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If just one or those passwords gets leaked you might find a lot of other ones get cracked as well.

It may not be sites that you care about. But using a password manager is a lot less effort and a lot safer than whatever technique the average Joe will come up with.

Any password that leaks which could indicate a potential system ( e.g.: sitename in lower/upper/leetspeak) makes the whole thing even more vulnerable.

Just use something. Bitwarden, vault warden, keepassxc, …

Knowing my social circle I’d recommend bitwarden. Even paying for it costs a measly 10$/year, while the free version is very usable in itself. And generating passphrases or 32char passwords will be a lot safer than whatever the hell they can come up with.

Just avoid the default browser ones, big tech and LastPass.

I don’t know about that specific browser. But there is something similar in use in schools here. Basically they know when you’re leaving the browser window ( e.g.: to open a text file or a different browser ). Other features probably are that they can monitor you through your webcam and/or listen to your audio as you are making the test. The reason is so you don’t have somebody under your desk reading you the answers. Or you don’t have your course book open while making the exam.

The school could honestly provide the alternative to go make the tests in the school itself under supervision on paper or on a school device.

It’s a secure anti-cheating browser, not a secure privacy/anonimity/hardened browser.

It’s not meant for day-to-day use. Only for making the exams.

You can always get a secondary cheapo device purely for the exams ( or an old laptop).

I’ll be completely honest. I didn’t. :D

Edit: oh hang on. I completely misunderstood the meaning of the word “decried”. My comment does not make sense at all in that case.

The man who voted for the “leopards eat your face” party had his face eaten by leopards. More news at noon.

Edit: misunderstanding of a word in my case and my comment did not make sense. I’ll leave it for the shame. :)

You’d expect governments to sue over this. Instead they’ll queue up to buy the data

shrugs in linux

Articles like this and the fact they’re still trying to get recall back was reason enough for me to switch again.

Maybe one of these is interesting? I have no actual experience with them though:

https://actualbudget.org/

https://github.com/DumbWareio/DumbBudget

https://maybefinance.com/

https://paisa.fyi/

They should all be self-hostable.

Edit: I don’t know of these all match your criteria. Maybe finance looks pretty Sleek imho. I just dread the thought of exporting my transactions and importing them because my bank is forking horrible w.r.t. integrations.

And logging in every time to do a CSV export is just annoying.

Edit 2: formatting

Sorry I don’t fully understand your question. Forced/hooked on what exactly?

The Xbox eco system?

Switching between consoles is a costly switch which will likely not pay off the price hike. That is assuming the competitor you’re switching to also doesn’t do a price hike shortly after you decide to switch.

They can switch to games from other publishers or other platforms ( e.g.: Nvidia ) instead of gamepass. But that would depend if the game is on there to begin with ( which is also an argument against game pass ). If all your friends are playing cod or Minecraft there isn’t really an alternative to switch to either.

Switching from Windows to Linux is ‘harder’ because people think it’s all terminals and magic and difficult. It generally isn’t nowadays. But there isn’t an initial cost to that. You don’t need to buy new hardware, there’s just a learning curve which doesn’t have to be that steep. But I have a technical background so could be biassed on that.

People can still buy games second hand or through the various discount websites I suppose. But I suppose you’ll still feel the price hike there as well. 10% off on a 60 or 80€ game is still the difference between paying 54 and 72.

Note: I actually didn’t read the article, but only the headline. So I could be completely beside the point.

That’s one way to try and shift your audience to your game pass subscription I guess.

I uninstalled it after the whole security debacle discussion on GitHub. But the browser was quite enjoyable to use indeed.

Huh. Didn’t even know about this. Maybe I’ll browse their episode list to see if there are some episodes that are interesting.

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I like the timer and the error icon on a fail. I can’t recall how often I think: damn this is taking too long. I should’ve timed the command

Geolocation is an accurate way to predict the user’s language.

This makes me so angry. It really really really really really does.

Despite setting everything to English I still get my receipts in French. And all because my IP is CG-NAT to the capital which is marked as french speaking.

What is so hard about letting me decide. The absolute fucking arrogance thinking you as a company know better than me in which language I would like to be served.

Eat a dick Microsoft.

I think you’re reacting to the wrong person as I didn’t make the NIH claim, but merely explained its meaning. :)

I think “Not Invented Here”. Meaning he wants to build everything himself from scratch despite there being alternatives he can use instead.

E.g.: Building your own httprequest library rather than using the existing one which is good enough.

I prefer the one where you randomly sort the array until all elements are in order. ( Bogosort )

I looked into that at one point, but 15$/month is quite steep just for that ( imo )

One can be used in an airport/aircraft/train and the other can not.

One is fit for travelling and the other is not

But then how can we monitize our gamers if we can’t run at the kernel level and do whatever we want?

We’re selling games at an overpriced rate and putting tons of gambling and Mtx in our games. But this is unsustainable. We’ll go bankrupt at this rate! Just last week we had a meeting with the CEO complaining he couldn’t buy his fifth luxury boat because he had spent that years bonus on his 2nd aircraft. He said heads might start to roll at this rate to keep the company float. Where are we supposed to find the money to index 5% on the wages.

Some upper manager somewhere. Probably