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Private Access Tokens are powerful tools that prove when HTTP requests are coming from legitimate devices without disclosing someone's identity.

So I don't know the details, but it makes a couple of points that either mean this isn't the same thing as the google thing, or "attestation on the web" isn't DRM, or something else. So far as I can interpret the article, it seems to suggest the feature is "is this a safari device on ios, if yes then skip captcha" but that seems to be up to the website's discretion.

laughs maniacally in money

Firefox and ublock origin to start. Site requires Chromium? Buh bye now.

Digital Rights Management. Code that prevents you from doing what you want with the information you have.

Lol. As soon as I heard someone upload their contacts to Google I thought "welp, I'm out." And yeah, no one listened then either.

Still, we got diaspora working finally. May the force be with you.

Elon Musk has taken over the @x Twitter account without paying its owner as part of the social network’s ongoing rebrand.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but a "rebrand" should not be "ongoing" for any reason. That's like saying your surgery is ongoing. That's bad, mmmkay.

There is only one Star Wars movie.

The rest is fanfic. Huge, corporate fanfic.

So Say We All

It's true, the real star wars kid is way healthier than this guy. Billionaire is a kind of disease.

In a world . . . in which one man spends 45 Billion dollars to destroy a global communications juggernaut in the most assinine, ridiculous ways ever . . . It's . . . The Rebrandening!

I mean, if he bought Coca-Cola and replaced sugar with vinegar, it'd be news, right?

iz box.

I don't know anything about rockets so when people said he was a genius, I figured he must be a genius . . .

45 Billion bought a lot of eyeballs to watch him flame out over the canyon.

Well you're not on Twitter now, are you. Neither is anyone else. Also they're not tweeting anymore, they're . . . xing? And per the article that was the last email from the twitter.com domain (supposedly) so . . what, is it x.com now?

The guy's, like, a 5-D chess jenius.

You've got two different questions in there, I think. One of them is "what's so great about mac" and the other is "what to do with an old mac"?

It sounds like you're likely to be frustrated finding out the answers to the first one on that machine, though for some people a Catalina OS on a form factor or model they really like is sublime. If you're just trying out the os from the Windows side of things, it's not as fun because there's some learning curve stuff that's just annoying to get through at first. Command-key vs CTRL, but Command-key is the Windows key on some keyboards so -??? stuff like that.

As for the "what to do with it" question, I'd argue the form factor would answer it. for an iMac, I'd think about a music station, maybe find some good visualization programs (there was a milk plugin for VLC I found awhile ago that I liked). A browser / emailer / kbinner is good if you have the keyboard and mouse you like. Or, if you just want to put it on a shelf and look at it's coolness, a digital photo frame. The last iMac I saw my friends had in their kitchen for music, recipes, youtubes etc.

If none of those interest you, then yeah running Linux is always an option and a darned fine one. Make it the killer Kali seekrit station or whatever :D

Serious people - the kind who read, and understand things, and work well with others - do not behave this way. And the worst part is this is not only "not new", it's nowhere near going in the right direction.

The ball-bone's connected to the rib-b. . wait . . . the ball-bone's connected to the - . . . no that's not right either