Deebster

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone better fact-check this bot cos it's got an incentive to lie about this.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can it still be a favourite if I haven't touched it in a decade? I still love Gentoo but I have enough shiny things to burn up my time.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Ha, fair - and my desktop too, since I currently use the Authy desktop app. However, that's two different sets of credentials an attacker needs to steal/bypass, and two chances to stop them in time.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't like the thought of having my passwords and 2FA live in the same place - that seems to miss the point a bit.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Self-hosting email is not at all easy, and I'd recommend paying for hosted email from a service that lets you use a custom domain. Most will let you have multiple inboxes, although this may cost extra.

Then, just buy a domain (NameCheap is fine) and point your MX records at the email provider.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unsolicited advice: Mbin a fork of kbin which fixes a lot of kbin's problems. fedia.io was the second largest kbin server until it switched to mbin.

(I only found your post because I was searching for why kbin.social was down)

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 106 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Their fixes don't seem to have altered the fundamental problems with the Boeing 737 Max:

  • the new engines are too big for the frame, so they've had to move them up and forward, which makes the plane pitch up at high thrust (which is what the now infamous MCAS attempted to mask with software)
  • Boeing self-certified it as safe, claiming that it was a small, incremental change and so didn't need testing or additional pilot training
  • Boeing rushed out an unsafe design because they were scared of losing money to Airbus's A320neo

I have to fly several times a year and try to choose Airbus over Boeing whenever possible, and I flat out refuse to fly on the 737 Max. This news certainly doesn't make me feel like I was overreacting.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They'd be a lot more of them if iPhone supported the technology better.

I say that as someone who's pitched PWAs to companies, but since many of the managers and owners seem to be in on the Apple ecosystem, demos often aren't that impressive. Having to answer "kinda" to can they do x questions doesn't go down well.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Huh, that's weird: when I posted, I saw your your comment as a top-level comment but I now I see it as a reply. Maybe it's a Lemmy bug; I'll keep an eye out in future.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

I'd like to believe this is canny use of the Streisand Effect, but in a company as big as Reuters it's more likely to be lawyers.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

It still needs a gullible user to change their settings for this to work; not much to worry about here.

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