Re:Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open-source clipboard m...
by leddt on Friday September 07, 2018 @11:10AM
(#17934845)
Looks like the code for IsPassword [1] checks for the presence of a number + a special character. If the text contains a space, or is longer than 16 characters, it is not considered a password.
[1] https://github.com/oormicreations/ClipboardPlus/blob/master/...
Re:Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open-source clipboard m...
by htgb on Friday September 07, 2018 @08:54AM
(#17933850)
Cool, didn't know about that! Found this article that confirms what you're saying:
https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/view-sync-clipboa...
Looking forward to it!
Re:Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open-source clipboard m...
by maxxxxx on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:09AM
(#17933927)
The way MS implements things like this there usually is always space for someone to do better. The author definitely should check on what MS is doing but there be plenty of opportunities to do better than MS.
Re:Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open-source clipboard m...
by ASipos on Friday September 07, 2018 @10:43AM
(#17934606)
This is similar to how there was a big market in providing basic services (like file explorers or drive compression) to Microsoft's crippled operating system from the 1980s (DOS 3.x-5.x) and then Microsoft slowly adding them in the 1990s to their platforms (DOS 6.x + Win 3.x; Win 9x) and putting those companies out of business.
Re:Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open-source clipboard m...
by llao on Friday September 07, 2018 @11:52AM
(#17935256)
> synchronized between devices clipboard
Holy hell, that sounds like the utmost crazy privacy problem. Is it end-to-end encrypted?
Re:Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open-source clipboard m...
by norealidea on Friday September 07, 2018 @12:33PM
(#17935612)
its synced to your personal Microsoft account, only if your email is tied to your OS. How is that a "utmost crazy privacy problem", plenty of people do the same thing with cross platform tools.
I don't know the details, but it sounds pretty nice.
Your tool seem superior only when it comes to masking passwords (how does it know it's an password that's copied btw?).
Wishing you all the best though, alternative apps can make a good push for Microsoft to implement useful stuff into Windows, plus they're nice for users.