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figgison Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype

Two years ago? Still no issues.

figgison Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype

>I think eventually it will become like email, where everyone just uses GMail.

Or Outlook(Office365), Ymail, Zoho, GMX, iCloud, Yandex, Proton.

figgison Trends to Avoid When Founding a Startup

No. He's implying that reading books doesn't equate to being able to put that knowledge to practice.

While I don't entirely agree with this assumption, if you are in business it's probably a "safer" assumption to make.

figgison Convenient End-To-End Encryption for E-Mail

Say your company needs a new vehicle with specific safety features while still being convenient. When you find the vehicle that meets the requirements do you just plop the manual on your managers desk and ask for an opinion?

figgison Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection

And if you were really wanting to get as much performance as you wanted out of python there's plenty of options like epoll...

figgison Towards a bra-free Instagram experience

And the same people will get upset if you don't make a bug report somewhere.

Feedbacks important whether it's code or just experience.

figgison LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police

This is a misleading point. Assaulting an officer ranges from an elbow to the rib during an arrest to beating the crap out of them.

We have roughly 900,000 police officers. A total of 135 police officers were killed in duty in 2016.[0] And 14,453 injuries. We point these people towards danger daily and in a single year only 1 in every 62 of those officers will be 'injured'. I would say that's an acceptable risk for the job if the alternative is the circumvention of due process.

[0] - http://time.com/4619689/police-officers-killed-2016/

figgison The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

Just providing some helpful homebrew solutions.

Personally Recommended (due to no having zero issues using):

    https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast

Others that i've used successfully with varying results (usually problems relate to finding the chromecast):

    https://github.com/xat/castnow
    https://github.com/Pat-Carter/stream2chromecast

figgison The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

  What do you think about Google not allowing iOS or Firefox to become cast sources, or FireTV to act as a cast target

FireTV is not an open platform anyone can design for and use. It's closed and your app needs to be submitted through their dev shop.[0]

I just opened firefox up and had no issue casting from it. According to the below support thread[1] you may need to enable a flag in the about:config page. Although I didn't need too.

  Does that piss you off, or are your feelings of outrage only limited to our own personal convenience?

Nope. Amazon can and has support Cast in the past. They are the ones doing their best to block it, not Google. FireTV is not a free and open platform, Cast is. Great comment though..

[0] - https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/faq-general.html

[1] - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1171141

figgison The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

Which Amazon brought upon themselves by doing the exact same thing years (read: YEARS) before any retaliation by Google.

Amazon is the one stopping casting from their devices. Not Google. Google Cast is free to setup for. https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/design_checklist/

Nothing needs to be sold through Google Cast, no royalties, etc. All Amazon has to do is SUPPORT it. Or atleast allow homegrown solutions to thrive.

I agree this is a stupid 'feud' that only hurts consumers and I have my likes and dislikes for both companies but if you cannot see the difference here then I'm not sure how to help.

figgison The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

If a competitor removed your products from their store and banned your applications/services from running on their product would you not consider doing the same?

It's amazing how once Google retaliated Amazon finally allows chromecast on their store (but no streaming!)

figgison The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

No that's on Amazon. Chromecast is open and free to use. On top of which Amazon has shutdown any homegrown solutions sooo.

https://developers.google.com/cast/

Amazon is the one banning it.

figgison The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

Personally I resent the fact that Amazon has done everything in their power as a company to make it so I cannot stream amazon prime to my chromecast.

That alone has tarnished my opinion of the company.

figgison Learn CSS Grid through interactive screencasts

I've been using spectre just out of happenstance, if anyone knows anything comparable I'd like to look around a bit.

https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/

figgison Start your open-source career

It puzzles why anyone would go around picking up trash from parks they never use themselves.

If you don't like my answer, then go watch idiocracy and contemplate the essence of your existence, and then go and do what fulfills you as an individual.

It puzzles me why anyone would go around in a santa suit cheering up kids they'll never see again.

If you don't like my answer, then go read How the Grinch Stole Christmas and contemplate the essence of your existence, and then go do what fulfills you as an individual.

figgison Start your open-source career

> If you don't use it how do you know you're solving actual user problems?

There are many (many) ways to contribute to a project that doesn't require you to be solving actual user problems.

I'd suggest just finding new projects, review code, create pull requests for those small mistakes you see. Provide feedback if applicable. Etc.

figgison How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money

"The author deleted this Medium story"

figgison Cable TV’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming

They support multiple accounts. Maybe you need to contact support.

https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/m...

figgison Cable TV’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming

Have you even tried searching your problem..?

https://www.spotify.com/us/family/

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Family-Premium-mul...

figgison 120M American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak

| 2. Databases mapping all American households exist.

And they can be pretty comprehensive. Short anecdote but the last time I moved, and before I had updated any address information on my accounts/ID, the first piece of non-forwarded mail I received addressed to me was a credit card offer from AMEX. I still have absolutely no clue how they knew where exactly to send it to me.

figgison Perkeep – Open-source data modeling, storing, search, sharing and synchronizing

Would something like

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/490099/Bytecc-Interna...

work?

figgison Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc

After using ZSH I have that first feature and love it. I try to keep as much of my history as possible and it's amazing how much time you can save that way. Does that second feature not clutter up that history though?

figgison Nearly 5M Americans in Default on Student Loans

And just because something can be privatized doesn't mean it should..

figgison Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market

> They don't deserve a knockout punch any more than FTP

Would you clarify what you mean here?

figgison Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?

I don't know man. There's enough use-cases to make both boats float. Just gotta find it.

figgison A/B test of banner ads vs. traffic

After a few moments of searching I'm going to assume that whoever specifically scraped and uploaded the page may have removed the adsense javascript. Doesn't look to be a normal archive.org thing.

figgison Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally

Most of my recent bitcoin transactions were all confirmed multiple times within 15 minutes?

figgison A Surprise from the Supervolcano Under Yellowstone

Say if the massive amounts of magma actually required to trigger these explosions were injected tonight what would the response be? Would we at least know this is happening?

figgison Nvidia Jetson TX1 Developer Kit SE

The signup form is right under the advertisement.

figgison An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images

How would copyright and licenses apply to something like this?