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> What is it that companies have against totp?

It isn't useful for tracking since it is private.

I feel like virtually every service demands a phone number on sign up partially for bots but mostly for for tracking.

What does it do if your device is off or somewhere inaccessible? (sounds frustrating)

> - 2nd SMS verification: some services offer you a fallback to SMS in case you don't have your 2FA device with you. But keep in mind, that SMS is also one of the least secure 2FA methods.

Isn't this a common complaint that SMS fallback cannot even be turned off? People say SMS is not secure enough so they switch to something better, but all the services do SMS fallback anyway so what is the point of using the more secure one?

I tried to sign up for a tutanota email account the other day through a VPN and when it came back and said "We don't trust your IP, use another connection." rather than being annoyed I was just glad they gave me a straight answer for once. It wasn't the answer I wanted but it sure beat being gaslighted into thinking I was having connection timeouts or browser incompatibilities to waste my time.

I started buying m.2 drives instead because they've gotten super cheap and are almost the same size. The main reason is even the crappiest m.2 drive has acceptable write performance but many USB drives are unbearable. I bought a little m.2 dock, I wish the enclosures weren't all expensive.

I remember loading some of my old floppies about 10 years ago, maybe as a bit of a nostalgia trip. I believe I'd kept my floppy drive around that long but probably hadn't actually used it in 10 years. Although I was a pretty heavy user in the mid 90s I was kind of kind of shocked how brutally slow and loud the copying operation was, and I didn't have memories of either of those aspects being great!

There is something satisfying about the mechanical chunk when they the disk snaps in though.

I've only ever seen a IBM PC/2 with a 2.88MB drive, never actually saw a disk though.

I remember seeing something about floppies and how the technology just sort of stopped advancing for awhile even though there was a need for improved capacity. It talked about how there was actually a lot of low hanging fruit that just was never picked, like how the obvious idea of storing more bits on the outer edges of the disk (where the circumference was larger) never was implemented.

I remember using spanned zips to ferry MP3s around on multiple floppies in the mid 90s. CD burners weren't super common and wasting a single disk for transferring 10s of megabytes seemed silly. For awhile there zip disks felt like they were going to replace them and did have a heyday until flash drives showed up. Both were tech that felt super late in arrival for how badly needed they were at the time.

Riffing on another comment, perhaps the poisons used have no known antidotes and that is why they are chosen even though they are painful. Otherwise they would probably be pointless since you could be revived.

Never seen the Boston City Hall before. I clicked thinking "How bad could it be?" and was sort of surprised at my visceral negative reaction. It is truly hideous! The article describes it as Brutalist, but most Soviet Brutalist stuff I've seen at least gives me a sense of simplicity, efficiency and usually symmetry even if the structures are depressing. This building seems to have eschewed even those positive traits!

IIRC Ukraine suffered pretty badly from notpetya as they were the primary target. It is possible that event caused the country to take steps to protect against similar attacks.

> and power draws usually below 60 watts

That isn't really in the same class as the Pi though, it seems the various models use somewhere in the range of 1-6watt max.

A lot of games anticheat detects and bans if you're in a VM. It seems like it is only for multiplayer though (for now anyway...until they think you might be getting free DLC pants for your single player character).

Toys with lead paint is a sad example since we did ban lead paint in toys, then Mattel was caught selling Chinese toys with lead paint and then a law was passed to requiring 3rd party inspections to prevent lead paint which created a burden for small toy sellers. And then Mattel was made exempt from having to test (could use their own in house testing) even though they were the whole reason the law was created.

Consumers can't compete on an individual level against giant mega corporations actively obfuscating information from them even if they had lots of free time and weren't overburdened already. And corporations can lobby to even get obvious terms redefined (Assembled in America) so everyone needs to understand lawyer speak to even make sense of the information they do receive.

And that is without even getting into misinformation campaigns.

We had some fertility issues as well and while IUI and time worked for the two children we have IVF was looked into. Before the whole thing I didn't understand why people didn't just adopt. But once looking into the sky high costs and uncertainty of adoption I understood why IVF is popular. It is expensive and uncertain as well, but much less so.

I remember adopting SSDs quite early in their lifetime despite them having controller firmware teething issues at the time. It was hands down the most significant PC upgrade I've made in the last 20 years.

That said, Windows used to run acceptably on hard drive. I don't think I could even endure Windows 10 on one now with the amount of background disk hammering it does just staring at an empty desktop.

Could you use some kind of android emulator for this task instead of an actual phone?

What does VirGL support for decoding acceleration? Not having that in my libvirt/qemu VMs has been a bit of a sort point for me. QXL as far as I know doesn't do anything at all here.

I seem to remember netbooks (even with the power sucking chipsets the early ones had) being pretty popular for short awhile. Ultimately they were kind of a flash in the pan, but Microsoft was sufficiently afraid of them they brought XP back from the dead just so they could get linux off the things. (Vista/7 are way to big of resource hogs to run tolerably on these, although they did have some starter edition of windows7 for the better performing later models)

Huh, I was under the impression that the Q chipsets were the ones that officially supported this.

I have a few ivybridge era chipset boards (B75, Z77) some of which actually don't officially support this feature but the motherboard manufacturers enabled it in bios anyway and it works. The sandybridge era was much messier for this feature.

It is very irritating Intel tried to gate this behind chipsets since I believe it is 100% handled by the processor.

It definitely wouldn't work at all with remotely wet snow, but a guy at work claims it works great with dry powder. Based on how easy that blows around in the wind I didn't doubt it.

I'm getting older and my back is not great. I generally look for ways to break big lifts like this into to multiple smaller lifts, not the other way around!

Not to mention the tarp will likely freeze to the ground after the first warm spell.

I have a hilly dirt driveway that doesn't get much sun. Snowblower generally doesn't get all of the snow, just most of it. I generally prefer winter gets cold, stays cold and then gets warm over changing temperature because the snow will melt partially and then refreeze into ice. Most cars with snow tires do OK on packed snow but ice is tough.

Once it gets frozen like this it pretty stays that way until spring or at least an extended warm spell. The amount of salt I would need is pretty cost prohibitive. I even tried breaking it up with a pry bar a few times and quickly realized that was an insane task. As you said I'd never spray the hill down with warmish water for fear of making the problem worse.

I recently watched a youtube video where a guy rented a Tesla and was frustrated that he needed to dig through touchscreen menus to open the glove box. Apparently it did not have a release latch.

> Anyhow the point is; those "blogs" or home made diaries where incredible, pseudonymous before people realized that what you say on the internet can be stored forever so people really REALLY said the truth and I couldn't stop reading.

Odd but I felt like people were more aware during that era that what you said might never go away, but were perhaps emboldened by the default pseudonymous state of the web at the time. I remember being taught in school to use no personal information when setting up accounts and my classmates largely following that doctrine. Facebook's real name policy seemed bizarre to me but the world had kind of changed by then.

My experience was you can unlink them after the account is up and running, but then you can't get any money out of there. (except by paying people with paypal of course)

It was unclear to me if they could claw funds in the USA way back when I looked. But I setup a small balance account and switched to it because I'd heard way back paypal managed to get people's bank accounts frozen for months in a dispute and if that was the same account you paid your bills out of you were in for a major hassle to you life. Which probably extorted a lot of people to give in.

> If this is done with sufficient care and anonymity, with no financial incentive to betray the user, I don't see the issue at all.

Even if a public company somehow managed to pass all of those caveats today the moment their leadership changed it would all go back out the window. And even a private company might go public or change leadership.

I wouldn't even rate the app store duopoly in my top 10 to go after to be honest. Things like the Luxottica group seem like much higher priorities to me.