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by imagine99 6y ago
A number of alternatives were mentioned in this thread. User referrals; a better fleshed-out premium tier with actual added value without deteriorating the free tier; a longer transitioning period; a less ridiculous either/or (forcing
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by imagine99 6y ago
Are you a lawyer? Just kidding. But I ask because you are technically completely correct and have just secured an acquittal for LastPass on a pure technicality ;-)) Mixpanel and Segment are not ad trackers, they're used for profiling a
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by imagine99 6y ago
In principle I agree. I certainly don't think they used to be evil, they set out do create a product and brand that stood for safety and security and trust. I think they've lost focus of that now, their incentives have shifted (ma
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by imagine99 6y ago
Yep, exactly. I have no problem with gentle reminders to check out pro features. Or maybe a recommendation engine ("Refer 10 of your friends to us and we'll give it to you for free"). Or making it clear to new users that the
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by imagine99 6y ago
Look, I get where you're coming from, but LastPass's behavior is just not clever at all. Frankly, if I had to think of a better way to antagonize my users with 100% certainty, I couldn't have done a better job myself (short o
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by imagine99 6y ago
We just moved a whole org over to Bitwarden anyway because of the way they threatened to hold free accounts hostage ("Pay us or you will not be able to access your password from mobile (or desktop) anymore"). We had previously act
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by imagine99 6y ago
What, if any, resources did you use to learn woodworking? In-person courses and hackerspaces are not available in my area right now and I wonder if there are any good online classes. And by that I'm not talking about those quick-cut Yo
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by imagine99 6y ago
I actually think this could be a serious security issue. They train you to click on links in cryptic emails which are indistinguishable from spam at first glance. So if you're waiting for one important item and get like ten of these &q
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by imagine99 6y ago
Fully agree. This is why I still argue even today that (Object) Pascal aka. Delphi is a wonderful language and tool for beginners and casual programmers who want to get things done quickly and (somewhat) intuitively. Delphi unfortunately is
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by imagine99 6y ago
> Guilty until proven innocent. Not only in school or at university these days. Certainly seems to pervade large swaths of society and public opinion, that approach.
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by imagine99 6y ago
Those folks are obviously beyond having any sense of irony even if it slaps them in the face ("Honorlock" was mentioned as another piece of such software above), let alone an etymological understanding of their company name. I com
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by imagine99 6y ago
I'm sorry but reading all this, at a certain point I have to ask: Why are people (students, faculty) playing along with that? Is there not a point where people are willing to stand up for themselves and say: Enough is enough? Imagine,
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by imagine99 6y ago
Hey, thanks for the list. I'm actually into "non-ergonomic" (traditional) full-size mechanical keyboards, and even there, I haven't really found one that does fully customizable work (keys, colors, switches - no manufact
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by imagine99 6y ago
That is correct, but for boolean expressions, logical operators etc. it's just the one equal sign. E.g. if pilot.sleeping = true then alarm.playing := true; // This will check if the property "sleeping" of pi
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by imagine99 6y ago
The following post might sound somewhat paranoid but it isn't. I (try to) just report facts which another commenter said "everybody knows already anyway". So: All email are parsed for shopping info (price, product, quantity)
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by imagine99 6y ago
That's just because the above code is in Pascal. You see, it would be much more complicated if written in C++ or distributed real-time Java.
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by imagine99 6y ago
Might be just the one... if pilot.conscious = false then flyto(base);
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by imagine99 6y ago
Maybe on HN but outside of our bubble most people have no clue what data is collected about them on the regular and how it is (mis-)used. If you tell them they act offended and tell you that surely you must be paranoid, have something to hi
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by imagine99 6y ago
This is why Amazon stopped mentioning the product name in shipping confirmations a while ago. It just says "Your order no. XXX of n items has been dispatched" and they don't say which items. In the order confirmation, they do
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by imagine99 6y ago
You don't need Veeam of course but you should definitely try it out if you really want to manage your backups properly. It works really well and is pretty sleek, also for restore processs and when working with VMs or endpoints. You s
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by imagine99 6y ago
Thanks for responding! No specific issues, just lack of access to a suitable (non-corporate) mobile testing device as I'm at work ;-) Yes, I will definitely check it out as soon as I can. Which actually leads me to another feedback poi
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by imagine99 6y ago
At first look, this seems to give much better results than e.g. Character Creator's Headshot, which to me has never yielded one recognizable result out of the box that didn't take hours and hours of refining. The textures (except
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by imagine99 6y ago
I'd actually like a mod the other way round: There are a bunch of great mechanical keyboards (such WASD V3, daskeyboard prime or many other amazing custom builds) but they are all wired. I don't know why they don't make prope
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by imagine99 6y ago
Sure. I like the Tandberg NEOs StorageLoader for smaller deployments. It has slots for 8 tapes which it can automatically change and spit out as you want. It's pretty small as far as tape loaders go in that it only takes up a single ra
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by imagine99 6y ago
To my knowledge, there is still no alternative to tape backups that comes close in terms of price per TB, size/capacity, resilience and safety/security. Even for a smaller or mid-sized business, if you want to make sure you have a
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by imagine99 6y ago
I've long wrestled with myself whether to buy a remarkable (2) and have finally decided against it because I expect that I will own another technical device that will be obsolete and an expensive door stopper in a couple years time (ma
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by imagine99 6y ago
Care to share some examples of what you're doing? I'm always curious...
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by imagine99 6y ago
> for most the time of the Desktop computer has passed Might I respectfully disagree? Whenever I walk into a business, especially a larger one with open floor offices (and I admit, it has been a while, for obvious reasons), I see exactly
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by imagine99 6y ago
Oh, I can answer that one: By purposefully ruining - and continuing to ruin - a great community of developers around Delphi. I apologize in advance for what will be a salty (but truthful, I hope) statement, and it was invited, so I would li
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by imagine99 6y ago
Another thought, and yes, I am going full Godwin here, because I think it's an important intellectual leap to make: In many European countries, using Nazi symbols such as the swastika is a criminal offence, so you can't use the sy

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