confusedwiseman

joined 1 year ago
[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Wouldn’t that be known as a land contract?

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why are you upgrading? Are you after a specific feature? Are you aware of any security vulnerabilities not addressed?

Is there anything you want from the new version now that’s worth the risk of finding some bugs?

Sometimes you just wanna upgrade, because it’s fun.

Though if you must have stability because you need the machine to just work because it’s the only one you have for work/school, I’d say wait till closer to EOL.

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not bothering to dig it back up, but I thought I remember something like it was based on a policy when a verified user changes their logo. The verification was put back once reverified. Stupid, yes, but if policy it makes more sense.

I’m not big on defending Xitter, but IF this is uniformly handled, this is the least of our reasons to get torches and pitchforks after them.

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

To stay away from the influence of google’s business practices and their influence on chromium.

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

If that’s the case foxnews would like cut out most of the challenge. I’m not old enough to have adult children yet but I still have a hard time grasping news channels are entertainment venues.

News used to be actual news done by reporters. It had credibility and a degree of respect. This shift has been near impossible for my parents generation

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure if it would meet your requirements, but if specific enough to your phones current control capabilities; would a shortcut or automation app meet your needs. I seem to remember them being able to prompt for input. It might be a more COTS approach for you depending on your needs.

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Must be. I had difficulties with it at one point, and I ended up living at the URL from some search results and was able to figure out what it wanted. I thought the missing slash might have been your issue.

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, totally fair. I wouldn’t ever try to disagree with any of that.

I’m honestly trying to avoid the cluster that is everything going on and look at the safe company.

I think I’m upset that I had higher hopes for Liberty as a safe company. Partially because they did comply, but wholly because there was a way to comply. That kind of money on a safe should lead to, call a locksmith that can break in.

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It wasn’t terribly clear, but the paperwork sounded pretty flimsy at best. While I like the thought the company shouldn’t install a back door, but I’d bet they all pretty much have one.

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A safe company gives access to a customer’s safe without a court order? You had one job to do, and it was basically done… this seems bad for business, maybe if they’re publicly traded the stakeholders should take action against current leadership.

Please note my comments are completely separate from whoever happens to be the owner of the safe. That shouldn’t be relevant at all.

I believe the same standard should be held for customer data as well. Why wouldn’t there be an expectation that purchasing a safe is basically a zero trust platform. If it breaks or I lose my combo/key, I’ll need a locksmith to “break” in.

[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Qwant is as close as you’re going to get unless you can set up searchxng to do what you are asking.

Now, you might be able to get better diversity in results if you use a vpn to move to more diverse or contrasting cities.

I often find news sources external to the US to be very interesting insights to what we see rammed down our throats.

 

I've moved almost completely to Proton Mail. I expect I'll end up keeping a Google or Outlook account, not for use as a primary account, but as a recovery account or to access other services.

I currently see a lot less value in the google account than outlook, but that's because my family does need access to full blown office. Libre office does 98% of what I need, but on occasion I do need office. An install of 2010 would probably meet that requirement as well. Firefox is set to delete cookies on exit, and I do not ever stay signed into these services.

Does anyone else keep free service email accounts around, and if so, what do you use them for? What's the pit-fall I'm not seeing if I try to restrict them and treat them with the Principle of Least Privileged model?

 

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