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My AV blocks the site because it has been reported as a malware site.

So, my guess would be that they're distributing malware, and copying us is a way to get traffic to the site.

I'm using slack for communicating with company members paid version is good buy if you can't bear cost of paid version then free version of slack is also available. My employer uses Slack as well. It's not that good in my experience: in particular, it's not portable, and it's heavy and uses a ton o...

Since version 9.0.5 FreeVimager is definitely not freeware but I cannot decipher its license: This program is Donationware, it is requested to donate $10 USD per installation to cover the costs of software development. Donationware means that you're allowed to use the program without donating, you'...

@kenkang: The answers are nonsense in purpose. It turned out to be an effective way to block spammers from registering.

Mozilla is now planning to support the WebP image format in Firefox starting from first half of 2019: https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-to-su ... aster-web/

With this tool, I found out that, my laptop "Right Alt" button, actually sends "LControl down + RAlt down + LControl up + RAlt up", really, I really don't know why it sends the "LControl" keystroke, but, after knowing that, it really allowed me to avoid a lot of problems, for example, remapping key...

Hopefully this will be THE standard by 2020. AV1 has good chances to make it there. It's royalty-free, and performs better (i.e. can achieve either better compression ratio or quality) than anything else. It would be stupid for companies and individuals not to utilize AV1.* * (except for MPEG-LA me...

webfork wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:01 pm

Software disenchantment" - a great article on exceedingly inefficient software

Thanks, nice read.

Piriform has now written a comprehensive list of the data CCleaner sends by default. It still looks a little excessive to me (the data includes button clicks in CCleaner, the installed AV, whether or not you have Chrome installed, and if CCleaner crashes, the full list of programs that were running ...

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Sun Aug 26, 2018 12:23 pm

I usually lose the rest when explaining how to update UniExtract so they can extract the setup files

Simply recommend Universal Extractor 2 instead, it's already up to date.

Mozilla notes they're strained resource-wise with maintaining a legacy XUL catalog, though given their claimed motivation that none of the latest versions of Firefox support XUL (ignoring Firefox forks like Palemoon, etc which still use them) surely in that case fewer users would be downloading the...

I think we need to nail down on how to present _both_ pinned comments and 10 most recent comments, both of which must be presented before the hidden comments. Maybe we can have this: == Top 5 voted comments == == Most recent 10 comments == == Click to show all comments (most recent first) == Any ot...

I'm opposed. Meltdown and Spectre got attention primarily because 1) as hardware flaws, fully fixing them requires new CPUs, and 2) because they affect such a broad range of software. Other than that, they aren't very severe vulnerabilities: just information leaks. I can appreciate that the Presto ...

I think auto-hide is a good idea.

PFW users: I've generally made it the policy of the site to add a security notice to some of the older browsers mentioned here on the site ( here are a few examples ) to help set expectations for visitors. People have strong feelings about Opera (Presto) so I wanted to poll site users before making...