Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

Post by secabeen » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 10:49 PM UTC

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Apple solved this pretty well I thought. The developer guidelines say that you cannot require a permission as a condition of using an app. If the user says no, you must gracefully degrade. You can’t exit(0) or put up an undismissable screen until you get the permission. Apps that violate this are supposed to get kicked out of the store.

YouTube TV still gets me though. Requires GPS access and won't let me access my hometown sports without it.

Post by rhino369 » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 11:51 PM UTC

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First, I dispute that piracy is really better. Amazon and netflix generally work easier than piracy. My, um friend, has radarr + usenet + plex, and its work pretty well 80%. But subtitles are often a problem. Unpacking/par checking sometimes takes forever. Sometimes the decoder in plex doesn't really work. Sometimes the movie has been DMCA'd off the use net servers. Private trackers involve sucking up to to 15 year o…

Agreed. I use and love Plex (subtitles are less of an issue since they added the ability to automatically find subtitles for shows/movies), but people who say the experience is better are forgetting the amount of time and effort you need to find a reliable torrent site, manage the torrents, and set up the plex server. It's not a huge amount of work by any means, but for many people it's probably insurmountable. Let a…

Post by mxuribe » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 1:29 AM UTC

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This is an interesting take, and i agree with you. I myself have used dropbox for personal stuff, and onedrive with several of my previous employers for years now. For any person or business that i know who is all-in on microsoft products/services, i recommend to just adopt leveraging oneDrive, and life for them gets easier. (I didn't say better in other ways...but certainly easier.) In fact, oneDrive is good enough…

I mount onedrive on linux pretty well with rclone. 1. Setup rclone with onedrive (you have to copy an oauth token iirc) 2. Run mount nohup rclone --vfs-cache-mode writes mount onedrive: ~/onedrive &

Post by mxuribe » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 1:40 AM UTC

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This is an interesting take, and i agree with you. I myself have used dropbox for personal stuff, and onedrive with several of my previous employers for years now. For any person or business that i know who is all-in on microsoft products/services, i recommend to just adopt leveraging oneDrive, and life for them gets easier. (I didn't say better in other ways...but certainly easier.) In fact, oneDrive is good enough…

I have been happy with this OneDrive client on Ubuntu for the last year: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/

Post by gdilla » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 5:20 AM UTC

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Every single video app I have on my AppleTV: Netflix, Amazon, Criterion, even Apple’s own TV app, shrinks whatever you are watching down to a thumbnail just before the movie or show ends. I fucking hate it. Yes, I’m one of those weirdos who sits through to the end when the copyright rolls past and gets pissed off when the lights come on at a theater during the credits. It is incredibly disrespectful to the film. This…

You should consider moving to Japan then. Theater stays dark until the last line of credits passes. Actually this is nice thing. You can still listen to the music, pay silent respects to the horde of people involved or just contemplate the movie.