GigglyBobble

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[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

I just wanted Windows and none of the Linux substitutes were it.

Of course not. At the very least you have to be fed up with Windows before moving elsewhere. If you want Windows, stay with Windows.

You shouldn't continue using Windows 10 after end of life though. Once it doesn't get security patches anymore, it is a time bomb. And since the code base is easily 80-90% the same across versions, new vulnerabilities patched on newer versions are just hints for malware devs making the obsolete version even more likely to be attacked.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Isn't the just based on a matrix server connecting to all your accounts?

What the EU forces them to do is to be able to send messages across service borders, so you could communicate with someone on WhatsApp, for example, without having an account there yourself.

I do share the most upvoted comment's skepticism though - Meta and Apple will fight this tooth and nails and make it so cumbersome (and opt-in, of course), it will have no relevance in practice.

As a Signal user I'm also not happy that the very least I have to share with Meta is my phone number (that's also criticism towards Signal though, I guess).

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You clearly don't understand how that works. We can't shut up once we moved!

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (17 children)

I don't remember that. Where is it from?

Microsoft never liked competing browsers (not even in the pre-IE6 era when all they had was crap), so it's hard to believe it came from them.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I think it's alpha but α is annoying to write (outside Greece at least).

But yeah, grouping people in generations isn't really explaining much beyond "people of different ages view this new situation differently". I think it's a very American thing. We don't care as much about generations in Europe and hardly ever name them.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

They'll only do it once though and serve regular ice after that. Or do you think the ice gourmets will notice?

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Playing poker on a wooden bench with a single light bulb next to the beach

Yep, done that. And I agree it's great. I need a plane to visit the beach though.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

what jobs does MIT’s president imagine will be created for 60 year old truckers if they’re replaced with autos? Do we get the funny joke where people suggest truckers should learn programming?

The way it's developing, programmers will be replaced before drivers.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

The only things I probably want in terms of future tech is

And how would you know? Before cars nobody anticipated them. Same with planes, computers, smartphones... You won't anticipate close to all new tech by extrapolating what we have.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lots of added tech makes these more likely to fail. And I don't think they'll be cheap to replace.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Do I win or lose when I cannot even start the survey with Javascript disabled?

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"5 ways to hack 2FA" is pretty click-baity though. All of those attacks are either not exclusively related to 2FA or could target another component. If you can just bypass security altogether, instead of questioning 2FA, you should consider ditching that service/site.

All except point 1, that is. But everyone should know by now that 2FA by SMS is insecure.

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