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Could you please specify what is the dataspec support difference between MacPass and KeePassXC? As for formats they both support KDBX4. But yes, MacPass dev and releases are very slow. It's just that it has been such a functional and stable native app since years.

A friend, who worked at a famous mobile/Fb gaming company, once told me his company would, sometimes, assign an engineer for an individual user or just few users. High spending users.

I have used it for a while and it's not very stable or rather say "finished" yet (neither Mac nor iOS). But it's open source, so I'd favour it over, Bear, given a chance, which it resembles the most. So I just keep it installed and keep checking it once in a while.

Though I'd just be happy with something like nv (+ Simple Note + Dropbox) which is actively developed (Simple Note just for the iOS).

From the article:

> Comcast's version of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) will be turned on by default for Firefox users on Comcast's broadband network

> Comcast is the first ISP to join Firefox's Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) program

> Cloudflare and NextDNS were already in Mozilla's program

> which requires encrypted-DNS providers to meet privacy and transparency criteria and pledge not to block or filter domains by default

I believe Firefox must not turn on Comcast's DoH as default even for Comcast ISP users. They ought to show some kind of first time prompt.

> bitcoin having a stable value for a few years, any value

It will still be "that" lottery.

In its current form every major crypto has been "promoted" as "be the first one to get onto my crypto bandwagon and this will make you rich".

And that will also make sure something like this BBC programme - Missing Crypto Queen - keeps on repeating.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84

It only disables search engine suggestions that's half the problem solved.

Now, let's say I have a bookmark for "abcd.com" and I have visited "abcd.com" a million times. So the moment I am done typing "ab" in address bar I get abcd.com suggestion which is good.

Now one day I visit (or mistype and hit enter) "ab"ihkskgskkfsbkgbskgbks.com. Yes, just once. Now, for days I get the suggestion "abihkskgskkfsbkgbskgbks.com" when I type "ab" even though every time I type few more letters or delete and change it "abcd.com" before hitting enter. Or maybe for weeks because I just end up going to history and delete that abihkskgskkfsbkgbskgbks.com so that it would never show up in suggestions.

> Black Cat, White Cat

I was introduced to this region's cinema with Kusturica's Underground.

I had deleted my Facebook a/c 5 years ago. I recently needed to look for apartment for rent and that is, unfortunately, done best on Facebook where I live unless you want to involve brokers who charge insane brokerage and show places you'd hate instantly, so you'd end up just wasting your time.

I choose my name as "first name + initial of my last name" (iirc that was my name in my previous/deleted a/c as well) and email and my date of birth and a real photo of mine (very clear -- basically a mug shot). Sent friend requests to 10-12 friends of mine and most of them accepted immediately.

Next day when I logged in I got a prompt that my account was disabled (flagged?) and I can request a review (or it said I can reactivate) only after adding a mobile number and I did that.

Few days later I try to login again:

"Your account has been disabled"

"You can't use Facebook because your account, or activity on it, didn't follow our Community Standards. We have already reviewed this decision and it can't be reversed. To learn more about the reasons why we disable accounts visit the Community Standards."

Maybe I will try to open with another email but they may again force me to use my mobile number and I can't keep getting new mobile numbers. While I do need to look at those "on rent" posts.

This company really has too much power!

Can I ask why did you people bring those design changes - this one and the last instalment as well? Was there some real need, some market research behind it, or just an itch to do something? To be honest both these iterations feel like trying to fix something that's not even broken.

I don't know about the other one but 1Blocker is now a subscription.

Wait, don't they allow custom domains? I think this lock-in, even if it is for reinvented email, ought to be a big "no".

Compared to a MacBook Air how thin and lightweight this laptop is?

Indeed. This is going to be one of the maany missed opportunities by Matrix in a series of missed opportunities. Just call it Matrix Web/Mobile/Desktop.

Are we there yet https://xkcd.com/927/?

Imho I don't see it as attacking the English language, but rather an irregularity in it.

I am yet to finish through the thread (I may not) but whatever I've seen are all comments on unintuitive and phonetically absurd spellings of many words in English language.

I have a feeling SMS/texting lingo will succeed at what others, including Benjamin Franklin, Shaw, Webster, failed at :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_language

But we didn't learn. We kept at most of it - phoenix, cough, dough etc. He even suggested sensible transformations such as ache → ake, soup → soop, tongue → tung, machine → masheen etc. All of these make phonetical sense unlike the existing spellings (for whatever reason they exist).

I had read about Cut Spelling which, to me, sounds more like SMS lingo - something like "how du u du" - and even though I find SMS lingo really irritating (I have to see that a lot on dating apps) it actually does make sense phonetically :)

I may be wrong about it (because I haven't tried it enough) - Flutter feels kinda "reacty" (I think it is) and "javascriptish" to me. I was made/forced to work on react/javascript/angularjs for few months which started in the guise of "urgent help needed for 2 weeks in another team". It was trauma.

Besides I had never been able to get into anything JS or related. I started coding on C, then Python, then Java (very little Scala) and now Java and Kotlin. I dabbled with Go a little and it was nice.

Recently I had to make some changes to a react native component in one of our Android apps and it was a nightmare even though I was able to make those changes and ship very quickly. These just never made sense to me. As in - "why"? I think I am just averse/allergic to react/js/etc, or maybe I am not able to think deep enough, or something like - I am not wired a particular way :/

I've tried narwhal and few other apps, but none comes close to reddit (mobile) site when it was usable and light. I specially dislike narwhal's fixed gesture options. The app forces you to get used to something you don't want/like in the first place.

Do the clients encrypt data before sending to the servers (clients are open source though but it's react so I wouldn't have understood anyway) - are they e2ee?

Back in 2015 I had installed and used Elementary OS - supposed to be a functional Linux distro (inspired by OSX UI 'd say). It wasn't stable at that time. Maybe it's better now.

What metrics decides the best minds and who designed those metrics? They may not be the best minds. In fact if they were maybe they would not be doing it in the first place.

If UX is the concern then Matrix/Riot may not fare very well.

For that price one can buy maybe five Android phones (with comparable or better hardware). Then install Lineage. Or maybe more than five.

It's years of fantastic painless experience and even now it's relatively good. Before using these laptops I never knew what it meant to just slam the lid, then hours or sometimes days later open it and start from where you began, instantly.

The privacy. The comfort of having two devices (phone and computer) to be in sync in a private and safe manner. Excellent app ecosystem. Timely and long term updates, upgrades, and support.

But as the parent commenter says I am at my wit's end as well, for the first time since I started using Macs a decade ago - crappy recent OSX and iOS releases, iPhones getting bigger and bigger, being trapped in a data/communication silo etc.

So why am I still here? Because there's nowhere else that's better.

Yes all of that and one another reason I cancelled my Netflix account for was - it just won't let me successfully hide/remove the content I disliked, didn't finish because I didn't find it good enough, didn't want to see again, and even the content I had actually finished watching! It was almost mocking me everywhere!

e.g. I explicitly disliked a show and anytime I'd open Netflix, for days/weeks, it be on top either a banner or one of the first in one or many categories. Felt almost like mocking :)

If your libraries is shallow (which anyway consisted of mostly r trite subpar content) it's your problem - don't hit me with your pathetic dark pattern. Their support kept giving robotic answers. It was outrageous.

There is an unofficial one for Mac (i.e. not actively developed and anyway not by the core devs) - Seaglass. Pretty much dead/abandoned.

Besides, irrespective of what the founder (or someone) might say/indicate at times I really don't think Matrix/Riot is looking to compete with Telegram/WhatsApp/Signal. They are trying for a pie of what Slack and the kind have. I am giving up on Matrix as well for it to ever be a personal IM app/service. It' just doesn't make sense and biggest reason for that not happening are:

- People are not going to bother finding different instances, or host their own - they just want one service, one server

- The UI of Riot is specifically designed for group/team chats and I don't think they will try to stand in two boats in one app or have two separate apps.

- There's no money in personal IM apps. So unless there's a coffer like Fb/Telegram or someone like Acton donates handsomely at some point there isn't much there other than just being another Diaspora but in instant messaging space.

Got an email. About the RBI bit - possibly, but I don't think I remember one without OTP or a password (it was verified by Visa I guess or something).

This was a revelation sometimes back and it was Amex (relatively new in India) but I am sure it would be same for any credit card issuer. I had a VPS in Europe that I had emailed the support to cancel about a year ago and they had replied telling me I could do it myself (listed the steps) or they'd need another confirmation from me to go ahead and cancel. I forgot about it.

Got charged some 40 Euro a year later. I was shocked. My first thought was a compromised card. But immediately afterwards I received invoice from VPS provider. I called the bank and asked them how did that happen. They said it's possible. Lucky for me the provider immediately reversed the charge.

The thing is I had cancelled that Amex card almost a year before that charge had happened. It was still charged! I was baffled. Coming from a country where literally every credit card payment has to be authorised via an OTP or password (since as long as I can remember) it was a whole new world for me.

Well, that cancelled card was charged again (almost a year after I had the last experience) when I shopped at AliExpress and forgot to switch to a new card while making the payment. This time I just paid the bill and went around Internet removing that cancelled card.