tradesmanhelix

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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
Paying for the service is a red herring since Spotify is specifically targeting the free tier with this policy. Thus, there really are only two options here when it comes to the free tier on Spotify: "Endure our ad experience or no &#x
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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
> All types of ad blockers, bots and fraudulent streaming activities are not permitted. I feel like the bigger issue here is Spotify's conflating the use of "ad blockers" with other (clearly illegal) activities like "
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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
This. After Dropbox acquired and then unceremoniously killed one of my all-time-favorite apps (Umano), I greet most of their acquisitions with dread.
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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
$50 says someone like Microsoft or Google responds to this by buying Canonical.
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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
I miss Umano. It was an app that collated a feed of human-read articles. It’s one of the few iPhone apps that I was willing to pay for a yearly subscription in order to unlock some premium features like offline listening. Great UI and all o
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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
Gitlab.com is what I was already slowing moving to, because their code is open source. This will just hasten that migration.
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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
Microsoft has slain giants before. They will try to do it again. No one is too big to fail.
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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
Sweet - I'll have to check them out. Thanks!
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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
Yeah, mine was a renewal not a new registration and cost about $12.58. Previous renewals without whoisguard were closer to the prices you mention, which makes it seem to me like all they've done is bake the cost in.
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by tradesmanhelix 8y ago
I just renewed a domain with Namecheap and, based on the price they're now charging, pretty sure the cost of this “free” whois privacy protection is now just built into the cost of their products. Not impressed. Edit: spelling
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
"You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain." [1] I don't think anyone ever sets out to build a dystopia. You just wake up one day and find that all the little compromises you made along
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
> they should make it more obvious that nightly isn't just daily builds from master. From the downloads page [1]: "Firefox Nightly automatically sends feedback to Mozilla." Not sure how they could make it more obvious. [1]
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
IMO, this blog post is needlessly alarmist and even misleading. On the pre-release FF downloads page [1] it says, "Firefox Nightly automatically sends feedback to Mozilla." Not sure how the author of this post got the impression t
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
I'm just making more of a general comment re. the website/company, not the specific post this HN thread covers. Granted, it's a minor detail, and most people probably won't hit the www version of the site, but for whatev
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
Ironically, going to https://www.cybersecurityventures.com in Firefox throws an SSL certificate error: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN. This does not fill me with confidence regarding this company's security prowess.
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
Thank you for the advice - greatly appreciate it! Regarding your comment: > if you have solid experience as a full stack web developer then I would suggest finding a way to pivot off that expertise (web application security, infrastructu
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
That sounds like a fantastic idea. Would love to follow the journey / potentially throw my hat in the ring as you start looking for devs. I'm @tradesmanhelix on Twitter if you'd like to chat.
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
> Security threats are growing faster than security teams and budgets can keep up, and there’s already a huge talent shortage. Can anyone here speak to the "there's already a huge talent shortage" part of this article? Spe
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
And in June 2018...then what? Sorry - just very tired of people tossing out ESR as a solution to this problem. It isn’t - at best, it just kicks the can down the road. At worst, it’s continuing to support a company that’s shown utter disreg
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
As an iPhone user since the iPhone 3G, I have say iOS 11 is the buggiest iOS release ever and very disappointing. Most of my family aren’t technical and the reason I recommend iOS is it just works. This is really embarrassing. Also, typing
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
That's handy to know, thank you. Looking at this popup control though, the only indication that, for example, wifi is merely no longer connected versus turned off is the text under the icon, which, had I not been aware of this issue, I
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
> I mean, as I understand it, it hasn't been publicly released yet. Not sure what you mean by this. iOS 11 was released on 09-19-2017, so not sure what you're saying is still awaiting a public release? Regarding your second poi
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
This seems like a pretty heavy-handed violation of the UX Principle of Least Surprise [1] given how those Control Center buttons have historically behaved. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonish
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
Problem is that they never informed users that they’d changed this behavior. That button no longer does what it’s always done, which violates the Principle if Least Surprise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
The issue isn’t understanding the OS. The issue is a misleading and/or poorly designed UI.
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
Problem being not all iOS 11 users have force touch-enabled devices. I have the iPhone 6, for example, so all I have to go on is the Control Center button icons which are misleading. Apple really should have either mentioned this change in
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
The Firefox extension "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" by Mozilla has the exact features you mention. I've been using it ever since it was first released as a Firefox Test Pilot add-on and it's great! So awesome to be
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
Sorry if I missed something, but has it ever been explained why Apple went straight to the iPhone 8 vs. releasing the traditional S iteration, i.e. the iPhone 7S? Is it due to the iPhone's 10th anniversary?
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
Vivaldi provides arguably the most customizable UI of any browser out of the box (see: ability to move tabs to any side of the screen), plus their culture seems to me to be all about customization and providing options. I like that. Firefox
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by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
This sums up my feelings re. Firefox 57: https://www.change.org/p/mozilla-save-mozilla-firefox-s-best... . Sorry Mozilla - for the reasons expressed above, 56 will be the last version of your browser I'm able to ef

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