darklamer

joined 1 month ago
[–] darklamer@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No, you can't, I quite enjoy having some measure of anonymity here.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 3 points 14 hours ago

The latest new word I've learned is this one, which I learned earlier today, Höseler:

https://www.berndeutsch.ch/words/10737

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Such a child is called sladdbarn in Swedish.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago

Are you certain that the real contest here is about the spaghetti?

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 19 points 3 days ago

I can’t see how they could manage that without slurping up your contact information.

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

And remember, it's spelled Netscape, but it's pronounced Mozilla.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 31 points 1 week ago

https://njal.la/

Run by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay who has already served two prison sentences for acting on his beliefs around personal freedom and intellectual property.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I used to work as a Windows application developer for a while and even though Windows itself never gave me the feeling of "oh, I'd really like to have this at home too" there was the C++ debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio that I remember as being remarkably good, to this day I haven't seen anything quite like it anywhere else.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

It was cancer. Just because the cancer got you down to your goal weight, it doesn’t mean you should lament the success of your chemotherapy.

This is the best explanation of Flash I've ever read!

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All the big banks I use don’t do anything ither than SMS, they’re lazy AF.

That's truly mind-blowing, and fraud must be rampant! I have accounts in several different banks in several different countries, both inside and outside of the EU, and I have never ever encountered a bank that would rely on SMS "authentication" for security, not even in the distant past when online banking was new.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's quite common for people to feel hurt when they feel ignored.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

I should say, if anyone knows a bank with proper modern online security protocols I am willing to listen.

I'm personally quite fond of Wise.

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