I’ve seen way way way too many marketers try to fluff up https as “encrypted”. They clearly heard a keyword and they go off the walls like they’re the most secure company that ever existed. Usually just a single follow up question like “is it encrypted at rest” or “is my data encrypted with a different key than other users”, or even “does your company have the ability to decrypt it” falls flat on them.

Okay that makes so much sense, because I knew I had calling before in Element but they wanted me to set up all this extra stuff. Is it still a thing to do the plugin?

Wait there’s a jitsi plugin?

Element on Matrix is the only one I’m aware of - but it’s not the easiest to set up. I would try creating an account on matrix.org’s server just temporarily to try it out and see if it fits what you’re looking for. I like the decentralized nature of it, but the support is very piecemeal, and onboarding people essentially needs a class.

Thought is good, but if life has taught me anything it’s that it’s only a matter of time until someone new takes over and uses it for their nefarious purposes. Forcing it is never a good option, it should be opt in

As an aside, I have that coffee maker and love it! See if there’s a local coffee shop, here in my city it was stocked and they even let me try a cup from there

Oh as an aside, the coffee comes out SUPER weak at the beginning, where I thought it was broken. Give it 20-30 shots/cups and it’ll start tasting more normal. I’ve had mine for 3 years now and love it

Honestly they all suck

Holy setup batman. Was thinking it was going to be another container I spin up, but it’s enabling kernel modules, needs IOMMU, needs a ton of setup and then it looks like you still have to compile it? For now at least that’s above my needs

I’ll send it back to you then, do you have any non-LTT sources that show that it was fake allegations?

Gamers Nexus did a full hour long deep dive into him, very illuminating

He’s been accused of, admitted to, and proven that he is paid off and goes more for entertainment/engagement than actual reviews of products. There are thousands of tech reviewers on YouTube doing honest work, I’ll always downvote the openly dishonest ones

Great, other companies have thought the same and they’re sheepishly realizing that’s not realistic. Let us know how it goes

I was a single server with only me and 2 others or so, and then saw that I had thousands of requests per minutes at times! Absolutely nuts! My cloud bill was way higher. Adding anubis and it dropped down to just our requests, and bills dropped too. Very very strong proponent now.

Check out Anubis. If you have a reverse proxy it is very easy to add, and for the bots stopped spamming after I added it to mine

This looks great! Thank you for the recommendation!

That really sucks, I’m sorry :/ yet I’m not surprised at all. Airlines, while absolutely terrible, can see if you booked through them and if you’re a loyal flyer, and they’ll help you out. Priceline just don’t care at all about you, you’re a single transaction, and they already got their money

Interesting, had no idea!

Okay so years and years ago I worked for… let’s say smexpedia.com. These third party booking platforms are just notoriously awful all around. They’re bad to you the consumer, they’re bad to the hotels, they’re bad to the hotel staff, they should be the last resort of booking. Hotels put their worst inventory up for sale on these sites that they know isn’t worth much. Then, these third party sites take those rates and do everything they can to squeeze every penny out of it. You are completely at the mercy of these two booking systems talking to each other, and bets are if something goes wrong you’ll end up at the hotel thinking you have a confirmed booking when in reality it’s gone missing.

If you booked via the hotel, if you get to the frontdesk they’ll help you. So most hotels do go empty, and front desk is happy to help, but if you booked via a third party you have to get it resolved through them. So front desk will have no ability to help you, and you’ll call the third party booking site and they’ll have you sit on hold for 40 minutes, then you’ll get someone who’s job it is to get you off the phone, and they’ll eventually call the hotel and try to blame the poor front desk person, and eventually maybe you get something worked out. This was the common story. We knew we were selling rooms that weren’t available, but the error rate was “manageable”.

And don’t think the bundles are saving you any money. Airlines operate on razor thin margins already, so they’re not wanting to give you a deal and remember now the third party wants a cut too. Rental cars are less and less bundle-able, and again, third party wants a cut.

Book directly through the hotel. Do research, pick a chain you like, and join their loyalty program. If you book third party you will get dick when you get to the hotel. Join the loyalty program and they’ll sometimes hook you up. Remember, many hotels go pretty empty regularly. If you’re nice to the front desk agent and they have the corner room open, they may give it to you, they have to me quite a bit. You’ll get nothing if you book third party, that was all decided well before you arrived.

I’m mostly venting to the abyss, but I hope someone sees this and it helps them

That’s all 100% a slippery slope argument. Fact is is that they’re already trying to do that. Saying no is only going to be ignored, as it already is. It’s better to provide a solution that works that also respects our privacy and allows us to maintain control over our devices, otherwise they’ll mandate the exact thing you’re worried about.

That is not at all what we were talking about. California passed a law that only requires an admin on a PC to be able to create a child account which will be marked as under 18. Standard OS behavior there with permission systems that already exist. That then is passed up the stack. It’s quite literally a boolean, one that was created by a parent. It’s the most sensible way for a compromise.