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kbal, to risa in The Crossover No One Asked For or Remembered
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I love it, but it was pretty messy a lot of the time in various different ways. My impressions were:

Season 1: Brilliant, really good science fiction
Season 2: Fun episodic comedy sci fi
Season 3: Sometimes weird, sometimes gruesomely tedious
Season 4: Trying to be more like a normal comedy TV show, results mixed

kbal, to europe in Former U.K. PM David Cameron returns to government as foreign secretary
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Why'd he want to spoil it after making such a memorable exit?

kbal, to privacy in Am I running the risk of getting my Google account banned for logging into the Aurora Store or a custom rom like GrapheneOS?
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Nobody will be able to give you a definitive answer. Google's ways are unknowable. You are running the risk of losing your Google account by having a Google account.

kbal, to europe in Calls for Gaza cease-fire divide Europe’s Socialists
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The sight of so many people around the world who had always been unequivocal supporters of anything and everything Israel did slowly changing their minds as the horrific scope of the violence inflicted on Gaza continues to escalate has been an impressive one. The remaining people who refuse to change their views at all are impressive in a different way.

kbal, to technology in Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org
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That is not what "end-to-end" means in this context. In fact, finding out yesterday that Outlook sync is not end-to-end encypted prompted me to look up OneDrive to see if it at least has that feature. It does not, and someone who doesn't know a thing or two about how cryptography works would have a hard time finding out that it does not, because the search results are polluted with people misunderstanding the concept exactly as you do.

Microsoft's own web site goes to great lengths to explain how all your data is encrypted in transit, and encrypted at rest. Their internal security and access control systems are elaborated on in impressive style. You'd think that if they're going to go to all that trouble, and want people to trust them, they would indeed provide end-to-end encryption where it's appropriate. But no, they carefully avoid mentioning the concept. They are unwilling to acknowledge that it might be a thing people expect these days, but they do not go out of their way to correct people who imagine that they already have it.

kbal, to risa in "I'm Rick Berman, and I'm a piece of S%^#"
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Apparently some doctors are of the opinion that keeping your mouth shut can also be helpful in severe cases of Rick Berman disease.

kbal, to europe in Turkey's main opposition leader Özgür Özel: We are facing a coup attempt under the leadership of Erdoğan!
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It seems that google translate doesn't handle Turkish very well. IBTimes has the story in english.

kbal, to technology in Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org
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Nice timing. I don't see how warning you that your email passwords will be kept remotely by Microsoft would be "redundant." Many people will assume from that message that it would only send them all your mail, and the even more carelessly optimistic among us might guess that it would be end-to-end encrypted as it obviously should be.

kbal, to technology in Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org
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It is very easy to find other sources making the same claim, such as this one which includes an image of allegedly posted json including passwords.

kbal, to technology in You may need to provide a reason now when quitting OneDrive
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My comment on the topic was removed from c/lemmyshitpost. Too genuine a shitpost for them, I guess.

kbal, to technology in Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC
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With Apple's new iBits™ the 0s are so much rounder and the 1s are so smooth and shiny that they're worth at least twice as much as regular bits.

kbal, to android in Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private
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The world would be a substantially better place if Signal would 1) Not require phone numbers, and 2) Allow 3rd-party clients. While they're at it maybe they could also add a volume control to the desktop client and then not push so many damn updates.

kbal, to piracy in FBI and Austria's C4 Hit Z-Library with a New Wave of Domain Seizures
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Ah right, there was a book I've been meaning to download. Thanks for the reminder, FBI!

kbal, to pcgaming in Steam is working on allowing you to mark a game as private and hide it from your friends (both you and Valve knows why)
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I look forward to browsing by "games most often marked private".

kbal, (edited ) to europe in Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
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Considering that this has been in the works for a year two years already and there haven't been any reports of banks and insurance agencies objecting, your version of "it can't happen here" seems less than fully convincing.

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