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Is your company mandating Push Authentication or are you entering 6-digit codes?

If it's the former, MS Authenticator is the only option.

If it's the latter, you can use any TOTP app you like, e.g. Aegis.

Push Authentication in the MS Authenticator is Microsoft's proprietary thing. And I think that's probably what we're talking about here.

Glasses.

You're right, I forgot about the fact that there's a literal translation. But besides being gender-neutral, both sayings mean the same, no?

My main point was that many Germans now regularly use the pear-tree malapropism, however.

German for "like father, like son" is "the apple doesn't fall far off the tree trunk". But many people nowadays use "the apple doesn't fall far off the pear tree", which is a variant that I think originally was supposed to suggest illegitimate fatherhood.

Yes, that's where it's from.

I guess we use "Making gold from straw" (German).

You're not wrong, and yet it's the name of a fairly popular porn series where actresses exchange a cab ride for sexual favors (that's the story idea at least).

It's popular enough that there is a significant number of people (vulgo, "creeps") who put Fake Taxi stickers all over their cars.

Nature religions were right and we're all part of a single bigger organism of which every part can feel and communicate with every other part.

Bomfunk MC's Freestyler is the peak of musical creation. (Ok, prolly no but I love coming back to it.)

(Fwiw, initially I read "triple !" (i.e. !!! or ChkChkChk) in your op comment and thought why?, that's a great band.)

Capitalist economies are not sustainable. That's kind of their point: Line goes up, even though resources are finite (which economists conveniently ignore). Hence, they can't be sustained ad infinitum. We're all borrowing/stealing from somewhere, including from nature. (And the harder we believe in capitalism, the faster humanity will crash because resources are getting used up.)

Ultimately, money is a means to an end anyway: Making sure society functions well enough that everyone has food and shelter. Other than that, it's just imaginary figures.

They look like the wading birds I liked seeing so much in Spanish rice paddies.

All humans (which afaik includes royals) are animals anyway.

You have a point to some degree, yet I still think it is defensible to make this post. He majorly altered software

• downstream
• against user expectations
• for somewhat spurious reasons
• seemingly quite ad-hoc

He then went on to defend that decision in a less-than-graceful way before announcing there will be a second, new package.

But, to make it clear: I certainly don't approve of hate directed toward him and I don't have a personal issue with him.

Yes, these are off-by-default features.

Afaiu it, he added a second package with (quote) "all the crap" later, after the storm.

And no, it wasn't just the favicons feature that was removed (which like ... is that really such a big privacy issue that you need to remove it from the binary?). Support for Yubikey was removed as well — which is not a privacy issue. The reasoning mentioned by the Debian maintainer is that all of these features might turn out to be security issues in the long run. Thus, in his view, a password manager application must do nothing but provide access to the database within the app.

I find it an interesting example of diverging upstream, maintainer, and user interests in any case.

I hear that Amazon sells a locked-down e-reader, they're the market leader as well.

The most prominent of those being Adolf Eichmann.

GIMP has had a GTK 3 port in development for years. They just lack the developer bandwidth to finish it. And in general, using EOLed libraries for your very popular application is not great, not for security, not for usability, and not for compatibility with modern systems.