What's to say about the price of diesel? He promised it would be more expensive -- that everything would be more expensive -- and his weirdo supporters were on board. They got what they wanted. (Unfortunately so did the rest of us.)

No. He's a dementia addled, brain-dead old dotard. Every time he does or says something ridiculously stupid and it coincidentally has a side-effect that can be interpreted as favorable to him, doesn't make him a genius. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.

Trump is dumber than box of brick bats.

The adulation he receives from his fans is an even worse look for them.

Same here. Im sure some will blame woke but EA killed BioWare around 2014. BioWare games just were not compatible with the release cadence of other EA games like Madden and not compatible with frostbyte that did not even have an inventory system.

Check the release dates of their best games against the date of purchase by EA and then compare everything after than to everything before that.

Yes although they were already slaves to private equity before EA bought them.

... and then EA purchased them and forced the frostbyte engine and release cadence expectations and mechanics that worked for FIFA Ultimate Team.

I often fantasize about working from a South Pacific beach

The privacy you’re concerned about is largely an illusion. All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy.

I have a friend who is one one the best programmers I know. He worked for an ad tech company more than a decade ago optimizing time to respond for personalized ad delivery. He was not proud of working to act on fingerprinting to optimize delivery but it was a challenging task and he framed his part as addressing the challenge not the ethics. People in our circle where like "good for you optimizing network delivery to 50ms!" even people who despised the idea of tracking users around the internet to serve them ads.

I'm sure most people who work for flock compartmentalize their jobs to "I work on fingerprinting vehicles" or "I work on advanced OCR", or "I work on creating camera to camera trajectory graphs". This way they don't need to think about (too often) the larger ramifications of what they are doing. When the press points out what is the reality and that most people are pissed at Flock then the employees likely have to confront what they do in a way that they never had to.

It is also reasonable for employees to hold the position that Flock is a public good and the vocal minority of people complaining about it are simply wrong.

Such an opinion does not seem plausibly believable, by the people building it and in full knowledge of what it can do, and is being used to do.

This isn't an uncommon opinion among the public either. It's probably a minority, at least among those who are vocal about it, but it's not hard to find people who think they are beneficial.

That’s not a reasonable position to hold, unless and until Flock does much, much more when it comes to safeguards against abuse.

I can understand being pro-surveillance, but Flock is a case study in how not to implement surveillance systems. Believing that surveillance can be a public good can’t somehow turn Flock into a public good. It’s not.

A Milgram experiment in real life.

Good essay about this: https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted

> he framed his part as addressing the challenge not the ethics

I didn’t know that Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil was something people willfully embraced.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Perhaps it makes some people uncomfortable about their own jobs. In any case, it's not uncommon for people to moralize about something they're not doing, but given the opportunity to do that thing for some handsome reward (good pay, prestige, technically interesting work, etc), they easily rationalize their choice to participate in that thing.

If you were able to do so would the result not be the same. We dont accept your terms update so we and terminating your subscription. Essentially the same that you can do.

Not the same though. A lot of people are just too lazy to cancel. If Disney had to terminate all the subscriptions that would probably have prevented this type of behavior

I think that would actually be a great regulatory move; If they change the terms then they must cancel your subscription.

You'd have to elect to resubscribe with the new terms. Bonus points if it has to be the normal subscription flow, not some kind of one click to resubscribe.

I'd bet the pressure of instant drop in revenue and the likelihood of people being less motivated to resubscribe would kill some of this behavior.

Remember that the last time Disney fucked up a MASSIVE number of subs cancelled via Apple’s 1-click cancellation. Which Disney promptly exited from.

This. Can't you get your number moved to a new phone? I have never don't anything magic when upgrading my phone other than move contacts.

How would moving your number to a new phone help? We're talking TOTP here, not SMS "auth".

does google not offer a backup via sms? it's a common enough recovery flow elsewhere. (i dont use google stuff, so i am genuinely asking)

Google actually puts effort into security for "normal" people who don't want to earn a PhD in cryptography just to have a damn free email account or watch Mr. Beast

That's why they had powerful and effective account takeover protection even 15 years ago. The kind that will prevent the hacker from taking over your account even though they got access to all your factors, because it shouldn't take expertise to know that if you logged in from Oregon twenty minutes ago, you definitely aren't also logging in from Ecuador.

Which of course makes it all the more stupid that your credit card company, all your medical service providers, and Facebook don't meet that absurdly low bar. Facebook will happily hand control to the scammer in Laos who got one of your factors and somehow that gave them access to change your password and recovery email

The best backup method doesn't need any computer knowledge, it's writing down or printing a few passwords and putting that piece of paper in the same box as your taxes or birth certificate.

A required “more secure” method is less secure if it means you can be locked out by not-exactly-uncommon real-life situations.

Denial of service is a security issue.

I’ve repeated it a hundred times security = confidentiality, integrity and availability.

One reason to strongly prefer Apple over Google is that (as I understand it) you can still walk into a store with ID and recover your online identity.

> One reason to strongly prefer Apple over Google is that (as I understand it) you can still walk into a store with ID and recover your online identity.

Is this true? If so, in what countries? (Poland has no Apple stores, for example, for inexplicable reasons Apple has been giving the middle finger to this market)

That would be a huge difference.

I think Google’s own textbook on SRE has an example in its very first chapter where everyone gets locked out of their bus fleet WiFi thanks to their secure system reaching an unforeseen state

yes, i understand. i was asking specifically whether google has sms recovery flow, not how secure sms recovery flow is compared to other options.

You can export from Google Authenticator to another device just fine.

How do you export from a phone you no longer have?

I misread your comment, you're right.

The opposite is true for me. I have always wanted to try Godot as a platform and AI is helping me make that happen.