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ryanmcdonoughon Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?

Steam does and people don’t though.

ryanmcdonoughon Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?

How many people are willing to pay on Windows Desktop for apps vs iOS consumers?

ryanmcdonoughon Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?

- 20 hour mini-project (50% filtered out — 2 left)

Is this paid? This seems like an awful lot of hoops to make people jump through.

ryanmcdonoughon Chromium: Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist

It's a computer level browser policy rather than something the website can request the browser to honour.

ryanmcdonoughon Another misstep for Audacity

The audacity of these people!

ryanmcdonoughon Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?

He is based in the UK and his site almost exclusivly covers UK networks with a UK user base reading the posts - so the "typical" speeds would be for the UK.

ryanmcdonoughon Show HN: Consistent – Community to get six-pack abs this summer

Looking forward to this

ryanmcdonoughon Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams

Apple auto tell you if you delete an app with a subscription that there’s a subscription on this and allows you to end it right there.

ryanmcdonoughon Help HN: Google just blocked my site as deceptive site

Just as a point, I wouldn’t give you credit card details to try a demo. I don’t think many people would - hard enough to get people to give them for a trial, nevermind to try uploading a file.

ryanmcdonoughon Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage (Now FOSS)

This looks really good - will be using this today!

ryanmcdonoughon Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

Bellingcat - The Executions & The Hunt ‘the two-part series tells the story of a gruesome video that captured the world’s attention in 2018 and how a remarkable open source investigation sought to unravel its secrets.

The video, which had spread rapidly online, appeared to show unarmed women and children being murdered by men in army uniform. Which army the men belonged to was not clear. Nor was it apparent where the incident had taken place or who the victims were. But an international team of investigators and volunteers was determined to uncover the truth.’

Incredible & horrifying to listen to.

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/podcasts/2020/07/21/the...

ryanmcdonoughon Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit

The name came from a previous exploit called BlueKeep, which wasn't related to BSOD.

In fact: "On 6 September 2019, an exploit of the wormable BlueKeep security vulnerability was announced to have been released into the public realm.[4] The initial version of this exploit was, however, unreliable, being known to cause "blue screen of death" (BSOD) errors. A fix was later announced, removing the cause of the BSOD error."

They even fixed a BSOD issue that popped up in BlueKeep as that was no good to them.

ryanmcdonoughon YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

The system always works the way a rational human who has a vested interest in the claimaint

ryanmcdonough on Open-Source Music Production Tools

Having followed the development of one back when I used to listen to LUGRadio: Jokosher hasn’t been updated in over 10 years, yes it’s free and open but doesn’t seem like it’s worth the hassle including in the list.

ryanmcdonough on Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR

Which world are you living in where banning visitors having their phones is a reasonable thing to happen?

ryanmcdonough on Gitlab.com Is Moving to 13.0

I’d imagine they were already using it with their prior SC setup and didn’t want to move source control and everything else at once.

ryanmcdonough on Fast or Slow

And another https://www.fastorslow.com/app/profile/2bd978bd-f107-5761-84...

ryanmcdonough on Fast or Slow

https://www.fastorslow.com/app/profile/2bd978bd-f107-5761-84...

ryanmcdonough on Google Maps Hacks

It’s maybe different in the UK but it’s great to have it for motorway (highway) journeys where a closure of a section of road can leave you dealing with a 4 mile route around winding roads. It’s also great for avoiding the traffic in the first place.

ryanmcdonough on Google Maps Hacks

You mean pressing “end route” ?

ryanmcdonough on Ending Support for macOS and Linux

But they’ll support Windows 7 a product approaching EOL in a couple of weeks.

ryanmcdonough on Back to Microsoft: Using Windows again so I can use Linux effectively

As he said:
“ I began looking for dockable tablets with USB-C and the ability to do Linux work on them while also having good battery life, and relatively painless wifi and bluetooth. While there are some great preloaded Linux devices out there (e.g. Dell XPS, System76, Purism Librem) all either lacked a tablet mode, USB-C , or both. Macs lacked tablet mode, and also have been using a keyboard design recently that I don’t personally like very much.”
None of the OOTB Linux laptops offered either a tablet mode, usb-c or both, same for the Mac. The clue was in the content.

ryanmcdonough on Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse

I wonder if this is why I’ve been getting phone call spam from Switzerland & Turkmenistan the past few days.

ryanmcdonough on Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPhones from 4s to X

Here’s your Android but: WiFi and audio don’t work. That’ll be great.

ryanmcdonough on Slack Security Incident

I don’t quite understand that bit, the attackers could at the time steal plaintext passwords - however how does that affect 2FA benefits several years after the attack?
It sounds like he’s mixing a couple of things up there unless anyone can explain otherwise?

ryanmcdonough on Tensions with the West are putting the future of China’s Skynet at stake

They are made by GlobalFoundries, which have only just started construction on a lab in China - wikipedia.

ryanmcdonough on Why is Google selling potentially compromised Chinese security keys?

The fact is google are very good as managing security of their supply chain and if you’re worried about China interfering with hardware then I’m wondering where you think your phones, laptops, tv, tablets, IoT fridges are made... they are full of parts from China, almost impossible to check everything inside your laptop - however a single hardware device provided by Google?

ryanmcdonough on Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store

Have you donated or signed up for those white papers so far? If so how many times/how much?

ryanmcdonough on Uber drivers in Norway must pay back all earnings and lose their license

Feel like the title needs to start with "12"

ryanmcdonough on Ask HN: Are there real-world examples of moral failures of software engineers?

http://www.wired.com/2010/09/google-spy/ like him?