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Cake day: June 29th, 2020

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  • I think it’s because TOTP requires some sort of initial token sync that is more complicated than entering a telephone number. There’s also no need to have people backup codes etc. To use Authy for example I need to photograph a QR code and have a smart phone.

    Text message as a solution works on older non-smart phones so it’s possibly the “most widely accessible” solution.

    From a backend perspective as well it’s just an API text $random to $phone.












  • Conspiratorial but has a string of possibility.

    User: What are you doing?

    Microsoft and Motherboard manufacturers: Putting DRM chips on the motherboard.

    User: Why?

    Microsoft: No reason.

    User: Most businesses would switch to a cheaper toilet paper to save $5, why are you shipping chips and developing software and technology to use these chips.

    Microsoft: Oh we’re not going to force anyone to do anything, we just want the ability to. Look at this workaround that we expect 0.015 of our billions of Windows users to use.



  • It was amazing but I was young and it was wonderful to discover. I think people have fond memories for it really.

    It’s very similar to Lemmy, if not just the same thing done a different way. I think there were only upvotes (I can Digg it).

    For young people discovering Lemmy, as it is now, and discovering Linux subreddits etc, they probably get the same enjoyment/attachment etc.

    The redesign of Digg downplayed it’s communities and put mainstream media first (as if Kbins magazine tool was restricted to famous newspapers) and thus it immediately felt like the community had been fractured. Reddit was growing with peoples own blogs and it felt way more community oriented. This is where I think and hope Lemmy will also find its own community.