SpaceCowboy

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah I just hold shift and ctrl and start mashing function keys until I figure it out LOL.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

We now need a "verify you are a captcha" mechanism to counter this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, right? Captchas have trained users to do whatever weird thing a webpage tells them to do, so now people will do this without thinking about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah it is. Most computers come with windows pre-installed so most people never do this kind of thing.

And there's also things people need to be careful of. Like wiping all out all of their cherished photos by formatting the entire drive. Considering that casual users probably shouldn't attempt to do this. Not trying to gatekeep or anything, but there is potential for data loss for a user that doesn't back up their data properly, which is common for casual users.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Apparently it nags you if you don't have a 365 account. So it's just more enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Yeah, Yoda became a parody of his character in ESB.

In ESB he comes across as someone that's speaking in a second language. Sometimes he mixes up the grammar, especially when emotional and trying to speak quickly, but when he's more relaxed and speaking slowly (or saying something simple) he usually gets it right.

In other portrayals it feels more like he's got brain damage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IMO it should even be hashed on the client side before being sent so that it doesn’t show up as plaintext in any http requests or logs. Then salted and hashed again server side before being stored (or checked for login).

But if someone got that hashed version they could hack the client to have client side hashing code just send that hashed value to the server. You'd want to have the server to send a rotating token of some sort to use for encrypting the password on the client and then validate it on the server side that it was encrypted with the same token the server sent.

Seems complicated to me... https is probably has good enough encryption, so eh, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What about that pyramid with an eyeball on there? US money is weird as fuck and everyone is just all "yup these are completely normal things to have on our currency."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It must be quieter than the sound of a leaf hitting the ground!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The point of trademarks is to avoid market confusion.

MTV didn't instantly eliminate all of it's programming and created new programming overnight. They had reality TV shows playing alongside music videos in the 90s. There are some people that might like a reality show that was on MTV when they were playing music videos, then suddenly the name of the company changes because they don't play music and those people can't find the show they like? Even though it's still on, still being made by the same company, but under a different name because curmudgeons don't think it's appropriate that a company with the letter M in it's name isn't focused on music?

Trademarks are about people being able to know which company they're buying from. The name of the company is relatively arbitrary. You could start a company making computers and give it an arbitrary name like I don't know "Apple". then people will associate the quality of the computers with that arbitrary name "Apple". Well you could if someone didn't do exactly that already. It's not so much the name it's the consistency that matters most.

And many names we just kind of forget their origins because they're irrelevant to what the company now does. Does Motorolla have to change it's name because they no longer make record players for cars? Does DC have to rebrand because very few of their comics are about detectives? KFC can't call themselves that because a vast majority of their restaurants aren't in Kentucky?

I'd actually go the other way if anything. Make it illegal for a company to change it's name. Facebook promotes eating disorders to teenagers? Sorry you aren't changing your name to Meta, you can't do bad shit and erase that negative brand association by re-branding. You want your brand to be considered good? Then do better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I like this. It's stupid that LA has the Lakers... because LA is known for it's lakes? They also have the Dodgers... yeah because people are always dodging streetcars in LA?

The MTV thing though... I think they've already made it so the M doesn't stand for anything now. They removed the "Music Television" part off of their logo anyway.

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