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= [[https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Neue-Crowdfunding-Runde-fuer-GnuPG-Entwicklung/forum-381683/comment/|Heise online]] * "Jedenfalls würde ich mit Freude etwas Spenden wenn die Mittel dazu verwendet würden GPG zu vereinfachen und unnötige oder sogar gefährliche Funktionalitäten wie die eingebetteten Dateinamen wieder zu entfernen oder zumindest nicht mehr per Default zu benutzen." ([[https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Neue-Crowdfunding-Runde-fuer-GnuPG-Entwicklung/15-000-EUR-werden-wie-viele-zusaetzliche-Optionen-hinzu-fuegen/posting-30498842/show/|die kleine Himbeere]]) = [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495604|ycombinator]] * "I'll happily fund however much it will take to get them to religiously follow SemVer. Because there are soooo many breaking changes in patch releases that it's nearly impossible to keep our automation pipeline around gpg2 working consistently." ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495960|im_down_w_otp]]) * "I hope they spend some of that money on the keyservers, they seem to be down every time I want to grab some gpg keys." ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495908|RX14]]) * "Useful spending of that money would be UX issues, making the horror that is using this stuff bearable. Usability is atrocious and if you do not use it all the time you have to google the simplest things (for which the results are mostly outdated or wrong or bad practice so you have to be careful with which explanation you follow) which the software itself could explain to you." ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14496758|waldfee]]) = Donors * "One day I hope to see a source code review for GNuPG similar to Veracrypt." * "I use gpg mainly for encrypting files tracked in a Git repository. I'm more interested in CLI / core improvements that integration with various mailers / keys etc." * "Looking forward to the book!"

= [[https://www.reddit.com/|reddit]] == [[https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6fl45l/gnupg_needs_your_support_to_help_protect_online/|r/linux]] * "From a businesss perspective, they need a pivot. They need some commercial product or commercial license for business use cases." ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6fl45l/gnupg_needs_your_support_to_help_protect_online/dijpldv/|prozacgod]]) * "the GPG manual only tells you how to use it, not what your goals might be and what you need to do to accomplish them securely." ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6fl45l/gnupg_needs_your_support_to_help_protect_online/dijq9ja/|luke-jr]]) * "Manually managing keyrings is brutally painful and buggy. It's designed to be used in exactly it's way. Despite seeming very command line oriented you're actually quite limited in what you can do when it comes to multiple keyrings (and not using a default user keyring). It's just irritating software to use." ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6fl45l/gnupg_needs_your_support_to_help_protect_online/dijtjtu/|Likely_not_Eric]]) = [[https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Neue-Crowdfunding-Runde-fuer-GnuPG-Entwicklung/forum-381683/comment/|Heise online]] * "Jedenfalls würde ich mit Freude etwas Spenden wenn die Mittel dazu verwendet würden GPG zu vereinfachen und unnötige oder sogar gefährliche Funktionalitäten wie die eingebetteten Dateinamen wieder zu entfernen oder zumindest nicht mehr per Default zu benutzen." ([[https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Neue-Crowdfunding-Runde-fuer-GnuPG-Entwicklung/15-000-EUR-werden-wie-viele-zusaetzliche-Optionen-hinzu-fuegen/posting-30498842/show/|die kleine Himbeere]]) = [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495604|ycombinator]] * "I'll happily fund however much it will take to get them to religiously follow SemVer. Because there are soooo many breaking changes in patch releases that it's nearly impossible to keep our automation pipeline around gpg2 working consistently." ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495960|im_down_w_otp]]) * "I hope they spend some of that money on the keyservers, they seem to be down every time I want to grab some gpg keys." ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495908|RX14]]) * "Useful spending of that money would be UX issues, making the horror that is using this stuff bearable. Usability is atrocious and if you do not use it all the time you have to google the simplest things (for which the results are mostly outdated or wrong or bad practice so you have to be careful with which explanation you follow) which the software itself could explain to you." ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14496758|waldfee]]) = Donors * "One day I hope to see a source code review for GNuPG similar to Veracrypt." * "I use gpg mainly for encrypting files tracked in a Git repository. I'm more interested in CLI / core improvements that integration with various mailers / keys etc." * "Looking forward to the book!"

= [[https://www.reddit.com/|reddit]] == [[https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6fl45l/gnupg_needs_your_support_to_help_protect_online/|r/linux]] * "From a businesss perspective, they need a pivot. They need some commercial product or commercial license for business use cases." ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6fl45l/gnupg_needs_your_support_to_help_protect_online/dijpldv/|prozacgod]]) * "the GPG manual only tells you how to use it, not what your goals might be and what you need to do to accomplish them securely." ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6fl45l/gnupg_needs_your_support_to_help_protect_online/dijq9ja/|luke-jr]]) * "Manually managing keyrings is brutally painful and buggy. It's designed to be used in exactly it's way. Despite seeming very command line oriented you're actually quite limited in what you can do when it comes to multiple keyrings (and not using a default user keyring). It's just irritating software to use." ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6fl45l/gnupg_needs_your_support_to_help_protect_online/dijtjtu/|Likely_not_Eric]]) = [[https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Neue-Crowdfunding-Runde-fuer-GnuPG-Entwicklung/forum-381683/comment/|Heise online]] * "Jedenfalls würde ich mit Freude etwas Spenden wenn die Mittel dazu verwendet würden GPG zu vereinfachen und unnötige oder sogar gefährliche Funktionalitäten wie die eingebetteten Dateinamen wieder zu entfernen oder zumindest nicht mehr per Default zu benutzen." ([[https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Neue-Crowdfunding-Runde-fuer-GnuPG-Entwicklung/15-000-EUR-werden-wie-viele-zusaetzliche-Optionen-hinzu-fuegen/posting-30498842/show/|die kleine Himbeere]]) = [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495604|ycombinator]] * "I'll happily fund however much it will take to get them to religiously follow SemVer. Because there are soooo many breaking changes in patch releases that it's nearly impossible to keep our automation pipeline around gpg2 working consistently." ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495960|im_down_w_otp]]) * "I hope they spend some of that money on the keyservers, they seem to be down every time I want to grab some gpg keys." ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495908|RX14]]) * "Useful spending of that money would be UX issues, making the horror that is using this stuff bearable. Usability is atrocious and if you do not use it all the time you have to google the simplest things (for which the results are mostly outdated or wrong or bad practice so you have to be careful with which explanation you follow) which the software itself could explain to you." ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14496758|waldfee]]) = Donors * "One day I hope to see a source code review for GNuPG similar to Veracrypt." * "I use gpg mainly for encrypting files tracked in a Git repository. I'm more interested in CLI / core improvements that integration with various mailers / keys etc." * "Looking forward to the book!"