JackbyDev

I have an Echo Show, it shows a bunch of ads. It's typically out of my view and I never use the video features. It has options to disable things and I thought I disabled them all but maybe they show ads now regardless. Because I'm definitely seeing ads. I only got one because I think it was bundled with something else or it was a gift.

You're much too young for the Internet. Please submit your SSN and parents' credit card information.

Well, at least in 10, the username is something dumb and you can't change it during creation (or everywhere easily after creation) when doing an online account. But linking after you create your account let you set it to whatever. So there may be people who are fine with online accounts but just want to set their usernames to whatever.

I loved it, and don't take this as a dig because tons of games had this problem. It was one of the first games in played where environments were fully destructible. Trees? Nah. Trees are invulnerable to everything, including literal bunker buster bombs.

I think I need a band aid.

You want me to throw my shoe?

Jak and Daxter as well as Ratchet and Clank are both fun series. Jak was always weird in emulators for me, but maybe it works now.

I think people get too defensive about security by obscurity not being security. It's still better for things to be obscure, it's just not sufficient. A hidden lock to open a door is marginally better than a lock on the door. A hidden button to open a door isn't secure though, of course.

But at the same time, I fully understand why it's stressed so much. People tend to make analogies in their mind to the physical world. The digital world is so different though. An example I use often is you can't jiggle every doorknob in the world to see if it's unlocked, but it's (relatively) easy to check every IPv4 address for an open port to some database with default credentials.

Okay but about the fiber shit, they covered 99.7% of my city and didn't cover my street and I'm within walking distance of city hall. I really wish there was a way I could compel them to give me fiber. One of the few things I dislike about my location.

SDF.org has dial-up. And a Lemmy instance. I think it's lemmy.sdf.org

If there's any hostility it was initiated by yourself my friend.

Bullshit.

Come on now think for a second here.

I feel like there's some hostility or defensiveness and we keep talking past each other when trying to resolve it, so I'm going to drop the topic because I don't think there are actually any disagreements between us.

Nothing I was said was about "independent studies" versus "studies". I get your point, I'm just saying that wasn't part of what I found odd. I only used the phrase independent studies instead of studies because you did.