Well done Baku

Preach. Strong passwords, MFA and awareness of social engineering is the bulk of security on the user side.

Seeing it with a forward slash is just weird.

Saving some money short term, losing a whole bunch long term.

Same reason moms play solitaire on their phones. Just something they know to pass the time, no need for anything fancy or new.

Well: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/

Edit: it’s more loot box stuff… but it’s step one

Hmm you might be right. And if 2016 has taught us anything: it might work.

What a kamikaze of a defense…

Great point, this will happen instantly.

Yet

It’s actually optimized for them. The goal is to get users to spend time and see ads etc. The UI is not made for us users.

Devils advocate here: it’s their webservice right? They determine who can access it.

If there were legislation that would force them to make it interoperable that would be one thing. But you can’t just demand access to their infrastructure.

That intro scene was so well done. It felt so real and inevitable.

Just go away with these “both sides” dogwhistles.

And didn’t their president recently step down because of fraud with research data or something?

Things are going great over there.

Him smashing up those weak tray tables… yeah that would be great

Sure. If those naturally come about.

I still get put on blast on mastodon when I tell someone I use Ivory. Why the hell do they care?

After Max become champion for the first time, he was asked how important GP was to him.

He answered in the typical immediate and direct way something in the sense of: ‘very, I will only work with him. We are fully honest with each other: I will tell him when he fucks up, he will tell me when I fuck up. I won’t race without him as my race engineer’

Those weren’t his exact words but the sentiment is clear.

Technology is amazing!