High level summary: A bunch of nerds got into a slapfight about who’s project is less secure, or who’s project is run by the feds. Some guys got doxxed or swatted, a few stepped away from their projects and left social media, and that’s about where we are today. It’s largely a bunch of clout-chasing nonsense.
Huh! I had no idea. Thank you!
Could you elaborate on that? I’m not up to date on FOSS / open source licensing.
I store my master password on a sticky note attached to the bottom of my desktop’s power supply. Easily accessible if I were to die, but sufficiently secure that if it were physically compromised I would have significantly worse problems on my hands.
As somebody who once worked at an ISP: they absolutely do that, and it isn’t illegal. In fact, ISP’s host many of Ookla’s speedtest servers. The less infrastructure your test needs to go through, the better the results will be—there’s nothing faster than a network that’s communicating with itself.
What? Where? I haven’t seen an ad in Firefox since Carter was president.
Select all squares with
PEOPLE WHO WILL NEVER FACE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES
If there are none, click skip
Meanwhile in indie land, I just tried to cheat my way through a Chapter 3 minigame in Deltarune, and Toby Fox himself showed up in his dogsona to blow up the game and make me start the minigame over.
This is the extent to which anti-cheat measures should go.