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It's painful, but I've grown distrustful enough of the ecosystem that I disable updates on every IDE plugin not maintained by a company with known-adequate security controls and re…

They exist. Services treat control of the number as equivalent to control of the account, and expect you to maintain that control. Throwaway phone numbers are not a viable low cost…

> It’s surprising how something that seems harmless, like a simple recovery page, can actually hide some pretty serious security risks. This is something you should include in any …

"ThE tAx CuT pAyS fOr ItSeLf"

I put the passkeys in a password manager, then lock the password manager with multiple physical Yubikeys, keeping several in secure storage. This same pattern works for Google/iClo…

>I kinda just don't get wireless CarPlay/Android Auto at all. In addition to your argument, wireless CarPlay is also notoriously unreliable.[1] [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q…

If the dongle acts as a wifi AP with a DHCP server, it could give the iPhone an ip address but no gateway upon connection. This will cause the iPhone to talk directly to the dongle…

To keep with that analogy, customers expect the SaaS company to respond to the HTTP requests for free, but you still have for-profit factories producing servers...

No. I used both of them when migrating from LastPass, and found that Bitwarden only supports four or five types of entries, which ultimately drove me away from the product. The ric…

That's the endgame I see. Oligarchy. Kleptocracy. Morons cheering because they're deluded enough to believe that the definition of "pork" is when the government transfers money dir…

It's currently accessible to law enforcement via the law-abiding manufacturer acting as sole custodian. I don't see how this makes any difference.

That counts as begging from my point of view. > Good luck getting data this easily from any other major manufacturer This is an industry-wide problem.

The problem isn't that the owner didn't get the data. The problem is that the method for getting the data is that you must beg Tesla for it, rather than just slurping it out of a U…

I'd recommend any good sound device that connects digitally, like USB or HDMI/Displayport. So the answer is that you should get a dedicated sound device, but don't bother looking f…

> not having a mouse plugged in will mean you have no mouse cursor when remoting in. Parsec has a setting to fix that too. Look in the host options.

It is the height of irony to me that a blog post complaining about clickjacking is presented on a website that is guilty of scrolljacking.

We've got similar opinions here. I'm just pointing out that the overall experience here feels familiar, and it wasn't until reading this thread that I really put it together. I agr…

> they also removed the best deals from the app They've captured the user base with the money that corporate was pumping into the app deals, and are in the process of enshittifying…

I will sadly admit that the high price of fries only angers me when they're not fresh.

> The development environment where I'm downloading random libraries is on a completely separate physical machine than my primary computer. I generally spin up a short-lived contai…

> my personal threat model ranks a compromised device ... much higher likelihood than me personally falling victim to phishing I completely understand that. I'd actually be interes…

> you can order ahead and your food is ready when you arrive That just sounds like a great way to get cold McDonald's... > I think additional user data is a relatively minor part o…

> I wasn't aware that WebAuthn didn't have this requirement. I prefer TOTP because I actually like having a second factor in addition to a credential stored on my computer's hard d…

A lot. MCD corporate seems determined to get on the user data gravy train, and appears to be subsidizing it for the franchisees. Three large fries ordered at the counter costs over…

Unfortunately, yes. Drugs are well-known to be the only product for which cash is an acceptable form of payment. The utility of hard currency really took a hit when all the hookers…