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malepoon2

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    For what it's worth, here's what Moroney is saying: "I’m out on vacation right now, and will respond when I get back. But these allegations are completely untrue, and massively dis…

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    Comment #36975991

    > But honestly, it freaks me out that Google might someday disable my account. Then don't wait. There are plenty of alternatives such as Fastmail. You pay a small amount of money b…

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    Comment #34583522

    It still shows it's a good idea to separate your e-mail from your YouTube or whatever account though. When I still used Gmail I was always worried something like this would get me …

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    Comment #34583201

    4. I like separate services/accounts. So many stories of people being locked out of their account because of YouTube or something. I feel much better now that my Google account is …

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    Comment #34128011

    Yes but they don't support the WebAuthn/FIDO2 standard. The Yubikey option they have is less secure because I think it's OTP under the hood, so it doesn't protect against phishing.…

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    Comment #34127748

    1Password is also inherently more secure because of the extra Secret Key. If a breach like this ever happens to them, users with weak master passwords will still be safe. Also, Las…

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    Comment #34127601

    1Password does encrypt URLs. It also requires an extra Secret Key [0] in addition to your password. This makes it much, much harder to use the data even if encrypted vaults were st…

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    Comment #34127515

    It's not a large development team. I moved away from them years ago because support for FIDO keys for example was always "coming soon" and still isn't there. They've been coasting …

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    Comment #34120421

    > All providers mess stuff up occasionally. Everyone has a customer support crisis at some point, with someone. I think this misses the point. With Fastmail, if they mess up, I can…

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    Comment #34120351

    I migrated the important stuff and then just incrementally moved things over whenever I happened to login somewhere. At this point, the only emails I get on Gmail are random crap I…

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    Comment #34041316

    > people will realize that only 50 of their thousands of followers can be found on mastodon, and then move back in a few weeks after giving up on the experiment My Mastodon feed fe…

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    Comment #34029845

    I'm fine with Gnome, but what bothers me is when really basic features are missing. For example replacing a desktop wallpaper with a solid color required manual config changes. Eve…