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> You enable #2FA everywhere to secure your accounts.> You already use an authenticator app.> The service in question requires an...

> You enable #2FA everywhere to secure your accounts.
> You already use an authenticator app.
> The service in question requires an #Authy account to be able to send OTP codes to you. They (Amazon) can't afford SMS/mail apparently?
> Even if you don't prefer to use Authy, the service creates an account for you automatically.
> Authy was acquired by Twilio in 2015.
> This week Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leaked **33 million** phone numbers associated with Authy.

And here we are...

If a product says that the users shouldn't rely on AI answers and just take it as a grain of salt, then why insisting on putting AI...

If a product says that the users shouldn't rely on AI answers and just take it as a grain of salt, then why insisting on putting AI answers everywhere, including in front of our eyes? It won't make the AI answer more helpful.

I wish for a future where banks don't; have hidden fees/limits, make you to sign papers long as a novel, block off my account due to...

I wish for a future where banks don't; have hidden fees/limits, make you to sign papers long as a novel, block off my account due to ridiculous UI/UX, have too generic error messages, require calling customer service on phone for fundamental things when they could just add that to their app, make me to go through menus just to say that I'm not eligible. 🙄

"But we do this to prevent fraud/abuse" etc, I doubt it. They already know more about me than I do, and it does not benefit me.

#banks

0 days since a new paid and proprietary video transcoder product which uses ffmpeg behind the scenes with a super-glorified landing page has...

0 days since a new paid and proprietary video transcoder product which uses ffmpeg behind the scenes with a super-glorified landing page has come out without thanking ffmpeg in any way, and this is not just about ffmpeg.

Your product may be good, but it can be better when you acknowledge, support and give credit to what you did build on, at least they are the ones that made you to achieve today. :)

A random Windows tip that I wanted to share;If you want to install Windows for any reason (or bought a new PC) but got asked for a Microsoft...

A random Windows tip that I wanted to share;

If you want to install Windows for any reason (or bought a new PC) but got asked for a Microsoft account which you can't skip, you can simply log in to this dummy account; "a@a.com" and "a" as password, so you don't need to deal with more technical command/registry tricks to bypass sign in step. Windows will say that the account is blocked, so it will let you creating a local account instead.

It should be your right to not sign in.

#Windows #PC

And I'm not even against of AI, ML or whatever you say. However, I don't believe that these stuff is in the good hands in the...

And I'm not even against of AI, ML or whatever you say. However, I don't believe that these stuff is in the good hands in the current situation.

I appreciate OpenAI taking steps to refrain their models from, copying... or as they say; "generating" inappropriate material, but these are not enough. They could have been more attentive to their models and audit them properly.

After all, it is a for-profit company, it is not there to be relied on, it is there to be generating revenue as first.

If AI/ML is really going to take our jobs, I hope that the people who really rely on these will be the first to have their jobs taken away,...

If AI/ML is really going to take our jobs, I hope that the people who really rely on these will be the first to have their jobs taken away, sorry for being a bit harsh, but I won't stand the thinking we should replace teachers with GPTs.

There is a huge misunderstanding that models can distinguish between good and bad, they can't. And models don't even "know" anything, it is trained on datasets, and programmed to answer according to input context, which is done by complex math calculations. ++

Information and Communication Technologies Authority of Turkey (ICTA) has provided a list of VPNs that they have requested to ban to ISPs,...

Information and Communication Technologies Authority of Turkey (ICTA) has provided a list of VPNs that they have requested to ban to ISPs, without a court order.

Turkey is already known for being evil in terms of internet freedom, and it is not the first time that ICTA doing this (banning VPNs and banning websites without a court order).

But they won't ever understand that there are ways and will continue to have ways to circumvent the censorship, it is more like a cat-and-mouse game.

Google has finally stepped back from their Web Environment Integrity also known as "DRM for websites" after rising complaints. It...

Google has finally stepped back from their Web Environment Integrity also known as "DRM for websites" after rising complaints. It was an experiment of providing an interface to websites to check if device/browser is "trustworthy" - in different terms, websites could detect if you are using a rooted (or modified it in any way that the vendors/manufacturers do not want you to do) device and prevent you accessing that website.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/google_abandons_web_environment_integrity/

#api #browser #google #drm #web

Unity (one of the most popular #game engines) has introduced a new pricing model that charges a monthly fee per install after reaching a...

Unity (one of the most popular #game engines) has introduced a new pricing model that charges a monthly fee per install after reaching a certain revenue threshold. Now, this sounds strange, because;

If Unity is going to count installs, does that mean that every game developed with Unity has to be connected to the internet, even if the game doesn't need it?

I'm not a game developer, but this approach is basically #DRM which affects consumers in a bad way as well.

https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates

I won't ever understand the reasoning behind using proprietary WinRAR instead of using 7-Zip, which is free & open-source software....

I won't ever understand the reasoning behind using proprietary WinRAR instead of using 7-Zip, which is free & open-source software. And it can also unpack .rar archives by default.

People may think that free and open source software is only useful to the developer. But end-users can also benefit from it.

Like, it allows everyone to discover and patch exploits before even it reaches to the end-user, such as:

https://github.com/b1tg/CVE-2023-38831-winrar-exploit

I think "Native Messaging" is one of the amazing #Web Extension #APIs. So let's talk about it today :)It basically allows...

I think "Native Messaging" is one of the amazing #Web Extension #APIs. So let's talk about it today :)

It basically allows browser extensions to communicate with the programs installed in your computer, the browser itself takes care of starting and terminating the program.

This feature can be used to build interactive online guides to automate manual tasks.

I'm still working on the extension to make sure everything is working seamlessly, so it will be released on GitHub once it is ready!