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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summer dad bod.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I hate it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Google, Apple, and rest of big tech are pregnable despite their access to vast amounts of capital, and labor resources.

  I used to be a big supporter of using their “social sign on” (or more generally speaking, single sign on) as a federated authentication mechanism. They have access to brilliant engineers thus naively thought - "well these companies are well funded, and security focused. What could go wrong having them handle a critical entry point for services?”

  Well as this position continues to age poorly, many fucking aspects can go wrong!

  1. These authentication services owned by big tech are much more attractive to attack. Finding that one vulnerability in their massive attack vector is difficult but not impossible.
  2. If you use big tech to authenticate to services, you are now subject to the vague terms of service of big tech. Oh you forgot to pay Google store bill because card on file expired? Now your Google account is locked out and now lose access to hundreds of services that have no direct relation to Google/Apple
  3. Using third party auth mechanisms like Google often complicate the relationship between service provider and consumer. Support costs increase because when a 80 yr old forgot password or 2FA method to Google account. They will go to the service provider instead of Google to fix it. Then you spend inordinate amounts of time/resources trying to fix issue. These costs eventually passed on to customer in some form or another

  Which is why my new position is for federated authentication protocols. Similar to how Lemmy and the fediverse work but for authentication and authorization.

  Having your own IdP won’t fix the 3rd issue, but at least it will alleviate 1st and 2nd concerns

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨His last pickup rolled over.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be worse. Could have been an incel camino

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only $50?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just a little piss, bro. Stop being a bitch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Is Going on Defense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia). Peter changed elementary schools seven times. He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students’ hands with a ruler. He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism.[20][21] The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.[22][23]

  Thiel and Muskrat cut from the same cloth of trustfund babies and apartheid benefactors, m8

  • theguardian.com/…/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid…

  • en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Is Going on Defense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Peter Thiel is one of the many money men that want to privatize everything, dismantle federal government, hand keys to “network states” (company towns but somehow worse).

  Goal is none or self regulation. Maximize profits. They want to shape the world into this hyper capitalistic society and surveillance state. Palantir is just one of those companies in a massive portfolio to fulfill this stupid dream shared by many industrialists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fediverse to replace stackoverflow would be something I am interested in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it really bitter if IPO is successful? Citron and other cofounders likely setup to get a massive payout when it IPOs.

  Humam isn’t someone that will look after the company for many years. He is brought in to cook the books, and get it to an IPO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.

  Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Beware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s clobbering time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have doubts it will get fully prosecuted under this administration. Tech oligarchy have been sucking Trump’s dick since he started his term.

  Zuckerfuck being among the worst in the bunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ran out of toilet paper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bidet gang

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have a defense budget⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you are a broke bitch but still want an Itasha car

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help i am STUCK!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how you get a Boeing 737 Max

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the issued between the band Thrice and Google⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Band or label probably revoked streaming rights on Google Music.