"popular" is a stretch, it's what a few banks are trying to get people to use because they couldn't get NFC working on apple devices with their apps. Until recently they have been giving money away like crazy to get people to use it.
It requires extra hardware at the cash register (if using bluetooth) or modification to the vendors terminal to be able to display a qr code.
Sadly the app is extremely slow and cumbersome to use at a cash register compared to other options such as NFC payments on android or just straight tap and pay credit cards.
It would be a great system for payments online as scanning a code is very easy compared to entering all your CC information but becauses the fees are so high (compare to credit cards) the largest online electronics retailer (digitec) in Switzerland dropped them after the intro rates expired.
It's probably an attempt to implement what WeChat/Alipay has. In China the majority of POS terminals has this device https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Specialized-Alipay-an... , which is a fancy housing for a camera that scans the wallet barcode on your phone (optimized for the perfect angle and to prevent glare, I'm guessing). It seems preferable and faster than Bluetooth...
Edit: OpenAt is not a valid counterexample since the program checks file descriptors. But e.g renameAt[0] allows to overwrite protected files. There are numerous other options to circumvent that tool too.
I will try to give you a very brief summary for your points. If you need anything else, just ask a follow up.
- Profitability: We have plans for paid features which are not yet available at this point (kind of micro transactions per jaypad).
- Digital Sustainability (Guaranteeing that the user can use it in the future): To be honest, none. This product is still in beta and as long as it has no sustainable funding it will not have the other one too.
- Interop with other platforms: None at the moment, but we have plans that users can write their own modules for the clipboard side of the jaypad which will open a whole new universe of interop with other things (kind of like Slack-Bots with GUI).
- Privacy: You have the link you have access. It's that simple. But one of the planed paid features is privacy related (no access without invitation, read/write restrictions, private areas, etc.).
On the point "how this platform compares to others":
Think of it as a combination of single-Slack-channel/WhatsApp-Group-Chat on the one side and a EtherPad/Doodle/DropBox on the other side.
Separate noisy chat from writing down facts and stuff you would like to be able to access later on (try this in a WhatsApp-Chat or Slack-channel).
Most of the reactions I saw here are rather negative. Did just no one of the other commenters dig deeper and simply react pessimistic to anything with the label "social network" or are there substantial issues, that I missed?
The Google/Fitbit acquisition is still fresh in everyone's minds. That's going to color the perception of any new app/site that has the potential to gather information about you for some time to come.
There is always that boy who built a nuclear reactor at home. Not quite having nukes besides the wine bottles in the cellar but he overcame at least some of the problems you'd face to get there, that shouldn't be doable
I'm wondering how Jodel (or Yik Yak in the US) fits in. The only meaningful way to interact with it is by writing comments yourself. Only to read the comments gets boring very quickly.
I observe that the quality of the comments is worse compared to platforms with more lurkers but it's interesting to see, that a platform with, presumably, a higher participation ratio is working as well
We don't need more proprietary machine learning devices in our homes. I'd appreciate this so much more, if it was open source, so I can reshape it to whatever use case I have.
There are plenty of viable business models, that give you your well earned money and us the option to customize and understand our devices.
> We don't need more proprietary machine learning devices in our homes. I'd appreciate this so much more, if it was open source
It doesn't seem to do anything special? You can probably run your favorite machine learning framework on the Raspberry Pi, and it will work - albeit using the ARM cores and NEON only. Now, machine learning and inference _using the Raspberry Pi's GPU part_ (which is broadly documented, unlike most GPU hardware) would be a gamechanger, if only for educational scenarios.
I agree, so I looked at running image detection offline on a raspberry pi and wrote a post about it. It can't do anywhere near real time object detection on the larger YOLO models, but real time detection is often unnecessary. Also there are smaller models (e.g. yolo-mini) that can likely give you an acceptable frame rate.
You might have misunderstood "postInstall" -- rather understandably so since elsewhere (debian packages, ...) for precisely the issue discussed in the article: arbitrary scripts executed after package installation.
In Nix postInstall (and preInstall, as well as preBuild/postBuild, etc) specifying commands to execute before/after the corresponding "phase" -- so if a package is "almost" good to go with just "make install", you could use postInstall to do something like copy a file omitted by upstream's installation target.
The point is that postInstall in Nix is part of how the package itself is constructed-- in contrast to commands run after installing the package. There is no equivalent for this in Nix in a fundamental way (not by policy or for technical reasons).
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