vivan

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/vivan; my proof: https://keybase.io/vivan/sigs/aoBvgpNlXuWhIhj-4fQpG8H2RhtWVHScKYILlH8rCEM ]
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I used to report things like this that I had found, including cases where I can see people used the default "sample" config for security purposes, but I found that either people would not care at all, or massively overreact and somehow blame me.

If an organisation is disorganised enough to leave critical details in public, they're probably too disorganised to handle someone reporting it.

Comment · 4 years ago
Other email providers don't allow recycling of account names - once they're gone, they're gone.

That said, I do agree that using a domain you own is better practice. However, I have been burned there before - I used a .eu domain for pretty much all of my email sign-ups for over a decade, then had the domain yanked away because of Brexit. Yes, my fault for not realising that this would happen (I lay some of the blame with my domain provider for not mentioning it to me at all).

Comment · 4 years ago
I cannot recommend fastmail to anyone for the simple reason that if your account expires and gets deleted, anyone can create an account with the same email address and take over your identity. This seems like a massive security flaw.
Comment · 6 years ago
What do you guys recommend as a good way to continue work undisrupted when GitHub goes down? A second remote mirror?
Comment · 6 years ago
Outlook add-on to give the ability to "undo" sending email. It just mimicked the functionality in Gmail where it holds your email for 10/30/60 seconds before sending, which gives you a chance to stop the message being sent if you notice an issue. For some bizarre reason Microsoft built this in their web app but never in the desktop version of Outlook, which is what most people in big corporate environments use.

Finished the project, built the tool and it worked great, had a bunch of people using it. Then I got to the point of having to actually distribute/market it and I gave up - the idea of having to actually support a desktop application was just too much for me.

I'll probably throw the code up on GitHub at some point so people can still get some value out of it, since a lot of people have been asking.

Comment · 6 years ago
I guess it's a bad time to make a presentation to let us move from an on-prem SVN repo to GitHub...
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It also has macroing functionality with profile switching. You could achieve the same with something like AHK but the Razer interface is easier for simple tasks.
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Comment · 7 years ago
As with most questions about stack choice: it depends.
Comment · 7 years ago
Huh, I'm on Windows and it auto-joined the meeting too, with video enabled. I wonder if this is because at some point in the past I opened a Zoom meeting and allowed Chrome to open the Zoom URI in the Zoom app?
Comment · 7 years ago
How does this work in line with your views on registration systems? I'm about to be releasing a product which also is a one-time digital purchase and I plan on just having a generous guarantee. I was planning on having no licensing system because frankly it's more headache than it's worth - the target audience will be happy to pay for the product and people who don't want to pay won't be paying anyway. Do you think this is a fair assessment? Do you think it's worth having a very basic registration system or none at all?
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