Comment Simplenote is decent (Score 2) 187
Simplenote continues to work for me as a notes system.
Joplin is also worth looking at:
Comment Re: Well, I'll uh be cancelling my ExpressVPN as o (Score 1) 28
iVPN (ivpn.net) is worth looking at. I've been very happy with them.
Comment OVH being offline is a good thing. (Score 4, Funny) 43
In related news, world-wide spam flows decreased 10% while OVH was offline.
Comment Re:Heyday in the 90s (Score 1) 55
Those were Now Software's halcyon days. The PIM kings of the Mac set. I'll bet they must have been guests of yours in those days.
I was a beta tester for them through many product launches. Of course, those were the days when being a beta tester meant signing an NDA and sending meaningful and timely bug reports.
Comment Won't ring a doorbell, but will put in a garage? (Score 1) 157
If Amazon (along with other delivery services) can't even be bothered to take 5 seconds to ring your doorbell when they do a hit-and-run delivery...how can one expect them to take the time to deliver a package to a recipient's garage?
Comment Re:It's the real-estate agents (Score 1) 187
The area known as The Castro was called Eureka Valley long before it was called The Castro.
Comment Re:Comprehensive defense testing (Score 3, Informative) 53
AIMSICD has been working well for me in this regard.
Submission + - 'Spam King,' Sanford Wallace, sentenced to two years in prison (bbc.com)
Xochil writes: Sanford Wallace gets a two-year prison term and $310K fine on charges of fraud and criminal contempt for sending 27+ millions spams to Facebook users.
Comment Re:I'd consider paying for Microsoft Linux. (Score 1) 250
It isn't free, but Path Finder is the cat's meow for GUI file management on OS X:
Comment Re:Degenerates (Score 1) 653
There are no BART lines in the western part of SF (Sunset, Richmond, etc.), so taking BART from the Sunset to Moscone is not possible.
Comment Re:What's the internet? (Score 1) 218
In Cyberspace?
Comment Re:Earthquakes take San Francisco, who cares? (Score 1) 729
Among others, the people from SF who live in SF care about SF.
Comment Re:Who has the right to live in SF? (Score 1) 729
How about your kid's teacher or coach who may have been living here for generations and have all their family here? Nope, they don't deserve to live here more than an "techie" transplant.
Comment Re:controversial law that allows landlords to ... (Score 1) 729
They don't stop renting it and decide to live in it; they take it off the rental market and turn it into an Airbnb "hotel" or wait a few months till the renters are long gone (not around to verify the owners moved in) and then put it back on the market at 3x the cost.
This is a common occurrence here in SF.
Comment Getting ready for a flight (Score 1) 320
I was in the Navy at the time and had just finished briefing for a late AM flight and was getting ready to go start the aircraft pre-flight checks when the news of the explosion came on the ready room TV.
I kept thinking, "at least it was quick." It was only later the world learned they didn't die instantaneously.
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