VPNs don’t prevent a device from announcing its real location. And they protect you from a MITM at the ISP but not at the VPN provider, so you just switch who you trust. VPNs also don’t do anything to help with the browser fingerprinting that companies use to track you around the web. From the point of view of the services and sites you connect to, all a VPN does is change your IP address, and the IP address may not be a big part of how they track you in the first place. VPNs alone do not improve privacy much at all.

What VPNs do is shield your traffic metadata from inspection by the network hops between your client and the VPN provider (though the content is almost always enxrypted even without the VPN), and change your apparent location for any service that is exclusively using IP-based geolocation.

I don’t get what was wrong with forums in the first place, that motivated this shift to Discord. Forums seem far more usable.

That might be the point at which people go and pop the bubble themselves, using pitchforks.

Also, Microsoft create many vulnerabilities by using AI on their own code. AI can do it all!

According to court evidence, the incident began on Feb. 1, 2025, when Muneeb Akhter asked his brother for the plaintext password of a user who had submitted a complaint through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Public Portal. Sohaib allegedly queried the EEOC database to retrieve the credentials, which were then used to access the victim’s email account without authorization.

That shouldn’t be possible. Why were they storing passwords in plain text?

The macOS port, built by New York-based developer Andrey Letov using AI-assisted development workflows…

Yeah now I can see why he’s unhappy with it.

Vim for the most part, and nano for when I’m tired and can’t remember how to work vim.

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It is kind of funny.

Netanyahu is 76.

Poor tumour, being afflicted with a malignant Netanyahu.

Same here, using the default web interface, but this bug seems to happen sometimes on Lemmy: half the people see a link and the other half just an image. OP probably did post a link.

AKA “Microsoft’s QA”.

I’d like to see people rebuild something like that inside i2p or something similar. But with modern browser fingerprinting it’s very hard not to be identifiable even there, unless you take precautions most people absolutely won’t do.

Maybe when they get another trillion dollars they’ll figure out how to feed their soldiers.

He’s not “out of touch”: he’s devoted to Israel, as he has repeatedly stated throughout his career. He sees his role as being a defender of Israel from political attacks in the USA. He’s not confused about this, nor does he try to hide it.

Or all the ones at the top, since if you go far enough there’s probably something living or formerly living in each square.

Or all of them because if you can see them it’s a sign you’re alive.

Or just switch off the computer and walk away because you’re starting to take joke Captcha memes way too seriously and you’ve had enough internet. Sorry. Time for a break.

Journalists might do better to report when Microsoft release a patch that isn’t full of catastrophic bugs.

Your Rollercoaster Tycoon example is a bit odd, since coding a whole game in assembly indicates deep understanding of what you’re doing, whereas the problem with vibe coding is that it requires only the shallowest understanding. Unless I’m misunderstanding and that was your point.

There may be a maintainability issue with both, but for a different reason in each case.

Seemingly just because the title has “PHP dev” in it. It’s not entirely fair.