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Comment I installed Signal (Score 2) 47

When this was going on I installed Signal. This seemed to be the go-to alternative. Exactly one group has migrated from Whatsapp to Signal and 3 people have send me a message. The first 2 weeks i was getting constant messages about people in my contact list joining signal. This now seems to have stopped. I am not an evangalist who blocks all people on whatsapp that pop up in my signal. I am also not against alternatives. I was just curiourious what would happen if I just installed. With my personal experience in mind I am not surprised by this article.

Comment Re: Irish virus strikes again (Score 1) 142

In OneDrive clients on all OSes there is a âoealways make available offlineâ option. This way you have your files when you are offline. When you are online you have sync issue comparable to working offline on your usb stick. What is not better, full restore to a previous moment is only up to 30 days. This is where the usb backup stored somewhere âoesafeâ does work

Comment the Netherlands launch (Score 1) 19

In the Netherlands Amazon Prime has been launched as well. I was just looking into it. The first hurdle is the primary payment method for internet orders is unavailable. IDeal is used in 90% of internet transactions in the Netherlands, more than half of the people here do not have (or want) a credit card. Additionally Playsation 3 and 4 apps have not been launched and chromecast support is not available yet, no ETA either. This in contrast to the cairfull launch of Netflix years ago. IDeal and apps were available from day one. Netflix had a serious market share in just one month!

Comment last year was a shift from ransomeware to crypto (Score 1) 36

In my work I have been encountering ransomeware at client computers for some years now (fake police type mostly). The news about cryptoransomeware has been flooding around longer but last year was it popped up on my watch. This year it popped up more. Most got away ok with backups/cloud sync or it started encrypting files that were not that important. Only one has payed and reversed the encryption (before consulting me). This is not yet a flood but I suspect it will get worse and someone without backups will be encrypted and the price will be too high or the unencryption key will not be delivered.

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