TheWiseOne

Restic also works on Windows, whereas Borg doesn't (yet), if that's a consideration.

What happened is that _software_ stopped bloating and inflating like a balloon, as was the norm through the '80s, '90s and early '00s.

Is that true though?

Windows might have gotten more efficient but I think overall most software has gotten worse from a performance perspective. With the prevalence of Electron everywhere, performance doesn't even seem to be a priority anymore. And "native" apps using WPF, etc. aren't as optimized as old school WinForms, MFC style apps (though there are other benefits to be had).

So the web is now going to be even more Chrome-centric than it is...

I wonder if they thought about picking Gecko instead.

I believe it was the MS Research project Singularity which grew into Midori.

I am not sure if that'll be the case. The Multi Account Container (https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers) seems like it's dead. No new commits since end of March and according to https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3..., it's only going to get bug fixes and maintenance patches. No new development.

I have a feeling that they are relying on extension developers to add features/functionality.

I use Bvckup 2 (https://bvckup2.com/) to backup on to a 4 TB external drive. I also have Duplicati (https://www.duplicati.com/) running to backup those backups onto OneDrive and Backblaze.

Genuine question - how is Bing a good investment? Isn't it essentially a non-factor in the search market?

F# got mentioned already but I would like to add another vote to it. C# is the first choice for most people when building desktop apps for Windows but F# works exceptionally well too. There is a small but robust community and there are a ton of libraries/tools that you can hook into via .NET.

Look into Cmder (http://cmder.net/) for an alternative to iTerm/zsh. You can also try Babun (https://babun.github.io/).

Try Wox (http://www.wox.one/) as a replacement for Alfred.

And Chocolately (https://chocolatey.org/) and Scoop (https://scoop.sh/) to replace Homebrew.

Netflix actually had a feature on the original Xbox that allowed you to create a group with your friends and watch videos together. Unfortunately, they removed this feature a while ago.

There isn't a single link to a commit, file or repo that shows the similarities between the two code bases, let alone alleged plagiarism. It is conceivable that they truly are two different projects that happen to be developed around the same time. It's not the first time that has happened.

I wish the author actually substantiated his claims a bit better.

If you are using C#, you can use the Durable Task Framework (https://github.com/Azure/durabletask) to handle some of this stuff.

God, I hope this never comes true.

Email is not the right medium for this. Stick to blogs and webpages for this instead.

Flickr doesn't really do videos though. Yea, you can upload them but playback is limited to just 3 minutes and it doesn't really have tools to work with videos.

Don,

Will you keep the current 1 TB free storage tier as is?

I looked a while ago to find alternatives when some of these issues came up a while ago but I haven't found any other viable alternatives. I thought PeaZip might be a good option until finding out that it is also based on 7-Zip.

The one tool that I did find useful during this search though is https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI.

Apparently in Win10, Microsoft introduced a compact.exe commandline tool that transparently compresses files/folders. The above tool is a GUI for it. It's not a replacement for a proper archiver but it's a nice tool to compress things like games and other large programs that need to stay in place.

So much white space....

Why?

Is this going to be part of Bvckup 2 by any chance?

I stuck with WP as long as I could and I still miss it. The polycarbonate Nokia were tough as hell and felt solid in your hands.

IMO the OS was really solid. If they just stuck with it and kept building, albeit targeting the people that didn't use a lot of apps, I think they could've found a niche. They had close to 25% share already in countries like Italy and Brazil and were popular in India, Africa, etc.

Anyone know of something similar for Windows?

How is Microsoft more trustworthy than Google?

For one, their entire business/revenue doesn't revolve around selling advertising. While they (MS) have gotten into tracking more data with Windows 10 and so on, they are still nowhere close to where Google is when you look at what they do with Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Search, Google Analytics, Google Home, etc.

For me personally, Google is far and away the # 1 threat to my privacy followed by Facebook and Amazon then MS and Apple at the bottom of the list.

KeePass (https://keepass.info/) and KeePassXC.

I can use them in conjunction with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc. instead of relying on yet another proprietary service. Plus they are both open source and have a ton of open source clients for various platforms.

Just so you know, this (the audit) was initiated under the Obama administration back on 2010. All Federal agencies were required to go through an audit but the DOD got a waiver for 7 years, which is why you are seeing this now.

Second this. It takes a little getting used to but CycleJS is worth a definite look.

Try this course from FSharpTV: https://fsharp.tv/courses/fsharp-programming-intro/. They have a lot of other content too but this is the introductory course that's aimed towards beginners. It might be helpful.

And try the https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ site too.

My solution for the next static project is to use the web framework I am used to (in my case ASP.NET MVC) and knock it up in that. I can use output caching and read from resource files to get the static site performance and not deal with a DB.

Look into Wyam (https://wyam.io/) a bit. You might find it's extensibility to write custom modules similar to what you are trying to accomplish.

LINQ to SQL has been abandoned for a long time (since they introduced Entity Framework) but there are a ton of other ORM/DB access tools like Dapper, Massive, PetaPoco, linq2db, nHibernate, Insight.Database, OrmLite, LLBLGen Pro, etc.

Is this just for IM (as in messages only) or does it also support audio/video calls (at least for Skype)?

F# might be worth considering. You can also target JS by using a compiler like Fable (http://fsprojects.github.io/Fable/) or FunScript (http://funscript.info/).

F# maybe?

http://fslab.org/