Hard agree. Legalised loan sharking.
They seem to appear a lot in these “buy European” communities. Still trying to work out if it’s me (bias, etc), if people are just desperate to share any “made in EU” content, or if they’re doing guerilla marketing. 🤷♂️
Your initial response got peoples’ backs up because of its dismissive tone and (it seemed to me, as you hadn’t provided context) apparent advocacy for web-based tools like O365 or GSheets.
Many office application users wouldn’t consider vim as an “office application”, as they have their word processing app, their spreadsheet app, their email app, their chat app, their file explorer/manager, maybe something other than Notepad as a text editor, etc, and don’t really know much beyond some of what each of them can do.
The fact that vim (or Emacs or vim/nvim with plugins, or LazyVim or Doom Emacs) can do all of those things would blow many minds.
But the setup effort and learning curve is still there, and also requires that they have sufficient permissions/policy to be able to install things.
The UK seems to speed-run everything the US does politically, so “anyone” probably means a notable percentage of the population.
Today’s council elections give a hint: Farage’s Reform PLC blew many safe Conservative and Labour seats out of the water. You could fit a cigarette paper between the policies and actions of both parties right now, so they’ll likely both be falling over themselves to work out how to attract the fash vote. 😬
Today’s probably that grifter’s biggest success to date, and likely all strategised by the Heritage Foundation.
Like the @a.gup.pe ones? They are kind of autoboost bots, but they do have communities behind them and it’s annoying when people treat them like hashtags.
But I’d not use the term bots. They’re more like old-fashioned email reflectors: a message goes in, and it then gets sent to everyone on the list.
Sounds plausible.
FWIW, New World (doesn’t have borderless fullscreen) got me into the habit of tapping the Windows key before doing anything outside the game. Other than when the game is starting, it never has any problems when I do that.
I’m using EndeavourOS, KDE, Wayland, so YMMV.
Hard agree. Mindsets stuck in 2005 or before when cool and useful stuff was, just, free online. We were such summer children then.
Anyone still like that obviously shouldn’t be in charge of anything sharp or dangerous…
I’ve been told off for reporting phishing attempts:
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. And manglement gaze at their navels wondering why incidents don’t get reported… 😬
Anyone remember websites and RSS? Those were the days.
Why does everything have to get shovelled into someone’s walled garden…
(Speaking about updates and notifications here, not discussions.)
By stores do you mean Amazon Fresh? Definitely.
I thought it was interesting it wasn’t mentioned in the comparison to similar historical false claims.
That’s very much what the Opinion section in the Guardian is all about: an all comers free-for-all written by anyone who cares to submit a piece. Generally unrelated their news journalism and general mission/ideology.
I see why they do it: opposing views and so on. But in the current society of headlines are everything, knee jerk reactions, polarisation and the idea of a middle ground being treason, etc, we get “Why are the Guardian saying x?!” 🤷♂️
Don’t do this. And it says 41 minutes to me.
No sane person is going to sit through a video that long to see what - if any - point you were trying to make, but didn’t bother to add to your post.
I have a 2015 Shield. Best device I’ve ever had, and haven’t ever had to factory reset it.
My main recommendation - in case it applies to you - is to not run any server software on it (eg. Plex). It’s a solid client device, but has never had what it takes to run server services.
I think it has plenty of life left in it, so a factory reset might be worthwhile. Also note that the drive in yours may be well past its best.
It’s comparable to IFTTT or (now defunct) Yahoo Pipes. “Event on service A triggers action on service B” type stuff.
For example, I use Zapier for things like webhooks on Discord: watching an RSS feed and having it post new updates into a Discord channel.
You could just as easily have it watch, say, a weather site for area and push that to your email (or Pushover account, etc). Or alert you that an item you want is on sale. And so on.
There’s a world outside the US/European false dichotomy.
I’ve been with Fastmail since 2019 and you couldn’t pay me to go elsewhere. 🤷♂️
Everyone likes a bit of VAG, surely? 😉
The US$75 Lifetime price has traditionally been their Black Friday deal, regardless of the usual price.
Anyone’s guess if that deal will still be a thing, given their recent behaviour, though.
This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!
Can confirm. Libation is amazing. Easy to use and just works.
A fintech who specifically targets the BNPL* (including groceries and other essentials) market? Of course a loan shark company is planning to follow the Spotify IPO route. 😬
Maybe they actually help some people with this model, but I’ve not seen the data.
*Buy Now, Pay Later. Can’t afford food this week? Spread the payment over 6 weeks! Just don’t think too hard about next week…
Short answer: Eventually, yes. But it also depends on what you mean by “privacy” and “danger”, and what else you’re doing with your NAS.
Longer answer:
Your NAS can be used in the ways you want, and with the privacy levels you want, without signing up to or using additional cloud services. By choosing to use QuickConnect, you’re trading some of that for convenience.
History shows that most providers will have a data breach. What that breach includes depends entirely on what you given them and what they’ve taken. Including what their ToS and Privacy Policy says, and has ever said the entire time you’ve used it. That’s assuming good faith and competence, as some services gather more. And then there are things like court orders, some of which you’ll never hear about.
It also depends on their security model. It’s quite likely that they’re using their own certificates (as it does when you browse to your NAS’s web interface), so would mean they’ll be automatically decrypting and re-encrypting the traffic going through QC. This will often be stated as “end to end encryption”, despite not really being that.
If your concern is filenames and such, then it’s likely visible to them. Whether they record them is up to their current policies. If your concern is the contents of your screen, video or audio, then it is unlikely. Especially with things like SSH or remote desktop that may have their own transport security.
However, if you use your own remote connectivity option (eg. WireGuard, Tailscale), you’re not sending data through their servers.
FWIW, I use Photos and Drive, and both naturally work seamlessly on my LAN. When I’m outside my network, I usually rely on what I’ve saved for offline use. But when I want something specific, I use WireGuard to VPN to my home network to get it. No cloud services and no “I hope they don’t get breached this week” garbage - just a secure point-to-point connection between my device and my home.
tl;dr: It’s less about what a company says/does about their service, and more about not giving them the opportunity to get it wrong, do bad things, etc.