First Mojo, now Kinky.

:(

It looks like a fossilized wasp hive.

But they’re almost all using it STUPIDLY, aren’t they?

How many people who purport to have Bitcoin actually hold their own private key?

It’s aready possible to flash a phone ROM in two clicks

That’s precisely the kind of access that a web browser should NEVER, EVER have.

If you think 2 stage download keylogger apps getting into app stores is bad, wait until it can be done with a banner ad. Or by viewing a comment on a post.

Thank you for your service to this thread.

“WebUSB is a JavaScript application programming interface specification for securely providing access to USB devices from web applications”

Holy Hannah, NO!!!

Might as well allow a website to direct write to your hard drive unprompted again.

Does noone see how BAD this stuff is?

Stop creating attack vectors with glowing neon signs on them.

What do you use now?

I work in IT and between the Advent of “agile” methodologies meaning lots of documentation is out of date as soon as it’s approved for release and AI results more likely to be invented instead of regurgitated from forum posts, it’s getting progressively more difficult to find relevant answers to weird one-off questions than it used to be. This would be less of a problem if everything was open source and we could just look at the code but most of the vendors corporate America uses don’t ascribe to that set of values, because “Mah intellectual properties” and stuff.

Couple that with tech sector cuts and outsourcing of vendor support and things are getting hairy in ways AI can’t do anything about.

I’m working to overcome a particularly troublesome piece of technology right now and enjoying a cold, refreshing, Diet Dr. Pepper, so I guess the sentiment stands.

It’s interesting because I didn’t really like Janeway a ton until her first interaction with Q. Like, there was nothing outright bad about Mulgrew’s portrayal, I just wasn’t completely and totally sold on the character yet from a writing perspective.

Something about a captain interacting with an omnipotent being really seals something for me personally, because Sisko’s interaction with Q was what sold me on him right away, too.

I enjoyed Gibney as Benteen, so I’m sure it would have worked out, it just would have been…different.

transcript: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8ho4m

Mosseri didn’t get into why he felt Android to be superior

This is disappointing, because I’d really like to hear what he has to say on the subject.

As an Android user in the U.S., I feel the exact opposite.

As an IT sysadmin doing mobile device management with BYOD in the workplace, iOS has a clear edge if you’re willing to pay for MDM products that handle it. The built-in options in Azure are…varied for both products. ( https://download.microsoft.com/download/e/6/2/e6233fdd-a956-4f77-93a5-1aa254ee2917/msft-intune-enrollment-options.pdf )

As a personal user, though, the sheer ridiculous amount of variety of the android kernel between different carriers and models on the current version alone is positively insane. It should be a beautiful bonus smorgasbord of consumer choice, but with all of the carriers rolling their own lockdowns, hobblings, and forced includes it’s a buyer’s nightmare of trying to find a device that doesn’t lock out the things you want while also letting you remove the things you DON’T want (preferably without needing adb to do so).

Separate text notification sounds for each contact? Not always!

Advanced SMS options? Totally inconsistent.

MAC Address randomization? Roll a d20 against the number of flagship models and carriers in your area. You’ll probably get it, but no guarantees.

Heaven forbid you want to do something that should be straightforward in today’s day and age like download your SMS History? Voicemails as audio files? Custom Do Not Disturb settings? Good luck.

Apple users have been sending text messages interchangeably between their phones and computers/tablets for years. I still recall the shock and awe when my android phone was getting a barrage of text messages from my boss because he could send them with the full keyboard on his laptop while I was one-finger-punching the touchscreen on my phone to reply.

A lot of this isn’t the direct fault of the android kernel itself, but it is a large portion of the default android user experience in the U.S. and as such it’s what I have to base my judgement of the android kernel ON.

Android should be the superior option, but at this point in time, I don’t think it is.

To make things even weirder, navigational lights are not reversed in Region B.

Actually, that makes the most SENSE. My first thought when I read this was “wait, Red = Port and Starboard = Green, if you flip them for some countries, what happens when they’re out of the region of water where it’s flipped?”

The fact that that it’s apparently consistent for navigational lights only seems logical.