You need to go through an exchange. Or if you use Mycelium on Android they have a service for finding local sellers.

Are you the one who called them out in the issue on C+= to which they responded with character attacks instead of a sensible argument? Thanks for doing that!

Nope, I'm "msmuenchen" on Github - are you maybe referring to another drama of them?

Title made me think Stallman did this. FSF = Free Software Foundation not these people. Are xhe and xhem even real words? They make absolutely no sense

Xhe and xhem are real words in that real people use them in the real world.

Gender neutral pronouns are important to some people. Everything so far for English will either be made up, or have some problem.

I'm not sure why you think xhe makes less sense than either he or she.

The PR changes "the" to "xhe" and "they" to "xhey".

Regardless of what you might think of the gender inflexibility of "he" and "she", it's pretty clear that words like "the" and "they" are not candidates for progressive change regardless of your position on feminism.

The PR is satire, and judging by many of the comments on this thread, quite good satire!

It is good satire! Or good trolling. I am enjoying it.

I didn't realise the search and replace for "he" was done poorly and includes "the". That possibly weaking the satire but increases the trolling.

Feminist do not make sense. If you want to see German Feminazis live in action then just read http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=addeacc3 ...

I love it! One comment I do have though is that the space alloted to the video on the page is quite large. Larger than the default zoom in Firefox at least. While it isn't a huge deal to not be able to see the whole picture and there is a full screen button, it might be helpful to some to make the video smaller on the page.

Yeah... I wanted to do a big full screen stretching video. But probably easier to constrain it. Changed!

Thanks! I think the video issue has been fixed. Let me know if you still run into trouble.

Do authors have the option of providing a book preview for free online rather than the entire thing? Or does that feature only allow for the entire book to be made free online?

Yes, Softcover has integrated support for making downloadable previews. In addition, currently the HTML version has to be either 100% free or 100% behind a paywall, but we plan to add the capability to make select HTML preview chapters available as well.

Same here. It's been solid so far for me!

This didn't address the question of how Hum will be different than any other chat program

Yeah, it kind of did.

Which chat program do you know can send a message as an email? And receive chat messages via an email address?

It seems the idea behind this, is that it's a "persistent chat".

Doesn't Facebook chat integrate with email in the exact same way?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't I open Gmail, send someone a message (@letshum.com or @facebook.com), and they receive it as a Hum or Facebook chat message? Then, they can reply to the message in their chat client as if it were a text, and it goes to my Gmail? That seems quite similar, and in both cases I can communicate using email, while my friend uses chat. This seems to be the underlying reason why both services give every user an email address, so I fail to see how this sets Hum apart from other chat apps.

Facebook has announced their intention to retire @facebook.com addresses, forwarding mail sent to them to the user's primary email address and making all chats involving @facebook.com addresses read only.

If I may, linkedin does allow users to correspond with each other using both mail clients or directly through their platforms. The part that I am not too sure about is how does Hum solve user problems that whatsapp/wechat can't. The gap I find as a user is that unless there are ways for Hum to integrate with the fragmented contact databases we have across the various social networks (i.e. my gmail, 1k+ linkedin contacts, facebook friends, twitter correspondence etc) and make my life easier, I may not venture and try yet another chat platform.

You aren't wrong, but you only described half the feature.

Send an email to someone new from your facebook chat.

Regardless, this is clearly a different product, if you want to try really hard to think it's not, that is your prerogative.

So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought

There are a lot of things which I would consider "common knowledge", but this is not one of them.

Unless of course you mean common knowledge among computer scientists and cryptographers, in which case "common" is rather rare.

I'm not the OP so I can't speak for him but here is why I think it's cool he posted it now:

1. not everyone is familiar with cryptology, actually the majority of people aren't.

2. IMO it is extremely relevant to the NSA. If there was complete transparency but an elegant system, we can have a secure country.

It is the right of the people to overthrow a barbaric government. When a government makes it their main concern to prevent dissent, rather than to uphold the constitution of our nation, they have strayed from their rights and duties as governors. There is nothing elegant about the government having the twitch ability to single-out every dissenting "radical" and efficiently terminate their "threat." A sudden change in political wind, and you could see your neighbor disappear because he was a "communist" rebel. Take the current wiretaps and surveillance and channel them back 40 years, and imagine the consequence on the populace. We need to prevent our government from being able to destroy dissent, and that includes invasive invasion of privacy, regardless of its current use and form. It will always be a horrendous potential energy, a spring ready to swallow up the good will of the nation.

http://www.sandiego6.com/story/cia-director-brennan-confirme...

It was probably linked from something else on the current front page.

Awesome thanks. I might use that in my own applications in the future, but our app uses Angular and Node. Unfortunately I couldn't convince the group to use Django

Then you might also check out passportjs[1]. Thanks to Node, it's not as drop-in-ready a solution as Python-Social-Auth, but it covers quite a bit, and third party providers are pretty easy to add.

I had troubles with crypt on an older version of Node, but it's almost certainly been resolved by now.

[1] - http://passportjs.org/

Both of these is just signing in with an account from some different site. We want to provide that option, but we want our own option as well for users who don't want to use social media to login