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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by Tuxman on March 07, 2016, 04:03 PM »

It always makes me sad to see how people pervert the once neat little document viewer called browser.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by Tuxman on March 07, 2016, 01:53 PM »

Your ability to understand my comebacks is among the very few things I would never believe in.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by Tuxman on March 07, 2016, 01:48 PM »

I must have missed the memo announcing your recent elevation. My bad.
-40hz (March 07, 2016, 01:36 PM)

As here on DC people are speaking of a homogenous "the community" instead of "individuals", I take the opportunity to speak as a part of that community too. If this feels wrong to you, I'm still the wrong addressee.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Tuxman on March 05, 2016, 04:29 PM »

Already broken in Firefox 46 according to the comments. Well...

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by Tuxman on March 05, 2016, 03:12 PM »

The funny thing is that we from "the Nix community" (not "Nux"...) never make similar experiences. Must be you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Tuxman on March 05, 2016, 02:13 PM »

Textarea Cache has not worked for me in months.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comparative review of password managers

« Last post by Tuxman on February 29, 2016, 02:03 PM »

Does it have sync, though?
-f0dder (February 29, 2016, 01:57 PM)

The password database is one single file. No cloud crap necessary. Sync it in your preferred shared storage.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comparative review of password managers

« Last post by Tuxman on February 29, 2016, 01:40 PM »

The OSX version is pretttty bare-bones compared to the Windows version
-f0dder (February 29, 2016, 01:37 PM)

The OSX version of KeePass is quite OK.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comparative review of password managers

« Last post by Tuxman on February 24, 2016, 05:40 PM »

One of them is.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comparative review of password managers

« Last post by Tuxman on February 24, 2016, 04:48 PM »

"Brief". Heh. The problem is that both services have entirely different "use cases". I'll try to cover the more general pro/con.

	LastPass	KeePass
Pro	Pretty easy to set up, just register an account (or log in) and you're ready to go. Well-established, highly unlikely to close in the near future. Provides a complete infrastructure for you, you won't have to deal with synchronization anymore. Many first-party integration capabilities, including desktop browsers and mobile apps.	Free and open-source software. (I know some people call that a "pro".) Many third-party applications to integrate it with anything that handles passwords, including most browsers. Portable stand-alone application, won't require you to store your passwords anywhere but on your own machine if you don't want to. Supports all kinds of passwords, not only those from your supported browser. Lets you choose your preferred "synchronization" storage (Dropbox, your own server, an USB thumb drive, ...)
Con	Many security breaches including potential corruption of the users' password databases, the latest (publicly known) one having happened in 2015. Requires you to store your passwords "in the cloud" (thus, on other people's computers). Only "freeware" for one platform (desktop or mobile); get a second platform and you'll have to subscribe to their services.	No automatic synchronization on the desktop, the mainline application always uses a local database. It's on you to update it. (This can be automatized through hardlinks and/or mobile applications like Keepass2Android.) No "real" support in case of errors - open source project = open source community. Might or might not break on different platforms when the database is saved with a newer application version. (Never happened to me though.)

Anything missing?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comparative review of password managers

« Last post by Tuxman on February 24, 2016, 04:07 PM »

What does EnPass do better than KeePass, except that it costs money?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Comparative review of password managers

« Last post by Tuxman on February 24, 2016, 12:27 PM »

LastPass is an excellent place to start, considering its basic incarnation is a browser plug-in and a well-designed mobile app.

I switched from LastPass (bad security reputation, payware Android support) to KeePass with KeeFox (in Firefox) resp. chromeIPass (in Vivaldi) and the well-designed mobile app Keepass2Android. YMMV.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Calcupy! - your semantic desktop calculator

« Last post by Tuxman on February 09, 2016, 03:39 PM »

FYI, here's the change log for my current to-be-released build of Calcupy! 0.1.0:

* Archive clean-up.
* Added the "as" conversion trigger word.
* Better formatting for currency conversion.
* Fixed a rarely (impossibly?) occurring syntax error.
* Fixed a potential freezing issue.
* Updated libraries.
* Added history tracking for the current application session.
* Added the "total" keyword.
* Fixed a problem where users could edit the output field.
* Added a link to Calcupy's website.
* Calcupy! has a new, still ugly icon, loosely resembling the old one.

The Settings window is held back while I work on the website for the first public version; of course, with a link back to DonationCoder even though you don't seem to care.

Also, I found out that Mozilla is working on its own desktop application runtime based on Servo. I really do consider giving it a try when it's ready.

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