This happend to my kindle to! After keeping in in flight mode for years I put it online again in order to buy a few new books from the kindle store, poof suddenly my entire library of side loaded books was gone, with progress and everything. I could see random metadata files related to the books on the drive, be books was gone. Super annoying as many of the books I didn't have locally anymore and to loose the "archivement" of finished books sucks big time.
I can see this may be implemented by amazon to counter piracy, but alot of these books was perfectly legal.
So the result of this is that I will never put my kindle online again and just stop buying from the Kindle store.
Keep mine in Aeroplane mode. Download books I buy on Amazon directly from amazon and drop them into calibre. Amazon doesn't get to touch my Kindle ever.
Thinking hard if I ever want to get another Kindle when Amazon can just screw around with what I put on my Kindle ...
Same, though I don't think it is going to help Amazon the way they hope it does. I moved books over to my kindle and had it nuke my humble bundle collections when I added a purchase from Amazon. I've not connect it again until I figure out how to backup and restore MY metadata.
Totally agree, it has been fun to follow, but I really don't hope that this stunt destroys for the awesome product Beeper Cloud is. As an European user I couldn't care less about blue and green bubbles, all of my communication goes through FB messenger or Snap, only exception is the occasional SMS from old relatives without other platforms.
I have been using Beeper for 6 months or so now. In the start it had some bugs, but now they are more and more rare (I don't use iMessages).
Overall an amazing product, with what seems like a very active and product team behind which constants pushes out new updates.
Highly recommended 10/10!
Just don't be too critical, or exasperated...
They'll quickly categorise it as rude/disrespectful.
Ignore any & all contribution, refund, & then bump you in an instant.
And they'll do all this in a ham-fisted & egotistical/condescending way.
My experience of their culture, is it doesn't bode well LT.
I have an older Mac dedicated to this singular purpose. It works well. That bridge + SmsMatrix on my android phone means I can get my text messages & iMessages from my (all iPhone family) anywhere I can load the Riot web app.
Note that it's kind of an interesting hack: IIRC It's just talking to the local sqlite data store that the Mac is receiving messages to. I worry that apple may one day say "Nope" and shut down this "API" we were never supposed to have.
I've been self hosting it all long before I knew it had a commercial front (Beeper), the docs are fine. That's from the POV of someone who was already running a Matrix server, though.
That option exists today. The iMessage bridge needs to run on a Mac, for obvious reasons, but not only can you self-host it, but you can plug your self-hosted bridge into the public homeserver/client entirely through their settings panel.
When they originally had you do setup for Beeper, they would record the process, and not inform you that they were going to do that until the meeting was already open.
Beeper is made by the same guy who made Pebble watch and then sold the whole kit-n-caboodle (minus developer jobs) to Fitbit when business tanked.
I have have sent several emails asking Eric Migicovsky what guarantees he has that the privacy policy will continue to stay the same if Beeper becomes unprofitable and is sold to another company. He doesn't think an answer to this question is deserved, as he has not responded to any emails. In the meantime, he has continued to send me advertising emails reminding me I'm no longer on a waiting list, but apparently doesn't think questions from customers are worth answering.
What's the point in trusting your data to a company whose privacy policy can change if they sell it to the highest bidder and one of the co-founders has a history of just that? Especially one that has no intention of telling you that they're going to record the entire process of on-boarding you until you're entering the meeting.
I'm gonna stick with Pidgin and Matrix, especially since you can spin up your own Matrix server with the same bridges that Beeper uses, and then the only person you need to give your iCloud password is you, and not some stranger who refuses to answer valid privacy policy questions.
Specifically CLion's excellent code browsing features. It's the only thing between me and insanity when I have to "quickly" patch a binary with source code spread out over 1000+ files.
Especially local history - being able to go back in time before any commits were made saves you rewriting code or having to remember what something was doing before.
Otherwise the number of times I "show usages" or refactor shortcuts (rename, extract method / variable) throughout the day...
All of it out of the box as well, it's great value for money.
After dealing with booth Google and Apple for a couple of years I cannot express how much better the Apple experience with an actually human you can communicate with on the other end.
To whomever thinking about starting a business relying on publishing through the Play Store, please think twice.
If anyone want a privacy focused all in one app I cannot recommend Beeper enough. I have been using it as my main app for SMS, messenger, WhatsApp and LinkedIn for half a year now and have only positiv experiences. Some bugs still, but amazing support and continuous fixes.
Love it! Reminds me of a time where every movie, game, band etc. had amazing creative websites like this, often filled with custom games, wallpapers and other cool stuff for a ten year old discovering the World Wide Web for the first time.
One example of this that gets mentioned every time are https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
I built a TikTok clone only showing clips from old snowboard and ski movies from the early 2000s. Movies are imported using a CLI which reads VLC playlist containing bookmarks for each clip.
I love my app and is using it every day as an alternative to other empty minded social media, but will probably never publish it or marked it due to copyrights.
If anyone has a use case which does not involve copyright infringement I would be happy to give away the code.
Probably not exactly an extension of your current app, but you could try to build sth like a TikTok for extreme sports. I'm sure there are plenty of people with an urge to share their GoPro videos with friends.
that sounds nice, I do enjoy old ski and snowboard movies/clips aswell. Is there any way to look at these clips? I think this would also work very nicely as background visuals for events / shops, however the copyright aspect is probably difficult with such a usecase
Send me a message to my user name at gmail or github and I will send you the apk.
I have added about ten movies so far, but I am planning to add some more when I get the time.
