I just can’t take an article complaining about ads seriously when it’s that peppered with ads …

The average person understands email pretty well.

No, they really don’t.

Only if it’s installed somewhere beneath the current working directory, whichever that might be when running the command.

I think Paris is a great city that I really enjoy visiting every time I go there, but you’re perfectly right that it’s incredibly overrated, anything with that reputation really must be, nothing that exists in reality could possibly come even close to such a myth.

Considering that HSBC is remarkably evil, even compared to other major international banking corporations, this might be a good nudge to stop doing business with them.

I like my stuff self-managed.

Bitwarden / Vaultwarden is a popular available working solution for self-hosting and self-managing passkeys (as well as passwords).

Malta

Maltese is an awesome language!

Why would someone own 8 vehicles?

He might be too poor to be able to afford more than that.

I don’t believe this claim to be true. If you insist that it really is true, could you please point to the exact place in the US constitution that prohibits a permanent standing army?

Why is it so pervasive? And why does some of it seem to be ignored for literal years?

Considering that you know that these problems have not yet been fixed, you must still be using these products despite these problems not yet being fixed and there’s your answer: What would the motivation be to fix problems that aren’t severe enough to make you stop using the product?

Doesn’t need any comment:

int getCount() { return count; }

Absolutely needs a very extensive comment:

double getBojangleFlux { return fubar * .42; }

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Blick_auf_Arkona_mit_aufgehendem_Mond.jpg

Okay. So how do we turn it off!?

This is probably not the reply you want, but as someone who (in the past 40+ years) has never owned a TV, I simply can’t refrain from asking: Have you considered simply not owning a TV?

Your friend sets you up on a date. Are you going to treat that person horribly. Of course not. Why? First and foremost, because you’re not a dick.

I have in my life met a number of people to whom you might want to explain that this was how they were supposed to behave.

Please ban all the stupid password rules.

Yes.

I would rather just get hacked […]

Eh, no.

Both my employer and my home ISP use IPv6 since many years now and so does all my own stuff, it’s wonderfully convenient to have a globally unique address for everything that I connect to the network.

Casablanca

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/dot_internal_ratified/

Vaultwarden is what really makes this solution great!

Bitwarden / Vaultwarden, no other password manager I’ve tried before has really worked for me.