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  • Americans spending more and more time at home, with COVID pandemic accelerating trend

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  • Commented on another thread - Rising costs, inflation, stagnant wages, a pandemic, and the specter of Long COVID. Not to mention that the country is so relentlessly polarized that nearly everyone I know is reluctant to let anyone new into their circle for fear of learning that new person has been duped into supporting literal fascist Nazis. We’re exhausted and we don’t want to argue all the time.

    With Cheeto Benito and the Brown Shirts in office, there’s a palpable tension in nearly every interaction right now. It’s only going to get worse, until eventually we will either have to start socializing in the form of local community organizing or we’ll rapidly find that we no longer have a hope of a future for ourselves.

    For a nation typically sitting firmly in dumb, fat, and happy territory, this is a level of existentialism that none of us are accustomed to. Unless of course you’re Black or maybe Latino, in which case you probably know what’s up.

  • What is this thing, a spring loaded tampon or something?

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  • Expert level sounding.

  • Why do most Americans use an iPhone?

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  • But those inexpensive phones most often don’t deliver a comparable device experience to the flagship devices. Honestly, this is the crux of things. Comparing iPhone to “Android” is a fool’s errand. Apple often only has one more budget conscious model available explicitly. But OS support tends to last longer on Apple devices, so multiple model years are viable at once.

  • Trump says Ukraine 'should have never started it' in comments about war with Russia

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  • It’s like wearing nothing at all! ….nothing at all! …..nothing at all!

  • Trump says Ukraine 'should have never started it' in comments about war with Russia

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  • If Ukraine didn’t want to be invaded, it shouldn’t have dressed that way! Stupid sexy Ukraine.

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    I worked hard on this meme and now I can't use it because the guy's a Nazi

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  • This is fair. But does it matter that there aren’t mere allegations that Ye is a Nazi?

    Like. Drake is likely a skeeze, but Ye told us he’s a Nazi flat out.

  • Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles?

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  • The Switch was just the Wii U refined into something consumers actually wanted, rather than an innovation on its own.

    I’d argue that Nintendo has always been pretty similar in terms of the amount of innovation they bring to their segment barring perhaps the quality of the Wii motion controls when launched and compared against similar attempts both by Nintendo and their competitors prior.

    The Famicom / NES and the subsequent Super Famicom / SNES / N64 were just iterations on the same home console market for which Nintendo was far from the first to launch. The GameCube and the Wii shared a lot of DNA, with the motion controls really being the innovation. The Wii U, Switch, and Switch 2 seem to be a lineage of refinement as well.

    In handhelds, they went from monochrome, to backlit monochrome, to backlit color, to two displays and some touch controls. You could argue that the 3D effect of the 3DS was innovative, but the allure of the feature died as soon as the industry realized the demand wasn’t there to keep developing it. Hardly as revolutionary as other competitors products, but more in touch with what their consumers wanted than their competitors, hence the market lasted longer for Nintendo than Sony with the PSP and Vita.

    Ironically, the things Nintendo has done at the base system level that truly attempted to innovate have mostly been failures. The Virtual Boy was way ahead of its time, but the form factor was half baked and the eyestrain was horrendous. The Wii U was a success in that Nintendo learned what about the console was worth iterating on, but otherwise it was an abject failure as well because it didn’t offer enough to differentiate itself from the Wii.

    For innovation to occur, there needs to be a predicating breakthrough in technology around which these companies can build a product. We’re in an age of rapid miniaturization and simultaneous increased power of integrated systems. It feels like more power = better, but this trajectory is going to yield new potential applications of technology in form factors that haven’t been fully explored yet. It’s just cyclical, and things take time to develop.

    Plus - everything is slower when consumers demonstrate they’re satisfied with what the company is selling them. No need to dramatically change course when the current model is satisfying customers. The confluence of a new technology landscape and a dip in consumer enthusiasm for existing offerings is the typical spot for a hardware developer to innovate.

  • YSK that Bitwarden will require you to enter verification codes sent to your email before letting you log in, starting February 2025 (Edit: This is for those who aren't currently using 2FA)

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  • This is dramatically unlikely for FIDO2 MFA services. It’s possible, but would require the device you’re using to remain connected to both the vault and the attacker infrastructure long enough for the data to be scraped. It happens, but nowhere near as frequently as just stealing the login credentials and using them asynchronously from the origin.

    The strawman here would mostly apply to high value targets, which most people aren’t. At the scale of the internet, most cybercriminals are going to pivot to stealing accounts that don’t require additional investment to harvest. It’s simple economics. Having MFA is an essential part of using the internet for anything you actually care about.

    Strong passwords are rapidly becoming worthless when we’ve been building ever more powerful compute farms for several decades. What used to take months or even years to crack in 2010 can be done in seconds today. But all of that info neglects that it’s irrelevant because most passwords are lost due to social engineering, malicious software, or the leading cause….. password reuse.

  • YSK that Bitwarden will require you to enter verification codes sent to your email before letting you log in, starting February 2025 (Edit: This is for those who aren't currently using 2FA)

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  • This is a good thing. Any account you care about and don’t want to be accessed by anyone without your consent should have multifactor authentication enabled. Use an app like Google Authenticator or a hardware token like a Yubikey. 2FA through text or email is insecure and easily bypassed.

    Friends don’t let friends raw dog the internet. Don’t be dumb and get your shit stolen. Use MFA everywhere.

  • The US is actually going to implement a nationwide abortion ban and the measures for how it's gonna be handled are already in the works

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  • What landslide? Why do people keep insisting that this was a resounding defeat? The margin was absolutely minuscule.

  • Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban: Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor TikTok

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  • So what does Zuck do when Trump uses an exec order to stay the ban and pushes Republicans to reverse it?

  • Shit Post

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  • You’re a wombat.

  • Trump transition team has fleshed out its plan to destroy the US EV market

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  • Yes, but Trumps policies will only benefit Tesla both in the US and abroad. This news isn’t relevant outside of the US, where more than 50% of EVs sold in America are Teslas.

    Your point is valid, but irrelevant.

  • Trump transition team has fleshed out its plan to destroy the US EV market

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  • They meant where this news matters, in the US. BYD currently cannot sell passenger vehicles in America.

  • TIL that if you search "thank my driver" on the Amazon app, you can give your most recent Amazon driver a $5 tip at no cost to you. This is a limited time promotion.

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  • And me just now.

  • Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing

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  • That’s fair - I should have said major browsers to be more clear. Edited above.

  • Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing

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  • The overwhelming majority of development to Chromium is done by Google and not the open source contributors to the project. Maintaining a browser is not something that can be done for free as a hobby. It requires an army of full-time developers to sustain.

    Given all of the major browsers except Firefox are using Chromium, the best case scenario for spinning off Chrome is that Microsoft would pick up the lion’s share of development to keep Edge up to date.

    This is the same reason that all of the major Linux distributions have large foundations to support them.

    The DoJ would do less harm to the internet if they just forced Google to sell off Search instead. Then they’d be an advertising and cloud services company that happens to maintain a major browser to serve their ads.

  • DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg News reports

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  • This is the right take. This move would be so deleterious to the way the internet works on a foundational level at this point, it’s almost ridiculous. It would impact the world less if the courts forced google to sell off Search.

    The idea of who might have the assets to acquire this company and be an organization that would be preferable to Google maintaining control of Chrome doesn’t conjure many candidates. The best case scenario would be Microsoft, and they aren’t buying a browser company.

    Completely agree with you, fuck Google, fuck their monopolistic business practices, fuck their increasingly surveillance driven operating model, and fuck their gutless leadership for allowing their company to be reduced to an advertising enshittification factory after becoming so deeply ingrained in the way the internet is used that it became a verb.

  • Supreme Court rejects push to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from ballot in two swing states

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  • It’s the worms. 🤫