Well, who did you trust to build your hardware?

Lenovo definitely deserves to be banned after that shit they pulled with the malicious root certificates.

That same description applies to downloading a zipped file.

Reminds me of the time I did roughly the same thing trying to get people to move away from internet explorer.

Please tell me someone thought about a switch to take them offline.

Possibly, but as long as they are not completely server-side (which they can’t be, they want to target people) then they are fighting on hostile ground.

Of course there are attempts to lock down PCs so that ad companies can tell it what to do (probably with some DRM argument), but we’re not there yet.

Well the upside is that they’re not actually trying to get it to stop, they’re just making an effort to please their customers.

That doesn’t sound like much of a change from the situation right now.

People using devout to describe their political views unironically is the scariest thing I’ve read today.

Not sure if that’s what’s meant by ‘open carry’

Use TOTP wherever possible. It’s standardized, and typically can be found somewhere if you keep digging hard enough.

Plenty of services push their own proprietary systems hard though. Looking at you M$

I’d say that’s slightly off. Most terrorists have no intention of actually ruling the regions they terrorize.

These people are more fascists.

I am, no worries.

Using reverse proxies is common enough now that quite a few apps can deal with subpaths, and for the ones that can’t you can generally get nginx to rewrite the paths for you to make things work.

In a way AI refusing to recommend using so much computing power on LLMs could well be the first sign of actual intelligence.