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Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by pavlov »

ChristianBundy wrote: post #53
pavlov wrote: post #47

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Yes, that's essentially what happens. And it's a huge waste if you have 20 Electron apps running. Each ships with its own copy of Chromium which is as large as an operating system. I created a proof-of-concept called Electrino that uses the platform native libraries to cut down on app size: https://medium.com/dailyjs/put-your-electron-app-on-a-diet-w... Unfortunately I haven't had the time to work on Electrino due to…

Hey, I saw the post that got the ball rolling on Electrino and I've been meaning to reach out to you. Do you have any tips on where to start on porting Electrino to Linux? Electron-like "web" apps (that follow W3C standards) seem to be the future, and I'd love to help out however I can.

Great! I use desktop Linux regularly and I have some ideas where the Linux port could start off. Would you drop me an email at pauli@lacquer.fi and let’s talk?

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by digi_owl »

aidos wrote: post #19
stevekemp wrote: post #6

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Almost as good as Mike Rowe .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft

Haha. Never heard about that case. >>> A settlement was eventually reached, with Rowe granting ownership of the domain to Microsoft in exchange for an Xbox and additional compensation.

Depending on how many games he later bought for that xbox, MS may well have been the ones that came out on top.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by paulie_a »

babuskov wrote: post #31
Polarity wrote: post #29

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im really fed up with this argument. most "native" apps use big chunks of the platform "frameworks" and are not platform independent, which was introduced by os companies and politics in the first place. most modern apple native apps are the ones that crash the most while electron are stable as fuck.

I'm curious. If you have 20 electron apps running, does that mean you would have 20 copies of the completely same thing wasting your disk space and RAM? How would that work if all the application developers decided that native sucks and all should use Electron?

You also have 20 security nightmare apps running

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by nradov »

JetSpiegel wrote: post #49
Polarity wrote: post #29

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im really fed up with this argument. most "native" apps use big chunks of the platform "frameworks" and are not platform independent, which was introduced by os companies and politics in the first place. most modern apple native apps are the ones that crash the most while electron are stable as fuck.

It's better (and more efficient) to have a developer write (or waste, if you consider doing their job "wasting time") two interfaces than to waste the computer resources of a million people. Electron is just outsourcing cross platform development to the Chromium project.

Unfortunately waste of users' computer resources is an externality and developers are more expensive than ever. Revealed preferences show that customers would rather buy more hardware resources than pay higher prices for efficient software (within reasonable limits).

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by digi_owl »

neko_koneko wrote: post #62
snarfy wrote: post #20

> Each time that a popular AntiVirus software begins to detect one of my utilities as Virus or Trojan, my email is flooded with messages from worried people that think my Web site is infected with Viruses. Some of them even blame me that I spread Viruses through my Web site. I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here. Anti virus vendors are making false accusations.

Malware authors often incorporate legitimate software into their malware - e.g. Nir Sofer's Mail PassView and Web PassView are used in Emotet spam bot to harvest user credentials. Usually such files are marked as "Potentially unsafe software" by analysts, or in some cases could be detected as part of a malware family by AV companies' automated detection tools.

Another thing is that actions malware take and actions legitimate "power user" software takes are separated only by context. Thus automated behavior analysis is always going to produce false positives.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by digi_owl »

petercooper wrote: post #30
snarfy wrote: post #20

> Each time that a popular AntiVirus software begins to detect one of my utilities as Virus or Trojan, my email is flooded with messages from worried people that think my Web site is infected with Viruses. Some of them even blame me that I spread Viruses through my Web site. I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here. Anti virus vendors are making false accusations.

I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here. If that would ever fly, I want to take action against mail servers that tell me my mail is "spam" when it clearly isn't and was double opted-in by their users :-D

Google seems to have a habit of dumping directly to spam emails from any domain they do not recognize.

Or at least i have seen some complaints bouncing around certain mailing lists in that regard.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by Prefinem »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #52
dchest wrote: post #46

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Fun fact: the icon for my Objective-C Mac app is larger than the executable binary (517 vs 394 KB).

You can probably shrink your icon down (losslessly) by dropping it into ImageOptim. https://imageoptim.com/mac

Not OP, but thanks for the link to that app. It's quite amazing.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by beloch »

We should have a sub-thread of these comments devoted just to the silly things people use NirSoft stuff to do. I'll start.

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I have a HTPC hooked up to a projector that I use to play movies, and the projector has native support for 24 FPS, so I use this:

http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/setdisplay.html

to quickly set framerate. Make batch files for 24 Hz, 60 Hz, etc. bind them to keys, and then you don't have to bother going into a display settings GUI.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by da_chicken »

maxxxxx wrote: post #57
arunc wrote: post #34

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If that happens Notepad++ will probably the first explicit GNU GPL product from MS.

It's still hard to understand that they haven't touched Notepad in such a long time. The effort to get a good editor must be tiny compared to a lot of other stuff they are doing. I am pretty sure I could improve Notepad substantially with just a few days of work.

Eh. The only thing I really miss in Notepad is the ability to easily view text files that have Linux line endings. That's really all I care about. For anything else I'll probably use Notepad++ or VS Code.

The reality is that Windows isn't a text-based operating system, so a text editor with features isn't a vital component.

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