Please, daddy Apple, limit my choices! Protect me from myself!

Stupid misclick... /sigh

Your post is insightful, not redundant....

Well, you should be disabling JIT at least. Very few sites require it and that's where most 0 days live (according to Microsoft research, IIRC).

Yeah, I do something similar. I use PayPal to pay everywhere. No direct card information is ever given out. I have a credit account with PP as well as a balance funded by direct deposit. So, everything is paid out of credit and I pay off the credit balance from the PP balance every month. It works out pretty slick, and a side benefit of doing recurring payments from PP is that I can cancel them right from there.

Ok, Drunk Uncle...

It's more than direct DEI research. It's any grant that contains words like "collaboration" or "equity" or a hundred other descriptive words. The government is using word filters to automatically reject grant applications.

My wife works in public health and writes a lot of grant applications. Her work has nothing to do with DEI and never has. But the restrictions on funding are not limited to DEI research.

I am willing to pay for Firefox and/or Mozilla foundation services. I do currently pay for their VPN service, not because I need or really even use the service, but just to give them money.

They should move forward with a Proton or Fastmail style of service so that I don't have to keep sending my money over seas for a good, trustworthy and private collaboration platform.

I think that it's a little misleading. PIN and biometrics are *local* authentication methods only.

Once you locally authenticate, passkeys, certificates or other cryptographic tokens are used to authenticate with cloud services.

You say this like it's a bad thing...

Just because it's a Firefly class, doesn't mean you should attempt a Crazy Ivan!

A fool and his money are soon parted...

Also, the author's accounting of how Chrome won the browser war is a little rose-tinted.

I remember being very irritated by the aggressive tactics of Google to push their browser down people's throats.

For a time, you couldn't visit any Google property without getting Chrome pushed on you.

I remember some users that I supported during that time that had no idea how they had gotten Chrome installed on their computer. The reason was because Google was paying other popular app developers to embed the Chrome install as an "opt-out" (enabled by default) supplemental install to the app install. Google also created a Click-to-Run install vector from some of their properties which would launch a Chrome install from a single click on Windows

TBF, Chrome is garbage adjacent so a midden is probably where it belongs.

That is incorrect.

Chromium is open-source but Chromium != Chrome

It's because lazy devs do the "it works with Chrome *shrug*" thing.

Plenty of people that I talk to are convinced that they *need* Chrome because it has the best web compatibility. It's like Internet Explorer syndrome all over again.