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sashk··on Python 3.7 released
Usually, it should be within few days.

I don't see any pull requests yet.

3.5->3.6 python was updated in the same package, so I guess python 3.7 will replace python 3.6 too. You will get it after you run brew upgrade.

sashk··on I've spent the last two years building a new email client
Recent version of Postbox switched to the Maildir format, which is still, from what I've seen, not production ready in Thunderbird.
sashk··on Tell HN: Failing to log in to deactivated Facebook account has reactivated it
Someone long time ago registered an facebook account for my email. I've reset password and, what I though, deleted the account, but it never expired because someone was trying to login and reset passwords again and again and again. So yep, it's kind of known behavior for many years.
sashk··on TechCrunch redesign is terrible
Their rss posts used to include images, now it's just text, cut in the middle of the word.
sashk··on Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud
I've seen (via Little Snitch) at different times, Apple Photo has been downloading data from Amazon, at&t cloud (?) and Azure — at least it's what I allowed it to use up until now. I didn't see Google yet, probably, it's recent development.
sashk··on Safari Password Generation
HSBC used(?) to do this. It was a reason I closed account there.
sashk··on Safari Password Generation
Yes, 1Password supports long passwords, but it's password generator can generate only 64 character long. (I'm not talking about word-based passwords).
sashk··on Safari Password Generation
Great. As long they attempt to keep these rules up-to-date.

Recently, saw strange thing -- I was allowed to have password with lengths between 16 and 128 characters, but my password manager 1Password supports only... 60 or 64 characters. Oh well, wish that this would be a problem, not other way around. Still kills me that my health records are behind 12 characters password, and my bank think 16 character password is enough.

sashk··on Apple prepares macOS users for discontinuation of 32-bit app support
Out of all apps I have I know of four which are 32-bit:

- 3 of them are from my (older?) Brother Printer. - 32-bit kdb+ I use sometime for calculations

I can live without them. :)

sashk··on Kroger to expand program that cuts checkout lines
I've been scanned several times -- they scan 5-10 items and then let you finish checkout process. Not a huge deal...
sashk··on Kroger to expand program that cuts checkout lines
Stop&Shop here in NJ has this and it's mostly convenient and faster than regular self-checkout. They occasionally stop you on checkout in order to scan some items to confirm you didn't "misplace" something. Unfortunately, this doesn't ease lines, as self-checkout lines are still long and you have to wait for your turn in these lines in order to pay.

The only problem are missing shopping bags and scanners which are slow, still running some flavor of embedded windows, I believe made by motorola.

sashk··on Nissan Motors LawSuit Against Nissan Computer
Is there something new, or it's just old case from 2000's?
sashk··on Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door
When Amazon deliveries are always left under sign "Don't leave your package here, leave it few feet away", I will trust some random dude to open my front door in order to deliver my package.
sashk··on Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
Just tested out on iOS 10.3.2 with iPhone SE and it has exactly same bug. Trying to add 1+4+7 will result in answer being 48. So it's more than a year-old bug.
sashk··on Google is building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join
Why would I order from Target, Walmart or others and then wait unknown amount of time for delivery, when I can order anything I need on Amazon and have it in my hands in two days delivered for free, or sometimes even same day? I think Amazon spend great amount of money into delivery infrastructure and it works: I rarely shop now anywhere else, because I hate uncertainly: when I paid for something, I want it in my hands NOW. I doubt Target, Walmart or others will able to provide this. They are not ready for online shopping. Amazon is. And alliance will fail at some point in future, when all these stores will decide to deliver goods themselves to avoid middle men. So no, sorry. I don't get it!
sashk··on Show HN: Pythonrc, now with ability to load virtualenv specific customizations
you can always hide colorama's import and initialization behind try: except ImportError block, which will allow it to work when it's available, and skip when it's not.
sashk··on Show HN: Pythonrc, now with ability to load virtualenv specific customizations
It shouldn't be hard to add windows support with colorama[1].

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama

sashk··on Ask HN: Have you successfully moved away from Google search?
Frequently, I end up using !g in DDG. So the answer is maybe.
sashk··on GitHub was down
What was happening to Github for a week or so in late June - early July? I see "The status is still red at the beginning of the day" for a whole week.

https://status.github.com/messages/2017-07-03

sashk··on “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
Flash will die 10 years after this -- https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
sashk··on Ask HN: Which wireless router do you use at home?
I'm using eero (1st gen) and with the latest update I've became less happy, as I now have to reboot it once every two weeks to get performance back. And speeds became slower as well. Disappointed, but hope it's a bug, not a way to force me to gen2 model.
sashk··on Reverse-engineering the Starbucks ordering API
This reminded me about call to Starbucks during the iPhone announcement in 2007 -- https://youtu.be/bd6dQmN-mPw?t=34s
sashk··on I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes
Recently was traveling and was expecting to use unknown wifi at hotels, so tried to install Algo. After wasting hours on trying to set it up on Centos 7 (who reads the docs that it's not supported? -- was confused by one of the pages in wiki), I got it up and running within an hour on Ubuntu (why hour? had to disable whatever I don't need, setup fail2ban, firewall and other essentials). Configured users, setup their phones, tablets and laptops to always connect to VPN when on wifi other than home one. It worked flawlessly for the whole trip.

Total costs for me $3.50 for VPS and one evening.

sashk··on Visual Studio Code 1.14 released
Finally: Multi Root Workspaces (insider build so far). Thank you.
sashk··on What’s New in Little Snitch 4
I believe seeing that High Sierra is supported -- https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/releasenotes.html
sashk··on GitLab 9.3 released
Good release, but... I'm getting frustrated of inconsistencies in UI (example -- issue filtering was re-designed in 9.x, but merge requests are still old; search for issues in multiple projects -- old). Unexpected changes, which break existing workflows (un-announced), and so on...

They pushing for new features, but forget to fix old bugs. There are couple of bugs open for months, even with existing merge request to fix -- nobody from engineers take a look until pushed by someone of paying customers.

I hope, Gitlab can pull "Snow Leopard" and do bug-fix only release, and repeat it couple times a year.

sashk··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
It was worth it until large hack attacks which stole database of one of the mailing list company (forgot name) -- then spam started pouring on many-many legitimate addresses...

Only downside, is when company merges or renames: if it merged I end up with to accounts which have half of the history; if it renames -- hard to remember original email (recent example wayfair's old name was something else).

Now, I'm switching to single email -- it's just simpler

sashk··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
How is this different from, let's say mailhero.io?
sashk··on Arq / Amazon Drive Outage Resolved
> Yesterday, as part of responding to a security incident, the Amazon Drive security team temporarily disabled API access for Arq as well as some other apps.

Wondering what was this about. Is it related to the rclone being banned from the Amazon Cloud Drive[1]?

[1]: https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-has-been-banned-from-amazo...

sashk··on Ask HN: How do you manage/share passwords as you scale a startup?
1Password for Teams works great for us.

Prior to it, we had gpg-encrypted passwords file in our repository, which was a headache.

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