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I don't agree in this example. Seveneves did end, then it came back it ruined itself. A bit anyway, you can ignore the final act pretty easily.

I had a bigger issue with requiring a phone number than the lack of ephemeral posting. The later is something I'm used to at least.

I really enjoy the Hot Ones series where celebrities are interviewed while eating extremely hot wings. It helps that the interviewer and his researchers actually take the interview side very seriously as well.

No, just VPN. Although my endpoint wasn't Switzerland. I still had email verification as an option in my case.

This was a very recent (within last week) change I noticed though.

The real names solution to abuse is often bandied about here, but it hasn't stopped garbage on facebook and it has a fundamental flaw in the logic behind it: It assumes all people have shame and that can be used to make them behave. Many real people don't, and they are the ones least likely to censor themselves by attaching a picture of their face to what they post. And a normal person is probably not going to want to interact with those people without the distance provided by being pseudonymous.

The same is true of adoption unfortunately.

I was until recently using protonmail for throwaway email addresses for various web forums as it allowed a captcha verification during creation. Every other one I'd tried demands SMS verification these days, which is right out. But proton mail recently changed and requires SMS or another email now, I believe they say it is to combat bots.

I tried tutanota but it refuses to create an account at all over a VPN, or at least the VPNs I've used. At least it told me the reason it was a no go here instead of silently failing.

Anyone have any recommendations in this space?

It occurred to me a few weeks ago that it was kind of nonsensical that there are tons of safety requirements that have added a lot of cost and complexity to a basic car (arguably this is a very good idea) yet you can still ride a motorcycle around legally. I don't know about you but I'd rather drive to work in a 1980 honda civic than a motorcycle, if only to stay out of the rain. But it isn't legal to sell a 1980s style civic anymore.

I get a few of these every day lately with yahoo mail. I was getting a bunch of confirm delivery receipt phishing emails for costco, walmart, fedex as well as tractors and bitcoin recently as well. They all seemed to have the same wacky text style used in the subject line.

You can hide the top tab bar for TST with an edit to userChrome.css

Add this:

#TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse !important; }

And I believe this is necessary: about:config toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets => false

Honestly, I'm surprised this hasn't been made more seamless yet but it is what I always do.

When I was a child we had pigs and chickens next to each other. The chickens started sleeping atop the resting pig since it was warm. It was cute until the pig started devouring the chickens!

I used this to allow me to boot to a physical USB key passed through to a VMWare ESXI6 VM. I haven't used VMWare for a long while now but it wasn't possible to do this directly at the time, but a small plop iso could hand booting off to the USB Key. It is a fascinating utility.

Reminds me of a guy who implemented a pre-screen on his phone calls to stop spammers. He said he wanted to use something simple at first and that he planned to tweak it depending upon how many spammers go through. So his phase one it asks "Dial 1 to continue". But that was enough to stop all the spam calls so he never had to improve it.

Paypal did the silent truncation to me at 20 characters once, what a nightmare. I can't even remember how I figured it out, probably some other poor soul left a breadcrumb for me.

Are the requirements different in different parts of the world? I've never used a banking app, I just use a web browser on my desktop.

> A great example I use is there are a ton of restaurants and fast food places around me. I used to walk to get lunch every day but eventually had to stop, these places realized most customers went through the drive through so they closed the lobby. Now even though this place is a 5 minute walk from me, it's no longer accessable if I'm not in a car.

I think this may have to do COVID and then staffing shortages creating a necessity rather than a active business decision. It would be ridiculous but couldn't you walk through the drive through? (I probably wouldn't do it either but I can't really think of a reason you couldn't)

Is it even possible to use a google account without a phone number? Google (and about everyone else) demands them for tracking. I've steadfastly avoided giving out my number for most trivial things but it's becoming harder and harder. The recent dark pattern is to setup your account and then claim there was suspicious activity on first login so they need to verify your (brand new) account by having you enter a (completely new) phone number. Microsoft recently extorted it out of me by forcing me to convert my mojang account to a Microsoft account and then pulling the verification stunt. Twitter, facebook, etc all do this.

Another annoyance is if you enter a landline number most of these things just assume it's a cell and then ask you for the verification code that they just sent into the ether.

I have a mixed system of PEX / Copper in my basement since they used that when installing the water softener. The pipes sweat during the summer and this resulted in mold on the PEX pipes. Copper pipes seem to resist it, which wasn't to surprising. I've heard copper top strips are sometimes used on roofs because the run off prevents moss and other things from growing atop the roof.

Couldn't it be a keyboard that delivered a set of keystrokes to retrieve malware by opening a web browser or some other common program?

You'll also need to provide a phone number, with the usual BS of the requirement appearing after you've migrated suddenly for "security reasons". They know people would bail on the conversion if they made this requirement so instead they take your account away and hold it ransom until you cough up the goods.

You're not kidding! https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great...

I remembering reading about the horse manure crisis that was solved by the automobile's invention. I'd forgotten that abandoned dead horses were part of the problem.

While it's archaic now, I actually can't think of a better icon that fits all modern meanings. At least it has historical use on its side, even if it's never accurate anymore.

I heard once that some young children thought it was actually a picture of a refrigerator (which makes a sort of sense as a real world analog for saving something for later) so maybe this issue has magically solved itself.

As a former colleague of mine was fond of saying, broken gets fixed but crappy lasts forever.

You can eventually learn to use a bad UI, but you'll never learn a constantly changing one.

> Binge watching? No no no, we will go back to cable and drip feed you episodes.

Did they change this recently? Netflix has always done a season dump in my experience. While I like it personally, I kind of think it's a mistake because it reduces the "water cooler" discussions that keep the property in the public consciousness for longer and allow it to build up a following.

Most computing devices people commonly use these days aggressively try to obfuscate away file and directory management so it doesn't surprise me that people lack this knowledge. Even Windows I have to turn a lot of default knobs to get it to show me the real paths and other popular platforms are clearly still worse in this regard.

This is by design of course. If it's extremely hard to get at the files and manipulate them they'll end up on the cloud, and eventually people will forget local storage is even a thing.

Didn't this already happen with some motorcycle safety system that required a monthly payment or it would get disabled?

Yes, sometime within the last 5 years they broke their long partnership with AMEX. It seems to be Citibank now.

IIRC they're civil suits as well which have a much lower burden of proof required for judgement.

Most (but not all) free email providers now seem to require SMS verification to sign up for them these days.