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JesseObrienon Fork of Gitlab that allows public access to repositories

Gitlab already has this?

http://demo.gitlab.com/public

JesseObrienon AOL acquires gdgt.com

Is this going to be another case of getting bought by AOL and then buying back from them after a while?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/about-me-buys-itsel...

JesseObrienon I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

> Google's OTR and OTR XMPP spec are different

> The specs are not different. They are completely different things.

Do you not have any reading comprehension? That's literally what I said. I haven't said anything against OTR at all. I fully support the use of XMPP and OTR for communications. You can attack me all you'd like, it doesn't change anything I said.

JesseObrienon I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

Sorry but respectively, no. I can't allow you to trash Aaron's name like that. Aaron was actually a child prodigy and a borderline genius who had done more than this at 14 years old. This kid plays with JavaScript and wrote a chrome extension that adheres to the XMPP spec. They're not in the same league.

JesseObrienon I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

As you said. "Virtually". All of this relies on you trusting the third party involved here and that was my point. Whether its Google or some 23 year old kid, or if its open source or not doesn't matter.

He is quite literally doing the same thing as I could do in setting us open fire on a box and inviting everyone to conne t and turn on their client side OTR. Just because it's a chrome extension and written in JavaScript somehow changes that? No.

JesseObrienon I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

I'm sorry, I thought this was "hacker" news. I Expected people would know that Google's OTR and OTR XMPP spec are different. My point was that you shouldn't be using 3rd party services to talk to people if the information is legitimately sensitive.

JesseObrienon I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

Absolutely. Do a little more than surface level digging and this guy is really just a child playing with toys and announcing it loudly to the world.

JesseObrienon I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

Google still has access to the cleartext as it passes through their servers.

Right, and cryptocat doesn't, 'cuz they said so on their website!

JesseObrienon I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

Hypothetically, what is the benefit of airing out of all this information ?

Media attention. That seems to be all this kid has done is wave things at the media that the media themselves don't understand. Cryptocat is a javascript implementation of XMPP with OTR enabled. Snore... Hop on Google chat and click "Off the record" and you've done the same thing cryptocat does. Unlike google chat you have to load up yet another Chrome browser extension that will no doubt eat more memory.

The "anapnea" thing he was involved in looks like a joke as well. "Encrypted tunneling network"? You mean a VPS you give people SSH access to? Mind blowing.

Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

JesseObrienon I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

They're caught up in the moment, I'm guessing. My first reaction was "where are the logs? show me some kind of actual proof". Otherwise this is just some kid who's paranoid and has a rootkit on his machine or something.

JesseObrienon Sublime Text 3 Beta

ST2 has been in the Debian repo's for a loong time. I assume others have packaged it for the rest of the *buntu's and whatnot.

JesseObrienon Sublime Text 3 Beta

It did slow down, and now he's charging everyone for a point release. It's not in your head.

JesseObrienon Git Legit

Really not a fan of "sprout", "harvest" or "graft". They're not descriptive of what's happening just by their name.

JesseObrienon SSH client in Google Chrome

Thank you, this was bothering me as well but I guess I never thought to right click. :)

JesseObrienon How we built BeSnappy.com for $317,000

Really cool to see how you guys are doing and what your costs are. The services/hardware are becoming exorbitantly cheap and manpower/expertise is becoming expensive.

JesseObrienon How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?

If you read it you'd know his wife left him. After that, what relationships do you have left?

JesseObrienon PHP needs a vision

That vision is stale and cancerous for the PHP community. The directive is and always has been along those lines, "real programmers don't use PHP". For some reason the core team has pushed that. There are a lot of us who use PHP full time who would also love for some real, cohesive decisions to be made in favour of bringing vision to PHP. Sadly the internals list is always just a shitstorm.

Anthony's view is that of someone trying to make the language better for those of us who use it day-to-day. To make it a real contender in web languages, because it does have that potential.