Best I’ve been able to explain it is that it’s a country build on hope and dreams, which are not compatible with reality and truth.

Well, who did you trust to build your hardware?

Lenovo definitely deserves to be banned after that shit they pulled with the malicious root certificates.

That same description applies to downloading a zipped file.

Reminds me of the time I did roughly the same thing trying to get people to move away from internet explorer.

Wouldn’t surprise me if even Unicode advices against using Roman numerals depending on meaning.

It was mostly a joke (though frankly if you try any implementation more complicated than that joke you’re going to have a bad time).

It’s simple ⅯⅯⅩⅩⅣis a number, MMXXIV is not.

Please tell me someone thought about a switch to take them offline.

Possibly, but as long as they are not completely server-side (which they can’t be, they want to target people) then they are fighting on hostile ground.

Of course there are attempts to lock down PCs so that ad companies can tell it what to do (probably with some DRM argument), but we’re not there yet.

Well the upside is that they’re not actually trying to get it to stop, they’re just making an effort to please their customers.

That doesn’t sound like much of a change from the situation right now.

Wait so the production release would consist of uploading the files with Filezilla?

If you can SSH into the server, why on earth use Filezilla?

I must have missed that one, what’s going on with Filezilla?

They definitely didn’t just stop tracking you because this option exists.

Cookies are a non-issue. They store data only locally and can be edited and removed at will. With third party isolation on by default there’s really no reason to worry about them much anymore. And if you do just install cookie auto-delete to clean things up.

This variant is definitely worse because the data is no longer just local.

Use TOTP wherever possible. It’s standardized, and typically can be found somewhere if you keep digging hard enough.

Plenty of services push their own proprietary systems hard though. Looking at you M$

I’d say that’s slightly off. Most terrorists have no intention of actually ruling the regions they terrorize.

These people are more fascists.

No that’s all of Paris, that part is fixed.

The president promised to swim in it though, and a bad election result might just give him an excuse to ‘step back’.

In a way AI refusing to recommend using so much computing power on LLMs could well be the first sign of actual intelligence.

Almost makes you wonder if that’s what the elections are for.