing open source libraries of the server stack which is written in c#. Still needs mono to compile to linux/mac but now mono won't have to (re?)implement those, they can all share the same MS c# code
Re:Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft on Monday September 15, 2014 @05:53PM (#8321752)
Ran some math with friends. Minecraft is from 2009, so it's 5 years old. https://minecraft.net/stats says it's sold ~16M pc and mac copies and the front page says at $27. That's about $432M in its entire life [assuming everyone paid full price, which they didn't, there have been loads of deals over the years]. Now that doesn't take into account mobile and console. For android the $7 pocket version is reporting 5M which is $35M. I don't have numbers for iOS and console but I can't really imagine they come close to PC and Mac. And as my friend reminded "Well I'm one if those 5m and I paid $0.10 [for the android version]"

I have a hard time understanding where they get the $2.5B valuation considering its revenues. Another friend thought advertising: " heck, even brand recognition - if they put "Microsoft Minecraft" on the title, I'm sure that's comparable to a few superbowl ads &tc"

So we ran that math.

"the average cost of a 30-second advertisement was around $4 million" - wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_advertising ] "Super Bowl XLV, played in 2011, became the most-watched American television program in history with an average audience of 111 million viewers " - wikipedia. 16.7M people have bought minecraft [mincraft.com/stats pc and mac] + 5M for android. That's still a fraction of a super bowl ad (like 16%) or ~$670,000 value in super bowl advertising terms. Except I suspect anyone actually in advertising would say the value of a finely crafted 30 second video advert massively beats your company name under a game title.

Regardless of quibbles, the advertising potential seems off by many orders of magnitude. also as was mentioned: "Is brand recognition something ms has a problem with?"

So where is the $2.5B coming from? Especially when the gamesutra article [ http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/225611/Minecraft_studio_M... ] has them saying they think they can recoup the full value in 1 year!

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