I don't see ads on my phone when browsing. The current version of Firefox on Android supports the same extensions as the desktop version. uBlock Origin FTW!
I also rarely browse on my phone because I hate touch interfaces with the burning rage of 1000 suns, but when I have to, no ads.
I switched from Evernote to OneNote around the time a Mac port was released.
OneNote supports all of those platforms (and syncs via OneDrive), but they're doing the same sort of idiotic UI redesign that makes things worse unless you're running full-screen or on a touch device.
I know you're pretty much stuck with full-screen on touch devices, but why would anyone run anything full-screen on a 4k monitor?
UI/UX devs, please stop making things worse on high-res screens.
As soon as the "Touch of Genius" TouchBar was announced for the MacBook Pro, I've been waiting for Apple to stick two iPads together with a $500 Jony Ive hinge and call it a MacBook.
Lenovo beat them to market. At least E Ink is better than a tablet style touch screen. I guess.
I'm sure this will be more awesome when Apple finally invents it.
My startup implements cryptography that's safe against attacks by quantum computers. https://www.isara.com/ if you're interested.
This is relatively low-level stuff where we don't use much of the standard library, and we want decent performance. Part of our performance comes from doing clever things with the algorithms and the math behind them, but there's a lot of things that just take however long they take.
This is great for portability. From the start we've built on multiple platforms using multiple compilers and ports have mostly just been setting up the build environment.
When we started, I knew portability would be really important. I also wanted our code to be secure and correct. I looked into using Go and Rust but decided to stick with C for portability, mostly because they weren't ported to several of the platforms we thought we might need to support. We've also got a strong set of coding guidelines and a possibly obsessive-compulsive code review regime.
Since it was 2015, we decided to standardize on C99. Seems reasonable, a 16 year old spec should be widely supported... well, we build on Windows using gcc because Visual C's standards support is half-assed. We've run into platforms where you have to use the vendor's toolchain, and it's C89. Yeah, people are shipping new products built with customized gcc versions from almost 30 years ago.
We can't afford to have a tools group who can maintain ports of llvm and whatnot to various terrible platforms. So we do the best we can with C.
The email they sent out was similarly useless. "Someone was up to no good, but nobody needs to worry about anything!"
Also, the link they provided to change your credentials doesn't work. I didn't want to do it via the app because I use a password manager, and doing useful things on a touch device is a pain in the ass.
I have no idea what Walmart is doing (if anything), but Kobo's stuff is mostly DRM-free, and it's all epub. It's also trivial to get books from other sources onto the device, it mounts as a USB drive and you just copy it over.
Kobo's e-readers are well-supported by Calibre too. I've owned several, and they've been great. I currently have a Clara HD and my only complaint is that the sleep cover available for it is stupid.
I wouldn't suggest buying one of their Android tablets (unless it's known to be rootable and you can install Lineage or something on it; I've got an Arc 10HD forever stuck on 4.4), but their e-readers are excellent.
Apple doesn't seem to be shipping those anymore, at least with MacBook Pro hardware. I'm sure it shaves a few cents off the BOM for that $3500 CAD device.
I used to use LastPass, then I switched to EnPass, which I like a lot.
EnPass is free on desktops, has a reasonable one-time fee on mobile (once per mobile OS), and lets you store your encrypted password blob on your choice of several cloud providers. All encryption/decryption is handled at the client end, so the cloud folks can't access your data at all. They're using AES-128 or AES-256 (can't remember off-hand).
KeePass would also be a possibility, but I found the clients harder to use than the EnPass client. The last time I tried to use KeePass, the Mac experience was pretty awful (the Mac client was a Mono app)... that may have changed. KeePass is nice because it's open source, if you're inclined to tinker or audit.
Got a decent (that is, less awful to set up, configure, and administer) replacement for Exchange/Outlook?
I mean, MS is trying to make this easier for us by having Windows Server and Outlook constantly get worse (our two most common platforms are Mac OS X and Android; Outlook is half-assed garbage on Mac and a complete joke on Android).
My yearly search for a decent email client always leads me back to Thunderbird, which is fine, but the mess of ultra-complex garbage suggested to replace Exchange is insane. We've got a hosting company to look after AD and Exchange for us, so a replacement has to be easy.
G-Suite might do it, but we need self-hosted, we don't want Google reading all of our email and whatnot.
Note sure if you're joking or not, but when we got one of the new MacBook Pros in with the idiotic Touch(TM) Bar(R) I literally could not find the power button for several minutes. I had no idea you could push the fingerprint sensor, and it's definitely not marked as a power button.
I actually wouldn't care about this, except the Win10 version of OneNote is missing probably 80% of the features of the "old" desktop version. It's the half-assed mobile version that's available on Android, iOS, and MacOS.
Also, on my system at least, UWP apps stop being able to Internet after a while. I've seen it in Mail, To-Do (another half-assed alternative they're pushing, to replace Wunderlist), Wunderlist, and OneNote. They'll just silently stop working with the Internet. No syncing, no nothing, and no errors or warnings. Sometimes restarting them will fix it, sometimes rebooting will fix it. Win10 OneNote has never managed to sync all of my notebooks successfully... I've only got about ten, and I thought OneDrive took care of these now?
Replacing desktop apps with UWP apps would be fine if they weren't forcing it on us before the UWP apps are feature-comparable and reliable enough to use for more than a few minutes a day.
I switched to EnPass when this happened; it's actually more secure than LastPass because nobody else can read your passwords... they're stored in the cloud of your choice, but the file is encrypted/decrypted entirely on the clients... the EnPass folks have literally no way of reading your database.
The desktop is free, which might be (paradoxically) a problem for dumb orgs. Mobile version is something like $10 per platform.
Marketing departments don't generally employ technical writers, and they're not usually interested in getting reviews from outside of their weird bubble.
My first thought was that Gollum wrote that, but Popeye might somehow be more appropriate for Google...
Microsoft "restructured" the hell out of the QA group in 2014. Windows users are now the testers, but they don't seem to pay any attention to that Feedback tool in Win 10...
Part of the problem is that desktop email clients have been largely abandoned. I guess Apple is the only big company still putting any official effort into their Mail.app, but then that's not an awesome app.
I've been using Thunderbird for ages, and Mozilla ignoring it for so long makes me sad. I'm hoping it gets an upgrade to the Firefox Quantum base (and a 64-bit build), but I'm one of those folks who wasn't depending on extensions that stopped working...
Every year or so, I try to find something, anything, that's usable as a mail client for Windows. Every year, I'm disappointed and go back to Thunderbird.
The biggest missing feature seems to be a spam filter, somehow.
Mailbird (https://www.getmailbird.com/) is pretty decent, but development of anything other than cosmetic features is glacial, and they don't seem to see the need for an actual spam filter, suggesting you instead depend on your mail server's filters. That's not entirely unreasonable, I suppose, but Mailbird also doesn't support filter rules, so I can't get rid of garbage from spammy recruiters.
Mailspring (https://www.getmailspring.com/) has the same problem (no filter rules, no spam filter) but the devs have acknowledged that this is a good feature... when they've had a chance to implement it I'll definitely give this another try.
So many of the Windows mail apps have been abandoned for ages that they can be written off. I wouldn't want to get too chummy with a program that hasn't been getting security updates for a decade.
That really doesn't bode well for BioWare ever getting to produce a new RPG. I was really hoping for a new Dragon Age title after Dragon Age: Inquisition didn't suck.
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I don't see ads on my phone when browsing. The current version of Firefox on Android supports the same extensions as the desktop version. uBlock Origin FTW!
I also rarely browse on my phone because I hate touch interfaces with the burning rage of 1000 suns, but when I have to, no ads.
If it indexes things in the Clipboard, that's going to be all the passwords if you're security conscious and using a password manager.
I switched from Evernote to OneNote around the time a Mac port was released.
OneNote supports all of those platforms (and syncs via OneDrive), but they're doing the same sort of idiotic UI redesign that makes things worse unless you're running full-screen or on a touch device.
I know you're pretty much stuck with full-screen on touch devices, but why would anyone run anything full-screen on a 4k monitor?
UI/UX devs, please stop making things worse on high-res screens.
As soon as the "Touch of Genius" TouchBar was announced for the MacBook Pro, I've been waiting for Apple to stick two iPads together with a $500 Jony Ive hinge and call it a MacBook.
Lenovo beat them to market. At least E Ink is better than a tablet style touch screen. I guess.
I'm sure this will be more awesome when Apple finally invents it.
My startup implements cryptography that's safe against attacks by quantum computers. https://www.isara.com/ if you're interested.
This is relatively low-level stuff where we don't use much of the standard library, and we want decent performance. Part of our performance comes from doing clever things with the algorithms and the math behind them, but there's a lot of things that just take however long they take.
This is great for portability. From the start we've built on multiple platforms using multiple compilers and ports have mostly just been setting up the build environment.
When we started, I knew portability would be really important. I also wanted our code to be secure and correct. I looked into using Go and Rust but decided to stick with C for portability, mostly because they weren't ported to several of the platforms we thought we might need to support. We've also got a strong set of coding guidelines and a possibly obsessive-compulsive code review regime.
Since it was 2015, we decided to standardize on C99. Seems reasonable, a 16 year old spec should be widely supported... well, we build on Windows using gcc because Visual C's standards support is half-assed. We've run into platforms where you have to use the vendor's toolchain, and it's C89. Yeah, people are shipping new products built with customized gcc versions from almost 30 years ago.
We can't afford to have a tools group who can maintain ports of llvm and whatnot to various terrible platforms. So we do the best we can with C.
The email they sent out was similarly useless. "Someone was up to no good, but nobody needs to worry about anything!"
Also, the link they provided to change your credentials doesn't work. I didn't want to do it via the app because I use a password manager, and doing useful things on a touch device is a pain in the ass.
I have no idea what Walmart is doing (if anything), but Kobo's stuff is mostly DRM-free, and it's all epub. It's also trivial to get books from other sources onto the device, it mounts as a USB drive and you just copy it over.
Kobo's e-readers are well-supported by Calibre too. I've owned several, and they've been great. I currently have a Clara HD and my only complaint is that the sleep cover available for it is stupid.
I wouldn't suggest buying one of their Android tablets (unless it's known to be rootable and you can install Lineage or something on it; I've got an Arc 10HD forever stuck on 4.4), but their e-readers are excellent.
That's a great suggestion, thanks!
When Google killed Reader I moved everything over to Feedly... if Feedbro's data syncs as part of Firefox's normal sync data I can drop Feedly. Nice!
Apple doesn't seem to be shipping those anymore, at least with MacBook Pro hardware. I'm sure it shaves a few cents off the BOM for that $3500 CAD device.
Thanks, Cook!
I used to use LastPass, then I switched to EnPass, which I like a lot.
EnPass is free on desktops, has a reasonable one-time fee on mobile (once per mobile OS), and lets you store your encrypted password blob on your choice of several cloud providers. All encryption/decryption is handled at the client end, so the cloud folks can't access your data at all. They're using AES-128 or AES-256 (can't remember off-hand).
KeePass would also be a possibility, but I found the clients harder to use than the EnPass client. The last time I tried to use KeePass, the Mac experience was pretty awful (the Mac client was a Mono app)... that may have changed. KeePass is nice because it's open source, if you're inclined to tinker or audit.
Got a decent (that is, less awful to set up, configure, and administer) replacement for Exchange/Outlook?
I mean, MS is trying to make this easier for us by having Windows Server and Outlook constantly get worse (our two most common platforms are Mac OS X and Android; Outlook is half-assed garbage on Mac and a complete joke on Android).
My yearly search for a decent email client always leads me back to Thunderbird, which is fine, but the mess of ultra-complex garbage suggested to replace Exchange is insane. We've got a hosting company to look after AD and Exchange for us, so a replacement has to be easy.
G-Suite might do it, but we need self-hosted, we don't want Google reading all of our email and whatnot.
Note sure if you're joking or not, but when we got one of the new MacBook Pros in with the idiotic Touch(TM) Bar(R) I literally could not find the power button for several minutes. I had no idea you could push the fingerprint sensor, and it's definitely not marked as a power button.
I actually wouldn't care about this, except the Win10 version of OneNote is missing probably 80% of the features of the "old" desktop version. It's the half-assed mobile version that's available on Android, iOS, and MacOS.
Also, on my system at least, UWP apps stop being able to Internet after a while. I've seen it in Mail, To-Do (another half-assed alternative they're pushing, to replace Wunderlist), Wunderlist, and OneNote. They'll just silently stop working with the Internet. No syncing, no nothing, and no errors or warnings. Sometimes restarting them will fix it, sometimes rebooting will fix it. Win10 OneNote has never managed to sync all of my notebooks successfully... I've only got about ten, and I thought OneDrive took care of these now?
Replacing desktop apps with UWP apps would be fine if they weren't forcing it on us before the UWP apps are feature-comparable and reliable enough to use for more than a few minutes a day.
I switched to EnPass when this happened; it's actually more secure than LastPass because nobody else can read your passwords... they're stored in the cloud of your choice, but the file is encrypted/decrypted entirely on the clients... the EnPass folks have literally no way of reading your database.
The desktop is free, which might be (paradoxically) a problem for dumb orgs. Mobile version is something like $10 per platform.
I really like it.
Marketing departments don't generally employ technical writers, and they're not usually interested in getting reviews from outside of their weird bubble.
My first thought was that Gollum wrote that, but Popeye might somehow be more appropriate for Google...
If you find decent groupware that isn't Exchange, please write up an article about it. I feel gross using AD and Exchange in a mostly-Mac shop.
It was like that when I got here!
Microsoft "restructured" the hell out of the QA group in 2014. Windows users are now the testers, but they don't seem to pay any attention to that Feedback tool in Win 10...
Part of the problem is that desktop email clients have been largely abandoned. I guess Apple is the only big company still putting any official effort into their Mail.app, but then that's not an awesome app.
I've been using Thunderbird for ages, and Mozilla ignoring it for so long makes me sad. I'm hoping it gets an upgrade to the Firefox Quantum base (and a 64-bit build), but I'm one of those folks who wasn't depending on extensions that stopped working...
Every year or so, I try to find something, anything, that's usable as a mail client for Windows. Every year, I'm disappointed and go back to Thunderbird.
The biggest missing feature seems to be a spam filter, somehow.
Mailbird (https://www.getmailbird.com/) is pretty decent, but development of anything other than cosmetic features is glacial, and they don't seem to see the need for an actual spam filter, suggesting you instead depend on your mail server's filters. That's not entirely unreasonable, I suppose, but Mailbird also doesn't support filter rules, so I can't get rid of garbage from spammy recruiters.
Mailspring (https://www.getmailspring.com/) has the same problem (no filter rules, no spam filter) but the devs have acknowledged that this is a good feature... when they've had a chance to implement it I'll definitely give this another try.
So many of the Windows mail apps have been abandoned for ages that they can be written off. I wouldn't want to get too chummy with a program that hasn't been getting security updates for a decade.
Help us Thunderbird, you're our only hope!
Seriously, pep8 or GTFO.
Or don't you have coding guidelines for whatever language you're currently using?
The incremental cost is negligible and in many (most now?) cases HTTPS connections provide better throughput.
Citation: I work on quantum-safe crypto.
That Freudian slip for "mentored" is fantastic!
And me with no mod points...
That really doesn't bode well for BioWare ever getting to produce a new RPG. I was really hoping for a new Dragon Age title after Dragon Age: Inquisition didn't suck.
That's fine, valgrind hasn't worked on Mac OS X (err, sorry "macOS") for two major versions now. Apple doesn't love developers.
Lies. Colossal Cave Adventure was written in '76 and Rogue in '80.
Chances are you still haven't won at Rogue, so you're covered for gaming.
Trump World sounds like the absolute worst theme park.