Others replying to the comment included Blu-ray, so I did, too. I assumed it was a given to include that since others had already brought it up.

At the very least, it’s still (generally speaking) higher quality video than streaming. It’s not uncompressed, though.

Every now and then, I’m reminded that Skype is somehow still alive.

At that point, I would’ve just googled the phone number.

I thought extensions don’t run in incognito mode?

They don’t. Unless you check the box that allows them to. And I’m sure Google has already checked that box by default.

Are you talking about the “apps” that Chrome used to support? They removed the feature years ago to reduce bloat and RAM usage or something like that.

Before they removed the feature, I had actually figured out how to create my own “apps” that’d simply load webpages I visited often at the time, like Twitch.

then i found you can’t export your data from Authy

Exporting data from a 2FA app sounds like the opposite of secure. Not to mention you don’t want your 2FA codes on Authy (or any other 2FA app) to remain valid if you’re not using it.

When I switched from Google Authenticator to Authy years ago, I went through each 2FA-enabled account one by one to disable 2FA and then re-enable it using Authy. It’s a long process depending on how many accounts you have 2FA enabled on, but it’s worth it.

Reading the OP, looks like it’s time to generate new keys for all my 2FA accounts.

The way I read it, they already (in the third paragraph of the blog post) had companies auditing their backend technology and (in the fourth paragraph) were starting to have companies audit their apps, too.

I admittedly should’ve done more research before my first comment, but it does actually turn out that everything I said is true. Proton’s technology was previously audited by Mozilla and is currently audited by SEC Consult and other companies regularly, and the audits are available for everyone to view. Additionally, they do have a bug bounty program. Also (and this is something I didn’t mention), the ProtonVPN and Proton Mail apps are all open source.

That’s where the second and third paragraphs come in. Because other companies likely test it themselves, too.

They’ll typically report security bugs privately and then, after X amount of months, publicly announce the bug. Doing it this way will, ideally, force the other company to patch the bug prior to the announcement. If not, they’ll end up with a publicly known security bug that bad actors can now exploit. The announcement will also let the public (including companies) know to update their software.

I imagine it probably is inspected, just not by the public. They probably do it themselves.

And they may have contracts with certain companies specializing in this sort of security that also inspect it.

And there’s also the cybersecurity companies that test it whether they’re contracted or not. At some companies, their entire job revolves around finding bugs (especially security bugs) in other companies’ software.

Just because it’s not on GitHub doesn’t mean it’s not a good product that hasn’t been thoroughly tested.

People can usually unlock the carrier on their own. Many phones (or at least every phone I’ve ever gotten from T-Mobile) even come pre-installed with a carrier unlocking app. It’s just not automatic, and certain conditions need to be met.

People may also sometimes be able to buy phones already unlocked directly from the manufacturer if they want to. (Whether or not they’re able to do this depends on the manufacturer.)

IRS: “Remember, you broke up with us.”

Yeah, the dislike bar used to be a thing. You could see how many dislikes there were compared to likes, all represented on a line below the two buttons. It was sort of like this image, except imagine the “yes” and “no” as a single line (but retaining their separate colors).

PlayStation doesn’t have an X button, it has a Cross button. /j

I’m betting it’s because Pixels have some unique hardware/ software quirks or something.

The difference is the stage at which they “advocate” for it.

People here are advocating for it now before Facebook has a chance to “embrace” us.

Facebook would only “advocate” for it after they’ve “embraced” us and started to “extend” ActivityPub with proprietary features that potentially caused issues with Lemmy users.

With the former, Lemmy continues on its own, growing naturally. With the latter, Lemmy users lose contact with communities they’ve become a part of and may be forced to move to Threads to continue interacting with their communities. That harms Lemmy’s active userbase. Additionally, because of how big Threads is, it’d naturally have the largest communities, so other Lemmy users would start using them instead of communities on other instances. That means those communities would shrink and may even die off entirely. When Facebook cuts off ActivityPub support, that’ll leave us with several small or abandoned communities. So we’d end up with a smaller userbase and fewer active communities.