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It is always sad to think that Free Software, which is in essence a bringing together of ideas and skills in a spirit of collaboration still manages to alienate people either through childish insults, overt sexism or plain obnoxiousness. This happens all over the Free Software landscape and it is partly why I am so glad that Women's Tech Radio highlights the variety of roles women can have in technology. Example.

I am also encourage by things like the Debian Women Project which is all about highlight some of the issue in the Debian community for women roles.

But it is still pitifully little and so much more can be done. So it is disappointing when people are actively pushed away when they are just trying to get along.

I also finding that the searches are getting more and more relevant each time I search for something. Also the Bang Commands and becoming stupidly useful now.

hey chris awesome show. when you were talking about xcode borrowing stuff from gnome shell was it about only for client side decorations or also for popovers? I have no idea if xcode 5 had popovers or generally osx used popover for any of its menus, but apparently xcode 6 also borrowed another thing from gnome shell.

Xcode 6 with popover: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/images/whats-new-2014.png

Gedit 3.12 with popover: http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/files/2014/03/gedit-popover1.png

If anyone knows if osx or xcode used popovers for menus before then correct me.

Thank god for the FB Purity plugin. I could not use Facebook without it really. That combined with Adblock and other shields up tech means Facebook is actually quite nice to use.

I do like Tox's distributed system better than Bitmessage, because it doesn't require the "proof-of-work" portion. Don't get me wrong, Bitmessage is a good solution for secure peer-to-peer communication. I just think there is a solution without the overhead.

Sources:
https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/blob/master/docs/Tox_middle_level_network_protocol.txt
https://bitmessage.org/bitmessage.pdf

OTR is an encrypted messaging protocol and not a routing protocol. OTR is independent to the connection [1]. Bitmessage is a very good solution, but constant messaging on a mobile device is too taxing [2].

Sources:
[1] https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/Protocol-v3-4.0.0.html
[2] https://bitmessage.org/bitmessage.pdf

The original iPad did in fact have a Apple-made keyboard and connector and so it's not like Apple was anti-iPad-keyboard until now. The keyboard as a cover is something that Apple couldn't not really do until they had the technology that they wanted. The keys use the same types of switches that the new Macbook uses, they are using a new connector so that the keyboard isn't relying on Bluetooth or a battery, and the iPad Pro is now large enough that the keyboard can be a full-size keyboard.

People imagine the iPad Pro to be like the Surface Pro, but it's more like the Surface RT. It's not using a desktop UI, it's a still a tablet with a tablet interface that is meant to be touch-first and a stylus as a distant second.

This is definitely Tim Cook's iPad in the same way that the original iPhone was made to be the phone that Jobs wanted to use.

This is at least a Rip-Off, potentially a scam.
Those cables have NOT been developed by them, they've been around a bit and are produced by a Chinese company called Wsken. Anyone's guess where they got the idea, but the cables are great.
Wsken on Amazon
You can find them even cheaper and in different colours on aliexpress.
They are definitely just selling those cables at a hefty markup while claiming to have developed them:

• The design is the exact same, down to the white charging light
• The colours on offer are the same (Zaptips does offer a Glow-In-The-Dark variant and a red variant that Wsken doesn't produce - I smell "production delays" in the campaign)
• The cables are offered with 1m only, same length as Wsken
• There is a photo that supposedly shows the first batch of their new cables - you can actually see the green box the Wsken-cables come in on the right there, and the cables are bound by green ribbons, just the way Wsken delivers them
• A kickstarter that can deliver 2 weeks after it ends? Really?

I actually think they will deliver, but they are ripping off their customers and the company that actually produces the cables (there is a certain irony there since Wsken is clearly ...inspired by a certain company, but at least they don't claim otherwise).

I do recommend the Wsken cables though, my charging port was starting to fall apart but with the mag charger it doesn't wear out more, and not having to fumble with the cable is great. Charging speed and data transfer are as fast as normal cables. Build quality is pretty decent, the charging light is waaay too bright.

While initially Google doesn't have access this is true. My thought though is that if you use the Google Device Manager, then Google can unlock it upon request.

The Device Manager/Tracker/Unlocker/Ringer/Wiper is a 100% Google product tied to your account. If the DOD/NSA/DOJ/CDC, or what ever, had a court order then they could use Device Manager to do it.

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