Doug [he/him] @ Doug @midwest.social

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Given the state of banking and corporations in general in the US sometimes "not the worst" is the best option

It's a fair point but I've got two counters.

1. It was blocked in the browser, which implies there's not a cached record for it on the device
2. The Pi-hole logs the queries it receives and I do have four separate entries for that URL today, spaced in an amount of time that does not imply automatic requests but does likely match up with my test cases.

Computing resources got cheaper so development didn't need to be as careful.

If one month you have $100 for food, but the next month you'll have $2000 are you still going to eat like you've got $100? Of course not!

But another part of the problem is that when development was slim you also weren't running very many things at once. I can remember writing different autoexec.bat and config.sys files to boot straight into whatever game I was going to play. Most to all of the resources were available.

Now we're constantly running a handful of things. The OS itself is huge, plus a browser that you haven't closed with a handful of tabs, plus the app for the store you bought the game from, and whatever else is in the background, and so on. So you feel the drag more because everything wants as many resources as it can grab before something else does.

I'm guessing you either don't live in America or have never had to work a job like fast food to get by.

If they have sick days they probably either can't afford the time off or get pressured in to not taking it by their boss/family/social circle/society

And just so we're clear, sick days aren't necessarily paid sick days. They can also be days you just don't get in trouble for missing*

*May require a doctor's note

Even the Joker knows racism isn't funny

So I just tested this. I'm not at home so I had to VPN in which is no issue.

• I opened graph.facebook.com and confirmed it was working
• I opened and logged in to my Ally app
• I added graph.facebook.com to my pi-hole's black list as a regex entry
• I opened graph.facebook.com in the browser and confirmed it was blocked
• I force closed and cleared the cache on my Ally app
• I opened and logged in to my Ally app

It's not the Meta connection that's giving you trouble.

Not everyone. Just far too many

Which is weird. I don't know how they even hold the fork.

Chrome was released in 2008. It didn't take a market share right away. While a browser wasn't as big a part of daily life for a lot of people it was still a big part for a lot of people even outside of work.

On the other hand Windows had a much bigger market share for most of the time IE was the leading browser. It not being cross platform wasn't terribly relevant.

IE had a stranglehold on the internet. Even after chrome took over there were still a lot of sites that were only optimized/usable on IE. It is easily guilty of pretty much everything that is a modern complaint about chrome. You just didn't use it on a phone, but you also didn't have a handful of apps in place of a browser for various web sites/services.

Nothing or a lot depending on use.

If it's being used where "male" could/would be used all is well.

If not it's often dehumanizing.

Thanks for understanding why the /s is unfortunately needed. Obvious irony/sarcasm is getting close to impossible with the crazy shit people are in to anymore.

Also as a gentile who cares about their fellow human beings.

I'm also surprised that it says he's trying as a Dem. Hardly a perfect group but generally that kind of rhetoric is kept in the GOP, voters and candidates alike.

What sites are requiring it? I haven't hit any issues in a couple years.

I remember when this was the thought about Internet Explorer.

It's not too late. It will never be too late. Everyone that changes moves the market share needle. It doesn't mean Firefox is going to take over overnight, but it also doesn't mean it's pointless to suggest change.

I suspect we'll start seeing laws about it once it starts happening to powerful figures in situations they don't approve of.

I'm not talking about the porn we've been seeing of actresses. Things like politicians acting out of character (or in character depending on your point of view) or the super rich.

Someone's likely going to have a bad time for having done it too, if they get caught.

By "emergency sheet" are you suggesting writing the access-to-everything password down somewhere? If so I'm hard pressed to think of many things less secure. If not I'm genuinely curious what it is.

I can't imagine a scenario in which I wouldn't have backups, but I appreciate the mention.

I also am generally not concerned with someone pickpocketing my house keys, but that's not to say it isn't a possibility. Awareness is the first step to mitigation.

Email has to be the most protected, I absolutely agree. But I definitely wouldn't be comfortable with the possibility of needing to reset everything else if I lost my master password. But I don't know that I'm more comfortable with the ability to reset. It really kinda feels lose-lose to me.

I don't think we'll move to passkeys any quicker or easier than we moved to 2FA. I'm glad we're getting better options but we're bound by the weakest links and they don't like change.

Thanks for the answers

Encryption can be decrypted. A password manager encrypting your passwords is like saying your car has working brakes. It's totally unsafe to even consider operating without but it doesn't say much when it is there.

It's not a matter of "why should I trust them" but "why should I trust them more than the system that already exists". I get the appeal, but the hole is big.

If I forget a password I reset it. If I forget my manager's password can it be reset? Is the reset option, if extent, susceptible to attack?

If an account gets compromised it could have moderate repercussions, but probably minimal depending on the account, with maybe a couple exceptions. If managed passwords get compromised that's potentially everything. There has not, and likely never will be, an impenetrable system, so it is a possibility if not a concern.

I don't feel you replied to anything I have said in good faith.

That's fine. I don't feel like you're here in good faith either, so I guess we're on equal footing.

misusing the word "citation" isn't noteworthy

I disagree. It's a misrepresentation. These are common in your rhetoric, like your position on sanctions, but we'll get to those in a moment.

You didn't respond to the US artificial famine in Yemen that is active today at all.

Or any other genocide the US has participated in, but you choose to specifically call out this one.

I didn't anticipate you talking about Russian or Chinese sanctions and wasn't thinking that way.

Then perhaps you should be more careful with your language choices. You said sanctions are bad, but these ones aren't. Yet you didn't address where the line is for you, despite just admitting these ones aren't bad. Whether they're good or not is, presently, immaterial.

I was mentioning sanctions in regard to oil rich nations

No, you mentioned sanctions. You may have intended to be more specific, but you weren't. No one else knows what is in your mind so if you want to discuss things in a productive manner you need to be able to do effectively. Saying one thing and meaning another is not that.

the wars and sanctions that I have looked into

Are not the entirety of the wars and sanctions that have been taken. If I judge you only by your worst actions would that be fair? This is by no means a claim that the US is any one thing or another, but pointing out that you can't pick and choose when you're trying to make a judgement of morality.

at the expense of starving children and causing unneeded suffering.

I will point you at any international policing action ever. Do you think innocent German children in the 1940s felt no repercussions from the war? The same question works in the 19-teens and following. Whether they're right or not, unless you've got a better solution, they are, on occasion, necessary. Innocent have suffered because of the actions of the powerful, both above them and against those above them, for as long as there have been people. In the words of John Lennon, "you say you've got a real solution? We'd all live to see the plan".

I don't know where you'll separate new lines of thought from existing ones. I frankly don't care. You can reply to everything or nothing. It's more important that you come to understand you do not have the position you appear to think you do. I doubt you'll get there today, but I hope you can at some point.

I really cant be bothered citing more

You haven't cited anything. You've made reference to them at best. Saying a thing is not citing it.

Sanctions in general impoverish and kill many. They are a type of light economic mass murder.

So then things like Russia sanctions are bad too? If so what do you suggest as an alternative? If not when do you draw the line?

I think what we actively do and did, is MUCH WORSE.

You made that clear, but you didn't really express how. Have we been responsible for more death? More negative impact to lives? If that, how is it measured? Does it make a difference how much time it has been going on? If we've killed less per year is that better?

If one guy kills your family in front of you, but the other pokes you with a needle every day of your life, who do you have stronger feelings about? Who is the bigger villain?

Yes, America has a history of being terrible, and it doesn't look like it's stopping any time soon, but it's just the most obvious, current bad guy. That doesn't make it the biggest in history or now. That doesn't excuse current practices, but it also doesn't mean hyperbole (real or perceived) is going to help you.

I'd wager prevalence is part of their problem. Jokes get tired after a while, but that doesn't always mean they stop.

PHP, like any language, has its problems, but it seems to get poked at a lot more often. But making the same joke over and over has been a problem long before reddit was a thing.