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mockindignant··on Neighborhood protest over tiny home development in Kansas gets ugly
Textbook NIMBYism. I have no sympathy for the current homeowners, who apparently are unable to come up with any reason to oppose the construction based in fact. It’s just poorly veiled classism.
mockindignant··on The Fictional Foods We Wish Were Real
I want to try at least one Poppler.

“They’re like sex, but I’m having them!”

mockindignant··on We have built semanti.ca, an AI-powered web data extraction API
Out of curiosity, where in Canada are you located?
mockindignant··on Amazon applies a restocking fee of 25% of the item price
Came here to post this. Some items are marked Free Returns, others are not. This is not news, and plenty of people know about it.
mockindignant··on When should you build your own ecommerce site? (Never)
Can’t seem to visit the URL without having to login.
mockindignant··on Understanding Sublime Text's pricing
I disagree with the premise that paying $70 for a license is exorbitant. ST is a great piece of software at $70 for a license that so far has lasted multiple years.
mockindignant··on The future of AutoCAD
This may be of interest to you, I saw it on here a week or two ago: https://products.aspose.com/cad

Disclaimer: I have never used this, and I am not sure it does what you want but I thought it might be relevant to your interests. I have used some of Aspose‘s other tools and they worked quite well, FWIW.

mockindignant··on Blocklist Facebook domains
There is more coverage of this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791052
mockindignant··on Ask HN: How do I completely block Facebook?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791052 has some coverage of the topic.
mockindignant··on Taking a break from Adblock Plus development
Do you want to provide some facts to support your claim or are we just supposed to take your word for it? Because, from where I am sitting, it sure does look like they totally sold out.
mockindignant··on Nobody Thinks About EBay
I feel like ebay died when they removed the ability of sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers back in 2008. I understand why they did it, but they created a less than desirable environment for sellers who moved to other platforms like Etsy, and the buyers just moved along with them.
mockindignant··on App will self destruct in 5 months:How Counterpath have screwed over Mac users
I was about to give them money too, so glad I saw this.
mockindignant··on FedEx vs. UPS: opposing models in the delivery business raise questions (2004)
2004 should probably be in the title.
mockindignant··on W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
Source please?
mockindignant··on iPhone X
It's special in that it makes lots of money unlike really just about every other smartwatch.
mockindignant··on On Password Managers
Did they add OTP support to version 4 of the windows client? Last I saw it was not supported, so it was not super useful to me.
mockindignant··on On Password Managers
Last I saw, on windows you cannot use 6.0 client without a 1Password.com account, and even then it can only read local vaults.

If you want to edit entries or delete you have to use 4.x, which did not seem to support OTP.

They have made no commitment for bringing windows support for local vaults to feature parity with the mac client.

mockindignant··on Ask HN: What is your password management solution?
Seafile has an iOS client.
mockindignant··on 1Password moving from local storage to cloud subscription
I discovered this a few months back by participating in their beta. I will not give them any more money. I wish them luck, they had a great product that met my requirements. Now they are moving i na direction where they will not support my requirements.

Unfortunately for them I purchase and maintain this stuff for everyone in my family, so they are actually losing several customers.

mockindignant··on Little Snitch 4 is now available in final and stable version
This company does not really care about it's customers. I purchased in the beginning of May. 6 weeks later and 0 updates, the rev the product to 4 and they expect me to pay for an upgrade. Yeah no thanks, not a way to treat new customers.
mockindignant··on SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
Time to close my account before all my information is sold to someone or other when they have their fire sale.
mockindignant··on Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
Customer managed encryption keys are supported by Box, so they also have a much more compelling security story than dropbox.
mockindignant··on Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
Better is a relative term, some argue that iCloud is VASTLY superior since you can set it up with your own private key that apple does not have access to.

Dropbox can always view your files without you knowing.

I do agree that as far as usability and cross platform support, dropbox is better. For security though I would say it's middle of the pack at best.

mockindignant··on Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
I understand what you are saying, and that is a somewhat plausible story. Another one is that search is more difficult.

But the reality is I think for any company with serious security policy will have to pass on a service that only "sort of" secures their files.

There are a lot of people also who will not ever consider going with dropbox because they have on their board (Rice) someone who has a sordid track record when it comes to warrantless wiretapping, torture, and so forth.

In my opinion dropbox is OK for sharing docs between 2 people as long as the doc is not something you consider private. If you want privacy though (business files/docs/artifacts), best to pick something else.

mockindignant··on Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox
I don't see where he infers anything. I do see where he notes that the company says one thing then their actions indicate something else.

Also, that link is from 2015.

mockindignant··on 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
They can't even ship version of their Windows client with the ability to create/edit/delete local vaults.

I think they are focusing on money before all else. They do still make a good product, but the direction they are moving towards eliminates their support for many threat levels that they had previously.

Now you have to have a cloud account and you have to store your stuff there because their supposed "cross-platform" client cannot work on their own vault format on Windows.

They might respond saying the version 4 of the windows client supports working with these vaults, but version 4 does not support OTPs so if you want to use the modern features without relying on their cloud storage...they don't care.

If you go to their forums and read the response from the community about windows not supporting creating or editing of local vaults you will see they are by and large dismissive. So I think it's really about money and resources.

mockindignant··on Sprint, SoftBank Said in Informal Deal Talks With T-Mobile
Because that is not the title of the article.
mockindignant··on Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
> exists on all 5 platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows)

Last night I was pleasantly surprised to discover it is in the FreeBSD repository as well. I really like what you all are doing.

mockindignant··on Ask HN: What makes an API good?
I highly recommend this ~hour long talk given by Josh Bloch a few years ago, it is quite good and gives plenty of concrete examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw
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