Gmail in the Black Tank | LAS 382

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7 years ago

After the last straw Noah dumps Gmail, shares his battle and solution & Chris runs down five great open source Gmail alternatives.

Plus why Dell stopped shipping the XPS 13 in Europe, a big update to a Linux video editor, the news of the week & more!

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Open source webmail clients for browser-based email

Gmail has enjoyed phenomenal success, and regardless of which study you choose to look at for exact numbers, there’s no doubt that Gmail is towards the top of the pack when it comes to market share. For certain circles, Gmail has become synonymous with email, or at least with webmail. Many appreciate its clean interface and the simple ability to access their inbox from anywhere.

But Gmail is far from the only name in the game when it comes to web-based email clients. In fact, there are a number of open source alternatives available for those who want more freedom, and occasionally, a completely different approach to managing their email without relying on a desktop client.

Let’s take a look at just a few of the free, open source webmail clients out there available for you to choose from.

FastMail: Fast, reliable email

FastMail is the choice of over 100,000 individuals, families and businesses. We deliver the highest standards of security, privacy and reliability for your email, calendars and contacts, backed up by our exemplary 15-year track record.

KolabNow

With over 108 billion business emails sent daily, email is the backbone of professional communication. Kolab provides the email, contact and file sharing functionality that empowers enterprise communication.

Looking for a fully featured collaboration and communication platform? Seeking the convenience of the cloud, without having to worry about who else might have access? Want to ensure that your data is stored only in a single legislation, with highest barriers to data disclosure? Kolab Now is that service.

Safeguard your professional and personal data with Kolab Now. Enjoy the world’s world’s best privacy legislation and terms of service that put you first. All of this with a feature set that is complete to allow you to run your entire business collaboration.

DarkMail

Silent Circle and Lavabit are developing a new way to do email with end-to-end encryption. We welcome like-minded organizations to join our alliance.

To bring the world our unique end-to-end encrypted protocol and architecture that is the ‘next-generation’ of private and secure email. As founding partners of The Dark Mail Technical Alliance, both Silent Circle and Lavabit will work to bring other members into the alliance, assist them in implementing the new protocol and jointly work to proliferate the world’s first end-to-end encrypted ‘Email 3.0’ throughout the world’s email providers. Our goal is to open source the protocol and architecture and help others implement this new technology to address privacy concerns against surveillance and back door threats of any kind.

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Shanghai Subway Runs Linux

Hi guys, For 5 years I’m living in Shanghai and I suddenly discover that ubuntu is running the streaming tv in the Shanghai’s subway ! Here’s few links for the pictures

https://i.imgur.com/DFynJVU.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EBbfytP.jpg

a link to the incredible expansion of the shanghai’s subway
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/SHM_evolution_mid.gif/400px-SHM_evolution_mid.gif

Sent in by Dasti

Desktop App Pick

Lighttable

Connects you to your creation with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code.
Easily customizable from keybinds to extensions to be completely tailored to your specific project.
Try new ideas quickly and easily. Ask questions about your software, to give you a more profound understanding of your code.
Embed anything you want, from graphs to games to running visualizations.
Everything from eval and debugging to a fuzzy finder for files and commands to fit seamlessly into your workflow.
An elegant, lightweight, beautifully designed layout so your IDE is no longer cluttered.

LightTable in Action

Weekly Spotlight

Flowblade 1.2

Flowblade 1.2 is the ninth release of Flowblade.

Flowblade has now been ported to GTK3.
The process was not as straight forward as one might think but eventually everything worked out. There always seemed to be just one more little change in API that required all instances to be fixed by hand. Luckily there was a conversion script available that did most of the grunt work to get things going.
We did get something in return. A small but percipteble responsiveness improvement was gained probably because GTK3 provides a Cairo widget for creating custom widgets that is now used instead of the project specific Cairo widget that was used before. GTK3 also seems to render widgets a bit crispier.
I really hope that major API breaking version jumps for widget toolkits are avoided as much as possible. Projects with large interface and small man power can really suffer here.
There were some other major developments during the cycle too:
All rendering was moved out of process as the in-process rendering was found to not work correctly in same cases.
Dark theme support was improved. It is now possible to use a dark theme just by setting a preference if the GTK3 theme used has a dark variant available.
Small screen support has been upgraded. The application now works better on 768px height screens.

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Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition No Longer Available for Sale in Europe

“Unfortunately Europe has already run through their forecasted inventory (they sold better than we expected). The US still has inventory on hand. Because there will be a next gen coming out we won’t be getting any more of this model. Thanks for the support!” wrote Dell’s Barton George on his website. He’s the same guy who announced that the XPS 13 was brought back to the shop a while back.

Mozilla: data stolen from hacked bug database was used to attack Firefox

Mozilla added that the attacker accessed 185 non-public Firefox bugs, of which 53 involved “severe vulnerabilities.” Ten of the vulnerabilities were unpatched at the time, while the remainder had been fixed in the most recent version of Firefox at the time.

Attack code exploiting Android’s critical Stagefright bugs is now public

The critical flaws, which reside in an Android media library known as libstagefright, give attackers a variety of ways to surreptitiously execute malicious code on unsuspecting owners’ devices. The vulnerabilities were privately reported in April and May and were publicly disclosed only in late July. Google has spent the past four months preparing fixes and distributing them to partners, but those efforts have faced a series of setbacks and limitations.

We Did It!! (Mycroft was successfully funded!) – YouTube

We have successfully funded our Kickstarter campaign! Let us thank you and learn about whats in store for they Mycroft team! Remember to check out our Kickstarter at: https://mycroft.ai/kickstarter

Mycroft: An Open Source Artificial Intelligence For Everyone by Joshua Montgomery

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