I made this Slashdot account 20 years ago when signing up for anything pretty much guaranteed you'd be spammed to Hell and back. I merely presumed Slashdot would do the same thing.

VPNSecure.

I too bought a "lifetime" VPN from them through Slashdot deals. Started off great, then one by one they shut down their nodes til only 5 eyes locations remained. By that point I'd switched to something else, but they sent out a long "woe is us" e.mail explaining why lifetime didn't mean that and if you'd be so kind as to buy it again at ~20$/year, we'd be ever so grateful.

I thought that's what the front page was. It keeps wasting space with things I'm not interested in, or actively dislike.

New Video from The Primagen!
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NotAIHonestly Gets Rare Interview with The Primagen!
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FrierenFan04 Reacts to !AIH's Interview with Primagen!
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That's pretty bad that my 1985 Alfa Romeo GTV6 lasted longer than your Ford. I got 250k before it needed major work.

Our gov't windows 11 images, provided by an outside private company, will BSoD if you look at them sideways. Not Windows 11 fault to be clear, but a bad image (and the company is slow to admit fault, much less fix this issue) and it's a daily issue here.

Very frustrating.

Dunno, but trying to delete the built-in apps (again, Chess comes readily to mind) can't be done and it wouldn't even let me move them, I could create an alias all day long, but the original icon/program? No go.

Point of correction, speaking as an ex-Industrial Hygienist here, *some* asbestos fibers are dangerous, because they are the right size (3-5um in length) to evade the body's natural filters and penetrate the lung sacs or other areas.
Then once in the lungs, the white blood cells start to impale themselves on the invaders, causing scarring etc.

I bought a 2013 Mac Pro (the trash can) and replaced the internal drive with an m.2 one with adapter. After re-installing MacOS, I wanted to test the speed. Black Magic makes a nice application for that, that is only available on the Apple store, to which I don't have an account.
  Nowhere online could I find a link to a DMG that wasn't on the Apple store. Very frustrating.
I tried to remove all the built-in programs that Apple thoughtfully decided I needed, like Chess (as but one example) and they cannot be removed. Ok, so I'll just make a folder and move them all there where they can be ignored.
Nope, they can't even be moved from the "applications" folder.

Very frustrating.

So yes, I've tried to use MacOS. Fortunately the 2013 Mac Pro is x86, so I installed a different OS on it instead.

Your comment is marked as "Funny" but you are not far from reality. I work for a gov't and more than one new college grad has come to us for a position that has never touched an actual computer, somehow skating by 4 years using a phone and a tablet...

I'm glad someone remembers how Gates has tried to whitewash his ill-gotten money. There is a long list of companies destroyed by MS and Gates from very early on in the 80s. Once a scum bag always a scum bag and no amount of "charity" work will buy him into the pages of history as a "good guy"

This is how I've come to understand it. I welcome any and all corrections.

Passkeys are a cryptographic key stored in a Secure Element. This is usually a private key inside a small cryptographic engine. You feed it some plaintext along with the key ID, and it encrypts it using that key. The outer software then decrypts the ciphertext using the public key. If the decrypted text matches the original plaintext, then that proves you're holding a valid private key, and authentication proceeds.

The private key can be written to and erased from the Secure Element, but never read back out. All it can do is perform operations using the secret key to prove that it is indeed holding the correct secret key.

On phones, the Secure Element is in the hardware of your handset. On PCs, this is most often the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip. In both cases, the platform will ask for your PC's/phone's password/fingerprint/whatever before forwarding the request to the Secure Element.

Yubikeys can also serve as a Secure Element for Passkeys; the private key is stored in the Yubikey itself. Further, the Yubikey's stored credentials may be further protected with a PIN, so even if someone steals your Yubikey, they'll still need to know the PIN before it will accept and perform authentication checks. You get eight tries with the PIN; after that, it bricks itself.

The latest series 5 Yubikeys can store up to 100 Passkeys, and Passkeys may be individually deleted when no longer needed. Older series 5 Yubikeys can store only 25 Passkeys, and can only be deleted by erasing all of them.

Theoretically, you can have multiple Passkeys for a given account (one for everyday access; others as emergency backups). Not all sites support creating these, however.

That is a fair point, and the sane among us (that includes you) have to wonder why the change?
Mozilla is generally viewed as the underdog and a change like that, I wonder if they are pulling a Google with their "don't be evil" motto being removed.

I recently switched to Firefox, for a number of reasons that really aren't relevant to this post, but his arguments (at least in the summary) don't hold water in my experience.

(1) Pocket: One of the first things I remove when customizing FF. I've not seen anyone suggest it, and seen a fair amount of dislike for it.

(2) Memory Use: Perhaps valid prior to 2000, but c'mon, every system I've worked with (both at home and at work) have a minimum of 16GB of RAM, the days of a 4GB system with a spinner drive are long long gone. Pop on some, quite required actually, ad-blockers, and use isn't any worse than Chromium or Safari browsers.

(3) Failing to load websites: Name one. In point of fact, since Chrome and Edge are built under the same structure, I often use FF to troubleshoot website weirdness to see where the problem really is. Sure, experience of one here, but I've not seen any site (from private, individual user, to public corp to gov't) mis-load under FF.

(4) Personal data for sale: Okay, I'll give him that, if he can prove it's happening.

(5) Low browser marketshare: So? Does FF stop working because it's got a small number? Quick, better let Linux know this!

This guy sounds like he's whinging just to put out some clickbait article. Not buying it.

Like everything else in the USA that's fucked up, 40$/mo is about average for basic cell service.
No including taxes etc, of course.