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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • And despite security recommendations, too many IT depts still force password resets every 90 days…

    It could be for contractual or for insurance reasons. We have some contracts with government agencies that require it, and our cyberinsurance also does. Even though NIST has been recommending for years to do long passphrase + MFA and no reset unless you suspect compromise.

    So yeah, the reason behind this might not be just plain incompetence.


  • Well you see, finding a way to reliably deliver ads via the API would have taken far too much developer brainpower for a company that can’t make a functional video player or a mobile app

    It honestly wouldn’t be that hard at all. You deliver ads via the API alongside actual posts, as if they are an actual post, and forbid altering them in the developer ToS. If you want to be anal about enforcement, run popular 3rd-party apps in an emulator to verify that the JSON returned by the site is unaltered when it’s rendered in the app. You could put this together in a weekend.

    Which really just speaks to quality of talent at reddit, or the management at reddit suppressing that talent. Or both.



  • My feelings on the subject is that they don’t live nearly long enough to not give them a simple pleasure like sleeping with their people.

    Even when he wakes me up at 4am because his paws must be licked for 20 minutes.

    Or when he wakes me up at 5am whining to get under the covers.

    Or when he sleeps like this, which is all the time:


  • My feelings on the subject is that they don’t live nearly long enough to not give them a simple pleasure like sleeping with their people.

    Even when he wakes me up at 4am because his paws must be licked for 20 minutes.

    Or when he wakes me up at 5am whining to get under the covers.

    Or when he sleeps like this, which is all the time:


  • Gotcha. I’m actually in the process of moving away from Namecheap because of an experience I just had with them. I tried to register a domain about a month ago (the domain my Lemmy instance is on) and it stopped the registration process immediately after I hit the Pay/Checkout/whatever button and told me to contact their support team to register it.

    The error message said it was because the domain name was too similar to something that already existed, and that the support team would have to decide whether I’d be allowed to register it or not. So I went to another registrar and registered it with no issue. I really didn’t like that, and it’s enough to make them lose me as a decade+ long customer. I already use Route53 for DNS for all my domains, so it’s not like I was using them for anything else other than a registrar, so untangling that shouldn’t be too much of a pain.









  • The fact that a majority of even the older Gen Z (like me) have been reported to not understand file systems or general tech and internet knowledge is scary.

    I think it’s to be expected. When the majority of your tech use is with a phone/tablet, concepts like filesystems are abstracted away from you.

    The same goes for troubleshooting that tech, as the most helpful error message you generally get from those kinds of devices boils down to a graphic of a sad face and a completely useless “Something went wrong” type of error message.