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Gitlab mistakenly enforces new free tier size limits one month too early(forum.gitlab.com)
3 points by dinkblam 4y ago|0 comments
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by dinkblam 4y ago
whats the point of Stipe Tax anyway? they solve only the trivial part (calculating how much VAT is due for a transaction), while ignoring the hard part (actually paying the VAT to hundreds of tax offices in countries all around the world).
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by dinkblam 4y ago
> Someone riding a Segway looks like a dork. Someone riding a Standup-paddle looks like a mega-dork, yet it is a massive success (at least in Europe).
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by dinkblam 4y ago
> Write a stern email? exactly what happened. so not even the slightest reason for an immediate reaction > recommend not hosting APIs yes! we learned the hard way :)
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by dinkblam 4y ago
yes, they turned off the domain (macupdater.net) because one app-vendors of an app listed wasn't happy that we advertise their app for free. they cited trademark issues and contacted the host hetzner instead of us (grrr!). and hetzner
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by dinkblam 4y ago
Hetzner just turned off our hole domain, without contacting us first at all! All servers unreachable, 10k angry customers hammering us. All because if they receive a trademark complaint they won't contact the domain owner first and giv
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by dinkblam 4y ago
> the most educated are most likely to spread these dangerous kinds good observation and i completely see your point, but are those people really educated in a scientific sense (and know their confidence intervals) or did they just finis
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by dinkblam 4y ago
same as with covid, which is dangerous but not anymore so than many other preventable causes of death that are completely ignored instead of hyped as the end-of-the-world. we are truly in an age of perpetual unfounded social panic. thanks t
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by dinkblam 4y ago
stopped reading at 'and the results might surprise you' if you want 'hackers' to read something, best not start with the same line as every ultra-low-quality invasive clickbait ad
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by dinkblam 5y ago
yes! drop us a line at macupdater@corecode.io
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by dinkblam 5y ago
We are working on MacUpdater: https://www.corecode.io/ Its 100% native Objective-C code on the client, plus a mixed Objective-C and Python pipeline for maintenance and backend - around 60 kloc in total. The other major comp
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by dinkblam 5y ago
don't switch to Paddle. they shut you down immediately, without 48 hours notice, and without reason at all. and if their GitHub issue system is full of angry customers, they just delete all GitHub issues and comments, instead of improv
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by dinkblam 5y ago
same here, couldn't agree more
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by dinkblam 5y ago
meanwhile Google happily continues to run ads for malware like the infamous 'MacKeeper'
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by dinkblam 5y ago
MacUpdater uses several techniques to detect updates. If apps have "Sparkle" feeds we use those unless they’re outdated (happens more often than you think). Same for other feeds types. But most software (we support two dozen types
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Show HN: MacUpdater 2.1 can update more than 6000 Mac apps(corecode.io)
2 points by dinkblam 5y ago|2 comments
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by dinkblam 6y ago
the update is already available for updating via #MacUpdater
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by dinkblam 6y ago
just don't. i wasted 18 months on creating a game. it was an awful time with millions of boring-but-necessary tasks and sales on mac+linux+windows were basically zero. if i had a time-machine, this would be the one decision i'd re
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by dinkblam 6y ago
the update is already available for one-click install via MacUpdater: https://ibb.co/ftwPtv7
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by dinkblam 7y ago
if you are into obj-c/swift, there is a list of the most useful blogs here: https://apple-developer.org/resources/online-resources.html#...
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All Mac apps using 'Paddle' middleware deactivated after upgrade to 'Catalina'(github.com)
4 points by dinkblam 7y ago|0 comments
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Beware: Mac Software Bundle Scam Surfaces Again(macnn.com)
1 points by dinkblam 11y ago|0 comments