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wyday

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About wyday

I'm founder and CEO of wyDay. We make a licensing & online-activation product for Windows / macOS / BSD / Linux / Android (LimeLM, https://wyday.com/limelm/ ). We also make an automatic updater/patcher product for Windows (wyBuild & wyUpdate, https://wyday.com/wybuild/ )

Our blog: https://wyday.com/blog/

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    > but if you must then the correct way to do it is to say what his views are I did. Read the end of the sentence you quoted. It's a snapshot of his hateful views. There is, however…

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    I'd say read some history on effective non-carceral and non-violent ways to deal with hateful people: shunning and shaming is the best option. It lets hateful people live their liv…

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    Comment #45816240

    I disagree. Someone with these views on humanity should not have a platform. They should be shamed and shunned. They should not be an "influencer" (however minor). Look, I grew up …

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    Absolute nonsense.

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    >> "Hard to justify going to the trouble of encrypting your backup." Huh? If you're "encrypting" using SHA, I've got some bad news about those backups of yours.

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    Comment #19635816

    It exists. Pick up a device that support ARM64 Windows 10 and it has compatibility with x86 programs (via an emulation layer like WoW64). This announcement is for Firefox for ARM64…

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    Maintained fork: https://github.com/eustas/ngx_brotli

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    wyDay | Senior Software Engineer | Junior Software Engineer | REMOTE | NH / MA, U.S.A. We build premium development and licensing tools for software companies. Our small engineerin…

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    I didn’t say “not useful”. Clearly they’re useful. I said non-EV certs “aren’t as useful”. Which is just a fact (as evidenced by the Smart Screen “reputation boost” that EV certs g…

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    EV Code signing certs get you immediate trust with Smart Screen. Recently discussed over on the bootstrapped forum: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/code-signing-certificate-re... …

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    I don't think you actually understand cracking if you're claiming your protection is uncrackable. You're certainly not the first licensing company to sell that lie, if that is what…

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    Comment #5582825

    Exactly. A bad workman always blames his tools.