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  • They're almost certainly doing that because they're forcing you into SMS 2fa as a 'backup' to the TOTP solution.

    Cheaper to get everyone's phone number so you can send them a text message when they fuck up their totp app/delete it/get a new phone/whatever than deal with support calls.

    It's stupid and insecure and incredibly dumb, but, well, business decisions.

  • Honestly when you mention child predators and terrorists, the first place I tend to think of a church these days.

    I mean, are they planning on showing up and keeping an eye on all the 'youth pastors' too?

    No? Then this must be about something else.

  • No, they won't.

    At best you'll get some sort of nearly worthless concession because they have to slap in cellular hardware to make the ad bit work - something like you'll get free traffic updates on your gps nav (sold seperately) - since they need some sort of enticement.

    No way they'd offer anything remotely looking like a meaningful discount.

  • I'm curious: how are they ending up in Canada?

    The article clearly kinda half-speculates that it's because anyone can walk to a store and buy a gun if they pass the NICS check, which is effectively true, but then.... US citizens are smuggling them? Canadian citizens are taking possession as it was a straw purchase? They're growing wings and migrating north?

  • Very much right. The data privacy treaties and shit between the EU and the US were always 'we pinky promise to not read every last byte of your data, or at least we're not going to do it in a way that you'll ever find out anyways so same thing really', and everyone just played along like this was some grand compromise and was going to allow you to safely use services provided by US companies and that they'd stay compliant.

    It was always clearly bullshit, so it's good that people are looking at it and wanting to get rid of that giant lie.

  • Yeah, for sure. SCSI died when SAS emerged, and that's been basically 20 years now.

    Any SCSI stuff left laying around is going to be literally a decade+ old and yeah, unless you have a VERY specific need that requires it (which really is just trying to get another few years out of already installed gear), it's effectively dead and shouldn't be bought for anything other than paperweights or for a coffee table.

  • nothing of value will be lost

    I'd argue the opposite: there's actually a lot of stuff out there that's actually interesting: old-school lets-players who'd have done actual informative playthroughs of games. It's kind of a dying art, but it's also exactly the kind of content that's going to get purged by this kind of action.

    It's interesting to spend, say, 10 hours watching some guy play Sierra games and actually talk through shit about the game and whatnot, and it'd be a shame to have that vanish.

    But not entirely unexpected since that's not profitable content in the way that the current morons babbling about bullshit reaction videos, totally-not-camgirls totally not showing their tits, and whatever other brainrot nonsense most of twitch is. (Also alt-right propaganda, but eh.)

  • MSA30

    Unless my memory fails, that's billion year old SCSI drives.

    Do not buy billion year old SCSI drives, enclosures for SCSI drives, or uh, well, anything like that.

    It's going to use an enormous amount of power, perform slower than a single modern drive, and be prone to failure because well, it's a billion years old.

    That's not something you want.

  • Every platform ends up coated in a layer of CSAM filth, so I wouldn't really attribute this to a malicious intent desiring Bluesky to be destroyed as much as people are horrible and gross and the internet is a prime example of why we can't have nice things.

    The real test here is if Bluesky is going to do the legal minimum, or actually do something aggressive, proactive, and useful.