sprinfo's comments

On: Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

[sprinfo]

Love how it ends with "Why you ask, your guess is as good as mine" lol.

On: Introducing Money in Excel, an easier way to manage your finances

[sprinfo]

So essentially it's Mint.

On: Contact tracing app vetted by Apple found to share data with Foursquare/Google

[sprinfo]

Had the same reaction. Originally when I was first reading this article, I thought this app was using Apple's API and Apple thought it was okay for the app to be sending data to third parties. But like you said halfway through the article you read that they don't use their API.

The clickbait is real.

On: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

[sprinfo]

The Vivaldi web browser[0] found a great solution to this problem years ago. Tab stacking, tab tiles, and native tab hibernation. I've been rocking it for 3+ years now, and I've got to say it is the best browser out there.

[0]: https://vivaldi.com/

On: Ask HN: My GitHub Pages site went viral. 120k requests and 6 gigs. What do I do?

[sprinfo]

Lol they said they believe GitHub won't mind, and that person doesn't work for them either.

On: Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom

[sprinfo]

This is not a valid to excuse companies when they do this.

[icelancer → sprinfo]

For this forum, maybe not. For 99.9% of their userbase, it plainly is.

On: Zoom’s 90-day plan to bolster key privacy and security initiatives

[sprinfo]

Do you know how much data that would have to be? Scaling that seems improbable.

[cyphar → sprinfo]

The NSA has built a data center in Utah specifically for this problem[1], so it's hardly beyond the realm of plausibility.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

On: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2019?

[sprinfo]

Always learn. Even if you think you know it all, you don't.