Dropbox naming is hard
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I have the UWP app of Dropbox installed because raisins.
In the last few months it has been renamed to
- Dropbox Mobile, then
- Dropbox Explorer, then
- Dropbox Cloud
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@marczellm Next up:
- Dropbox *
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Dropbox (Copy)
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@marczellm said in Dropbox naming is hard:
I have the UWP app of Dropbox installed because raisins.
In the last few months it has been renamed to
- Dropbox Mobile, then
- Dropbox Explorer, then
- Dropbox Cloud
Uhmmmmm, is there any variation that is not cloud based?
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@Polygeekery they sold a NAS system called the Dropbox Drop Box
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Today its name is now
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I'm waiting for
Dropbox - We understand filesystems now! Edition
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Dropbox Red & Blue
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@acrow said in Dropbox naming is hard:
Dropbox Red & Blue
Dropbox Red & Blue
Edit: Forgot to add:
Rename "Dropbox Red & Blue" to "Dropbox Red & Blue"
Error: Name must be different.
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@dcon: most likely, yeah:
(the text says: "Are you sure you want to delete ██████████████████ from the shared folder "██████"?")
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@marczellm Apparently the “S mode” stuff is a thing on Windows 10 so that name makes sort of sense.
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I'd never heard of it before. TIL
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@dkf said in Dropbox naming is hard:
S mode
First web search hit says:
Windows 10 in S Mode is a more limited, locked-down Windows operating system. In S Mode, you can only install apps from the Store, and you can only browse the web with Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft is pitching security, speed, and stability here. Because Windows can only run apps from the Store, malware from the web won’t be able to run. You can’t install applications from the web, so they can’t install startup tasks that slow down your boot process or junkware that hides in the background and spies on you. [
: you can still run malware that installs startup tasks and junkware from the Windows Store I guess]S Mode also pushes the Bing search engine. While in S Mode, the Microsoft Edge web browser uses Bing as its default search engine. You can’t change Edge’s default search engine to Google or anything else without leaving S Mode first.
Do not want.
Even if you purchase a PC in S Mode, you can leave S Mode for free. It doesn’t cost anything, but it is a one-time decision—once you’ve taken the PC out of S Mode, you can never put it back into S Mode.
We don’t know why Microsoft makes this a one-way process. But that’s what Microsoft did.
Well duh, if the PC has been potentially compromised already you can't revert back.
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@Zecc said in Dropbox naming is hard:
you can still run malware that installs startup tasks and junkware from the Windows Store I guess
Of course. That's official malware, such as Candy Crush…
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@Zecc said in Dropbox naming is hard:
[
: you can still run malware that installs startup tasks and junkware from the Windows Store I guess]FWIW, Windows Store apps have somewhat limited access to the computer. Many parts of WinAPI, especially the parts related to messing with the system, won't work. For example, runtime code generation is disallowed.
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@Zecc said in Dropbox naming is hard:
In S Mode, you can only install apps from the Store, and you can only browse the web with Microsoft Edge.
S Mode also pushes the Bing search engine. While in S Mode, the Microsoft Edge web browser uses Bing as its default search engine. You can’t change Edge’s default search engine to Google or anything else
IOW, it's the Stupid mode
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@TimeBandit said in Dropbox naming is hard:
@Zecc said in Dropbox naming is hard:
In S Mode, you can only install apps from the Store, and you can only browse the web with Microsoft Edge.
S Mode also pushes the Bing search engine. While in S Mode, the Microsoft Edge web browser uses Bing as its default search engine. You can’t change Edge’s default search engine to Google or anything else
IOW, it's the Stupid mode
Having worked with it (and trying to get a Centennial app running on it), we came up with that name immediately.
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@Gąska said in Dropbox naming is hard:
FWIW, Windows Store apps have somewhat limited access to the computer. Many parts of WinAPI, especially the parts related to messing with the system, won't work. For example, runtime code generation is disallowed.
you mean "apps distributed in Windows Store" (which can include traditional "Win32" desktop apps) or "apps built on the UWP platform"?
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@marczellm dunno. Haven't actually tried either; just seen footnotes on MSDN.
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@dkf said in Dropbox naming is hard:
That's official malware, such as Candy Crush…
I think I'd rather have ransomware.
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@Gąska said in Dropbox naming is hard:
just seen footnotes on MSDN
And you can't find them anymore since they moved 3 times since Monday
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@HardwareGeek said in Dropbox naming is hard:
@dkf said in Dropbox naming is hard:
That's official malware, such as Candy Crush…
I think I'd rather have ransomware.
PLAY CANDY CRUSH OR ELSE
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@Gąska I'll take "else."
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@HardwareGeek said in Dropbox naming is hard:
I think I'd rather have ransomware.
Yeah. With ransomware, you pay once. Even malware authors aren't evil enough to make decrypting each file a microtransaction.
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@Zerosquare said in Dropbox naming is hard:
Even malware authors aren't evil enough to make decrypting each file a microtransaction.
You buy a loot box. That might contain the decryption key for a file. Oh, and the system tells you each time that it might've included the decryption keys for all your files, except you weren't lucky this time.
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@dkf said in Dropbox naming is hard:
@Zerosquare said in Dropbox naming is hard:
Even malware authors aren't evil enough to make decrypting each file a microtransaction.
You buy a loot box. That might contain the decryption key for a file. Oh, and the system tells you each time that it might've included the decryption keys for all your files, except you weren't lucky this time.
Evil ideas thread....
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@marczellm said in Dropbox naming is hard:
@Gąska said in Dropbox naming is hard:
FWIW, Windows Store apps have somewhat limited access to the computer. Many parts of WinAPI, especially the parts related to messing with the system, won't work. For example, runtime code generation is disallowed.
you mean "apps distributed in Windows Store" (which can include traditional "Win32" desktop apps) or "apps built on the UWP platform"?
Win32 Applications repackaged for the Store have a lot of limitations:
Prepare to package a desktop application (MSIX) - MSIX
This article lists the things you need to know before packaging your desktop application. You may not need to do much to get your app ready for the packaging process.
The desktop publishing application I worked on forever ago violates a bunch of these without doing anything that out of the ordinary. (Handles registration by writing to HKLM, exposes COM objects, needs to be run with Admin privileges on first launch because of those two....)
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@Zerosquare said in Dropbox naming is hard:
decrypting each file a microtransaction
evil ideas thread is
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@levicki said in Dropbox naming is hard:
@Gąska said in Dropbox naming is hard:
For example, runtime code generation is disallowed.
I am pretty sure that's something they can't enforce in any meaningful way.
I meant native code generation. As in, you can't turn a writable memory page into an executable page. Also, you can't run external programs except through registered URI schemes.
Not to mention that every Linux distro for WSL which are distributed as Microsoft Store apps count as runtime code generation if you install and run gcc in them.
Linux distros for WSL use an entirely different mechanism from regular UWP that bypasses all the additional security measures and talks directly to the kernel. Regular UWP apps cannot take advantage of that in any way.
