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Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security on Monday January 24, 2022 @01:00AM (#30054169)
In the safety perspective, dormant accounts might be prone for exposed passwords (reused passwords, exposed via other services etc.) and easily an attacker can hijack your account. I had similar experience where a dormant apple account was hijacked and unable to recover. Apple also follows similar philosophies to sign in from a real device for recovery. Have you tried recovery options?
Re:Why Google Did Android on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:16PM (#22291657)
As described in the article, I believe it's more on the advertising side than beating the monopoly for a great cause.
I always had given Firefox another choice, but throws me out of websites, unoptimized websites and font issues etc. stopping me from using it. I really wish Firefox tighten up their game.
Re:Firefox 69.0 Released on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:04PM (#20869302)
The privacy aspect of Firefox is great. The containers also a great thing and help us to a great extend. Beyond the privacy aspects, I really wish if Firefox pays attention to little things that can make the life of a user a bit better.

- The Firefox sign in process is considerably improved, with a link based sign in with email. The fact is that you will not be singed in to email on the first time usage. So you are behind a wall to start browsing and the cognitive load not to leave the tab before completing setup. This experience with Google Chrome is far far better, as it’s one time setup using your Google Account . Even if you discount the google’s ownership and single account sign in, there are considerable improvements to be made in the onboarding process

- The Pocket integration is substandard to the Pocket extension.

- The Top sites and highlights are too big for my aesthetics. It could be little cuter in the way it appears.

- Moving a video to full screen makes your blank for a second and not a smooth transition as in Chrome or Safari

- Lack of certain platform specific integrations such as Look Up on macOS to get the dictionary triggered by selected word. It works across all the other browsers well. On Firefox, I need to make a google search.

- The tab bar is ugly and has lot of blank spaces

- No default support for dark mode which works beautifully well on Chrome and Safari in a very early stage. More than a feature, the slowness in picking up platform specific features.

- The containers concept is really great but not for most of the general users to make use of it. It’s still a bit geeky in nature.

- I’ve to go with standard privacy settings to make my sites work including google. Making the privacy settings strong doesn’t help much and get signed out of the sessions very frequently. - I use an app called Magnet on Mac to snap my windows easily by dragging to corners. The snapping works great on all browsers by dragging a tab to one of the corners. But Firefox just releases the tab once it’s pulled out from the current window. We need to drag again this to the corners. More than a third-party workflow, it’s about how these windows are defined and behaves in a standard way

Re:Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store on Monday May 21, 2018 @04:00AM (#17116840)
I was skeptical about going for subscription. I started when I travelled abroad where I followed Basecamp’s travel tips (handbook). Things have changed when I started using 1Password 7 and 1Password X. The apps is very polished and pretty handy. I use Linux a lot these days and 1PX and CLI is very helpful. Never regretted the cloud update upgrade.
Re:Security alerts on GitHub on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:57PM (#15715409)
iOS projects with Fastlane automatically looks for vulnerabilities with the gems installed.
Re:Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @07:35AM (#15540827)
I have been a Paw user for 3-4 years now it's super fast and the team delivers new changes without leaving behind the existing user base.

Insomnia is good and better option than Postman and a free alternative. The OSS looks promising as well. It doesn't really matter if it's packed as a web app but electron based apps have decent quality across platforms.

Re:Git git git git git on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @04:00AM (#15345718)
I have homegrown aliases like 'tags' 'rdel' (git push origin --delete) 'ldel' (git branch --delete) and many more combined with Zsh's (Oh my Zsh)'s several aliases (e.g ggpull, glog, gp, gc) etc.

I also find "thefuck" is interesting but I love to control my fate :) (https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck)

Re:Giving you more characters on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:54AM (#15345022)
I remember reading the story of an ex-twitter employee who was not very happy about innovating with "140 characters". People learned the art of crafting content with 140 character. Many of the reply-to-self and 1/2 tweets are going to be history. So does people write on the notes, screenshot and share. I believe it's more about building a better graph with more content intake, than giving voice to express. Twitter is always a tool polished by its users and several inventions made due to constraints. Let's see how people are going to take the 2x tweets.
Re:Safari no longer supported by Spotify on Sunday September 17, 2017 @11:16AM (#15269984)
When we say 2%, are we talking about 200 million users world wide and 15 million in the U.S alone? It's worth putting an engineer to fix the codec, IMO. I think it's more of a strategic move over a technical choice in the view of Safari new ad control.
Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:40AM (#13538837)
What press always talks about are the problematic part. In fact these are true too in many cases. Apple has larger goods in it, inherently part of every product. These are getting polished on upgrades and everything else becomes secondary.
Re:Dropbox Paper on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:31AM (#13529080)
Quip is a great product. I don't use it these days. I like everything about Quip except it's unconventional formatting shortcuts. I have tried various markdown based tools both mobile and web and finally I found Paper is appealing and strikes a balance between visual appeal, share and collaboration. Paper also syncs very small chunks of text (sentence level?) and it reduce conflicts a lot. Though I have used multiple tools for collaboration, the current version of Paper and Google Docs tops the list with my team.
Re:Dropbox Paper on Monday January 30, 2017 @03:28PM (#13524697)
Initially when Paper was launched I tried and left the product quickly. I was using Quip a lot for my work as it's more developer friendly and easy to manage.

I use Paper more and more these days with my team though we are into Google for Work. Google Docs is a tough cookie and an office replica.

Those who are in to markdown, they would hardly go back to anything else for formatting. The only catch with markdown is about creating tables Dropbox paper has nailed it pretty well.

The product is more pleasing for eyes with better typography, cleaner design and user experience. There's no friction to write. The people who collaborates are more productive easily review and feedback. Also it's more developer friendly with quick emojis with ":" shortcut.

Finally nothing beats the simplicity of Dropbox Sharing.

The product has lot more opportunities to grow. Expecting more integrations in the coming days.

Re:MacOS Sierra Server on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:40AM (#12845135)
It's good to see a powerful server platform available at $19.99. Where do I install this? Mac Pro was last updated Dec, 2013. Existing customers would find this cool, but it's high time to build professional hardware with truly professional standard.
Re:Apple's Relationship with Pro Music Needs Mending on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:17PM (#12646339)
This is absolutely a sad news and points towards the sad state of Mac for pro users. The investment on Apple desktop hardware is super expensive and often we end up with under powered hardware but macOS works well. These are for a regular user but pro users wants more. I recollect Oculus comment on why they stay away from Mac. There are lot of consolidations happens to make the devices seamlessly getting connected but unlike iOS walled ecosystem, Mac has a large third party developers heavily invested on the platform. They're sadly left here without anything!
Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:23AM (#12547502)
Should I go for a fresh install, considering structural changes?
Re:Homebrew 1.0.0 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:23AM (#12547498)
Should I go for a clean install, considering the structural changes?

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