Their own solution is actually better than a VPN for this use case. It’s an encrypted proxy which anyone can download and run, so it’s much harder to block.

The Big Lebowski is the pinnacle of humour! Now get off my lawn!

Yep that’s the idea.

It’s a scene from The Big Lebowski, right after The Dude got tortured with a marmot by German nihilists. Walter focuses on the legality of keeping a marmot as a pet, which is obviously not the main issue.

I don’t think the goal is to lock you into their browser, since you still can change it through the GUI. It seems to be part of the recent push to block software which changes hidden settings. The end goal being to lock down the OS and prevent users from disabling features MS wants to push onto them.

Is there a way to donate yet?

Tried it with a macOS server and gnome client, it worked but I could not see the mouse cursor. Maybe it’s because my laptop has a touch screen, I didn’t bother looking into it further.

The second one doesn’t either.

I guess by the time I came across :x, :wq was already too ingrained to bother switching.

That’s why I always select “English (US)” when installing an OS or creating an account online. No bad or missing translation, no mangled UI because of longer words, and of course easily searchable error messages.

Everything is made up of narrow tasks, you “just” need to break it down more :)

I guess it would make sense if you’re testing a public API? To make sure the documentation is sufficient and accurate.

If it does 1001 different things, naming it is the least of your problems.

Most people simply don’t get the point. They don’t understand, let alone care about, digital privacy and security.

Anecdotal evidence: I have a short Gmail address (think billg@gmail.com), and a lot of smartasses use it to subscribe to everything, mostly as a throwaway but also on e-commerce sites, fintech bullshit with access to their bank accounts, …

Once I got curious and reset the password, logged in and the moron had already filled in all his personal info, including his credit card. Another time I sent an SMS to the guy asking him to stop, he replied “it’s my address, my nephew set it up for me, I guess we just have the same one”.

These guys would never take 10 minutes to set up a 2FA app.

Because Cobol is mainly used in an enterprise environment, where they most likely already run Java software which interfaces with the old Cobol software. Plus modern Java is a pretty good language, it’s not 2005 anymore.

Well that’s a new one, in most cases modern Java projects are built by simply running “./mvnw package”, on every platform.

Yeah but they need people to have enough money to buy their shit so they can get richer.

Et alors

• @thedude is too busy having a well-earned beer to write up a postmortem.

Exact same system in Paris, with the same issues.