To your last point, yes. The average user doesn’t even glance at the permissions before blindly accepting them. It is also true that an alarmingly high number of users/consumers /don’t care/ about basic privacy concerns that affect things like targeted ads, PII, and information that could be used to affect things like credit score.

An old trick you could do on old physical fax machines was to tape a couple of sheets of black construction paper together, feed them into the machine and tape them into a loop. Dial your special person and burn through all their toner. Of course, now it would just generate a bunch of emails.

At the very least, anyone who participated in any of the plots (NM, GA, MI, PA?, federal-level) should never be allowed near the levers of power again. They may be allowed to vote agter their sentences, but they must be prevented from influencing the process ever again.

What in the schizophrenia word salad did I just read?

Makes sense. It’s an advertisement platform.

Do not rely on the built-in password managers to keep your passwords safe. Use a purpose-built one like Bitwarden to generate unique ones, save and complete them, agnostic to the browser. Virtually every stealer out there can easily grab the built-in password db’s content.

Ehh, fuck Verkada in the neck with a rusty screwdriver. Their cold-calling and borderline-harassing sales tactics earned them a permaban in my org’s email filtering and phone system.

May I suggest we tear down all the confederate monuments after we win this time, starting with Stone Mountain, GA?

Can we also tear down anybody sporting the traitor’s flag? The number of people way up here in the north (like, sharing a border with fucking Canada) displaying the confederate battle flag is too damn high.

Anger and outrage are different than sad and upset though.

The firewall I manage at work blocks tor exit nodes and app traffic at the application layer.

Regarding the steadfast belief that “conservatism is dying”: no it isn’t. Christian schools, home schools, Christian colleges, and even regular schools, communities and colleges are pumping out kids that have the beliefs of their parents. I live in a rural area, and work (hypocritically) for a Christian based organization. I’m surrounded by young minds that are perfectly comfortable with the ideals of the religious right, and vote.

Society has been saying it for years… We said it when I was back in college. “Bubba in the white house is going to be the best! We’ll undo all the hell Reagan and Bush did!” then Newt Gingrich (sounds like a disease…) made his “Promise to America™” and everything got fucked.

I’m pretty sure if you pause it just right, you can almost imagine seeing a nipple!

No, we’re “Anteefa”, and we hold our meetings in the libraries on Wednesdays. We have cookies and juice.

Revanced forums are straight-up toxic. Any setup questions are smugly redirected at the unusable documentation, as you pointed out. For some reason, there’s an elitist attitude in that group.

The New Teams™ is much better about resource utilization (on pc anyway) - like by 60% both active (video conference) and whilst idle (background).

Not trying to simp for MS or anything, the previous version was a shitshow. It really did everything my company needed for HIPAA compliant communication, but damn, did it suck ass doing it. New Teams is supposed to be the default for all instances March '24.

Definitely not a hoopy frood

A poll out today shows 307 electoral votes for Trump.

Setting aside the conflation of “5 minutes” to “5 seconds” for a bit just to say: setting up ReVanced is a gigantic pain in the ass. I’ve only ever been on the android platform. I’ve sideloaded apps. Also been in the technology industry for almost 3 decades. The documentation is dog shit. The official user forum r/revanced, (iirc) is a fucking circlejerk. Their own faq and top pinned “definitive install guide” post is out of date and just plain wrong. Down thread, whenever someone has questions (inevitably, because the documentation is fucked (see previous)), some smarmy asshat has the audacity to direct the confused newb to the same flawed docs.

I swear, fanatics are their own worst enemies. Now, I’m not saying you’re a fanatic. But sideloading that app in 5 mins (or seconds, depending on which sentence you’re relying on)? Yeah, bullshit.

Yeah, maybe try building an OS designed to be secure by default.

I’ve been using Sync since The Great Exodus. One feature I like is the “everything across the fediverse” view, but I’m not seeing that so readily in Connect.

Edit: oh, and thanks BTW for the link. Foggy brain searching for just “connect” didn’t work so good.