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6mo ago
I am somewhat also concerned that this software was still being distributed on SourceForge.
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6mo ago
Realistically speaking - anything could be a reason. A shakedown or blocking based on some "nudge" (this might come across as tin-foiled though). Some flag/trip-wires going wrong, more worryingly due to a bug/false alarm
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7mo ago
I wish they had retained one awesome Thunderbird desktop feature on mobile as well - being able to set the "from" address on the go while composing the email, without having to add an identity/sender-mail in advance. Alas, it
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7mo ago
https://onethingwell.org comes to mind https://web.archive.org/web/20170608203825/http://onethingwe... - used to be slightly simpler and less colourful. There might have been few more such bl
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7mo ago
I have had very varying experiences with suggestions (or talking to someone) about these kinds of changes in life and how to deal with them. Most of the times what I have to say has been met with resistance (sometimes even some sort of rese
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7mo ago
History and the world are strewn with people (and hence entities) that fled the land and kept the fight on (and alive) from outside, and it mattered. In fact, it helps. Other options could be acquiesce or extinguish. But, is there a safe ha
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Ask HN: How to truly sandbox AI tools on a Mac?
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9mo ago
I, on the other hand, am getting gradually, but strongly, disillusioned, and importantly also feeling disenfrenchised, from coding and the world around it.
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9mo ago
And Gradle? Does skip the Gradle and that nightmare of a dependency management and handling?
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10mo ago
While as a mobile dev most of my usage were limited to api client kinda usage I did use it for debugging traffic and hence its intercepting features. Haven’t checked their landing page or the tool itself in a long time (or any coding for th
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10mo ago
At a previous workplace, Charles Proxy was not in the list of approved software. I don't recall the reason - it might have been cost, but we used lots of paid tools, and since it was in the restricted category, we couldn't pick an
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10mo ago
SoundCloud once messed up a huge song import - hundreds (as in more than 9 hundreds). There was no way to batch clean/edit, or even clear/nuke (i.e delete everything). Support refused to help. They clearly said they "won'
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10mo ago
This is really sad that some people are in ways blaming it on the author. While I do advocate zero to almost zero usage of services by these OEMs or big corps, in today's world everything, or almost everything, is linked to your email
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10mo ago
I am in a situation right now where Amazon delivered a fake product. Support suggested they can also try redelivery, and when I asked what if it happens again, they said it should not happen. It happened - fake again. Now the customer suppo
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10mo ago
As someone from India — who has written this kind of comment against India and Pakistan in forums, with poor reception, and later realised it was rightly so — some more detail and nuance, possibly with some easily readable sources, would he
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11mo ago
Not exactly on the backend, but I worked on the frontend (SDKs) at a previous employer whose product offering was fraud detection literally. Over the period of those years, I realised the team wanted "get whatever you can" and the
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11mo ago
I worked in BT almost a decade ago for 4-5 years. My first job. I had never worked close to the hardware. It was nice. Even though the work was not assembly-level close to hardware. Then the rot hit. I saw BT had been there more or less for
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I had received a video call request from a German asst prof after I had applied for CS MS and a full scholarship to his department. I had written back saying I'd be okay with that and had asked whether he could tell me what it was abou
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1y ago
It was Diwali vacation in India. It looks like the managers were not able to force everyone to walk around with their laptops and pagers hanging from their necks and waists, respectively, which they normally do. If there's one thing I
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1y ago
This might not be sufficient for a lot of folks and I do notice sometimes a bit of struggle here and there, but for someone like me who mostly uses one widnow at a time on the Mac, or two screens when I have a external monitor setup along w
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1y ago
Did you really do one-bag? There are things I can't think of my days/weeks without. So for > In 2015 I got rid of everything I owned that didn’t fit in a laptop backpack There go my badminton rackets, cricket bat, and cycle. I
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1y ago
Hey - "Shame" is somewhat stronger than what I would have said but I also had similar feelings considering it was from DHH's company. And not just for outdated Electron, but for shipping Electron in the first place. For some
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1y ago
They are trying to do a lot of things, get into a lot of things. By the way, this installs on a mac and then keeps loading infinitely when launched.
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1y ago
This app deals with very critical, personal, and intimate data – personal notes and professional/work-related notes, but proudly has an Electron app. This alone has seemed like a massive red flag to me.
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I used to feel some sort of strange reassurance whenever I'd see him on screen, in any kind of film, in any kind of role. Being an espionage lover, of course, Spy Game will have a special place; then there's him playing Sundance K
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1y ago
Sometimes I wonder how the Linux distro landscape would have looked if there hadn't been a new distro for a new use case or design choice or disagreement among lead devs? Could we have allocated the resources better at battling with Wi
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1y ago
I just installed it (had to; if I am using the Mac, I'd rather be on the latest OS for security and compatibility reasons), and it is just disgusting. It is more disgusting than the iOS 26 monstrosity. I mean, how do you even provide c
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1y ago
I wanted to use them. But they had a bug in SMS sending and it's been a few weeks (or more) and they have not fixed it or been able to fix it. Also, it was not clear whether they use the same setup for recovery/alert SMS (I asked,
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1y ago
I actually do that. I have two folders one synced up to Dropbox and another to iCloud and they are encrypted with Cryptomator. But I back up the mounted folders i.e data to tarnsap. Besides those encrypted files (fragments?) of Cryptonator
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1y ago
You might want to check this out https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
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