Well, everything requires an account nowadays. Everything including my lightbulbs. Given the risks of password reuse, I always make a new username and password for each. If you’re reusing passwords between accounts, all it takes is for one of those services to get hacked and then hackers are able to get into everything. And, hackers have automated software to facilitate this. Given a million login credentials, they can easily check them against thousands of services.

What stands out?

Given that I have probably 500-1000 logins in my password manager, I still wouldn’t be able to remember each one if I made a memorable one for each. I do make the ones I use often memorable, but still need a password manager for the others.

It makes sense that this is a limiting factor. However, I think it’s good that outside investors are kept out so that the business can serve the interests of its employees long term. Once the gears are in motion, I think it could work. Also, if these worker cooperatives were formed by people willing to work for basics like food and shelter initially, as well as equity, then they have a better chance.

If the energy star rating is not there, manufacturers have no incentive to try to qualify. Likely it is cheaper to cut corners that make appliances less efficient. So, they’ll do that and consumers won’t have a way to easily know that they did. We may see the 1985-tier fridge energy use again.

As much as it’s fun to say fuck you I told you so, you catch more flies with honey. We need to make it easy to leave the cult and not make people double down just because they feel ashamed or feel like they have to defend something. The goal, while enticing, is not to rub people’s nose in the shit they admittedly helped create. The goal should be to get rid of this motherfucker and reverse everything he’s done.

LA Times 🤮

Edit: boycott the LA Times https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/la-times-oped-trump-owner-b2664015.html

Fox News would’ve blamed Biden for the soldiers deaths and Biden would’ve been attending the transfer and taking all kinds of shitty media coverage over it. Instead, Trump goes golfing and no one cares.

Same! You can’t post your way out of fascism. Take to the streets!

What law was broken? The court didn’t seem able to even articulate it. You can’t either.

I call bullshit on this one. France takes issue with Apple implementing App Tracking Transparency because it hurts advertisers? What exactly does France think following the law looks like? Allowing advertisers to track you by default? What Apple has done with ATT isn’t all that different from what the EU has required every damn website on the internet to do… ask permission to track.

More damning, in the ruling the court did not outline any specific way the software should change. This honestly just seems like a money grab on the part of France.

What principles is France and the EU after? Because this ruling makes it seem like it has no principles aside from “find any reason to issue a fine because the defendant is a big American company.”

I tend to agree with tightening regulations on tech, but there should at least be clear rules that can be followed, not arbitrary rules defined after the fact, if they’re defined at all.