The companies doing them have a few hundred million reasons to skirt around the laws, so they will no doubt find a few ways. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make laws

Eh, mods will get patched and will work within a few days again usually. Unless they explicitly remove support for them.

Some old abandoned mods might stop working though.

Same country that convinced itself that you should have one hot and one cold tap, and if you want to get proper temperatured water just fill the basin… instead of just combining them like the rest of the civilized world.

Yes. Writting down a complex password helps against most attacks, except one where the bad guy has physical access to your note. Based on the normal users use case that is probably a very good trade off. Most hacks are done over the internet without access to your note.

Ideally everyone should use a password manager, but that is highly unlikely any time soon.

I know this is a meme, but security is not binary. It is not you either have 100% or 0%, it is always a sliding scale, and usually on the opposite side is convenience.

Encrypting your drive protects against someone stealing your computer or breaning into youe house while the computer is off/locked.

People like to trash people that write down their passwords on a post-it note and keep next to their computer. It is not ideal, but having a somewhat complex password written down protects a lot more against attacks over the internet than having “password”. However, if others have physical access to the note then it is obviously very bad. Like for example in an office.

In their defense a very tiny percentage of users even open options and of those an even smaller actually change stuff.

Maybe slighlty different for Firefox as probably more power user use it than other random programs. But basically if something is not enabled by default, it doesn’t exist.

Testing doesn’t get security updates as quickly as unstable, or even stable sometimes.

For desktop I run debian sid (unstable), despite the name it very rarely breaks. And once in a blue moon when it does it gets fixed in a few hours/a day. Usually it is just some package that doesn’t play nicely with something else, so not like it is unusable during that time.

The unstable part is that they do not guarantee that it will work, it is still more stable than most other distros and you get new packages.

I have always wondered about the “assorted” part in Bob’s business, it makes the joke funnier. But is he selling the rodents by weight? You just scoop up how many you want? Or is it some kind of mystery/loot box?

Great, but they should donate some of the saved money to open source projects they are using to make sure they stay updated.

Nope, you can’t turn off that everyone can message you unless you have premium.

Added to group can be restricted without premium, but it is stupid that message from strangers can’t.

Even worse: You know the rules, but you still have to listen to a long, slow and bad explanation of them over and over again.

IANAL, but I believe in some places you have to go after any and all forms of it, otherwise you risk losing the whole thing. I think US is one of those places.

My guess: it is a low hanging fruit and then they can say “Look! We blocked X million bots! So you can trust the users that are left… please don’t look into it any more”

There are lots of companies selling data, just one of them is a list of known VPN IP addresses. Updated every X days. Just plug that into your service and it gets a lot harder, but still not impossible, to use with a VPN.

It will just be a few approved sites that you are allowed to visit, and just by chance those sites are the ones that pay the goverment the most! Those sites will have records in the approved DNS, that you can not change. Other DNS requests are blocked, along with everything else that isn’t approved.

I hope they release the full version on steam as welll soon, or do a steam beta. I just can’t be bothered to use other stores.

…and the CEO “retires” with full bonuses

Steam link, not released yet?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4094120/Microlandia/