Same. I gave up on Windows 11 and removed it. Too many issues, but the final straw was when they deleted GRUB after an update. I kept it around to play games but decided to play on Linux instead and it’s been good so far.

Also, I hated that I kept getting the screen trying to sell me their services after some updates…

I think sneak would volunteer to do it since it is pretty simple according to them.

Any work people don't understand must be easy and replaceable by chatgpt. Just look at how easy people here think farming is.

Grok becoming an artificial nepobaby running the entire CVE program with zero oversight sounds so fucking funny I don't even care, PLEASE god make this real holy shit I can't breathe at the thought

They thought Trump would be a useful idiot that they could control.

Nobody controlled him during first term. He kept firing all advisors and close folks on smallest whims.

Now its much worse, he got more senile, vengeful and he is surrounded by pure yes men, so progressively more and more out of touch with reality. Very similar path to putin whom he admires for whatever f*cked up reasons.

They should have realized

1) how much damage he would do to their interests because he is so deeply stupid

2) He is so stupid and stubborn he is hard to control.

The rich letting Trump become President to get lower taxes is as irresponsible as hiring a mentally disable child molester to babysit your kids because he is cheap.

I generate the password and stored them in my password manager under the notes. 1Password added functionality seemingly recently to add security questions and generate a random word string that I use these days.

Note that you should not generate a random password like D27fX$0f7RyD for your security questions. These are designed to give to a human operator on the other end of a phone. If an attacker calls up the account recovery line, gets asked for a security question, and just says "heh, I think it was a string of random characters", there's a decent chance the human operator will let them into the account. As you say, use an actual word string (passphrase) generator, which is a bit less susceptible to this attack.

Yep, if you can choose the question, choose something like "What was your first pet's name?" and then make up something silly like "Mister Poopy Eyes" (a conceivable child-given pet name).

My work provides me with a 1Password subscription (for both work personal use) that I take advantage of that is pretty good. I think they only require you to reauthenticate with your master password once every two weeks or something. I use a PIN, biometrics, or my Apple Watch to unlock it when it timeouts in between that two week period, and I've had no problems syncing between several of my devices.

1Password on my Mac lets me set it to never require re-authentication with my master password, though it does seem to keep switching back to 30 days.

You can set how often they log you out, and I have a phone...

How often is way too often?

Same. I use random passwords for any required security questions. It is funny when you call customer support and they ask you to verify a security question though.

I have had this problem, and failed the security check when I told them I had to look it up. Which was a little silly because I just hung up and called back and did it again with the list in front of me.

Have you ever tried to see if they'd let you bypass the question? I've wondered if saying "it's a bunch of gibberish" could work.

I've done something like this with my bank, I tell them it's a bunch of nonsense because the security question recovery is just a variation of a weak password so we'll need to validate me some other way. They always can

I was on a first date and forgot my wallet so the first place we went was the bank. I had to repeat all my info 3x. I leveled with them and pointed to my date and said I need $100. They gave me the $100.

I've certainly heard people speculate that would be the case. I always just put together 2-3 words unrelated to the question, e.g. my first grade schoolteacher is "Antique Campfire".

Anecdotally I've heard of this type of social engineering working. It's probably better to use some randomly generated real words. Another poster suggested diceware.

I haven't tried, but I am not on the phone with support much as I go to great lengths to avoid calling haha. The one time I had to verify my security question, I told the representative that its a long, random character string and they waited for me to open up my password manager to read it out to them.

I think the best way to do this is to use a passphrase so that it's clear that it's not just gibberish but you have the benefit that it's random text. Obviously at the end of the day, it all comes down to the person on the other end of the phone but I suspect they'd be more suspicious of someone saying "it's a bunch of gibberish" when they can see "grumpily siberian pampers panorama unroll aloof masculine mandatory" versus "YpZVpyQHsmPATt1P" (also the former is much easier to read over the phone).

I didn't even have to try. I was prepared to read off the random string, and the operator went with some other piece of information from my profile instead.

In my experience, this usually works, especially with banks.

While Signal may not be helping Musk, Moxie still may be. Moxie left Signal at the beginning of the year: https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/

Only the first few lines of the script look dense. Everything else looks normal to me.

Maybe I've spent too much time writing one-liners in bash but I really prefer the original to yours. I can read the original much faster because it matches the pattern for how I write bash on the command line. Yours looks totally foreign to how bash is normally written. Not saying one is better than the other, just my personal preference.

I agree with you that their code is fairly dense, yours is overly verbose.

Having said that, looking at their code, I don’t get the impression they’re optimizing for LOC. There is plenty of verbosity and opportunity to remove lines of code if they wanted.

Can confirm. The bocker code (incl. my modest contributions) was targeted towards showing that the Linux toolbox was available and scriptable.

Dang, didn't expect the downvotes for sharing my bash coding style. :(