laurent123456

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Comment · 26 days ago
I can't even create issues (error 500)
Comment · 10 months ago
There are ways to tell if an image is real, if it's been signed cryptographically by the camera for example, but increasingly it probably won't be possible to tell if something is fake. Even if there's some kind of hidden watermark embedded in the pixels, you can process it with img2img in another tool and get rid of the watermark. Exif data, etc is irrelevant, you can get rid of it easily or fake it.
Comment · 11 months ago
I understand there are nuances here, and I may be oversimplifying, but if part of the contract effectively says "You must act as a proxy for npmjs.com" yet the site has been returning 500 Cloudflare errors across all regions several times within a few weeks while still reporting a shining 99.99% uptime, something doesn't quite add up. Still, I'm aware I don't know much about these agreements, and I'm assuming the people involved aren't idiots and have already considered all of this.
Comment · 11 months ago
This is weird - at this level contracts are supposed to be rock solid so why wouldn't they require accurate status reporting? That's trivial to implement, and you can even require to have it on a neutral third-party like UptimeRobot and be done with it.

I'm sure there are gray areas in such contracts but something being down or not is pretty black and white.

Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe because in airports people are sometimes required to walk long distances to go from one point to another, while in a city there are public transport, bicycles, taxis, etc. plenty of other options so walking long distances is usually not required.
Comment · 1 year ago
Congratulations on the release Johan! We definitely need alternatives to Nextcloud and looks like Sync-in could do that job and more. Does it currently support plugins, or is it planned?
Comment · 1 year ago
As always network effect will be the problem. I know plenty of people on WhatsApp and almost nobody on Signal
Comment · 1 year ago
Is that macOS and Apple Silicon only? In this case indeed it's a no-brainer not to use Electron (why even use it in the first place?). If you ever want to support Intel processors, Linux and its many variants and Windows that will be a different story.
Comment · 2 years ago
Would be more interesting if the link was encrypted client-side using the provided key. That wouldn't change the UX much and it means you can guarantee that the shared URL will remain private.

But anyway I'd expect if someone is naive enough to use this website they would also share the URL and password using a single channel, which would be the same as not "hiding" the URL at all.

Comment · 2 years ago
I can't find the reference now, but I think I read somewhere it only redirects when the user got there by clicking on an ad. In that case it would make a bit more sense - the script essentially swaps the intended ad target to that sport gambling website. Could work if the original target was a gaming or sport link.
Comment · 2 years ago
One example is the calendar that keeps getting worse release after release, so much that I had to switch to macOS calendar.

Global Inbox also got broken several years ago and never fixed, since it seems all their energy goes into making things prettier at the expense of making things work.

Comment · 2 years ago
I don't know if that's his use case, but we had many users tell us they share their account with other users so they want the data to be encrypted even when logged in.

Of course if they share their computer, someone could install a keylogger and wait for them to type their passwords, but I guess that's an extra layer of security that may help a bit.

Comment · 2 years ago
If AWS and other cloud providers gave if only 0.1% of the profit they generate out of these open source projects back to the developers we probably wouldn't have this problem. Unfortunately they don't and it's only fair that eventually those developers take it in their own hands. It's not a great situation but it's certainly understandable.

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