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by Hawxy 5y ago
> However this sentence made me inadvertently laugh, because it captures every bit of confusion I had Haha, for further context, .NET 5 is the SDK + runtime. ASP.NET Core is the default Web framework that includes a ton of out of the box
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by Hawxy 5y ago
> I would encourage using regular .Net, not .Net Core until they've reached a certain threshold This is terrible advice. .NET Framework has so many gotchas in its dependency management and binding redirect hell, not to mention ASP.N
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by Hawxy 5y ago
> I wanted to try to a server backend with it, but I was lost as to which framework to use (ASP.net / .NET Core / .Net 5) so I ended up choosing neither. The new C# tutorials have solved a lot of this issue just by completely s
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> I’ll confess that I don’t know that type of modelling FS2020 is using. But given how it feels, and how it’s the child of FSX, I’m inclined to think it’s using a lookup table I'll note that this statement is easily disprovable thro
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by Hawxy 6y ago
This has been public knowledge for years. Github Actions has been based on Azure Devops Pipelines since mid-2019 when it became a full CI/CD solution instead of just performing task automation. https://docs.github.com/e
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> Like we now have classes, structs and records. IMO records are a great addition, especially when it comes to point-in-time/immutable data. They also provide an improvement to developer efficiency, as basic data classes can be repr
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by Hawxy 6y ago
Yes? Its pretty evident that when you publish a marketplace app, the details of those that installed it are automatically stored for use by the vendor. All of the statements above align with this, unless you're insinuating that Microso
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> for C#, at least last time I used it, which was 2011 Since then, C# added nullable reference types: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe... In projects with complete NRT coverage,
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> C# is basically the same thing from a VM perspective, an interpreted bytecoded high-level language, but tied to windows. C#/.NET hasn't been tied to windows for a number of years now. .NET Core/.NET 5 is cross-platform a
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> Nu-reddit wants to be an instagram style mobile first feed app and you can only see one submission at a time. FYI there's a layout selector at the top that can make it look like the old layout. The "insta" layout is just
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> They make their money by selling their users and they can't do that if they allow other clients. If you're gonna continue with this anti-discord narrative you've built for yourself, at least don't base it on conspir
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> You literally can't go 5km from your house in Australia. In Australia? You mean metro victoria, right? Those restrictions are ending at midnight tonight as well.
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> How much can they honestly be making of this data? There's no actual evidence that they make any money from this data, how did you come to this conclusion? This article is a very opinionated translation of a privacy policy that te
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> The excuse, if I remember it, was that garbage collected languages made this challenging This is one of the main reasons why the core of 1password was rewritten in Rust: https://support.1password.com/kb/201902a&#x2
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> Do you know what Microsoft collects about you? ...Yes? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/required-wi... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/wind
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by Hawxy 6y ago
I personally use 1Password due to it being better polished than Bitwarden and the support being excellent. I'm using it with Windows/Edge and haven't encountered any problems.
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> So yes, Microsoft has publicly said if they detect a music track that may have been downloaded 'illegally', they will 'package it and all your info and send it to the feds'. It isn't spyware if you partner wit
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by Hawxy 6y ago
FYI what they're referring to is this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/windows-dia... This page outlines everything additional they recieve on the Full setting. > In the Windows 8 day
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by Hawxy 6y ago
> If you're looking for a more accurate, 'real' simulator it has a lot to offer. What do you mean by this? The MSFS 2020 flight simulation is on par if not better than X-Plane: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by Hawxy 6y ago
Snyk is focused on dependency scanning and license management. This is static code analysis, more akin to sonarsource.
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by Hawxy 6y ago
That's a pretty awful article from the age of "putting windows 10 and spying in the title generates easy clicks". The quoted statement had nothing to do with Windows 10 and was specifically do with Microsoft's digital se
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by Hawxy 7y ago
> Has any Slack-based org tried actually using Slack for your meetings? Most of my work's teams use slack for their daily calls. Seems OK in testing with up to 10 people. Anything bigger usually moves to GoToMeeting. > Has anyone
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by Hawxy 7y ago
The main issue with this viewpoint and your (arguably sensationalist) article is that it just finger points & blatantly ignores the reason those protections are in place. The number of people that consider Discord part of their threat m
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by Hawxy 7y ago
They're answered this in the past, Windows Terminal has a hard requirement on features only found in the latest versions of windows. See: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3843#issuecomme...
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by Hawxy 7y ago
> VS Code is also spyware This is such an extreme & pretentious viewpoint. Microsoft knowing that I have VS Code installed & getting a report when it crashes is not in mine, or really any normal developer's threat landscape.
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by Hawxy 7y ago
> that doesn't hand over your data to a company to be monetized Slack, Discord & Gitter don't monetize data either, so that's a pretty weak argument.
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by Hawxy 7y ago
Blazor is currently being developed to take on the role of an official cross-platform UI. https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2019/09/26/blazor-... https://github.com/SteveSanderson
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by Hawxy 7y ago
Steve Sanderson (creator of Blazor) is working on something similar that doesn't use Electron: https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/01/exploring-lighte... From Blazor roadmaps a few months ago, I thi
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by Hawxy 7y ago
> Do you mind if I paraphrase your comment and add it to the article? Sure. > Everything is checked on by default. They go out of their way to make it difficult. During install of recent versions of W10, there's a privacy setting
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by Hawxy 7y ago
This article is incredibly misleading and I can't believe almost everyone on HN is taking it at face value. You've clearly made assumptions to fit your conclusion without verifying the validity of the assumptions themselves. The i

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