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kayoneon AppGet, What Chocolatey wasn’t. A proper package manager for Windows

Great question, We have support for Tags, similar to the way docker handles tags, however, we only apply them to packages that make sense. take a look at https://docs.appget.net/manifests/#tags-and-versions for more explanation.

Here are some examples: https://github.com/appget/appget.packages/tree/master/manife...

https://github.com/appget/appget.packages/tree/master/manife...

but as I said, I'm pretty open to suggestions on how to make this better. feel free to ping me or open a github issue if you have any ideas, suggestions.

kayoneon Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention

that's exactly why domain fronting works. it forces the blocker to block a major domai. that would be considered too much collateral damage.

kayoneon New ThinkPad Guts Bring Intel Core I, DDR4, USB 3 to Cult Laptops

> But Thinkpad has done a good job of not diluting their lineup with cheap, crappy laptops.

ThinkPad edge. I'm glad that line died, it was a shame on the thinkpad brand.

kayoneon B.C. vows crackdown after investigation reveals money-laundering scheme

If I had to pick one politician out of the whole country that I trust the most it would without a doubt be David Eby.

kayoneon Telegram, Not as Secure as You Might Think

The author here, I don't write much so I would really appreciate your feedback on how can I improve my writing.

I wrote this post to share with my non-technical friends, thats why it's very light on technical details.

again, appreciate your feedback.

kayoneon Pirate Joe’s, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe’s Products, Shuts Down

I live in Vancouver, I travel a lot to Seattle and San Francisco for work, I used to make sure Trader Joe's was a stop before I head home. After this move I'll try and actively avoid Trader Joe's. If Trader Joe's feels so strongly about Canadians buying their products then I have no reason to give them money. keep in mind I never actually went to the pirate Joe's even though I walked by it frequently.

kayoneon Basic Security Precautions for Non-Profits and Journalists

I understand and I agree with your point, however to me Gmail and google drive both fall into one bucket, Google's cloud offering. If any thing I would assume Drive is safer since it isnt forced to interact with an old unsecure protocol. They have full control of how it's implemented.

kayoneon Basic Security Precautions for Non-Profits and Journalists

I'm a bit confused about the don't backup to Google Drive but use Gmail.

are you trusting google or not?

kayoneon In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas

the problem is when you try to make the entire university campus a "safe space"

kayoneon Apple, this time you made a mistake

The fact that the new iPhone doesn't use USB C and they are trying to push headphone manufacturers to make lightning headphones kind of goes against this _assumed plan_

kayoneon North Korea defied world with nuclear test. Now it seeks aid for flood disaster

It's amusing to watch how people are ok with trying out their international politics theories at the cost of a couple of million people starving.

kayoneon Five million Danish ID numbers sent to Chinese firm by mistake

well, the Danish mail service who's one of its main purposes is to read and process the mailing address correctly failed. And they most likely have _many_ more processes and safeguards than any office mailroom.

kayoneon Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade

>Am I the only one who leaves the Windows Update service entry disabled under the "services" settings?

I really hope you are.

kayoneon Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test

you don't have to do anything.

kayoneon Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond

Scrolls fine in Firefox, Edge, and IE11, so yeah. It's Safari.

kayoneon Microsoft Edge WebGL engine open-sourced

I still see it here and there, and it's great sign about author's bias. usually saves me from reading the rest of the comment.

kayoneon Housing in the Bay Area

It would be pretty much impossible to buy that unit at that price. The new normal is that you list your property at below market rate and a get nice silent auction going.

for example a friend of mine just bought a condo in vancouver last week, List price was around 500K, he put an offer of $530, got a counter of $550 and it finally sold for $580.

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/fierce-bidding-wars-a-new-reality-in-lo...

kayoneon Housing in the Bay Area

I think what you mean to say is cheaper, not affordable.

a software engineer makes over 80K if he is lucky, you would be considered an exception if you make anything over 100K. also pretty much everything else costs more in Canada than it does in US which leaves even less money for housing,

so cheaper yes, but definitely less affordable.

kayoneon Google I/O 2016

I'm guessing he is running a non-nexus device.

kayoneon SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader

Copying another reply:

Sonarr supports as many root folders as you want, the only restrictions is that a single show is limited to a single folder, so tvs1/show1 and tvs2/show2 is completely valid, but watched/show1 and unwatched/show1 is not.

kayoneon SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader

mono has really been source of many of our issues on non-windows platforms, hopefully we can switch to .NET Core soon and have a more multiplatform runtime.

kayoneon SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader

Thanks, that's generally the feedback we get, when people switch they are generally very happy, but I guess that might just be the feedback loop.

kayoneon SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader

Sonarr supports as many _root folders_ as you want, the only restrictions is that a single show is limited to a single folder, so `tvs1/show1` `tvs2/show2` is completely valid, but `tvs1/show1` `tvs2/show1` is not.

kayoneon SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader

Sonarr is a SPA, also our backend is C# vs python, which generally leads to better performance (contrary to what a lot of criticism we get, "why did you go with C# it's so slow" ok...).

The other part is that I did performance work for few years as my main job so I would say that adds a bit as well. right now we are working on refreshed UI which will be even more snappy.

kayoneon SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader

Thanks :D, glad you find it useful.

kayoneon SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of sonarr,

Sickbeard is an abandoned project, last commit was ~ year ago. there are multiple fork of Sickbeard, (Sickrage is big one but has had some internal drama), obviously I would recommend Sonarr :p

kayoneon Chocolatey – package manager for Windows

I wrote an article about a year ago on why Chocolatey is just broken, pretty much all of the issues are still there except a bandaid here and there, https://medium.com/@keivan/why-chocolatey-is-broken-beyond-a...

kayoneon Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled

I bought an XPS 15 just before Xmas and the sales rep was really trying to sell me on-site repair and it wasn't even that expensive (IIRC, ~$70 CAD upgrade), keep in mind this is Dell Canada so US might be different.

kayoneon Curl vs. Wget

I use git bash, with conemu, to be honest I don't do anything crazy but most of the linux commands I need day to day just work.

kayoneon Curl vs. Wget

I'm not sure why you feel like that, I switched back to Windows after ~1 year of using OSX, I wouldn't say its "miserable" there is really nothing I could do in OSX's command line that can't do in windows.