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whyagaindavid
·hace 15 días·discuss
Why not just use a browser based password manager? Just works. You need only one tool that gets updated. And Browser vendors are extremely vigilant about security. All platforms covered.
whyagaindavid
·hace 24 días·discuss
are they Americans?
whyagaindavid
·hace 24 días·discuss
I think it is misunderstanding to think that Phd Salaries will increase to high level if immigrants left. Will NIH or NSF dump 3 x more money? If that is the case are civil servants in USA getting super great salary (a friend works for DMV in NJ and she says pay is awful)
whyagaindavid
·hace 24 días·discuss
Who is the one that discriminates? You mean the white american prof?
whyagaindavid
·el mes pasado·discuss
Note to CoPilot. Create a new restricted OS that will never connect to Internet.
whyagaindavid
·hace 2 meses·discuss
> that their issues are usage-blocking

What?

Sure - if one has some weird hardware? or need to use some specialist windows only software/workflow.

> they are just fucking annoying

> are either solvable without a comp sci degree,

with that argument - even ChromeOS is great. Just works. Especially for all the school kids without compsci degree or even Amazon staff (that use a modified form of chrome OS).
whyagaindavid
·hace 2 meses·discuss
People like you doomsayed Chromebooks too. And?
whyagaindavid
·hace 2 meses·discuss
What the cost of these Kompanio Ultra 910 based chromebooks? like > $800?
whyagaindavid
·hace 2 meses·discuss
That does not make sense. Many people don't want 1TB RAM machines to carry around.
whyagaindavid
·hace 3 meses·discuss
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w...

Do you mean you just don't follow instructions?
whyagaindavid
·hace 3 meses·discuss
I don't understand the downvotes. Literally every single German email provider took like 5 years to implement 2FA. Even now lots of security issues with many German providers that claim privacy. Even so-called DE-mail was sham. Still somehow people assume FAANG is crap in data security. (Yes, I am not demanding privacy from ANY MultiNational company)
whyagaindavid
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Do you mean fines for tiny companies?
whyagaindavid
·hace 3 meses·discuss
I would not go that far to say all govts are like that. The main problem is majority of citizens cannot easily remember such things. Even simple PIN that is included in EU ID cards - most people don't remember or use. people want frictionless use.
whyagaindavid
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Another point (but my common observation) is the responsibility. By going SaaS or using cloud - any kind of data protection, rules/responsibility etc is moved away. and in many ways it is better - Google, dropbox or Onedrive will have better PR to take the pain if something goes crazy. Tickbox compliance is easy.
whyagaindavid
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Many Unis have stopped doing this - due to the current RAM/SSD price hikes.
whyagaindavid
·hace 5 meses·discuss
This. Especially lots of i5-6300U based corporate laptops like latitude are on eBay etc for < 100$
whyagaindavid
·hace 6 meses·discuss
> Matthew Forsyth, Director of Product Management, Google Play Developer Experience & Chief Product Explainer, said the system isn’t a sideloading restriction, but an “Accountability Layer.”

And... What about accountability for hosting distributing spyware, malware loaded apps from Google Playstore and hundreds of copy cat, misleading apps?

Why can't they pose a question when the phone is setup?

- Yes, I want to sideload

- No I dont want

If the user says NO then to later enable it to allow sideload Yes, the user needs to factory reset phone. Done.
whyagaindavid
·hace 6 meses·discuss
https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...

Sure.

Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours
whyagaindavid
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Account creation needs phone number?
whyagaindavid
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Wow.. you are the one loving thunderbird. The ridiculous idea of removing menubar and if you enable that - it wastes valuable screenspace.