Mozilla “sold their soul to Google”? What did I miss?

Doing that would tell you nothing about whether the browser might have un-patched, known vulnerabilities elsewhere.

How do you know this? Of course there are lots of reasons for why they’d want to enforce minimum browser versions. But security might very well be one of them. Especially if you’re a bank you probably feel bad about sending session tokens to a browser that potentially has known security vulnerabilities.

And sure, the user agent isn’t a sure way to tell whether a browser is outdated, but in 95% of cases it’s good enough, and people that know enough to understand the block shouldn’t apply to them can bypass it easily anyway.

simply reading the browser agent isnt really security

It’s not for their security, but for that of genuinely clueless people that are just running an actually outdated browser that might have known and exploitable security flaws.

Oof, that quote is the exact brand of nerd bullshit that makes my blood boil. “Sure, it may be horribly designed, complicated, hard to understand, unnecessarily dangerous and / or extremely misleading, but you have nOT rEAd ThE dOCUmeNtATiON, therefore it’s your fault and I’m immune to your criticism”. Except this instance is even worse than that, because the documentation for that command sounds just as innocent as the command itself. But I guess obviously something called “tmpfiles” is responsible for your home folder, how couldn’t you know that?

It’s not the same and I wish people would stop pretending that it is. Does it do what most people need it to do though? Yeah, probably.

SteamOS has HDR support indeed, and it works really well with pretty much all HDR-enabled Windows games in Proton I’ve tried.

Please explain how Google would get my location if I don’t run a phone with Google location services and / or don’t allow Google services and apps to access my location. Sure, they may know where you are roughly based on your IP, but that’s just within a very broad region, and can easily be obfuscated by a VPN. Google siphons a shitton of information from everywhere they can, but it’s not like they’ve secretly implanted everyone with a tracking chip either… And neither can they get around any device’s OS-level location permission system.

Vast majority of people do, and on iOS and Android these days turning it “off” really just keeps it from connecting to peripherals. It’s still scanning even when “off”.

So glad to see that others are noticing this too… The hive mind effect also feels even stronger than it used to on Reddit, probably because the audience here is less diverse.

Without knowing the data, I’m pretty sure I’m politically and ideologically quite aligned with much of Lemmy’s overall user base. Still, often when I point out misinformation or misconceptions even if they “don’t fit the narrative” of what I broadly believe, I get downvoted without anyone even responding with a counter argument. It’s extra frustrating because I know I probably agree with the opinions of those people downvoting me, it’s just that I believe there’s more nuance to many topics that I would like to discuss, but unfortunately the Lemmy audience acts as if everything is a black & white situation.

I made this same decision for myself explicitly just a few days ago. It’s just bad for my mental health to constantly be arguing with people online, especially with how easily online discussions turn sour in tone. It’s so incredibly rare to have an actual fulfilling discussion where both sides are open to having their minds changed, and thus there’s really no point to it.

You’re vastly overestimating how much the average consumer cares about these things

Pretty funny how it says “Unauthorized access” right below screenshots of features clearly being enabled.

I’ve found that I dream a lot, I just forget quickly, which can feel like not dreaming. For a while I kept a very light dream journal, just writing down whatever small thing I remember, even if it’s just a feeling or something super vague. Don’t worry if you don’t remember anything initially — just being in the mindset was enough to boost my recall. Key is to do it right after waking up, while you’re almost still half asleep. Write on paper with a pen, not your phone — it’s too distracting.

During that period I remembered multiple dreams each night in full, and the memories were incredibly vivid, sometimes almost lucid. It was honestly crazy — some of those dreams had elaborate storylines, often super interesting scenery, and sometimes even almost video game-like “mechanics”. I can only recommend keeping a dream journal… you learn a lot about yourself.

macOS out of the box fucking sucks for monitor scaling with third party monitors. It’s honestly laughable for a modern OS. You can install some third party software that fixes it completely, but it really shouldn’t be necessary. I use an (admittedly pretty strange) LG DualUp monitor as a secondary, and out of the box macOS can only make everything either extremely tiny, extremely large, or blurry.

Other than that, I’ve had no problems at all, and the window scaling between different DPI monitors is a lot smoother than it was with Windows previously.

I also referred to men as males in the post, but that didn’t seem to bother anyone.

Because there’s no history of “males” being used in a derogatory way.

Google literally has an official list of IP ranges for their crawlers, complete with an API that returns the current IP ranges that you can use to automate a check. Hardly a moving target, and even if it is, it doesn’t matter if you know exactly where the target is at all times.

Skimmers are not a thing for Google Wallet / Apple Pay, no. Both these services use tokenization for transactions, meaning that even with your phone unlocked, no-one could grab anything via NFC that would allow triggering a transaction later, let alone clone your card. Even in this specific scenario described in the article (which requires your phone to be in the hands of the exploiter), the CVV of the card wasn’t exposed, so no-one can actually trigger a payment with this info except if they also have your physical card to read the CVV.

Google Wallet / Apple Pay are a million times safer than using your physical card, because the most common skimming attacks either just grab the magnet strip info if available or literally just read the info off the card optically including CVV, which allows for online transactions. None of these things are a concern with Google Wallet / Apple Pay.

But hey you know best right?

I worked as a TPM in financial services for almost 5 years, so yeah I think I’d know.

It was specifically stolen from Google Pay and contactless payments.

It wasn’t.

Did you read the article? Unless someone had physical access to your (unlocked) phone and was able to pin an app, then tap it against specialized hardware (unlikely you could get a normal card terminal to run this exploit), it’s extremely unlikely that this is how your details got stolen.