1Pass X seems to be available on just Chrome? I'm actually quite interested to learn how it works - from my knowledge it's the only standalone PM extension right now.
I feel like people who complain about this are people who wouldn't be satisfied with anything unless they rolled it themselves. Of course, you could purchase your own server, use OpenVPN, etc. But anything that you haven't touched yourself is just one more thing that's potentially malicious.
I'm not entirely sure what the technical reason for this change was. Of course, cleaning up your DBs and whatnot is a good thing. But why did they move it to Postgres instead of simply clean?
Seriously. Both get paid and provide Internet connectivity. Both have incentives to do something to your traffic, would it have no negative consequences (financial, legal or just moral) for them.
The only non-technical difference is that VPNs have a lot of competition (so free market actually works) and in some countries/areas telcos have near-monopolistic positions.
That doesn't mean that VPNs are universal friends of your privacy and ISPs are its foes. Just that there is some disbalance.
Yeah, I agree. I don't think there's an intrinsic good guy/bad guy. But I have pretty much zero faith in ISPs in Canada. Maybe it's better where you live.
Just because there are options doesn't mean there's competition n the free market sense. In order to have competition, the market requires complete information (or as complete as possible).
VPN providers are not competing on security as there is (as others have stated on this thread) no ability to validate their relative security claims. Many people are advocating for VPNs as a pure knee-jerk reaction to monitoring by traditional ISPs.
What's to stop people from forking off that list and transitioning to another one? Like what if ad blockers just switched to use EasyList2 instead of EasyList?
Other countries have copyright laws too. Most of these laws have some kind of notice-followed-by-takedown protocol, and my understanding is that in many jurisdictions, a DMCA takedown notice qualifies as such a notice. Probably the only major difference would be the amount of effort the infringed party would have to go through to enforce the takedown notice if the infringing party is non-compliant.
For example, if you host this list in Russia DMCA will not do anything because (sorry for my French) Russia does not give a shit about U.S. copyright laws.
It's quite possible that Russian companies will not care about DMCA, but that's not to say Russia doesn't have their own copyright law, which includes a notice and takedown protocol. It's just a question of how much effort you want to go through to take something down.
> and my understanding is that in many jurisdictions, a DMCA takedown notice qualifies as such a notice.
It sounds a bit weird that a notice that has legal ramifications and is written in non-official language of the country would be legally binding. Or would American judges accept DMCA notice that was written in Spanish (I was considering using something like Comorian, but that's probably a bit too different case)?
I imagine it differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. If the law merely states something along the lines of the takedown notice having to contain the copyrighted work, the name of the copyright holder and some kind of assurance that the copyright holder is in accordance with the content of the notice, a DMCA takedown notice might qualify. Language could be a problem, but it would probably be hard to argue that you were unable to process a takedown notice written in english if your site is doing business in that language (which won't apply to every case, but presumably the majority).
Serious question: what does “hosted” means with a distributed system or repo? Ok, on Github you have the PRs and issues, but in the end it’s just one copy of the repo.
The idea is that the final part of the digestive system of pigs and squid tentacles have similar texture and appearance and the flavor can be similar, but so far there are no reported instances of the switch in meat sources happening.
Not sure that really applies. You NEED to buy things. Rent/mortgage. Food. Transportation expenses. The guy's right - at this point, why would you ever spend BTC on those transactions when you can spend $ instead?
The reason why you spend any currency instead of buying BTC is because you need to. Not because you're willingly buying something unnecessary to forsake potential earnings in the future.
Right. I'm not in any disputing Gresham's law; if you have enough USD to cover an expense, you're surely spending it first.
But the idea that "the reason why you spend any currency instead of buying BTC is because you need to" is just plain wrong. You're essentially saying that people spend strictly what they need to live and save every penny beyond that, and can only wonder whatever led you to that conclusion.
I think Snap is pretty dead. Between Instagram and Facebook stories, I just don't see the appeal of Snapchat. Most of the time, if I want to send stupid shit to my friends, I do it in Messenger because we can laugh about it later, too.
Not the target demographic, 21 and I don't think there's a single person I know who doesn't use Snapchat while Facebook stories is literally always empty. I'd say Instagram stories is the real competitor. Even then, when I meet someone Snapchat is usually the first thing that gets exchanged.
How can a company hope to grow if its narrative is "made specifically to appeal to Americans who were born after 1995"? The next wave of American kids will have something else they arbitrarily like better because it was "their thing". This has happened so many times it's not even worth debating. At the same time, Snap is totally irrelevant in places like Asia, where the big numbers for growth are.
Clearly people do use snapchap, so either you're right and they have hundreds of millions of insane people, or you're just clearly not the target demographic.
I'm not saying there aren't users. I'm saying that it's getting absolutely mauled by its competition. Obviously it's hyperbole to say it's dead, but it's definitely dying unless it can do something drastic. It's got no redeeming features that would make me want to use it over Messenger, Messenger/Facebook Stories, or Instagram Stories. I used Snapchat myself up until its competitors were released - so did many of my friends.
My point is it appears to be mauled from your perspective, but you’re clearly not the target user. If you were, people wouldbe jumping off of there as quickly as you did, but that’s clearly not the case.
It’s more likely you’re missing something and they do have a user demographic that is strongly entrenched. Of the users they do have they have strong user activity.
Take my 11 year old sister. She primarily uses snapchat and I can’t see her ever switching. She definitely doesn’t shop around these apps based off of some pro/con table of features.
1Pass X seems to be available on just Chrome? I'm actually quite interested to learn how it works - from my knowledge it's the only standalone PM extension right now.