I'm quite happy with Lazarus / Free Pascal on Windows and Linux, even the Raspberry Pi.
Posts by RMycroft
17 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Apr 2014
Delphi RAD tool (remember that?) gets support for Linux desktop apps – again
Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently
Trump wants to work with Russia on infosec. Security experts: lol no
Linus Torvalds says ARM just doesn't look like beating Intel
Social media flame wars to be illegal, says top Crown prosecutor
Microsoft paid me $650 to scrub Windows 10 from my grandpa's PC, says man
Two mornings in a last week where Windows tried to install the "anniversary update", failed, and rolled it back without a single explanation. Two and half hours down the drain each time. When I checked in settings to see why, it only said that it failed. I clicked on "more info" but got a page that was a sales pitch for the update that failed to load. In the feedback, I said that their page had negative value. (I think some "UX expert" failed to game this one out.)
This machine is the last Windows hold-out in the house. I think I'll be "exploring my options".
Suing them? Hmm, I wish.
How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript
Riddle of cash-for-malware offer in new Raspberry Pi computers
AVG defends plans to flog user data as privacy row continues
They say they won't sell personal information such as names, emails, addresses, or payment card details. Does that mean that they have that information? If so, users are depending that AVG never gets hacked, or has a disgruntled employee leave with the data, etc.
I stopped using it years ago when it became more invasive and harder to uninstall than many viruses.
London cops cuff 20-year-old man for unblocking blocked websites
NASA tests crazytech flying saucer thruster, could reach Mars in days
Sorry, chaps! We didn't mean to steamroller legit No-IP users – Microsoft
Do you have anything other than the word of David "Pinocchio" Finn that No-IP hasn't been pro-active?
As I recall, No-IP was always quick to pull the plug on spammers who abused their service. I don't see why they wouldn't be consistent against malware too.
Also, Microsoft didn't "take them to court". That would involve exchanging legal letters and finally having lawyers for No-IP present in the court room to argue their side. Microsoft did the exact opposite of taking them to court: Microsoft apparently engaged in a legal sneak-attack.
Canada to Google: You can't have your borderless cake and eat it too
Yes. Facebook will KNOW you've been browsing for smut

Facebook, what's that?
I don't use Facebook, so I block facebook.com at the router. That way no tracking information goes back to them when I surf pages that have hooks back to Facebook. And the Facebook app on my phone that I don't use and can't remove can't connect back to them every night. (Use the Android development tools logging to verify that.)