OtterGauze

I don't get why this is such a revelation. Windows 11 is a modified and reskinned Windows 10, which is a modified and reskinned Windows 8, which is a modified and reskinned Windows 7 which is a modified and reskinned Windows Vista which is a modified and reskinned Windows XP.

This isn't news, if you look through any beta release of Windows you'll know that they all start off looking identical to their predecessors, mainly because they share a lot of code.

Despite the consensus of Google from people who know about alternatives or ways to avoid it, Google is still the most mainstream and de-facto search engine in atleast the English speaking world, and is the top most visited website in the world.

I wish people would stop saying something is "dying" when they personally dont like it anymore or don't use it as much, you don't speak for the world.

This trick has always come across as a dark pattern to me and seems a bit disingenuous. There's no way it would take that long.

Can we refrain from memeing a political movement that has resurged in respect to the countless people that have been murdered by police just for their skin colour?

Well I think Oculus is a no go for a lot of people now, as cheap as they are.

What's with the "Good Standing" thing? I've heard people got banned for simply linking their Facebook and Oculus account. Why does Facebook consider this reasonable? Why remove people's ability to play games because they broke the TOS for an entirely different platform? You're not my mom.

It's all QAnon stuff. See: Bullshit

This is gonna end up with collateral damage of players who want to be vigilantes but will end up getting banned anyway (assuming Valve does anything at all)

I've completely ditched casual, and due to this scenario there's a large variety of vanilla community servers without the ugly downsides of playing Valve's casual such as random bullet spread or random critical hits, and they're mostly active.

And hey, if you're in favour of those features, community servers with them exist too.

A better solution to this is Pazer's bot detector[1] which innocently initiates a vote kick against a suspected cheater based on common behaviour, fighting cheats with cheats is only going to end in tears.

[1] https://github.com/PazerOP/tf2_bot_detector

So they've essentially done what they have been doing for years. A bit unrelated, but what with the controversy surrounding TikTok and Facebook making a clone making me think the US is on the same track.

Dark times, I'm not sure that scratch even violates their regime, it's almost petty.

It's funny, because their website is horrendously broken on mobile.

Now, hmm, I wonder what would've fixed that.

If you're using Firefox there is a tweak you can make to not give sites access to your password.[1]

Aside from that, try to avoid using auto fill, just copy the username/email and password from your manager directly.

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/08/block-websites-reading-mod...

I have reservations about Apple, but ill never deny that their product engineering for both the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch continue to impress me.

Now if only they could get engineering like this into the Macbook line, because that's easily the worst product they sell for engineering.

I'm a diehard Android user, but you cant deny the benefits of Apple's tightknit ecosystem.

Apple is a very "my way or the highway" in their approach to software design. This doesn't really matter to Apple as a company because an overwhelming majority of their customers wont know or care about this controversy or limitation and will continue to use the apps Apple allows and only those.

I'm a Firefox user, but I don't see myself using Lockwise, it's too lacking in features, not to mention the security caveats of using your browser's password "manager". You're better off using a third party like Bitwarden or KeyPass.

Edit: Brain mashed together 1Password and KeyPass.

I'd have to disagree with you, they showed a wide diverse selection of games, and anyone who expects to love every game in a selection like that frankly has unrealistic standards.

One thing I will criticise, it's the lack of information. We don't still know the price, the release date, whether it will support backwards compatibility, etc.

I personally agree, but I don't disagree with their advocacy for online privacy and will fully support their endeavours.

Bitwarden, I moved from lastpass a few months ago. I've no doubt heard people's problems with it, not being as feature packed or suitable for enterprise, but if what you want is a no-bullshit PM that isn't owned by some big bad corporation, it's definitely worth a shot.

This is ridiculous. Especially since Spotify and Google Podcasts host the same podcasts.

I guess you can't really get big as a mobile developer now unless you're already a massive company.

Not necessarily, besides, people are so used to ads nowadays.

I'm gonna be honest, "We switched from MongoDB to thousands of Chinese children forced to memorize numbers (medium.com)" is amazingly hilarious to me, as much as this thread is just representative of how shitty of a place 4chin is

Coming with privacy tools, exploitation of the privilege is bound to take place. It sucks to see it happen, especially to a community I have particularly fond associations with.

Let this be a lesson though, if you're planning to spend any money anywhere, do some further investigation. This means checking for explicit contact information, as mentioned here. Even any kind of social media presence will do.

Even more so with fursuits, they cost several thousands, dropping that without any prior research is not advisable, and I think that goes without saying.

While true and while phones are considerably more powerful now than they used to be, modern ARM SoCs don't come close to their x86 counterparts.

Same here, it's nice having the luxury of being able to view it's source code. LastPass is clunky and always threw errors for me. Hell, even deleting my account threw an error, but it still deleted my account, but I didn't get any "Your account has been deleted dialog" or get logged out like you might expect, I was stuck in a phantom session where I was still able to add entries for some reason. That'd not how you get me to trust your service.

I started using LastPass a few years ago and ended up swapping it out for Bitwarden. Some may argue its not as feature rich but holy hell is LastPass a clump of proprietary and clunky code. I'm really starting to see the benefit of open source for security nowadays. Not sure if I trust logmein either for that matter.

A surprise to nobody, really. Its a free service, you're kinda expected to suspect they're attempting to make money by some other means.

Can't deny the irony in security software compromising security though.

Sadly I don't think we can say for certain, that's why in these cases people typically stick to open source solutions, such as NextCloud.

5G to me sounds like the tipping point. Who needs gigabit connectivity on data? Seems a bit needless.

Not to mention the fact that the technology makes the coverage so spotty there's hardly any time you'll actually be able to utilise it.

I think it's soon to come, due to the rise of its use and the security counter productivity around SMS 2FA. You could argue Google Authenticator for Android but personally, even if a first party authenticator comes into Android and iOS, I'm still gonna use Authy.

If you're handling private / confidential data on public WiFi on a regular basis, it might be a good idea, but keep in mind that most websites have HTTPS security applied to them already, which means that communications are already secured in transit. VPNs only move the issue to another place if you're not using HTTPS, as it just moves the location that the data leaves in its insecure state.

VPNs aren't nearly as much of a godsend that they're made out to be. If you're trying to access geo-restricted content or bypass firewall blocking, it's alright, but at that point you might as well just use a proxy.

VPNs are not a replacement for thorough security measures. Use common sense and stay up to date on methods people commonly use to bypass security and do your best to keep it in mind.

If you're paranoid about DNS spoofing, use DNS over HTTPS or something like that.

Nobody NEEDS a VPN, and they're marketed rather improperly by a lot of providers. It makes me physically recoil when people say they VPNs protect them from hackers or protect from Malware and viruses because it is woefully ignorant.

Also, don't trust No-Logs policies. They still do it, guaranteed.