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7 votes
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Apple agrees to App Store changes letting developers email users about payment options
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Little-known Federal software can trigger revocation of citizenship
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What's the big deal with Electron?
I thought about asking this over here but didn't want to potentially derail the thread. As a lay user, I honestly don't know what Electron is and couldn't tell you whether or not a particular...
I thought about asking this over here but didn't want to potentially derail the thread.
As a lay user, I honestly don't know what Electron is and couldn't tell you whether or not a particular app/program uses it. However, hanging out in techy spaces has helped me understand that people have some very strong opinions on it, often viscerally negative ones.
Think of this like an r/ELI5 thread: what is Electron, and why is it so polarizing? Many companies seem to be choosing it, so it seems like there's some major benefit to it, but many well-informed people, including lots of people in software development, seem to absolutely hate it. What's going on there?
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1Password 8: The story so far
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Sophisticated exploits used to breach fully-patched iPhones of journalists, activists, as detailed by Amnesty International's Security Lab
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Trust in software, an all time low
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Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more
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King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software
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Tab viewer/organizer?
Weird question, but does anyone know of a simple tab viewer or organizer for Firefox (bonus points if it works on iOS)? I have... way too many tabs open, and I want to see what I can bookmark...
Weird question, but does anyone know of a simple tab viewer or organizer for Firefox (bonus points if it works on iOS)? I have... way too many tabs open, and I want to see what I can bookmark before closing rather than having to either close everything or manually check each tab.
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Spreadsheet horror stories
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Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong
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Academic surveillance software company Proctorio is suing a researcher critical of them, seeking to obtain private communications
@Ian Linkletter: Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.On the eve of the BC Supreme Court hearing to dismiss their lawsuit, Proctorio has applied for a court order allowing them to pry into my PRIVATE communications.Our response: https://t.co/jJdQ47P8Pe pic.twitter.com/leCr8yevsx
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They hacked McDonald’s ice cream machines—and started a cold war
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Trio | Social video optimized for threes
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Adobe Photoshop’s ‘Super Resolution’ made my jaw hit the floor
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At least 30,000 US organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft’s email software
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The explosive rise of Zoom is creating big opportunities for startups, which are raising millions to build apps and integrations
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Gab removes their public Git repository after it reveals their developers adding (and struggling to fix) basic security issues that led to a 70GB data leak
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Starting March 16, LastPass users on the free plan will only be able to use it on one "device type" (either PC or mobile)
28 votes -
Remember the Slack shoes? Are they bad?
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Texas Department of Public Safety issues amber alert for victim of horror doll Chucky
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The coming software apocalypse
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Retiring Tucows Downloads
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I'm thinking of getting a password manager. How does it work and any advice on transitioning to one?
The reason why is to make more accounts for reddit, YouTube (one for entertainment and Portuguese content each) news sites where signing up is an alternative to pass a paywall and other sites with...
The reason why is to make more accounts for reddit, YouTube (one for entertainment and Portuguese content each) news sites where signing up is an alternative to pass a paywall and other sites with comment sections.
Bad euphemism bro.Also some sense of "praxis" in order to gain privacy.Edit: And also getting anxious at the idea of remembering all my passwords, and putting them in a note in my old phone, which I am not bringing into my new phone and want to use this to delete.
According to these two articles, I can save my old passwords I had before and maybe even still make new ones after, and put them in a folder behind one true (master) password, which is the one you will truly care about, and they will be saved in a way in which the managing company won't know your password?
There's also figuring out which provider to use (and probably a similar post for alt-mail providers.) This is overwhelmingly for mobile (Android). No real space constraints for apps, only price, because I'm not working age.
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New 2021 GPS accuracy issue impacting some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS devices
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Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
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Notable developer Hector Martin "marcan" starts Patreon to fund Apple Silicon Linux port
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How do you think software services should be monetized?
A year ago, I asked if people would pay for social media platforms and search engines if they could guarantee no data collection and no ads (although in hindsight, I wanted to ask people for...
A year ago, I asked if people would pay for social media platforms and search engines if they could guarantee no data collection and no ads (although in hindsight, I wanted to ask people for basically all software services) and people overwhelmingly said no. Given how Facebook is dealing with the election and YouTube has taken control of monetization for the sake of more advertisements, I wonder what do people think is the right way for software makers to make money.
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'Someone's typing...': The history behind text messaging's most dreadful feature
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The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
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GitHub has reinstated youtube-dl's repository - Answers about the DMCA and why GitHub handled this case the way they did, along with plans to improve in the future
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Seeking good programs for digitizing all our addresses
What's your preferred program for typing up lots and lots of addresses? My mum's got multiple address books and they'll have to be typed up eventually, a block at a time. I don't really want to go...
What's your preferred program for typing up lots and lots of addresses? My mum's got multiple address books and they'll have to be typed up eventually, a block at a time. I don't really want to go with the contacts function of Outlook/Hotmail/Live, because it requires signing in and the password could be misplaced. I also would like to use something that could ideally export the addresses to another Outlook/Hotmail/Live or Gmail account.
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Mobilizon, a free-libre federated events and groups platform has launched v1.0
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Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US
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Oh! The things we had to do to debug software!
9 votes -
Five reasons not to grow your QA department
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Principles for building developer products: A CTO’s perspective
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The pros and cons of software crowdtesting
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The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England
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Nvidia replaced video codecs with a neural network
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Tell me about your early experiences with debugging and software QA
Are you an “old timer” in the computer industry? I’m writing a story about the things programmers (and QA people) had to do to test their software. It’s meant to be a nostalgic piece that’ll...
Are you an “old timer” in the computer industry? I’m writing a story about the things programmers (and QA people) had to do to test their software. It’s meant to be a nostalgic piece that’ll remind people about old methods — for good or ill.
For example, there was a point where the only way to insert a breakpoint in the code was to insert “printfs” that said “I got to this place in the code!” And all testing was manual testing. Nothing was automated. If you wanted a bug tracking system, you built your own.
So tell me your stories. Tell me what you had to do to test software, way back when, and compare it to today. What tools did you use -- or build? Is there anything you miss? Anything that makes you especially glad that the past is past?
C’mon, you know you wanted a “remember when”!
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Negotiating the developer-to-tester ratio. Turns out that 3:1 is just the beginning
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Druva introduces software as a service data protection for Kubernetes
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People expect technology to suck because it actually sucks: so much of our usage involves dealing with a constant stream of minor annoyances
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How open-source software transformed the business world
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Eight ways to know that it’s time to hire a new QA tester
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What sort of software do you want to see?
Devs make things they feel like making, or things they think the world needs. What kind of an app (web, desktop, or mobile) would you want to see? What is something you wanted or needed for a long...
Devs make things they feel like making, or things they think the world needs.
What kind of an app (web, desktop, or mobile) would you want to see? What is something you wanted or needed for a long time that simply isn't there, or there but so bad with X that you can't use it?
Alternatively, what is a common problem that could be solved with software but hasn't been yet, or at least not effectively?
Leaving this vague on purpose, to let Tilderinos express themselves.
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Why do computers running Windows get progressively slower over time?
I promise this is a genuine question and not a Windows hit piece. Every Windows computer I've ever had has slowly gotten laggier over time until my impatience has forced me to reinstall the OS to...
I promise this is a genuine question and not a Windows hit piece.
Every Windows computer I've ever had has slowly gotten laggier over time until my impatience has forced me to reinstall the OS to get the speed boost that comes with a fresh copy. In the schools I've worked in, computer labs and carts full of Windows machines have slowly sunsetted, becoming wholly unusable over time. I think Chromebooks have taken over education in part because they have a snappiness to them that sticks around for a long time, unlike the decay demonstrated by Windows computers.
In my current job, I was issued a Windows computer and a Chromebook at the same time, when I was hired. The Chromebook is still chugging along just fine, but the once fresh and quick Windows computer is now ramping down. I know it's not because of startup or background programs latching on over time because I don't have admin rights and thus can't install anything! I'm not a power user either. I really only ever run a browser with minimal tabs, along with the very occasional instance of office software and/or PDF reader. That's it. And what used to be instant and quick is now like... trudging... through... sludge...
Is there some fundamental design flaw in Windows? Am I finding a pattern where none exists? Do I not have enough experience with other OSes to know that this is true for them too? I'd love someone's insight on this topic.
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Gigapixel AI accidentally added Ryan Gosling’s face to this photo
5 votes