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Comment Re:Keepass (Score 1) 154

KeePass variants also natively support TOTP, so there's that. Additionally "attributes" for a password are really just something I use daily it feels like.

My primary frontend in Linux is KeePassXC, my phone (android) uses KeePassDX, and my wife on her phone and tablet uses Keepassium. All of these are awesome clients.

We keep them synced through the Nexcloud client and it works like a charm!

I cannot say there are not hiccups from time-to-time, or that it isn't easier than a text file, but I do like that there's a backup. I'm having memory issues so having everything relating to a single thing in one place is nice. Don't forget you can include files and skin the icon too in properties!

Submission + - Question: What happens if every programmer uses AI?

ThePub2000 writes: Let's posit a couple of things; First, your AI responses are good enough to use; Second, because they're good enough to use you no longer need to post publicly about programming questions. Where does AI go after it's "perfected itself"? Where's the generative leaps if the humans using it as an assistant don't make leaps forward in a public space? Or, must we live in a dystopian world where code is scrapable for free, regardless of license, but access to support in an AI from that code comes at a price?

Comment AppImage please! (Score 5, Interesting) 69

I know there's a central ecosystem for these two competing formats but it just seems AppImage doesn't get the love it should. Sure it uses more space because it does share libraries (as far as I'm aware), but give me that concrete wall. There are at least three apps on my machine that distribute that way and they're awesome! No crap to deal with.

Comment Epson Already Did This... (Score 1) 97

Epson has already been doing this for years, why is it news HP does it? HP is usually the forerunner in these sorts of things, sure. But, unfortunately their competitors have already beat them to the punch. At this point, home printing is becoming almost impossible without spending huge sums of money, so unless you're running a small printing business from home you're almost best off using one of those businesses to do a one-off print here and there.

Comment Just them pay a fine (I mean fee) yearly (Score 1) 138

Most states have some kind of tailpipe law for the rest of us plebeians, industry should have the same. I should have have a fall-off goal to zero within some marginal period and in the meantime they would pay a tax to emit any sort of greenhouse gas. For emitting less they would get a credit against that tax, potentially bringing it to zero, but never negative, and for emitting more, they would add to the tax at a set rate.

No such law would pass congress though. Republicans believe we can burn dinosaurs forever, climate be damned, or there is no climate problem at all; and there are a handful of democrats in districts that would vote a t*** republican in if it mean their blue guy did vote on such a bill.

Comment Re:Finally catching up to Windows CE (Score 1) 21

I still can't believe how much foresight both Microsoft and BlackBerry had in their designs. I think it was because they were still in that ending phase of designing naively for the user will sell, not reeling the user in with rhetoric will hook them into your quagmire of incompatibility. Thankfully you can more easily exfiltrate yourself from an Android experience than from an Apple one.

Comment Falling demand ... (Score 1) 335

With more Americans than ever living in apartments and many of those apartments definitely not buying from the middle to top shelf in the appliance store, I'm sure these companies are hurting.

Not to mention, how many times a decade do you think a rental company replaces a stove or dishwasher regardless of the number of tenants it's gone though if it's in basic order, doesn't even have to work right.. just basically kind of exist in a functional manner. I've yet to see a rental property here in the midwest charging north of 4 figures a month, on an efficiency, that has smart any appliance. Those appliances are usually the nicer version of plastic. They're the stainless steel edition instead of basic white plastic.

Until a larger number of Americans can own their own home again and afford to renovate it from time to time you won't see these companies doing anything other than sucking us dry by tying "smart" tools in. Wouldn't surprise me if the most basic of these appliances start getting these things soon enough and it won't even come with permission.

Comment Re:So for doing absolutely nothing... (Score 1) 43

It's not extortion, it's a protection racket. Don't forget that was one of their exact arguments to the courts in the US, that they provide "security" through the app store and the %30 fee protects developers from themselves. It also serves gambling ads to gambling addicts, and other addictive services to matching addicts.

The rich and powerful and no qualms about their reasons. They're just a bunch of blowhards. Either you comply or find an alternative. Unfortunately if you want to target the iOS platform that means you hope they use some lube.

Comment Unneeded public-private partnership (Score 2) 53

Here is an example of a public-private partnership that simply shouldn't exist. There's too much power in the hands of a corporate exec tied up in public info. I know there are other examples but at some point plates will have some kind of this basic functionality. I'd rather some lower-payed DMV worker have access than some money-grubbing a-hole with some conceptual axe to grind. We all know us low-payed works might pull pranks but we don't think we're all-important beings like most CEOs.

Comment How to get a copy? (Score 2) 87

Where do you even begin to find copies of these things? Even if they're in the public domain it'll still cost you $5.99 on Amazon to watch it, and then that's just a rental shrouded in DRM. Where is the "source" for all these things that are on paper "free" if they're still not really free?

Is it only the case that if I can get in the local library I'm free to copy at will? But then, what about the DRM on the DVD or Blu-Ray it's on am I legally able to break it? Is it okay to circumvent "protections" on streamed content that has been "freed" to have for my own use?

Some kind of repository of all thins freed would be great, but then again it would also be sensible to reset copyright law to something more like what the founders intended too.

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